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Joseph R. Biden has won the Presidency, defeating Donald J. Trump. Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, declared on November 7th, four days after Election Day, lifted him above the two hundred and seventy Electoral College votes necessary to secure the White House, with final tallies still to come in several states. His running-mate, Senator Kamala Harris, will be a history-making Vice-President, as a woman and as the daughter of a Black father and a mother of South Asian descent. On the day the race was called, more than a hundred and forty-four million votes had been counted, surpassing 2016’s total of a hundred and thirty-seven million. Biden was leading the popular vote by more than four million votes, comfortably exceeding Hillary Clinton’s 2016 popular-vote margin over Trump.
Control of the U.S. Senate will not be decided until January 5th, when voters in Georgia return to the polls to choose a winner in runoff races for both of the state’s seats. The Republican incumbents, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, will face their Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. For Democrats, who gained a seat in the Senate with Mark Kelly’s defeat of Martha McSally, in Arizona—but lost several key races they had hoped to win—victories by Ossoff and Warnock would secure a fifty-fifty Senate split with Republicans, leaving Vice-President Harris to cast tie-breaking votes in the chamber.
In the House, the blue wave of Democratic support that some observers had predicted didn’t materialize. Although the Party easily retained its majority, Republicans were able to reclaim several congressional districts that Democrats had flipped in the 2018 midterm elections.
You can see the latest election returns, state by state, as reported by the Associated Press, on our election map, which will continue to update until the last vote is tallied.
