ENLIGHTENING STATISTICS
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Welfare of States Compared to Votes Statistics
Election Results
1. Welfare of States Compared to Votes
The electoral votes per states are 19 for Harris, 30 for Trump, and two states has a split vote: Maine with 3/4 Harris vs. 1/4 Trump and Nebraska with 1/5 Harris vs. 4/5 Trump. Maine is thus classified with Harris states and Nebraska with Trump states.
Sources accessed Feb 1, 2025:
https://apps.bea.gov/ | SASUMMARY State annual summary statistics: personal income, GDP, consumer spending, price indexes, and employment | Current dollar statistics
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-national-total.html | pop est 2023
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/life_expectancy/life_expectancy.htm#print
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/infant_mortality_rates/infant_mortality.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/query | 2023
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/AL.html
https://www.voronoiapp.com/wealth/Southern-United-States-Sees-Highest-Rates-of-Poverty--1873#dataset
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/food-insecurity-by-state
2. ELECTION RESULTS 2024
The Popular Vote
Voting-eligible population 244,666,890 100%
Total ballots counted 156,302,318 63.9%
Votes for Trump 77,284,118 31.6%
Votes for someone not named Trump 79,018,200 32.3%
Votes for Harris 74,999,166 30.7%
- Of the voting-eligible population, less than a third voted for Trump. As a matter of fact, a larger share voted for someone else than Trump.
- The difference in number of votes between Harris and Trump is less than 2.3 million votes, and 0.9% points.
- Calculating the share of votes of the total ballots counted, Trump's share is 49.4% and Harris' 48.0%.
This data is from the USA official election results and the UF Election Lab.
Electoral Votes
The electoral votes per states are 19 for Harris, 30 for Trump, and two states has a split vote: Maine 3/4 Harris, 1/4 Trump and Nebraska 1/5 Harris and 4/5 Trump. Maine is classified as a Harris state and Nebraska as a Trump state generally in maps, and in the statistics of this site (unless otherwise mentioned).