About & sources

Electoral College Map is an independent, non-partisan reference for United States presidential election results and the Electoral College.

What's here

Interactive Electoral College maps and complete results for every presidential election from 1964 to 2024, including the national popular vote, the state-by-state electoral vote, and notes on faithless electors, abstentions and split states. Earlier elections back to 1789 are being added in batches.

Sources

Electoral vote counts are taken from the U.S. National Archives Electoral College records, which publish the votes as actually cast and counted by Congress. Popular vote totals are taken from the certified state canvasses as compiled in the per-election articles on Wikipedia. Election results are matters of public record.

How the data is checked

Every election is entered state by state, then validated automatically before it can be published. The checks assert that each state's electors sum to the national total, that each candidate's state-level votes add up to their declared national count, and that the winner and their electoral vote total match figures recorded separately from the state-by-state entry. A further check requires every state to hold an identical number of electors across all elections in the same apportionment period, which catches a mistyped state that would otherwise still add up.

Where the electoral vote actually cast differed from the pledged result — faithless electors, or the abstention in 2000 — the map and tables show the votes as cast, and the difference is called out in that election's notes.

Map boundaries

Modern state boundaries are used for all years, which is the standard approach for historical Electoral College maps. States that had not yet been admitted in a given year are drawn in neutral gray rather than in their historical territorial shape. Historical boundary accuracy is not a goal of this site.

Maine and Nebraska award two electors to the statewide winner and one to the winner of each congressional district. Because their districts are too small to label on a national map, they are shown as labeled boxes below the map for the years in which each state used that method — Maine from 1972 and Nebraska from 1992.

Corrections

If you spot an error, please email info@electoralcollegemap.net with the election year and the figure you believe is wrong. Corrections are welcome and are checked against the sources above.

Who runs this

Electoral College Map is published by Grant-Ingram Digital. The site is not affiliated with any political party, campaign, candidate or government body.