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According to preliminary results, Joe Biden has received a good 2.6 million more votes nationwide than incumbent Donald Trump. – This absolute number (called the Popular Vote) of votes is not decisive for the race for the White House determined by the majorities of the individual states. According to polls by the AP news agency and other media, as of Wednesday afternoon (CET) at least 68.9 million votes over Biden and 66.3 million over Trump. The vote counting continued.
The head of the statistics portal “FiveThirtyEight”, Nate Silver, expressed on Twitter the expectation that Biden will exceed the previous maximum number of absolute votes in a US presidential election. Barack Obama achieved this highest figure to date in his first election in 2008 with about 69.5 million votes. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1323953944016703498
According to AP polls, Participation is likely to be significantly higher than four years ago.
At that time, 139 million citizens participated in the elections. Significantly higher voter turnout was reported in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas, among others.
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