Joe Biden Won The Election By 7 Million Votes, And This State By 5 Million

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Dec 13, 6:55AM EST

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Joe Biden Won The Election By 7 Million Votes, And This State By 5 Million — © Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images

Joe Biden won the presidential election with 81,282,896 votes. That was 7,060,412 more votes than Donald Trump’s total. Biden won the electoral college by a margin of 306 to 232. Biden’s real landslide was in California. The state gave him 55 electoral votes, which was 18% of his total. He won the state by a stunning margin of 5,103,821, which was 72% of his national margin.

Of course, the math does not work that way. However, it does show the outsized role the nation’s largest state by population played. Biden’s net margin of the popular vote was a combination of the states he did win and the result of states where he lost based on raw vote total.

However, there were not many big states base on population where Biden’s loss on a raw vote basis was large. His deficit was 475,669 in Ohio, where he got 2,679,175. He lost Texas by 631,221 votes against his 5,259,126 total. Finally, he lost Florida by 371,686 against his total of 5,297,045.

In the balance of the states, Trump took the raw vote margin was much smaller.

Biden’s other huge win beyond California was New York State. His margin there was 1,993,776, against his total of 5,244,206.

The Biden California margin would be nearly impossible in any other state. It has 39,512,223, which is 12% of the national total of 331,808,807

The Mercury News framed the historic voter count and margin:

So many Californians voted this year that Joe Biden — who won here in a landslide — became the first presidential candidate in the state to ever top more than 10 million votes. President Donald Trump eclipsed 5.5 million votes — a million more than he received four years ago and more than any Republican ever in a state that’s home to Ronald Reagan.

In other words, Trump also did well in California–sort of.

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.