Seemingly Final Election Totals: Harris 75M, Trump 77.3M, Stein 878K, Kennedy 756K, Oliver 650K

This is from David Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; other sources have slightly different numbers, but not by much (especially as to the two major candidates). This is about 1M less than I expected (on Nov. 11) for Harris and Trump, estimating based on the then-far-from-complete totals; and it shows that Harris received 6.3M fewer votes than Biden’s 81.3M in 2020, and Trump got 3M more than he did in 2020. (Final turnout was 155.5M this year, down from 158.4M in 2020, and the third party vote was up slightly.)

Also making an appearance: Lucifer Everylove with 2.5K, and Vermin Supreme with 1K, among others.

In any event, though, it’s a reminder of just how many votes were excluded from the election night results (when Harris had 67M and Trump 72M), and how it’s a mistake to compare the election night far-from-final totals for one election with the final totals from previous elections. It’s also a reminder that, so long as heavily Democrat-voting California is one of the few very slow-counting states, the election night results will tend to underestimate the Democratic vote more than they underestimate the Republican.

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