IN NUMBERS

74,857,880

votes so far for Joe Biden

70,598,535

registered voters who have cast a ballot in the 2016 election more votes for Trump compared to 2016

9million

more votes for Biden compared to Hilary Clinton in 2016

93,131,017

postal votes had been cast by last Sunday absentee ballot frauds discovered in elections between 2000 and 2012

0.0009%

estimated proportion of fraudulent votes in US

70

tweets from Donald Trump referring to electoral fraud

130

poll observers, Republican and Democrat, were in position at the count in Detroit

Two men and almost 150 million voters decided the US election but, as the world waited for Donald Trump to accept defeat, there was only one number that mattered: 270, the magic figure in the Electoral College that guaranteed victory for Joe Biden.

As his victory is confirmed yesterday while his rival Donald Trump refuses to concede, we look at the other numbers that mattered in what has been, for many reasons, an astonishing, unprecedented race to the White House.

55%

of Florida’s Cuban-Americans vote for Trump

69%

of American voters are white non-hispanics down from 85% in 1996

52

average age of registered Republicans

49

average age of registered Democrats

$1.57billion

raised for Trump’s election campaign

$1.51billion

of dollars raised for Biden’s election campaign

91%

of black women vote for Biden

78

Biden’s age on his birthday in 12 days, which would make him the oldest-ever first-term president

70

Trump’s age when he assumed office in 2016, making him now the second oldest-ever first-term president.