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The 2020 Election by the Numbers

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In 2016 , seven electors declined to vote for the candidate they were pledged to.

That was the highest number of “faithless electors” ever, with the exception of the election of 1872 .

Biden flipped five states on his way to winning the Electoral College : Arizona , Georgia , Michigan , Pennsylvania , and Wisconsin .

A record fifty-one women of color will serve in the 117th Congress .

The House will have 117 women lawmakers, with eighty-nine Democrats and twenty-eight Republicans .

Nine out of the thirteen House seats Republicans flipped from blue to red were won by women.

The 2022 congressional midterm elections will be held on November 8, 2022 , 693 days away.

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