--- title: 2016 Election: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton's Electoral Map description: See the updated electoral vote map as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton battle for 270. canonical: https://time.com/4558915/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-electoral-map/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-04T22:02:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:38:35.459Z article:section: Politics og:title: The 11 States That Could Decide Who Wins on Tuesday og:description: Check back as this map is updated as results come in og:url: https://time.com/4558915/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-electoral-map/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 11 States That Could Decide Who Wins on Tuesday twitter:description: Check back as this map is updated as results come in twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The 11 States That Could Decide Who Wins on Tuesday by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 4, 2016 10:02 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 4, 2016 10:02 PM UTC 270: That’s the magic number of electoral votes [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/hillary-clinton-roots/?xid=homepage) and [Donald Trump](http://time.com/roots-donald-trump/?xid=homepage) will be fighting for Tuesday in a nation fiercely divided over their choices. But a handful of states are toss-ups that will affect the contours and outcome of the election. Many election observers disagree on what those exact states will be. The [Cook Political Report](http://cookpolitical.com/presidential/charts/scorecard) sees Florida and North Carolina as toss-ups, while the [Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report](http://www.rothenberggonzales.com/ratings/president) picked Iowa and Ohio. To be fair, TIME has put only the safest blue and red states on this map, leaving 11 as potential battlegrounds, including such oft-discussed but unlikely spots as the red state of Georgia and the blue state of Michigan. That gives Hillary Clinton a starting baseline of 210 electors, and Donald Trump a baseline of 163. The actual swing states this year will probably come down to five: North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire and Nevada. But in a year in which a lot of unexpected things have happened, don’t be surprised if that’s not the exact list. But this map is a good starting point to watch the results come in on Tuesday. Check back as it is updated throughout the night. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4558915/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-electoral-map/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4558915/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-electoral-map/"},"headline":"The 11 States That Could Decide Who Wins on Tuesday","datePublished":"2016-11-04T22:02:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:38:35.459Z","description":"See the updated electoral vote map as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton battle for 270.","url":"https://time.com/4558915/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-electoral-map/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4558915/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-electoral-map/","name":"The 11 States That Could Decide Who Wins on Tuesday"}}]}] ```