United States 2020 Presidential Election Simulator 🔵 🔴

An Excel-based simulator to visualise your state predictions

This article discusses the original release, v1. For v2, go here.

On Tuesday 3rd November, the winner of the 2020 United States presidential election will be announced. Unless you’ve been hiding in a basement, you will already know that the race to the White House is between incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.

As a Brit watching from across the Atlantic (the pond), I can’t wait to stay up in the early hours of the morning watching the results unravel state by state.

It has already been a fascinating tussle, with Biden comfortably ahead amongst the pollsters, but only narrowly in front with the bookmakers. Given the events of 2016 though, trust in any of these figures should be met with extreme caution.

Here’s what you need to know

If you’re American and reading this, you’re probably pretty clued-up on the basics of your electoral system. I’m not going to waffle on at length — however, this article is going out to a worldwide audience who may not be so familiar with it.