View CNN’s Electoral College maps to explore the votes needed to win the US presidential election. For more information, visit cnn.com/election.

Use NBC News' interactive electoral vote map to see scenarios for each party's path to the presidency in 2024. Finish the 2024 map and explore Trump and Harris' paths to 270 electoral...

Choose a starting map. The ABC News 2024 Electoral Map shows state-by-state votes on the path to win the 2024 Presidential Election.

There are 538 votes in the Electoral College and it takes 270 — a majority — to win the presidency. In the 2024 election, CBS News projects Trump has secured 312 to Harris' 226.

In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president.

View live election results from the 2024 presidential race as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off. See the map of votes by state as results are tallied.

This map tracks the consensus forecast for the 2024 presidential election. It is a composite of ratings by several forecasters. Only seats rated safe by a large majority of forecasters are shown in the darkest shade of red or blue.

FiveThirtyEight (now 538, owned by ABC news) was named for the total number of presidential electors in the US electoral college. 270 is the number of electors required to win the election.

Electoral College, the system by which the president and vice president of the United States are chosen. It was devised by the framers of the United States Constitution to provide a method of election that was feasible, desirable, and consistent with a republican form of government.