The election prognosticator, New York Times’ ‘Needle’, was projecting an 84% chance of a Donald Trump victory with about 295 electoral college votes based on its data at 10.30 pm Tuesday (9 am Wednesday in India). 

The ‘Needle’ swings as the data that comes in is analysed in real-time and makes the projection it considers valid at that time.

A little before 10 pm, it showed Trump at nearly 290 seats before swinging down five to 285 at 10 pm and rising 30 minutes later to 295.

The ‘Needle’ makes longer-range projections beyond those made by The Associated Press and networks like NBC and Fox News by combining the incoming polling trends with demographic and historical data.

At 10 pm, the electoral college votes that have been called by the media were 198 for Trump to 112 for Kamala Harris.

(This story was taken from a syndicated feed and was only edited for style by Gujarat Samachar Digital staff)

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