Tally of votes in the Electoral College
Washington - With a winner projected in 18 of 50 US states and the District of Columbia, the following is a tally of the electoral votes won thus far in the presidential election:
Barack Obama: 64 electoral votes
Mitt Romney: 82 electoral votes
Needed to win: 270 of 538 electoral votes
The number of state results not yet projected by at least one television network is 33.
The states that have been projected are:
Vermont(3)
Kentucky(8)
Indiana(11)
WestVirginia (5)
SouthCarolina (9)
Maryland(10)
Districtof Columbia (3)
Illinois(20)
Georgia(16)
Massachusetts(11)
Tennessee(11)
Alabama(9)
Connecticut(7)
Oklahoma(7)
Mississippi(6)
RhodeIsland (4)
Delaware(3)
*Maine(4)
*Thestate splits its 4 electoral votes this way: Two go to the overall winner of the state; one vote is awarded to the winner of each of its two congressional districts. The state has been projected as a win for Obama and he is projected to win one of the two congressional districts.
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