Here are 10 numbers about this year's US election: the last one you would never expect

Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States after defeating incumbent Donald Trump.

Sixty-five million people chose to vote by postal ballot.

Democrat Joe Biden won the U.S. presidency on Saturday. After a fractious election campaign that took days to decide, Biden triumphed over Republican incumbent Donald Trump.

Here, we offer you 10 numbers to explain a historic U.S. election in the midst of a global pandemic and a recession. These numbers are from the election numbers on the afternoon of Nov. 7:

65 million

18%

Biden won more votes than Trump in suburbs and other wealthy areas from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt. College-educated people were generally reluctant to accept Mr. Trump's re-election, and suburban counties increased their turnout by about 18 percent. And in the vast rural counties, where Mr. Trump still enjoys wide support as a Republican incumbent, turnout has not grown as much as it has in the suburbs.

4 million

In the three days since the election, Americans have dutifully refreshed their phone screens, watching the frantic battle for votes in the Electoral College, a uniquely American mechanism for determining the winner of elections. But the difference in the popular vote is much wider, with Biden outpacing Trump by more than 4 million popular votes and growing.

58%

That is the share of white men who supported Mr. Trump this year, but Mr. Trump's political base among that group is still much weaker than it was in 2016. Edison Research's exit poll found that he lost white men by four percentage points this year.

2 million

Mr. Trump won at least two million more votes in the hardest-hit counties than he did four years ago. That's less than Biden's haul in the same region, but still a respectable increase. While voters saw the pandemic as a top priority this year, Mr. Trump did well in counties with at least 70 deaths per 100,000 residents.

42-7

That number looks like a football score, but it reflects a key shift in the U.S. political landscape since 2016.

Mr. Biden is winning in 42 counties that Mr. Trump carried four years ago. In Michigan, a battleground state, Mr. Biden even won Kent County. Wealthy Kent County, a longtime Republican stronghold, was the site of Mr. Trump's final campaign rallies in 2016 and 2020. Trump flipped only seven of the counties that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.

7%

Mr Trump lost Miami-Dade County in Florida. Democrats are strong here, but Mr. Trump is within seven points of Mr. Biden, far less than the 29 percent drubbing he suffered in 2016. Mr. Trump won Florida's voter turnout again this year, in part because he picked up more Latino votes, and his anti-socialist leanings particularly appealed to Cuban-Americans and Venezuelans in the Miami area.

92/70

The numbers represent the largest margin of the vote in a state or district that Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump each won in this election. While Biden's victory came in Washington, D.C., a Democratic bastion, Trump easily won Wyoming, a state that has not voted for a Democratic candidate since 1964. The landslide victories, spectacular as they looked, yielded only three Electoral College votes for each side.

2

The figure represents Trump's place in the all-time voting charts for a single election, second only to Biden. So who's behind Trump? Biden's former boss, former President Barack Obama.

2 is also the number of times Trump lost the popular vote.

0

That number represents the number of times Mr. Trump has conceded defeat in the presidential election. His lawyers are planning legal action against Biden's victory.