Five closest US elections: When California, New York were swing states
Al Jazeera
From snubbing a senator in a California hotel to surviving a scandal over an illegitimate child – how candidates have weathered ultra-close elections through history.
Voters across 50 states in the US are casting ballots to choose the 47th president of the country in an election that has turned into a neck-and-neck battle between the two main candidates.
So far, election analysts say this year’s presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is too close to call.
According to FiveThirtyEight’s daily polls tracker, Harris has a 1.2-point lead over Trump nationally. But Trump has begun narrowing the gap in recent days, and has slim leads in the battleground states of North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona.
Yet it’s not the first time that the path to the United States presidency has essentially seen a dead heat between candidates. Previous closely fought presidential elections have also seen California and New York – not the typical swing states – and also the US Supreme Court play a role in deciding the winner.
Let’s take a look at five presidential races in US history that came down to a few thousand votes:
