18:30 (6:30 PM) Eastern Standard Time
and Available EV are the electoral votes presumably outstanding.
| Kerry | Kerry | Bush | Bush | Available | |
| State | EP % | EV | EP % | EV | EV |
| Alabama | LOCK | 9 | |||
| Alaska | LOCK | 3 | |||
| Arizona | 45% | 55% | 10 | ||
| Arkansas | 45% | 54% | 6 | ||
| California | LOCK | 55 | |||
| Colorado | 49% | 50% | 9 | ||
| Connecticut | LOCK | 7 | |||
| D.C. | LOCK | 3 | |||
| Delaware | LOCK | 3 | |||
| Florida | 51% | 27 | 49% | ||
| Georgia | LOCK | 15 | |||
| Hawaii | 4 | ||||
| Idaho | LOCK | 4 | |||
| Illinois | LOCK | 21 | |||
| Indiana | LOCK | 11 | |||
| Iowa | 50% | 7 | 49% | ||
| Kansas | LOCK | 6 | |||
| Kentucky | LOCK | 8 | |||
| Louisiana | 42% | 57% | 9 | ||
| Maine | 55% | 4 | 44% | ||
| Maryland | LOCK | 10 | |||
| Massachusetts | LOCK | 12 | |||
| Michigan | 52% | 17 | 46% | ||
| Minnesota | 52% | 10 | 46% | ||
| Mississippi | LOCK | 6 | |||
| Missouri | 47% | 52% | 11 | ||
| Montana | LOCK | 3 | |||
| Nebraska | LOCK | 5 | |||
| Nevada | 49% | 5 | 48% | ||
| New Hampshire | 54% | 4 | 44% | ||
| New Jersey | 54% | 15 | 44% | ||
| New Mexico | 50% | 5 | 48% | ||
| New York | 62% | 31 | 36% | ||
| North Carolina | 47% | 53% | 15 | ||
| North Dakota | LOCK | 3 | |||
| Ohio | 51% | 20 | 49% | ||
| Oklahoma | LOCK | 7 | |||
| Oregon | LOCK | 7 | |||
| Pennsylvania | 53% | 21 | 46% | ||
| Rhode Island | LOCK | 4 | |||
| South Carolina | LOCK | 8 | |||
| South Dakota | LOCK | 3 | |||
| Tennessee | LOCK | 11 | |||
| Texas | LOCK | 34 | |||
| Utah | LOCK | 5 | |||
| Vermont | LOCK | 3 | |||
| Virginia | 13 | ||||
| Washington | LOCK | 11 | |||
| West Virginia | 45% | 54% | 5 | ||
| Wisconsin | 51% | 10 | 48% | ||
| Wyoming | LOCK | 3 | |||
| Projected | 312 | 209 | 17 |