Notable Numbers

Statistics from the elections that deserve a doubletake

4,900 Number of votes by which Roy Cooper led Gov. Pat McCrory in the North Carolina governor’s race

10,000 Number of votes difference in the race likely to trigger a recount

15 to 25 Estimate of what the percentage drop in the stock market would be the day after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race

256 Number of points the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased on that day

71.4 Nate Silver’s percentage estimate of Hillary Clinton’s chance of winning the presidency on the eve of the election

28.6 Nate Silver’s percentage estimate of Donald Trump’s chance of winning the presidency on the eve of the election

228 Hillary Clinton’s total in the Electoral College

279 Donald Trump’s total

59,626,052 Hillary Clinton’s popular vote as of 2 p.m. the day after the election

59,427,652 Donald Trump’s popular vote at that time

49.9 Trump’s percentage of the vote in North Carolina

46.1 Clinton’s percentage in the state she was supposed to win

70 Donald Trump’s age on Election Day, making him the oldest first-term elected president in history

42 Age of Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest president at the time of his swearing in

6 feet 3 Height of Donald Trump

5-10 Height of Theodore Roosevelt

268,105 Margin of victory for Sen. Richard Burr against Deborah Ross