NEW YORK — As of 10 pm Eastern time Thursday (10am SGT Friday, Nov 6), six states that will decide the next president remained uncalled, as did a handful of Senate races that will determine who controls the chamber.

Here’s where things stand on Day Three, when you can expect final results and how to follow along as this extraordinary election unfolds.

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

In the presidential race, as of 10 pm ET, we did not yet know who won Alaska (3 electoral votes), Arizona (11), Georgia (16), Nevada (6), North Carolina (15) or Pennsylvania (20).

With the three calls made Wednesday — Michigan and Wisconsin for Joe Biden, and Maine’s 2nd Congressional District for President Donald Trump — Mr Biden has 253 confirmed electoral votes and would need 17 more to win. Mr Trump has 214 confirmed electoral votes and would need 56 more to win.

Four Senate races were uncalled in three states: Alaska, Georgia and North Carolina. Two other races were called Wednesday: The Republican incumbent in Maine, Senator Susan Collins, and the Democratic incumbent in Michigan, Senator Gary Peters, both won reelection.

Georgia has two races involving Republican incumbents whom Democrats hope to unseat. One, between Senator David Perdue and Jon Ossoff, is very likely to go to a runoff in January. The other race will definitely require a runoff between the incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, and Raphael Warnock, a Democrat.

WHEN WILL WE KNOW THE RESULTS?

This will probably vary significantly from state to state. Let’s take them one at a time.

Alaska

Alaska may well be the last state to be called because officials there won’t even begin counting mail ballots or early in-person ballots cast after Oct 29 for another week. That being said, it’s a red state and isn’t really competitive. Mr Trump will probably win here pretty easily, and Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican, probably will, too.

Arizona

Arizona will probably not be called until Friday at the earliest. Biden is leading by about 46,000 votes with roughly 90 per cent of the estimated vote counted, and some news outlets, including The Associated Press and Fox News, have already called it for him. The New York Times and others have not done so.

Officials in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and where many votes are still uncounted, released a new batch of results around 9 pm Eastern on Thursday, and they showed Trump narrowing the gap slightly.

Maricopa County will post its next report Friday at 11 am Eastern. Officials there said they had 204,000 more early ballots to process, and a smaller number of provisional and other ballots.

Georgia

Mr Trump was ahead in Georgia by about 1,800 votes with 98 per cent of the estimated vote counted. Mr Biden has been closing the gap, and the uncounted ballots are mostly in Democratic areas. The race could end up close enough for a recount.

Elections officials in Georgia said they would keep counting votes into Thursday night.

The state might have been called already if not for a burst pipe at a site in Fulton County where election officials were counting absentee ballots, which delayed the counting process in and around Atlanta.

Nevada

Mr Biden has a slim lead in Nevada, about 11,000 votes, and he expanded it slightly after more results were released Thursday. The race is much closer than experts expected going in, and the state will accept mail ballots received through Nov 10 as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

The next batch of results is expected to be announced around noon Eastern on Friday.

North Carolina

Mr Trump is narrowly ahead in North Carolina with 95 per cent of estimated votes counted. But North Carolina will accept mail-in ballots that arrive through Nov 12, and it’s possible that the race won’t be called until then.

Pennsylvania

Mr Biden now trails Mr Trump by about 42,000 votes in Pennsylvania, and he has been steadily making up ground thanks to newly counted votes in major metropolitan areas of the state — mostly in the Philadelphia area, but some in Pittsburgh too. The vote tally is being continually updated.

The Trump campaign is fiercely contesting Pennsylvania ballots in the courts, which could drag the process out. THE NEW YORK TIMES