US Election Results 2024 LIVE: Trump Leads With 232 Electoral Votes, Harris Behind With 216
2024 US Presidential Election Results LIVE Updates: The outcome of the US Presidential election remains uncertain with critical battleground states unlikely to be called for hours or even days.
As per a Fox News report, Republican Donald Trump is leading the US presidential race by securing 230 electoral votes, with Democrat Kamala Harris in second position with 193 electoral votes. To win the presidency, a candidate must secure 270 electoral votes — a majority of the 538 possible votes.
Democrat Kamala Harris won the electoral vote tied to Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District on Wednesday. Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that split their Electoral College votes based on the popular votes in individual congressional districts.
Vice President Kamala Harris won Hawaii and the state’s four electoral votes on Wednesday. It’s the 10th straight presidential election in which Hawaii has selected the Democratic Party candidate.
Vice President Kamala Harris won Virginia on Tuesday, adding 13 electoral votes to her tally. She also secured New Mexico, adding five electoral votes to Democrats’ tally.
As per an Associated Press report, Republican Donald Trump is leading the US presidential race by securing 230 electoral votes, with Democrat Kamala Harris in second position with 193 electoral votes. To win the presidency, a candidate must secure 270 electoral votes — a majority of the 538 possible votes.
Former President Donald Trump won the battleground state of North Carolina on Tuesday. Trump receives the state’s 16 electoral votes after defeating Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. He also won Idaho for the third consecutive election on Tuesday, adding four electoral votes to his tally.
Vice President Kamala Harris won Washington’s 12 electoral votes on Tuesday. She also won Oregon on Tuesday, adding eight electoral votes to her tally. But, her biggest victory came in California, giving her the largest prize in the presidential election - 54 electoral votes.
Voters in Maine’s 1st Congressional District, which is comprised of wealthy coastal communities, delivered an electoral vote to Democrat Kamala Harris on Tuesday. Maine is one of two states that divide electoral votes with two votes going to the statewide winner and one apiece to the winner of each congressional district.
Former President Donald Trump won Kansas and its six electoral votes on Tuesday. He also secured won Iowa, claiming the state’s six electoral votes.
As per the Associated Press, Donald Trump has won Utah, Montana Missouri. With this, he added six electoral votes from Utah, four from Montana and 10 from Missouri to his tally.
As per an Associated Press report, Republican Donald Trump is leading the US presidential race by securing 204 electoral votes, with Democrat Kamala Harris in second position with 112 electoral votes. To win the presidency, a candidate must secure 270 electoral votes — a majority of the 538 possible votes.
Vice President Kamala Harris won the District of Columbia and Colorado on Tuesday, securing the capital’s three electoral votes along with 10 electoral votes in Colorado. Harris’ win in D.C. is no surprise – the District is a longtime Democratic stronghold, while Colorado, which was once a purple state, has been shifting towards blue in the past two decades.
Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway on Tuesday joined a list of star-studded celebrities who voted for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Hathaway shared an image of herself with a ballot sticker on Instagram, and wrote: “I voted like half the country’s lives depended on it, I voted for Kamala Harris.”
Former President Donald Trump has secured deep-red Wyoming, Ohio and Texas. With this, the Republican added 60 electoral votes to his tally, with 3 from Wyoming, 17 from Ohio and 40 in Texas.
Associated Press called that Donald Trump secured Louisiana on Tuesday for the third consecutive presidential election, increasing his electoral vote tally by eight. In Louisiana, the Republican nominee for president has won every election since 1996.
Former President Donald Trump secured North Dakota’s three electoral votes on Tuesday. The last Democratic presidential candidate to win the state was President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
Democrat Kamala Harris won New York’s presidential contest on Tuesday, securing the state’s 28 electoral votes. New York has now voted for the Democrat in every presidential contest since giving Ronald Reagan the nod in his landslide 1984 election.
Electors are allocated based on how many representatives a state has in the House of Representatives, plus its two senators. The District of Columbia gets three, despite the fact that the home to Congress has no vote in Congress. As per a report by the Associated Press, it varies by state, but often the electors are picked by state parties. Members of Congress cannot serve as electors.
The Electoral College is a 538-member body that elects a president. Each state’s electors vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in that state. The runner-up gets nothing — except in Nebraska and Maine where elector votes are awarded based on congressional district and statewide results.
To win the presidency, a candidate must secure 270 electoral votes — a majority of the 538 possible votes.
Former President Donald Trump won Texas for the third consecutive election on Tuesday, adding 40 electoral votes to his tally. The Republican nominee for president has won Texas for nearly 50 years since Democrat Jimmy Carter carried the state in 1976.
As per an Associated Press report, Republican Donald Trump is leading the US presidential race by securing 177 electoral votes, with Democrat Kamala Harris in second position with 99 electoral votes. To win the presidency, a candidate must secure 270 electoral votes — a majority of the 538 possible votes.
Trump on Tuesday secured Florida for the third consecutive election, earning the state’s 30 electoral votes. Once a crucial battleground state, Florida has been drifting toward the Republican Party in recent years.
Kamala Harris secured Connecticut on Tuesday, extending the state’s long trend of supporting Democratic presidential candidates and adding seven electoral votes to her tally. This year marked the ninth consecutive presidential election in which Connecticut voters favoured the Democratic candidate.
Republican Donald Trump secured South Carolina on Tuesday, earning its nine electoral votes for the third straight election. South Carolina has not voted for the Democratic nominee for president since 1976 when Democrat Jimmy Carter -- the governor of the neighbouring state of Georgia -- defeated Republican President Gerald Ford throughout the South, as per the Associated Press report.
Democrat Kamala Harris secured Maryland and its 10 electoral votes on Tuesday. Maryland is a heavily Democratic state that is home to many federal workers next to the nation’s capital.
Former US President Donald Trump secured Tennessee on Tuesday, keeping the firmly Republican state and its 11 electoral votes in his victory column. The state’s two Republican U.S. senators, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, both won their first elections behind endorsements from Trump, AP reported.
Kamala Harris won Massachusetts on Tuesday, continuing a decadeslong streak of victories for Democratic presidential candidates in the Bay State. The last time Massachusetts backed a Republican candidate was in 1984 when voters cast their ballots for Ronald Reagan, as per an AP report.
Vice President Kamala Harris secured Rhode Island for Democrats on Tuesday, giving her four electoral votes and continuing the Democrats’ dominance in the state. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won Rhode Island was in 1984 when former President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, as per an AP report.
Republican Donald Trump won Oklahoma and its seven electoral votes on Tuesday. A Democrat has not won the presidential race in Oklahoma since 1964, and Trump was heavily favoured to win, as per an AP report.
Former President Donald Trump secured Alabama for the third consecutive election on Tuesday, adding nine electoral votes to the Republican’s tally. Democrats have not won Alabama since 1976, when Jimmy Carter carried the state, as per an AP report.
Republican Donald Trump won Mississippi on Tuesday, claiming the state’s six electoral votes. The last Democratic presidential nominee to win Mississippi was Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Vice President Kamala Harris secured New Jersey’s 14 electoral votes on Tuesday. New Jersey has gone with the Democratic candidate for president in every election since 1988.
Former US President Donald Trump won Arkansas’ six electoral votes on Tuesday, securing the heavily Republican state for the third presidential election in a row. Democrats have not won a presidential election in Arkansas since 1996, when native son Bill Clinton won reelection, as per an Associated Press report.
Democrat candidate Kamala Harris won Delaware’s presidential contest on Tuesday, easily defeating Republican Donald Trump. As per the AP report, Harris’ victory in solid-blue Delaware was a foregone conclusion, given the stranglehold Democrats have held on the state’s three electoral votes for decades.
As per the Associated Press report, Vice President Kamala Harris won Illinois on Tuesday, claiming the state’s 19 electoral votes for Democrats. The reliably blue state, the home of former President Barack Obama, has supported Democratic presidential candidates since 1992.
Background
US Election Results 2024 LIVE Updates: Election Day unfolded relatively smoothly in the United States, except for the reports of scattered delays and disruptions. After an election season marked by concerns over disinformation, foreign influence and threats, a few hoax calls tried to disrupt the process for a short time, but voting resumed without much delay.
This US presidential election is crucial for Americans as its outcomes are likely to shape both the nation's future and global geopolitics over the next four years. Exit polls indicate it will be a neck-and-neck battle between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump. The race remained stubbornly deadlocked for weeks with some of the election forecasters giving 60-year Harris an edge over former President Trump, 78, in some of the key battleground states like Pennsylvania.
As polls closed in most states, Trump won eight states, while Harris has so far captured three states and Washington, D.C., Edison Research projected. However, the final outcome of the race remained uncertain with critical battleground states unlikely to be called for hours or even days.
In the next few hours, polls are set to close in the seven swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which will effectively decide who will be the 47th President of the United States.
With the voting closing in the next few hours, the people are now bracing for the much-awaited results. According to authorities, 182,000 pre-election ballots were counted already in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, exit polls showed the state of democracy, the shape of the economy and abortion are the most important issues for American voters in the election. Almost six in 10 people ranked the state of democracy as their number one issue, according to exit polls released by CBS News. It was followed by abortion as five per cent of the voters felt it was an important issue for them. Over one in 10 chose the economy as a priority issue.
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