The 2024 US presidential election today will see American voters choosing between Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. With this election, millions of Americans will choose their 47th President.
Key issues on which voters will decide their votes include abortion, immigration, marijuana legalisation, sports betting, wages, housing, and taxes.
What Is The Process?
The winner will be determined by the Electoral College system and not the popular vote. The Electoral College is a body of electors from each state who ultimately select the President and Vice President. Each state’s number of electors corresponds to its population. In total, there are 538 electoral college votes, and a candidate needs at least 270 votes to win.
Most states have a “winner-takes-all” system, where the candidate who wins the popular vote in a state takes all of its electoral college votes. However, Maine and Nebraska use a proportional system. The electoral college voting happens in December.
Who Is Winning?
While citizens of all the 50 states and Washington DC are casting their ballots on November 5, it will be the swing states, also referred to as key battleground states, that will face intense scrutiny as they determine if Harris or Trump is elected as the next President of the United States.
Tracking who is winning in which state:
Donald Trump's Wins:
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Florida
Wyoming
South Dakota
Louisiana
Texas
Missouri
Montana
Utah
Kansas
North Carolina
Georgia
Winsconsin
Ohio
Alabama
Florida
Maine CD2
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Nebraska CD1
Nebraska CD3
North Dakota
Idaho
Kamala Harris' Wins:
Vermont
Maryland
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Illinois
Colorado
District of Columbia
Maine CD1
Washington
California
Oregon
Virginia
New Hampshire
Hawaii
Nebraska CD2
(As and when more results are announced, this list shall be updated)
Key battleground states
Arizona
Georgia
Michigan
Nevada
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
The polls are scheduled for November 5, 2024. This will be the 60th quadrennial election. By 8 pm ET, results from states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, part of the "blue wall”, will provide a clearer picture of how the race is shaping up. Final key states such as Arizona and Nevada will have their results by 10 pm ET.
In the last presidential election in 2020, it took four days after voting closed for Joe Biden to be declared the winner due to razor-thin margins in the crucial battleground states. Following the delayed results, some states changed their election laws to speed up the election count.
