2024 Election Results

2024 Election Results

Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, winning 312 electoral votes to 226 and returning to the White House after his 2020 defeat. He also won the popular vote for the first time, receiving 49.8% to Harris’s 48.3%.

Trump swept all seven principal battlegrounds: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina. He held every state he had won in 2020 and flipped six that Biden had carried. Harris gained none. Nevada moved Republican for the first time since 2004.

Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin again formed the Democrats’ clearest route to victory. Had Harris held all three while keeping her other electoral votes, she would have reached exactly 270. Trump won each by less than two percentage points, underscoring how close the decisive contests remained despite his sweep of the battlegrounds.

The campaign changed abruptly when Biden withdrew in July after a damaging debate performance and endorsed Harris. She quickly unified Democrats but struggled to separate herself from dissatisfaction with the administration, especially over prices and immigration. Trump turned that discontent into gains across the map. His victory reversed Biden’s 2020 expansion and showed that even the Democrats’ strongest recent battleground coalition remained fragile.