US Election Results 2024 LIVE Updates: Voting begins

Polling stations opened on Tuesday on the US east coast, kicking off the final opportunity for Americans to vote in the tightly contested 2024 presidential race. More than 82 million people have already taken advantage of early voting to cast their ballots for Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris. The first votes were cast just after midnight in a small township on the New Hampshire-Canada border.

Americans are preparing to vote on Election Day Tuesday for the Presidential elections. Around 81 million people have voted ahead of Tuesday, over half of the total ballots cast in 2020. Officials have however, warned, and asked people to remain patient as they tally ballots in what could be a historically close presidential race — and warning that it could take days to find out who has won.

US election results have sometimes been declared within hours of the polls closing, but this year’s tight contest could mean a longer wait. Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump are locked in a intense and fierce battle. Polls open across the United States at different times, starting as early as 5 am ET in some parts of Vermont and concluding at 7 pm ET in Hawaii. Many states have varying poll closing times depending on the specific county.

On the day of the US Presidential elections, major stock markets rose and dollar remained under pressure Tuesday. The United States is voting today in a knife-edge presidential election.

“A contested election result could cause volatility on the markets,” Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell told AFP. “Equally, a clear winner quickly after voting ends could provide some relief to investors.”

According to the AFP report, a Donald Trump win is expected to boost the dollar, restoke inflation and end Treasury yields higher owing to his pledges to slash taxes and impose tariffs on imports. Analysts see less upheaval from a win by Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

The US Presidential elections started in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. Voters in New Hampshire cast their votes on early Tuesday morning, marking the official start of US Election Day voting for the presidential election.

Tight security arrangements were put in place in New Hampshire. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump are tied in the town in a 3-3 vote.

Tens of millions of voters across the country have already cast their ballots early, either by voting in person at polling stations or by mail.

In this US presidential election 2024, swing state Pennsylvania could seal the deal for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, as it has more electoral votes, 19, compared to the other six swing states. Hours before the election, both the presidential hopefuls concentrated their eleventh hour efforts on Pennsylvania.

Kamala Harris spent all of Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes offer the largest prize among the states expected to determine the Electoral College outcome. Donald Trump held four rallies in three states, beginning in Raleigh, North Carolina, stopping twice in Pennsylvania with events in Reading and Pittsburgh, then ending in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

US Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump on Monday wrapped their election campaigns as the country goes to elections on Tuesday, amid a tight contest between the two candidates. Meanwhile, nine Indian Americans are also in fray contesting for the US House of Representatives, with five seeking re-election and three making their first attempt at Congressional office. The names of Indian Americans are: Shiv Thanedar, Suhas Subramanyam, Dr Prasanth Reddy, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ami Bera, Amish Shah, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal and Dr Rajesh Mohan.

Some key battleground states are likely to be hit by a strong cold front on Election Day that’s bringing heavy rainfall and severe storms, reports CNN. The front will continue to head east, bringing showers to Minnesota and the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan south to Louisiana. Rainfall has been noted to slightly reduce voter turnout in previous elections, the report said.

With sacred chants, ringing of bells and offerings of flowers and bananas, a Hindu priest in Kamala Harris’ ancestral village in southern India conducted prayers for her victory on Tuesday, hours after she and her opponent Donald Trump closed out their campaigns.

The temple ceremony in Thulasendrapuram, in the state of Tamil Nadu, was organised by local villagers and attended by more than a dozen of them and a few tourists.

Harris’ maternal grandfather P.V. Gopalan was born more than a century ago in Thulasendrapuram before migrating to the state capital Chennai. He was a high-ranking government official at the time of his retirement.

After lighting incense, the priest ended the prayer pronouncing “Kamala Harris should win”, as he offered vermilion powder and ash to those attending. (Reuters)

Residents in New Hampshire gathered at midnight to cast their votes for president. The final tally — the first result of this election — was announced 12 minutes after midnight. In a hamlet where 66.67 percent of the registered voters are Republicans (the other two are independents) and where Nikki Haley swept the primary with all six votes, the general election ended in a tie: three votes for Kamala Harris, and three for Donald J. Trump, reported The New York Post.

Trump called former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) “evil, sick, crazy,” and then started to mouth a word starting with “B” before appearing to stop short of what he was going to say next, reported The Washington Post.

“It starts with a B, but I won’t say it,” he said, adding that he had been told by evangelical leader Franklin Graham not to use profanity.

“I want to say it,” he added.

Control of the U.S. Congress is at stake on Tuesday in elections that could flip both the House of Representatives and the Senate, while still leaving Capitol Hill divided between Donald Trump’s Republicans and Kamala Harris’ Democrats.

The outcome will play an important role in determining how easily the winner of Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election will govern until the next congressional elections in 2026.

Nonpartisan analysts say Republicans stand a good chance of taking back the Senate, where Democrats hold a 51-49 majority. But Republicans could also lose their grip on the House, where Democrats only need to pick up four seats to take back control of the 435-seat chamber (Reuters)

On the eve of Election Day, a star-studded event featuring top entertainers gathered to rally support for Vice President Kamala Harris and boost voter turnout in key battleground states, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. Kamala Harris has managed to garner a lot of support from top Hollywood celebrities.

The campaign, aiming to energize voters in pivotal locations like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Detroit, Las Vegas, and Milwaukee, highlighted the close contest between Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump, especially in Pennsylvania. The event was marked by performances from prominent artists such as Lady Gaga, Jon Bon Jovi, Katy Perry, and more.

“For more than half of this nation’s history, women lacked a voice,” Gaga said, emphasizing, “We raised children, held our families together, and supported men as they made the decisions — but tomorrow, women will be part of making this decision.”

US Vice President Kamala Harris is leading in four of the seven battleground states that are most likely to determine the outcome of the election, reports the Washington Post.

A one-time aide to former President Donald Trump will likely win election to Congress from Georgia on Tuesday, while a longtime representative will likely clinch his 17th term in the US House against a former Trump administration official. Those will be the two highest-profile congressional races in the state in an election where no statewide candidates are on the ballot. Voters across Georgia will be deciding three referendums, including a measure limiting increases in a home’s value for property tax purposes. But the most competitive elections will be in a handful of state House races, where Democrats are trying to reduce the Republican majority.

Both major parties are contesting all 14 of Georgia’s congressional districts, where Republicans currently hold a 9-5 majority. Each party is favoured to maintain control of all the seats they currently hold, an outcome that would not affect the balance of power in the narrowly divided US House.

Brian Jack, the former Trump aide, has left no distance between himself and his old boss as Jack tries to win his first term in the House from Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District. The GOP-tilting district south and west of Atlanta is open because US Rep. Drew Ferguson is retiring (AP)

In Maryland’s tightest US House race, voters will decide on Tuesday if the 6th Congressional District will switch to Republican control after more than a decade of Democratic representation. The race features Democrat April McClain Delaney, whose husband formerly held the seat, against conservative Republican Neil Parrott, an ex-Maryland state legislator. The competitive US House race focuses on abortion, economy and immigration.

US Election Results 2024 Live: So what exactly happens if neither Kamala Harris or Donald Trump achieves the Electoral College majority required to win the US election?
While not highly likely, such an outcome remains possible, tormenting Americans already perched painfully on the edge of their seats ahead of the November 5 election.Under the US system, it is not the national popular vote that decides who becomes president, but a 538-member “Electoral College,” in which each state gets as many “electors” as their representation in Congress.

Every state except Nebraska and Maine award all of their electors to whomever comes first in the state-wide popular vote.

If both Harris and Trump fail to reach the majority threshold of 270 electors, the US Constitution says that Congress would play a deciding role.

Specifically, the newly elected House of Representatives would select the president in January, while the Senate would designate the next vice president.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Officials have warned and asked people to remain patient as they tally ballots in what could be a historically close presidential race — and warning that it could take days to find out who has won.

US Election Results 2024 Live: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a joint presser with his Australian Counterpart Penny Wong, where the two leaders discussed various issues of global importance. EAM also spoke about the US Presidential Elections.

Jaishankar said, ” We have seen steady progress in our relationship with the US over the last 5 presidencies, including an earlier Trump presidency. So, when we look at the American election, we are very confident that whatever the verdict, our relationship with the US will only grow”.

US Election Results 2024 Live: The temple reverberated with rhythmic Sanskrit and Tamil hymns, as a Hindu priest held a flame before the god. As this tiny South Indian village gathered to pray for Kamala Harris, a gaggle of reporters jostled for space and camera angles.

There’s little to distinguish the village of Thulasendrapuram from any other rural community in Tamil Nadu, except its connection to a woman who could become America’s first leader with South Asian roots.

As millions of Americans vote, Harris has people rooting for her from thousands of miles away in a village surrounded by rice paddies and coconut trees, where her mother’s family has ancestral ties. They talk about her at the local tea shop. Banners and billboards bearing her face are seen throughout the community.

“Our deity is a very powerful God. If we pray well to him, he will make her victorious,” said M. Natarajan, the temple priest that led the prayers in front of the image of Hindu deity Ayyanar, a form of Lord Shiva.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to lead the United States to “new heights of glory” as he delivered his closing pitch at the final rally of his campaign.

“With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces and lead America — indeed, the world — to new heights of glory,” he told the crowd in the early hours of the morning in Grand Rapids, in the swing state of Michigan.

US Election Results 2024 Live: In the 2024 U.S. election, voting times vary across states, impacting when early trends are expected. In November 2020, it took four days after the polls closed for Joe Biden to be declared the winner of the U.S. presidential election. This delay was due to narrow margins in key battleground states, which required recounts, and the large number of mail-in ballots that needed to be processed after Election Day. Additionally, the election took place amid a global pandemic.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump wrapped up their campaigns in the hours leading up to Election Day, each urging supporters to turn out for what may be one of the closest presidential elections in modern history.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Voters are deciding whether to reelect San Francisco Mayor London Breed — the first Black woman in the role — or to pick one of her four challengers in a pricey and competitive race that’s heated up over homelessness and public safety.
All of the challengers are fellow Democrats, who say Breed has squandered her six years in office while homeless tent encampments, open-air drug use and brazen retail theft have proliferated.Crime and homelessness also drove frustrated residents of nearby Oakland to collect enough signatures to place the recall of Mayor Sheng Thao on Tuesday’s ballot. They blame Thao, who won office just two years ago, for a long list of city woes. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has sent state highway patrol officers, state prosecutors, and surveillance cameras to help Oakland battle crime.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Oil prices traded in a narrow range on Tuesday ahead of what is expected to be an exceptionally close U.S. presidential election, after rising more than 2% in the previous session as OPEC+ delayed plans to hike production in December.

Brent crude futures ticked down 3 cents, or 0.04%, to $75.05 a barrel by 0600 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $71.43 a barrel, down 4 cents, or 0.06%.

“We are now in the calm before the storm,” IG market analyst Tony Sycamore said.

US Election Results 2024 Live: If former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump wins his second term, India’s future relationship with the United States can possibly take a new direction.

US Election Results 2024 Live: “Deciding not to decide is a vote to let other people control your future. If we show up for our country tomorrow, then we have the power to choose a leader who sees us. Kamala Harris will do her mighty best to serve all of us,” said Oprah Winfrey.

US Election Results 2024 Live: “To every citizen across this land, I am asking for the honor of your vote. As your president, I will fight for you every single day with every breath in my body. Together, we will save this great country that we love, we will defeat the corrupt system in Washington,” said Trump.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Republicans have been fading away in California for years, but the state has emerged again as an unlikely national battleground with the GOP dueling over a string of U.S. House seats that could be crucial to determining which party controls the chamber next year.

Democrats have long dominated government in the nation’s most populous state, where they hold every statewide office, have a commanding margin in the Legislature and congressional delegation and outnumber registered Republicans by nearly 2-to-1. The last Republican to win a U.S. Senate race in the state was in 1988.

US Election Results 2024 Live: The video of the moment when Moo Deng predicted the next US president is doing rounds on the internet.

US Election Results 2024 Live: As the race for the White House remains extremely tight even hours before the start of the vote, prominent American political scientist Ian Bremmer has said that no result would surprise him in this close contest, though he views Trump as the “very narrow favourite.”

He further highlighted that some polls have shown Trump “surprisingly weak” in Republican-leaning states, adding that the minds of undecided voters and turnout operations by the two parties might eventually play the deciding role in the results.

Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a geopolitical risk advisory firm, and GZERO Media, a company providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs

US Election Results 2024 Live: California voters will decide on 10 ballot measures including one that would turn some nonviolent crimes, like shoplifting, into felonies again, and another that would make the state’s minimum wage the highest in the nation.

US Election Results 2024 Live: I mean, if it is a very-very close contest, we could see legal challenges and perhaps therefore, we will not get a result very quickly, said Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor, ET Now.

“I do not know whether that worst case scenario will come out. It is possible that Kamala Harris wins. It is possible that Mr Trump wins, but he is held up by a gridlocked Congress and can only do a limited amount of damage, so that would be less than the worst case scenario. So, let us see what happens. But the worst-case scenario is really something to worry about.”

he further said, “I would also say that in some sense, there is now a thing called Trumpism, which goes beyond Trump. So, if you want to defeat Trumpism, then you have to allow Mr Trump to first come in and then show that his policies are disastrous. It cannot just be done…. Imean, so even if Kamala Harris wins by a narrow victory, Trumpism will remain a threat four years after.”

“I think the markets would be perfectly happy with a Trump victory and a gridlocked Congress. I think if Trump wins and the Republicans win both houses of Congress, then the markets will get rather nervous as to what is going to be the outcome.”

US Election Results 2024 Live: Donald Trump, speaking at his final campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is repeatedly claiming, without evidence, that Democrats will cheat during Tuesday’s election. In the weeks leading up to the election, Trump and his allies have set the stage for disputing the results of the election if he loses, despite having no evidence of widespread fraud. He’s doing so again onstage.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump received 3 votes each in New Hampshire’s Dixville Notch in the early hours of Tuesday, reflecting the tight contest in the presidential race.

The tiny settlement in New Hampshire’s northeast, traditionally begins Election Day at midnight on Monday before other polling stations open.

The fight between the Democratic vice president and the former Republican president has remained remarkably close.

New Hampshire’s electoral regulations permit communities with populations under 100 to commence voting at midnight and conclude once all registered voters have cast their ballots.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Trump’s favourability is stuck around 43 per cent in nationwide polling. In the past two presidential elections, he fell short of taking 50 per cent of the national popular vote. As president, he never achieved over 50 per cent favourability. And he has never topped 50 per cent since leaving office.

This means he has hit a ceiling in his support and is highly unlikely to win the national popular vote on Tuesday.

This also reflects what happened to Trump in the Republican primaries to win the nomination. He dominated the field, defeating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, and several others. But in most of those primaries, 15-20 per cent of Republican voters did not vote for Trump.

Where will these Republican voters ultimately land on Tuesday? Probably half want to vote Republican and will go with Trump. Others will not being able to bring themselves to vote for Harris and will simply not vote for president.

Others will switch their support to Harris. Indeed, there has never been such a swelling of support from members of one party to support the other party’s presidential candidate.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Google chief executive Sundar Pichai warned employees in a companywide email sent Monday and obtained by The Washington Post that no matter who wins the presidential election the company must be a “trusted source of information to people of every background and belief.”

US Election Results 2024 Live: Pennsylvania has emerged as the most crucial of the seven battleground states having 19 electoral college votes followed by 16 each in North Carolina and Georgia, 15 in Michigan and 11 in Arizona. In other battleground states, Wisconsin has 10 and Nevada has six.

US Election Results 2024 Live: While Kamala Harris has appealed to unity, Trump has used his four rallies today to revive his grievances about a host of Democrats he calls “evil” and “sick.” So far, in Michigan, he has attacked President Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, who he just now all but called a vulgar, sexist epithet. “It starts with a b, but I won’t say it,” he said.

US Election Results 2024 Live: U.S. shoppers could lose up to $78 billion in annual spending power annually if presidential candidate Donald Trump’s new tariffs proposal on imports are implemented, a study from the National Retail Federation (NRF) showed on Monday.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Former President Barack Obama, in a long and impassioned speech on the final day of early voting in Wisconsin, made a plea to voters to back Vice President Kamala Harris even if they disagree with her on a particular policy issue or have lost trust in Democratic politicians.
Obama ticked through elements of the coalition that helped elect him president twice and offered reasons for each to vote for Harris over former President Donald Trump — a man Obama described as unfit for the White House and without a care for the American people.”Whatever questions you may still have about Kamala’s position on this or that issue, I can tell you that, time and time again, not just in this campaign but throughout her career, she has conducted herself with grace and dignity; that she respects people of all races and faiths; that she doesn’t demonize those who don’t support her, or threaten those who disagree with her; and that as president she will care about and listen to all the people of these United States,” Obama said.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Democrats are heavily favoured to win both U.S. House seats in Rhode Island in Tuesday’s election.

Rep. Gabe Amo, the first Black representative in Congress from Rhode Island, is poised to be reelected in the 1st Congressional District.

Amo faces Republican challenger Allen Waters and has promised to work on issues ranging from ending gun violence to supporting reproductive freedom and fighting to protect Social Security and Medicare.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Podcaster Joe Rogan, who recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for nearly three hours, said on Monday he has endorsed the former president in the race to the White House on the eve of the Nov. 5 U.S. election.
Trump faces Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in what polls show to be a tight race. Harris has got multiple celebrity endorsements.”For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump,” Rogan said on X.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Residents in U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from Washington.

Harris’ maternal grandfather P.V. Gopalan was born more than a century ago in the leafy village of Thulasendrapuram in what is now southern India’s Tamil Nadu state.

“There will be a special prayer on Tuesday morning at the temple,” G. Manikandan, a villager who runs a small store near the temple, said. “Celebrations will follow if she wins.”

At the temple, Harris’ name is engraved into a stone that lists public donations, along with that of her grandfather. Outside, a large banner wishes “the daughter of the land” success in the election.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Lady Gaga is set to headline Kamala Harris’ rally in Pennsylvania during Election Eve, as part of the final part of her and Tim Walz’s campaign’s last Get Out The Vote organizing effort, reported Variety.

The Philadelphia rally will showcase performances and speeches by various artists including DJ Cassidy, Fat Joe, Freeway, Just Blaze, Lady Gaga, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Ricky Martin, The Roots, Jazmine Sullivan, Adam Blackstone, and Oprah Winfrey.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Nevertheless, opinion polls show Trump, 78, and Harris, 60, virtually even. The winner may not be known for days after Tuesday’s vote, though Trump has already signalled that he will attempt to fight any defeat, as he did in 2020.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned on Monday that, if elected, he would punish Mexico with tariffs unless the Mexican government moved to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States.

At a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Trump said he would move quickly to crack down on drug trafficking along the southern U.S. border with Mexico and that he would use tariffs. “We will immediately stop the drugs pouring across our border,” he said.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Indian shares were flat at the open on Tuesday, as caution prevailed ahead of the U.S. presidential elections and dull earnings and sustained foreign outflows weighed on sentiment.

The NSE Nifty 50 shed 0.01% to 23,992 points as of 9:32 a.m. IST, while the BSE Sensex lost 0.06% to 78,731.73.

Both benchmark indexes fell about 1.25% each on Monday, their biggest single-day loss since Oct. 3.

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump remain virtually tied in opinion polls ahead of polling in the U.S. Presidential election on Tuesday. The winner will likely not be known for days after voting ends.

US Election Results 2024 Live: The video of the moment when Moo Deng predicted the next US president is doing rounds on the internet.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Despite the sharply different tones, polls suggest the race remains tight, with the final New York Times/Siena College surveys showing the candidates tied or holding only narrow leads in all of the seven battleground states.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris closed out their campaigns Monday in starkly different moods: The former president, appearing drained at arenas that were not filled, claimed that the country was on the brink of ruin, while the vice president promised a more united future as energized supporters chanted alongside her, “We’re not going back.”

US Election Results 2024 Live: A Georgia poll worker was arrested on Monday on U.S. charges that he sent a letter threatening to bomb election workers that he wrote to appear as if it came from a voter in the presidential election battleground state.

Federal prosecutors said Nicholas Wimbish, 25, had been serving as a poll worker at the Jones County Elections Office in Gray, Georgia, on Oct. 16 when he got into a verbal altercation with a voter.

US Election Results 2024 Live: China’s top lawmakers gathered Monday to hash out a major stimulus package that analysts say could grow even bigger if former US president Donald Trump wins the White House this week.

Beijing has in recent months heeded calls to step up support for the economy after years of inaction, announcing a raft of measures including rate cuts and the easing of some home buying restrictions.

But they have refrained from unveiling a figure for the long-awaited stimulus, disappointing investors after a market rally fizzled when officials repeatedly failed to commit to a top line.

Analysts now hope this number could emerge from this week’s meeting of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress, the top body of China’s rubber stamp parliament headed by number three official Zhao Leji.

Nomura economists expect lawmakers this week to approve around one trillion yuan ($140 billion) in extra funds.

The measures are expected to be announced when the meeting wraps up on Friday — in time for Beijing to take stock of results of presidential elections in the United States.

US Election Results 2024 Live: As the countdown for election day began, Former President Trump raked up the bitter memories of the 2020 election as said he “shouldn’t have left” the White House, triggering apprehensions that he was preparing the ground to not accept the outcome of the November 5 voting if he loses the contest.
“I shouldn’t have left. I mean, honestly, because…we did so well,” the former President said at a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania.Following the election that brought Joe Biden to power, Trump alleged fraud in the voting process and challenged the outcome in courts which rejected his claims.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has urged people in the US to vote hours ahead of the start of polling in the United States.
In a video posted on her X handle on Tuesday, the 60-year-old said, “Tomorrow”.The video shows the US Vice President holding campaign rallies and interacting with people. It also shows visuals of working-class and middle-class people.

“Do we believe in the promise of America and are we are ready to fight for it?” Harris says in the video.

“We are not going back!” she adds.

US Election Results 2024 Live: The number of Americans who will be eligible to vote in 2024 is 244 million, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.

How many of those will actually cast their ballot remains to be seen, of course. But the Pew Research Center says that the midterm elections of 2018 and 2022, and the presidential vote of 2020, produced three of the highest turnouts of their kind seen in the United States in decades.

“About two-thirds (66 percent) of the voting-eligible population turned out for the 2020 presidential election — the highest rate for any national election since 1900,” Pew says on its website.

That translated to nearly 155 million voters, according to the Census Bureau.

US Election Results 2024 Live: “I would like to begin by asking a very simple and easy to understand question – are you better off now than you were four years ago? Over the past four years, Americans have suffered one catastrophic failure, betrayal and humiliation after another,” said Presidential candidate Donald Trump , while addressing an election rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

US Election Results 2024 Live: Both sides say they are encouraged by early turnout numbers, with over 78 million people having voted already, around half of the total number of ballots cast in 2020.

The closeness of the 2024 White House race reflects a deeply divided United States, as it chooses between two candidates whose visions could scarcely be more different.

Former president Trump has doubled down on his dark and violent rhetoric in his pursuit of a second term which would make him the first convicted felon and, at 78, the oldest major party candidate ever elected.

Vice President Harris, 60, has meanwhile made an astonishing rise to the top of the Democratic ticket after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July.

US Election Results 2024 Live: The first polls close at 6:00 pm Eastern Time (2300 GMT) but when the race is tight, it could take days before a victor is projected.

In 2020, US media declared Democratic candidate Joe Biden the winner on Saturday November 7, although polls closed the Tuesday before.

In 2016 and 2012, voters had a shorter wait.

After votes are cast, local election officials, who may be appointed or elected, process and count them. Tallying methods vary from one location to the next.

Many states have changed election laws to allow mail-in or overseas votes to be prepared for counting ahead of Election Day, although Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have not made similar changes.

Both are battlegrounds that could swing towards either party. With mail-in ballots not allowed to be processed until November 5, this could slow counting.

Especially close vote counts can also trigger recounts.

US Election Results 2024 Live: The United States stands on edge as polls suggest one of the closest presidential races in history between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Major polling outlets show the candidates virtually deadlocked.

In battleground states on election eve, polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight reported a 47.8 per cent tie in Pennsylvania, near-identical numbers in Nevada, and mere one-point differences in Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina.

US Election Results Live: The November 2020 general election, along with Georgia, Guam and Louisiana’s general runoff elections, resulted in the election of the 117th Congress. In 2020, Democratic Joseph Biden received 8,12,83,501 popular votes (51.31%), Republican Donald Trump garnered 7,42,23,975 popular votes (46.85%), Libertarian Jo Jorgensen got 1,865,535 popular votes (1.18%), while independent Kanye West received 70,950 popular votes (0.04%).

US Election Results Live: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump issued a warning that he would impose tariffs on Mexico if elected, unless the Mexican government takes action to curb the influx of fentanyl into the United States.

US Election Results 2024 Live: A lawyer representing Elon Musk’s political action committee informed a Philadelphia judge that the individuals selected as “winners” in his $1 million-a-day voter campaign in swing states are not randomly chosen. Instead, they are carefully selected to serve as paid “spokespeople” for the organization.

US Presidential Elections Live: The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Cobb County is not permitted to extend the counting deadline for approximately 3,000 absentee ballots distributed just before Election Day. This decision marks a win for the Republican National Committee and presidential candidate Donald Trump. By siding with the RNC, the court reversed a prior judge’s order that had extended the ballot deadline to Friday in Cobb County, a suburban area near Atlanta.

US Election Results Live: The dollar weakened, and stocks declined on Monday as investors approached the U.S. presidential election with caution. Market sentiment was also influenced by the anticipation of a U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cut expected later in the week.

US Presidential Elections Live: Nikki Haley, a former Cabinet member who challenged Donald Trump in a long-shot bid for the Republican nomination, has encouraged voters to support Trump, describing him as “clearly the better choice” when compared to Kamala Harris.

Guard officials stated that over 24 states have expressed a willingness to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., if requested, in the period following the presidential election and leading up to the inauguration.

US Election Results Live: Kamala Harris is dedicating her day to Pennsylvania, aiming to secure its 19 electoral votes, the biggest prize among the swing states likely to shape the Electoral College results. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has scheduled four rallies across three states, kicking off in Raleigh, North Carolina, followed by two stops in Pennsylvania—Reading and Pittsburgh—before concluding his day in Michigan.

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