Election Day 2024 live results: The 7 swing states have yet to be projected
We're tracking races for president, Senate, House and more across the country.
By538 and ABC News
Last Updated: November 5, 2024, 10:20 PM EST
Polls have closed in some states and the first results are coming in in the high-stakes presidential match-up between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. According to 538's forecast, both candidates have a roughly equal chance to win.
Voters are still at polling places around the country, casting ballots to decide who controls not only the White House, but also Congress, state and local governments.
Reporters from 538 and ABC News will be following along every step of the way with live updates, analysis and commentary on the results. Keep up to date with our full live blog below!
ABC News projects that Trump has won the presidential race in Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee. These were all states won by the former president four years ago, and states in which he maintained large polling leads through most of the contest. Together, these 5 states gain him 67 electoral votes.
Donald Trump will win Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee and Oklahoma, and Kamala Harris will win Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington, D.C., ABC News projects.
It's now 8 p.m. Eastern, and results are going to start flooding in from a big crop of states. The last polling places have closed in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee. Here are our forecasts for the races in those areas:
Many polling places are also closing in Kansas, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas — more on those states when they've closed in full.
As of 7:45 p.m. ET, statewide, with 14% of the expected vote reporting statewide, Trump leads in Georgia with 62% of the vote, followed by Harris with 38%.
However, there is still many votes left to tally from more Democratic areas of the state, including the Atlanta metro area.
In Douglas County, which is considered part of metro Atlanta, with 74% of the expected vote reporting, Harris leads by more than double Trump’s margin for now with 65.9% of the vote, followed by Trump with 33.6%.
Democrats in particular might be ready to elect a woman
Is the United States ready to elect a female president? As polls continue to close around the country, that remains one of the implicit questions facing voters. Women have slowly gained political power in the House and Senate and Harris, as vice president, is the first woman to ever hold that position. As Meredith wrote earlier, though, not only are women candidates more likely to be Democrats, but polling shows that Democrats also are more likely to think it's important to elect a woman.
A young supporter holds a sign as Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Memorial Hall at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., Nov. 4, 2024.
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Overall, a little more than half (53%) of Americans say that there are too few women in elected office, according to the Pew Research Center. But that number has gone down in recent years, possibly because the number of women serving in Congress has gone up. Women made up 28% of all congressional representatives of those sworn in last year, the largest share in history.
In general, party identification tends to matter more on issues related to gender, with Republicans more likely to have a traditional view of the role of men and women. Those attitudes also shape attitudes on abortion. Democrats are also more likely to say its extremely or very important to them to elect a woman in their lifetimes, according to Pew.
Polling from PerryUndem, a nonpartisan research firm that has surveyed voter attitudes on gender and women in power since 2015, found similar splits. 83% of Democrats said, "I want there to be equal numbers of men and women in positions of power in our society" in a 2022 PerryUndem survey, while only 40% of Republicans agreed. Many voters have become more attuned to gender in politics since Clinton, the first woman major-party candidate for president, narrowly lost the race to Trump in 2016. Their polling has found that voters became more likely to attribute her loss to sexism in the years that followed.
