North Carolina 2024 live election results: Trump projected to win

Former President Donald Trump is projected to win North Carolina over Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump will take the state's 16 electoral votes.

State significance

North Carolina has backed the Democratic nominee for president only once since 1980 (in 2008 for former President Barack Obama by 14,000 votes), but it is still a top target for the party and a top swing state.

Former President Donald Trump only took it by under 1.5 points in 2020, and Democrats have insisted that the mushrooming population in the "research triangle," anchored by Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, will help boost their vote share in the state.

However, Republicans have been able to keep their margins in the state's vast rural expanses large enough to offset Democrats' advantage in North Carolina's more urban areas.

North Carolina is also home to the country's most competitive gubernatorial race this year, where state Attorney General Josh Stein, the Democrat, is projected to defeat Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate.

Stein held a consistent polling lead in the race, while Robinson was hammered by Democrats for controversial comments he made about Jewish people, LGBTQ+ people and more, culminating in a bombshell CNN report that Robinson used disturbing and inflammatory language in the comments section of a pornographic website years ago, including calling himself a "black NAZI."

Counties are colored red or blue when the % expected vote reporting reaches a set threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on patterns of past vote reporting and expectations about how the vote will report this year.