Election 2024 live updates: Latest results as Trump and Harris go head to head in crucial battleground states

It is 8pm on the East Coast and polls are now closed in the following states:

• Alabama
• Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• Delaware
• Florida*
• Illinois
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• New Hampshire*
• New Jersey
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Tennessee

*Florida and New Hampshire saw some results at 7pm ET.

Donald Trump will barely have slept going into election day, if at all, having wrapped up his final campaign rally at 2am.

But that didn’t stop the former president from casting his own vote early on Tuesday and ranting about his enemies in a diatribe against Fox News and Oprah Winfrey.

Based in Mar-a-Lago, Trump then spent the day ‘peppering aides with questions’ and hitting the phones to speak to Republican allies and officials, sources told CNN.

Michelle Del Rey reports for The Independent.

On Tuesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that two polling stations had to be evacuated. Last month, I visited DeKalb to report on whether Black men are moving rightward (spoiler, it’s not entirely clear).

I chose to go to DeKalb because more than half of the population is African-American. When speaking to some of the residents, particularly the elderly ones, they talked with me about the importance of casting their ballot.

“My ancestors died so I could have an opportunity to vote,” Renita Woods told me last month outside the Hairston Crossing Library in Stone Mountain. Woods used a mobility aid to get into the library to cast her ballot.

Voting has a special salience in Georgia, the home of Martin Luther King Jr and the late John Lewis, who famously led the march in Selma Alabama to enact voting rights.

CNN reports a big shift among independents towards Trump in Georgia, according to its exit poll.

A stunning 20-point swing toward Trump compared to 2020 puts him 11 points up among independent voters, according to the poll.

To put that into context, Biden won independents by 9 points in 2020.

Election Day issues are a common problem at polling places, and election officials or the courts step in to make sure those ballots are counted.

But this year, a handful of polling locations in Georgia, including several sites in Atlanta, will stay open slightly longer this evening following noncredible bomb threats.

Tech issues at precincts in Pennsylvania’s Cambria County that caused voting software to malfunction have prompted courts to order locations there to stay open until 10 pm.

Republican Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia has won his US Senate race in West Virginia, flipping a seat after the retirement of Joe Manchin.

He was up against Glen Elliott of the Democratic Party and David Moran of the Libertarian Party.

Long lines are being reported at universities in Philadelphia. Driving up numbers here could help Harris win this crucial swing state.

Lucas Eisen, a 25-year-old political science student at the University of Pennsylvania and political director of the University of Pennsylvania Democrats, told The Independent that enthusiasm was high.

“I think there’s a lot of enthusiasm on campus. I’m seeing ‘I voted’ stickers all over,” he said after voting for Harris at the Philadelphia campus.

“I think there have been consistent lines all day and we’re just really glad to see this kind of enthusiasm for politics and frankly for our future.”

Eisen said reproductive freedom was the most important issue for him when casting his ballots.

“From that issue flows so many issues that are deeply important to me. I’m an LGBTQ+ man and my right to marry, my right to have children, my right to sex, is all dependent on abortion rights being protected.

“And I think that the fight now is gonna be a fight that reverberates for decades to come.”

Kayla Mengden, a 19-year-old nursing student at the University of Pennsylvania, also said reproductive rights and the protection of the Affordable Care Act were the most important issues in guiding her vote for Harris.

“I think her plans are much more suited to normal people. As a nurse in the future, this election could very possibly very directly affect how I can treat my patients and how I can provide health care,” she added.

This Election Day, voters across America are going to the polls to cast their vote for the 47th president of the United States.

As election workers count ballots and voting data is released, media outlets will begin to call states in favor of either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump this evening. While outlets will likely call the final result in the days or week(s) after November 5, their determination is only ever a projection. The election will be officially certified on January 6 by Congress.

NBC News, among other outlets, released the results of their exit polls on Tuesday afternoon. Voters ranked the state of democracy as their number one issue, while the economy came second.

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Watch live as a US presidential election map animates states turning red or blue as each is called for either the Democrats or Republicans on Tuesday, 5 November.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris made their final pitches to voters on Monday before voters went to the polls.

As election workers count the ballots and voting data is released, media outlets will begin to call states in favor of either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump this evening. While outlets will likely call the final result in the days or week(s) after 5 November, their determination is only ever a projection. The election will be officially certified on 6 January by Congress.

The economy and the state of US democracy are among the top issues cited by voters in NBC News’s exit poll, according to the preliminary results.

The Republican chose to close out his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with personal attacks on Harris, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and their fellow California Democrat Adam Schiff.

The Democrat was joined in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by celebrities Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin and The Roots while Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera supported her in Pittsburgh and Las Vegas.

At midnight, the first in-person votes were cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire – a tradition going back almost 65 years.