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Millions of Americans astir the state person been casting their ballot successful the 2024 US Presidential Election contiguous to prime the adjacent person of the country.
The Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, and the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, are locked successful a close race, with polls highlighting the heavy divisions wrong the nation.
Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance formed his ballot in-person this greeting astatine his polling spot successful Cincinnati, Ohio.
‘We bash expect to win,’ Vance told reporters extracurricular the polling station. Trump besides formed his ballot successful Florida, saying helium was ‘very honoured’ to spot agelong lines.
He added: ‘This is the champion run we’ve run.’
Harris has not yet formed her vote, but has been doing telephone interviews with vigor stations successful the battleground states and visited the Democratic National Committee (DNC) office successful Washington.
Polls are inactive unfastened successful astir states, with the archetypal ones acceptable to unopen astir 6pm Eastern time.
In the charts below, you tin way the results arsenic they travel successful in each authorities and find cardinal timings of events tonight.
What are the cardinal results truthful far?
- 6pm Eastern Time (ET) — The archetypal polls volition adjacent successful Kentucky and Indiana.
- 7pm ET — Polls volition adjacent successful cardinal plaything authorities Georgia, arsenic good arsenic 5 different states.
- 7.30pm ET — Polls adjacent successful North Carolina, West Virginia and Ohio.
- 8pm ET — Polls adjacent successful 16 states, including plaything authorities Pennsylvania.
- 8.30pm ET — Polls adjacent successful Arkansas.
- 9pm ET — Polls adjacent successful 15 states, including plaything states Michigan and Wisconsin.
- 10pm ET — Polls adjacent successful Nevada, Montana and Utah.
What are plaything states?
‘Swing states’ are those of the 50 United States where some large governmental parties person a genuine accidental of winning implicit the bulk of voters successful a presidential election.
For this election, the 7 states that some the Democrats and Republicans agreed conscionable the criteria for being plaything states, are: Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and, of course, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes which is the astir of immoderate plaything state.
Which states are inactive near to vote?
In astir states, polls adjacent astir 7 p.m. connected Election Day, marking the commencement of the counting process. However, owed to the immense size of the U.S., with voters successful Alaska and Hawaii casting ballots aboriginal due to the fact that of the clip difference, authoritative results aren’t instantly available.
While the victor is often wide by the pursuing morning, it tin sometimes instrumentality respective days for a effect to beryllium confirmed.
American voters person until this evening to formed their ballots earlier polls close.
The archetypal states with polls to adjacent volition beryllium Kentucky and Indiana, which volition adjacent astatine 11pm UK time.
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