2024 United States presidential election (Our Democracy timeline)

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. The Democratic ticket of former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti and North Carolina Senator Anthony Foxx was defeated by the Republican ticket of Arizona senator and former governor Doug Ducey and New York representative Elise Stefanik. This was the first election since the 2004 U.S. presidential election in which the Republican ticket won the presidency, as well the second time since 2000 that the ticket won the popular vote. On January 20th, 2025, Ducey was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, while Stefanik was sworn in as the first female Vice President of the United States.

This was the last election held under the electoral collage system. In 2022, state legislatures ratified the 28th Amendment, which allowed for constitutional referenda to be held as an alternative method of amending the U.S. Consitution. The 2024 referendum on the Abolishment of the Electoral College, which required a 60% + 25 states or 50% + 38 states majority, was held concurrently with this election and passed with 61.88% percent of the vote and 38 states. Therefore, future presidential elections in the United States were to be decided solely on the sum of popular vote totals across all states and Washington, D.C.

Close states
States where the margin of victory was under 1% (7 electoral votes; 6 won by Ducey, 1 by Garcetti):


 * 1)  Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, 0.42% – 1 electoral vote 
 * 2)  Nevada, 0.63% – 6 electoral votes 

States where the margin of victory was under 5% (122 electoral votes; 90 won by Ducey, 32 by Garcetti):


 * 1)  Georgia, 1.09% – 16 electoral votes 
 * 2)  Michigan, 1.23% – 15 electoral votes 
 * 3)  Pennsylvania, 2.12% – 19 electoral votes  (tipping-point state)
 * 4)  Wisconsin, 2.38% – 10 electoral votes 
 * 5)  North Carolina, 2.93% – 16 electoral votes 
 * 6)  Florida, 3.41% – 30 electoral votes 
 * 7)  New Hampshire, 3.51% – 4 electoral votes 
 * 8)  Minnesota, 4.22% – 10 electoral votes 
 * 9)  Maine, 4.67% – 4 electoral votes 

States where the margin of victory was under 10% (110 electoral votes; 78 won by Ducey, 32 by Garcetti):


 * 1)  Arizona, 5.03% – 11 electoral votes 
 * 2)  Texas, 5.25% – 40 electoral votes 
 * 3)  Ohio, 5.49% – 17 electoral votes 
 * 4)  New Mexico, 5.98% – 5 electoral votes 
 * 5)  Iowa, 6.53% – 6 electoral votes 
 * 6)  Alaska, 7.01% – 3 electoral votes 
 * 7)  Virginia, 8.99% – 13 electoral votes 
 * 8)  New Jersey, 9.34% – 14 electoral votes 
 * 9)  Connecticut, 9.83% – 7 electoral votes 

Concurrent Elections
The 2020 presidential election was held in conjunction with elections for an array of local, state, and federal positions and ballot measures. This included the Class III U.S. Senate seats as well as the House of Representatives.

Senate results
After the 2020 Senate elections, the Democratic caucus held a 54-46 advantage, including 3 Democratic-caucusing independents (Angus King, I-ME; Bernie Sanders, I-VT; and Al Gross, I-AK). In the 2022 elections, the Republican party successfully flipped seats in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Ohio, and Wisconsin, leading to a 51-49 Republican advantage going into the 2024 Senate elections. This advantage was reversed in the 2024 elections, where the Democratic caucus consisting of 48 Democrats and 3 Independents had a majority over 49 Republican senators.

House results
The U.S. House of Representative elections resulted in a 225R-210D House in the 117th Congress.

Referenda
For the first time in U.S. history, the 2024 elections allowed for national referenda on constitutional issues to be voted upon. The requirements to propose a national referenda in the United States, as designated by the 28th Amendement, are signatures from 10% of the voting-age population in each state or signatures from 5% of the voting-age population plus a majority vote in the U.S. House and Senate. Two referenda questions met these qualifications between October 4, 2022 - the ratification of the 28th Amendment - and January 1, 2024, the deadline for a ballot question to be certified by the Supreme Court of the United States.