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.