Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump secured a decisive win against his Democrat counterpart Kamala Harris in the state of Pennsylvania, reports the Associated Press. With over 96 percent of the votes counted, Trump was projected to win with 3,417,549 or 50.8 percent of the popular vote while Harris trailed with 3,245,675 or 48.2 percent votes.
A victory in Pennsylvania ensures 19 electoral college votes for Trump, taking his tally to 267, inches away from the 270 required for a victory. The fight in Pennsylvania was seen as the most critical and closest among all swing states.
The victory in Pennsylvania, referred to as one of three "blue wall" swing states, is significant as it has traditionally been seen as a Democratic stronghold. It narrowly went Donald Trump’s way in 2016 after almost three decades of voting for Democratic presidential candidates. Trump is currently leading in the other two swing states part of the “blue wall” – Michigan and Wisconsin.
Four years later, Democrat Joe Biden won all three states back for Democrats with a margin in Pennsylvania of about 80,000 votes out of more than 6.9 million votes cast. The states remain key electoral prizes this year.
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1255 IST - Donald Trump takes Pennsylvania, set to reclaim White House
Donald Trump has won the state of Pennsylvania that accounts for 19 electoral college votes, reports the Associated Press. The win leaves Trump with a tally just three short of the 270-mark required for presidency.
1252 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live: Trump beats Harris, say US media reports
According to US media reports, Donald Trump has defeated Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, moving even closer to reclaiming the White House four years after his defeat to Joe Biden. As per AP, the tally of late votes from a few counties is still awaited and it was too early to call the result.
1230 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live: Fox News projects Trump win in key battleground state
Fox News has projected a victory for Donald Trump in the key state of Pennsylvania that accounts for 19 electoral college votes. The win would take his tally very close to the 270-mark required to win the presidential election. As per official estimates, Trump is leading against Harris by around 3 percent votes with only five percent votes remaining to be counted.
1205 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live: Trump leads Harris by 3% votes after 93% counting
Donald Trump is ahead of his rival Kamala Harris by a margin of 3 percent votes as the counting for the presidential election enters its final leg. An estimated 93.1 percent of votes have been counted and Trump is leading with 3,364,552 (51%) votes while Harris bagged 3,168,157 (48%) votes.
1150 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live: Why is Pennsylvania crucial?
With its 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania is the largest prize among the battleground states and crucial in determining the road to victory. Both Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican former President Donald Trump and their running mates have made frequent visits to the state since becoming their parties' nominees, including events in Allentown, Scranton, State College, Harrisburg and others in the final week of October. Both candidates also spent the last day of campaign addressing events across the state, underlining the importance they both attached to this state.
1130 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024: Over 90% of votes counted, Trump ahead of Harris
Donald Trump maintains his lead over Kamala Harris in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. Over 90 percent of the votes have been counted and Trump leads Harris by over 2.5 lakh votes, translating into a lead of over 3.5 percent.
1100 IST - Pennsylvania among key races yet to be called
The Pennsylvania election is among the last-remaining races yet to be called with counting of votes entering its final leg. Trump is still ahead against Harris maintaining a lead of around 3% votes counted so far. Trump is also ahead in the larger presidential race though the election is too close to call at the moment. The New York Times, however, claims that Trump is poised to win the election with 90% odds in his favour.
1030 IST - US Election Result LIVE: Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 230-210 in presidential race
According to the Associated Press, Donald Trump is leading against Kamala Harris in the race to the White House in terms of electoral college votes. Trump is projected to win 230 electoral college votes while Harris is now at 210 with the counting of votes underway.
1000 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live: Trump maintains lead, over 80% of votes counted
Donald Trump maintains the lead against Kamala Harris and is ahead by over 3 percent of the votes counted so far in Pennsylvania. Trump has 2,939,251 votes (51.4%) votes so far while Harris trails with 2,725,864 votes (47.7%). An estimated 81.4 percent of votes have been counted so far.
0935 IST - Pennsylvania Poll Result Live: Donald Trump leads Harris by 3% of votes
Republican candidate Donald Trump is now leading against Democrat Kamala Harris by over 3 percent with an estimated 70.5 percent of votes already counted. As of 9.35 a.m. IST, Trump is leading against Harris 2,565,710 votes to 2,388,774 votes. In terms of percentage, this lead translates to 51.3 percent for Trump against 47.7 percent for Harris.
0921 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 Live: Trump leads Harris by over 1 lakh votes
With slightly less than 60 percent of the expected vote counted, Trump leads Harris by just over 110,000 votes, reports AP. He is winning central and northeastern Pennsylvania. But Philadelphia and its collar counties, which have historically been strongly Democratic, have been slower to report votes.
0900 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 Live: Donald Trump overtakes Kamala Harris
Republican Donald Trump overtook rival Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race in Pennsylvania, shrugging off early jitters that saw the latter gain an early advantage. However, the lead reflected in those early trends were from postal ballots and Trump gained a lead of 3% over Harris as the counting of polling day votes began.
0821 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 Live: Why counting rules haven't changed since 2020
In Pennsylvania, the Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate couldn't agree on a bill that would allow early processing of mailed ballots. While Republicans wanted to tie it to expanded voter ID requirements, the Democrats refused. When Republicans controlled both chambers in 2021, they expanded voter ID requirements, but the Democratic Governor vetoed it.
0801 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live News: Trump narrows gap, alleges 'massive cheating' in Philadelphia
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has narrowed the gap trailing against his Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as counting of votes progressed in Pennsylvania. An estimated 27.8 percent of votes have been counted and Harris leads with 54.1 percent while Trump trails behind with 45 percent of the votes counted as of 8.07 AM IST.
Meanwhile, Trump cast doubts over the electoral process alleging large scale fraud in Philadelphia, a claim that officials have vehemently denied. "A lot of talk of massive cheating in Philadelphia. Law enforcement coming!" Trump tweeted.
0800 IST - Pennsylvania Election Results Live: Officials urge patience
State officials advised patience in the counting of votes in the face of large voter turnout across the state and a spate of disruptive bomb threats at polling locations and government buildings.
Gov. Josh Shapiro said that the counting of every legal and eligible vote will take time and that the state’s goal is to do it right and accurately. Al Schmidt, the state’s top elections official, said in-person turnout numbers will not be available Tuesday night. He said the state’s counties could not even begin processing and opening the millions of returned mail ballots until 7 a.m. EST Tuesday and that the last of them would not have been received until 8 p.m. EST, reports AP.
0745 IST - Pennsylvania Election Results 2024 Live: Kamala leads against Trump
Kamala Harris is leading against her rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. An estimated 20.1 percent of votes have been counted as per the latest update. A total of 838,700 or % votes have been polled in favour of Harris (58.7%) while 568,302 votes (40%) polled in favour of Trump.
0730 IST - ‘No credible threat’ in Pennsylvania, says Governor amid multiple bomb threats
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said there had been multiple bomb threats called into polling locations across the state, but said so far there is “no credible threat” to the public. Shapiro, a Democrat, spoke at a news conference. In a statement, the Pennsylvania State Police said they were working with local partners to respond, if needed.
Neither Shapiro nor police gave more details about who might be behind the bomb threats or why Shapiro believed there was no threat to the public. Polls closed in the presidential battleground state at 8 p.m. EST (6.30 a.m. IST), except for two jurisdictions where judges granted requests for extensions.
0720 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 LIVE: Kamala Harris ahead of Trump in early trends
Very early trends show Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris leading against her Republican counterpart Donald Trump as counting of mailed ballots was taken up for counting. Approximately 12.8 percent of votes have been counted with 612,001 (68%) votes and 285,900 (31.4%) votes polled in favour of Harris and Trump, respectively.
0701 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 Live: Why result could take longer in this swing state
The state legislature in Pennsylvania has not made the necessary changes to election procedures that would make the tabulation of election votes faster. After the days’ long wait seen during the 2020 polls, several states overhauled their election laws to make it faster to count votes by mail, absentee and overseas ballots. Michigan, for instance, allows election workers to begin tabulating mailed-in ballots more than a week before Election Day, though the results cannot be revealed until after the polls close.
"Hundreds of thousands – sometimes millions – of mail ballots are cast in every election, and current state law does not permit counties to begin opening these ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day. That means county election officials cannot even remove the ballots from the envelopes and prepare them to be scanned until that time – on a day when those same officials are also running more than 9,000 polling places across the state," the Pennsylvania State Secretary's office states.
0652 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result LIVE: Polling concludes, counting of votes begins
Polling has concluded and the counting of votes has begun in the state of Pennsylvania. An estimated 7.6 percent of votes have been counted and the first trends show Democrat Kamala Harris in the lead against Republican Donald Trump. However, these early trends are from mailed ballots which tend to favour Democrats.
0630 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live: What to expect?
Early results will include mailed ballots, which have usually favoured Democratic candidates in the past. Almost twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans voted in advance in the state this year. So, any early advantage could change later as more Election Day votes are counted.
0638 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 Live: Why is Pennsylvania referred to as the ‘blue wall’?
Pennsylvania was referred to as one of three "blue wall" swing states until it narrowly went Donald Trump’s way in 2016 after almost three decades of voting for Democratic presidential candidates. The other two swing states part of the “blue wall” were Michigan and Wisconsin. Four years later, Democrat Joe Biden won all three states back for Democrats with a margin in Pennsylvania of about 80,000 votes out of more than 6.9 million votes cast. The states remain key electoral prizes this year.
0623 IST - Federal cybersecurity officials rule out 'widespread fraud' in Pennsylvania
A senior official at the federal cybersecurity agency said no nationwide security problems are threatening the integrity of the elections and refuted claims of fraud in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Cait Conley, a senior adviser to the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters that though officials have responded to bomb threats, disinformation and other problems, there are no major incidents with a national-level impact, reports AP.
Asked about claims of widespread fraud in Pennsylvania being advanced by Trump and some of his supporters, Conley said federal officials had been in close contact with their state and local counterparts across the country and “we see no data or reporting to support these claims.” Multiple Pennsylvania officials, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, have also said they had not seen any signs of cheating and have called the election secure.
0613 IST: Pennsylvania Election Result Live News: Pennsylvania’s counting process - step by step guide
As per state law, Pennsylvania prevents election officials from pre-canvassing until 7 a.m. on polling day. A total of 43 states allow counties to begin the pre-canvassing process before election day. Pre-canvassing is the process that includes verifying the validity of ballots and preparing them to be read by the ballot counting machines.
As per Act 88 in Pennsylvania’s election code, canvassing will begin at 8 p.m. and continue until each ballot has been counted. All votes cast in person at the polls will be recorded on the machines. On Friday, November 8, all 67 county boards of election will publicly begin the official computation of election results. Each county will report its final certified results to Pennsylvania state election officials, who will send state totals to the Federal Elections Committee.
While the Associated Press will call states by declaring winners as state election officials report their certified results, the presidential election results will not be official until the electoral college votes on December 17.
0542 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live: Polling to conclude at 6.30 AM IST
Polling in Pennsylvania is scheduled to close at 8 p.m. local time (6.30 a.m. IST). However, reports of delays in some counties could see an extension of polling hours. Pennsylvania state laws bar tabulation of votes to begin before polling concludes in a county.
0538 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result Live: Poll officials expect record turnout
Poll officials in Pennsylvania said that the election was progressing smoothly. “Things are going extremely well,” said Lancaster County Commissioner Ray D’Agostino. The elections workers had finished opening and scanning more than 50 per cent of the roughly 64,000 mail-in ballots returned, CNN reported quoting officials. “This could be record turnout,” Commissioner Josh Parsons, said, noting reports of long lines at polling booths.
0535 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result LIVE: Key Races and Candidates
President: Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump vs Chase Oliver (Libertarian) vs Jill Stein (Green).
U.S. Senate: Bob Casey (Democrat) vs Dave McCormick (R) and three others.
7th Congressional District:Susan Wild (D) vs Ryan Mackenzie (D).
8th Congressional District: Matt Cartwright (Democrat) vs Robert Bresnahan (Republican).
In the race to control the state Legislature, Democrats are defending the razor-thin state House majority they won in 2022 for the first time in 12 years and have since successfully defended in several special elections. All 203 state House seats and half the 50 state Senate seats are up for election this year. Republicans have a majority in the state Senate.
0530 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 LIVE: What do exit polls say?
Nearly three-fourths of voters believe the American democracy is under threat, according to national exit poll data from Edison Research, reflecting the deep anxiety that the nation faces after a contentious campaign between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. The poll showed 73% of voters believed democracy was in jeopardy, against just 25% who said it was secure, reported Reuters.
0523 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 Live News: Glitches mar voting in few counties
Reports of glitches causing delays in voting have been reported from some counties. Pennsylvania judge approved a request of Cambria County election officials after they requested an extension of voting hours until 10 p.m. ET, following a software glitch that interfered with vote scanning. Similar complaints were reported from Bedford County as well.
0515 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 Live: Why is Pennsylvania crucial?
With its 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania is the largest prize among the battleground states and will be crucial in determining either side’s road to victory. Both Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican former President Donald Trump and their running mates have made frequent visits to the state since becoming their parties' nominees, including events in Allentown, Scranton, State College, Harrisburg and others in the final week of October.
0500 IST - Pennsylvania Election Result 2024 Live: Counting of votes today
The counting of votes is expected t begin shortly to determine the outcome of elections in Pennsylvania, seen as the biggest battleground state that will determine the outcome of Electoral College votes. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump had pumped in maximum manpower and resources in Pennsylvania.
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