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More than 140 million Americans cast their ballots in the 2024 election, with many states breaking previous early voting turnout records on the heels of a historic and highly contentious campaign season.
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President-elect Donald Trump won a decisive victory in Tuesday’s election with support from some demographic groups who have favored him in the past, as well as wider margins from others that have been traditional Democratic strongholds.
According to AP VoteCast, 16 percent of Black voters supported Trump in 2024, up from 8 percent in 2020. In comparison, 83 percent of Black voters supported Kamala Harris, down from the 91 percent who supported Joe Biden in 2020.
Democrats also lost ground among Latino voters, with 56 percent voting for Harris in 2024 compared to 63 percent for Biden in 2020. Trump’s support grew from 35 percent in 2020 to 42 percent in 2024.
There was a gender gap in 2024’s voting preferences: Trump won support from 24 percent of Black men versus 9 percent of Black women, 47 percent of Latino men versus 38 percent of Latino women, and 59 percent of white men versus 53 percent of white women.
Explore how key groups of Americans voted in the 2024 election and the issues that mattered most to them in the interactive below.
AP VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for Fox News, PBS News Hour, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. The survey of more than 120,000 voters was conducted for eight days, concluding as polls closed. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. The survey combines a random sample of registered voters drawn from state voter files; self-identified registered voters using NORC’s probability based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population; and self-identified registered voters selected from nonprobability online panels. The margin of sampling error for voters is estimated to be plus or minus 0.4 percentage points.
Left: People line up to cast their votes on Election Day, at Pittsburgh Manchester School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Quinn Glabicki/Reuters
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