2024 United States presidential election
The gist
Electoral College electors met in state capitals and cast their votes electing Donald Trump as the 47th president.
The 2024 result still shapes later fights over voting prosecutions and midterm shifts.
How it unfolded
- Nov 5, 2024The U.S. presidential election was held, with Election Day voting at polling places including a church in Detroit.
- Dec 17, 2024Ohio's seventeen presidential electors were sworn in before casting their votes for President-elect Donald Trump at the Ohio Senate chambers in Columbus.
- Dec 18, 2024Electoral College electors convened in state capitals and cast votes electing Donald Trump as the forty-seventh president.