US Election 2024 - Trump and Republican Party win with clear result

                                                Shutterstock Donald J Tump in 2024

The US Presidential and Congressional Elections (and a multitude of other elected positions across the United States) have concluded. Trump was the clear winner in the presidential ballot securing well over the 270 electoral college votes with a minimum of 295 with one state still in counting at the date of this blog entry. The Republican Party looks to have succeeded in gaining a majority in both houses of Congress.

• 49 of the 51 states have been called and Trump received 72,829,362 votes (or 51%) compared to Kamala Harris who received 68,195135 votes (48%).  Donald Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral college.

• In the Senate, which still has two positions under counting, the Republicans hold at least 53 seats, an increase of 4 while the Democrats hold 45 seat being a decrease of 4.  A majority in the Senate is 50 seats so the Republicans have achieved that threshold.

• In the House of Representatives, the results are not fully completed. At the moment Republicans hold 210 seats (a gain of two seats) while the Democrats hold 198 seats (a reduction of 2). There are still 27 seats being counted as of today. The majority for this House is 218 seats which has not yet been achieved but it is considered to be a likely Republican win.

A significant number of polls conducted during the campaign were inaccurate with only a handful reflecting the overall trend often citing that the result would be close. There was a general theme that Trump could and most likely would win however the magnitude of that result was often under-estimated. A number of political commentators and experienced journalists in both the US and overseas did correctly predict a Trump win.