Has Trump won the US election and when will full results be announced?

Four years after leaving the White House, Donald Trump has declared himself victorious in the 2024 US Presidential Election, after winning in states with a large amount of electoral college votes.

This includes Texas, Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee. Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, North and South Dakota and Utah are among the other states going red.

The states with the largest electoral votes Kamala Harris has won include New York, California, Massachusetts and Maryland. She has also won Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, DC, Illinois, Maine, Hawaii and Delaware.

However, the swing states – which don’t tend to consistently vote Democrat or Republican – have largely voted in Trump’s favour, with the Republican winning North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia.

Nevada, Michigan and Arizona are yet to finish counting, but Trump is leading in all three states.

But, while Trump is the projected winner and many world leaders have already congratulated him, it may still take days – or even weeks – for the results to officially be confirmed in every state.

How does a candidate win the US election?

To win the White House, a presidential candidate must secure 270 Electoral College votes.

These votes are allocated to US states based on their representation in Congress, which varies based on their population size.

Often a clear winner is known within hours of the polls closing, but it can also take weeks for an official tally to be released, as each state is left to carry out their own counting procedures.

Kamala Harris can count on 226 Electoral votes this election from states that reliably vote Democratic or lean Democratic, while Trump can count on 219 Electoral votes to go his way, according to Al Jazeera.

That means Harris needs to pick up 44 more votes to reach the 270 threshold, while Trump needs 51 more.

The seven ‘swing states’ together hold 93 Electoral votes.

These are the key races that could change the outcome of the election:

When will we know who won?

Often a clear winner is known within hours of polls closing, but it can also take days – even weeks – for an official tally to be released, as each state is left to carry out counts.

The results ultimately come down to the seven key swing states, which before election day experts will have forecasted that either Trump or Harris could win.

Trump has already won four out of the seven swing states, and is leading in the remaining three.

Fox News has projected that Trump will win the election. What does that mean?

Fox News has projected that Trump has won the presidency, four years after he left the White House.

Projected wins are complicated, as CNN’s veteran election host Wolf Blitzer often says. Projections involve both real-time results and information from exit polls.

NBC News has projected a Trump win, too.

What is an Electoral College and why is it important in the election?

When it comes to voting in America, what’s commonly thought of as “Election Day” is actually the first step in a two-part process.

In the first step—known as the presidential general election—voters cast their ballots for the candidates they want to become president and vice president.

Then comes the second step, which doesn’t involve the general public but instead relies on the Electoral College to cast the decisive votes.

It can be quite tricky to get your head around what this means, so let’s break it down.

Imagine a voter in Texas—which has 40 electors—casts their ballot for Trump. Technically, they aren’t directly voting for Trump himself; they’re voting for a group of 40 electors who will then cast their votes for Trump.

In other words, that Texan is essentially choosing the electors who will go on to elect the president.

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