As more votes are counted, President-Elect Donald Trump now seems unlikely to have polled a majority of the popular vote. The GreenPapers tally, which is constantly refreshed as more results are released, shows Trump at 49.88%. It shows Kamala Harris at 48.23%, and others at 1.89%.
In 2020, the percentages were: Biden 51.31%; Trump 46.86%; other 1.83%.
The Connecticut Secretary of State has released write-in totals for the declared presidential candidates. For those candidates who were on the ballot in at least one other state, the results are: Peter Sonski (American Solidarity) 162; Claudia De la Cruz (Socialism & Liberation) 257; Cornel West 127; Shiva Ayyadurai 20.
In 2020 the American Solidarity Party presidential candidate had received 219 write-ins in Connecticut.
An Oklahoma group has announced plans to put an initiative on the ballot in 2026 that would create a top-two system. See this story.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s best percentage in New Mexico was McKinley County, where he got 1.94% of the vote. His best precincts in that county were all on the Navajo Indian Reservation. He got between 3% and 4.3% in precincts 2 (YahTaHey), eleven (Whitehorse Lake), and twentyfive (Vanderwagen).
McKinley County’s population is 75% Navajo. It is one of three counties in the U.S. where the language most commonly spoken at home is neither English nor Spanish.
On election night, the New Mexico Green Party appeared to have missed ongoing qualified status by 51 votes. But late-arriving ballots seem to have boosted the party’s showing, so that it is now barely meeting the .5% vote test for president. Here is a link to the Secretary of State’s vote tally. The vote is still unofficial but all counties have finished their official canvass, so when the state canvass is complete, the results should be the same.
The party needed 4,617 votes and appears to have 4,619.
