So far, Donald Trump has 49.86% of the total vote, and Kamala Harris has 48.24%. The margin is 1.62%. This is the first presidential election since 2000 in which the popular vote margin between the two major party candidates is less than 2%.
There will be slight changes as remaining ballots are processed.
But, it was surely close. The final results are covered in this story from Alaska Public Media. The vote is 159,955 in favor of repeal, to 160,619 who wish to keep the system. The percentages are 50.1% to 49.9%.
Opponents of the top-four system say they will try another repeal initiative in 2026.
On November 20, the U.S. Supreme Court asked New York state to respond to the cert petition Upstate Jobs Party v Kosinski, 24-503. This is the lawsuit that challenges New York campaign finance limits. The law lets individuals give more money to the nominee of a qualified party than to an independent or the nominee of an unqualified party.
This is a sign that the U.S. Supreme Court might possibly be interested in the case. The state’s response is due December 20.
The Ohio Secretary of State has tallied the write-ins for declared presidential candidates. Among candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state, Claudia De la Cruz received 1,287; and Shiva Ayyadurai received 62.
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%.
