Harris, Trump tied 

US election 2024 polls are open in more than 40 states, including the seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Millions of voters are registered to cast their ballots across the country.

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are going head-to-head in a race that remains too close to call.

As results come in, you will be able to follow minute-by-minute updates.

Harris and Trump have made their final appeals to voters in key battleground states, stressing that the stakes of the November 5 vote could not be higher.

Recent polls show the candidates in a neck-and-neck battle nationally and in key battleground states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Michigan.

If Harris prevails, she will become the first woman to win the presidency, and the first African American woman, the first Asian American and the first Indian American to rise to the top of American politics.

If Trump wins, he will become only the second president in US history to lose the re-election after the first term and then win on the third try. The first was Grover Cleveland. 

Harris wrapped up her campaign with her last event in Pennsylvania, one of the seven battleground states that will determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential race. Trump finished in Michigan, also one of the battleground states. The other five states are Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
The winner must secure at least 270 of the 538 electoral college votes.

Usually, the candidate who wins the electoral college vote has also won the majority of the popular vote. But there have been exceptions – twice in the last six US presidential elections. Hillary Clinton's lost to Donald Trump in 2016 despite winning the nationwide popular vote.