2024 United States elections

2024 United States elections
The 2024 United States elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. During this presidential election year, the President and Vice President will be elected. In addition, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested to determine the membership of the 119th United States Congress. Thirteen state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.
Issues
Abortion
This is the second election held after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and the first in a presidential election year, with Republican-controlled states predominately passing near-total bans on abortion in its aftermath. By April 2023, abortion was "largely illegal" throughout much of the United States. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, there are 15 states that have de jure early stage bans on abortion explicitly without exceptions for rape or incest: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In states with laws granting exceptions, it was reported de facto that "very few exceptions to these new abortion bans have been granted" and that patients who had been raped or otherwise qualified for exceptions were being turned away, citing "ambiguous laws and the threat of criminal penalties make them unwilling to test the rules".
Indictments
On November 18, 2022, three days after former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump announced his 2024 re-election bid, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate Trump's role in the January 6 U.S. capitol attack and Trump's mishandling of government documents, including classified documents.
On March 30, 2023, Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Manhattan for his alleged role in a scandal stemming from hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
On May 10, 2023, Republican New York Congressman George Santos was indicted on federal charges of fraud and money laundering.
On June 8, 2023, Trump was indicted on 37 federal charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents by the office of the Smith special counsel investigation.
On August 1, 2023, a Washington D.C. federal grand jury indicted Trump again on four felony counts of conspiracy and obstruction related to Trump's role in the January 6 attack and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
On August 14, a Georgia grand jury indicted Trump on racketeering and other felonies committed in an effort to overturn the state's 2020 election results and the Trump–Raffensperger phone call. As of September 15, 2023, Trump has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
On August 11, four months after incumbent president and Democratic candidate Joe Biden announced his re-election bid, Garland appointed David C. Weiss to serve as special counsel to investigate Biden's son, Hunter Biden, who was indicted on September 14, 2023, on three federal firearms-related charges.
On September 22, 2023, Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife Nadine were both indicted on bribery charges.
Federal elections
Presidential election
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. This will be the first presidential election under the electoral vote distribution determined by the 2020 census. Presidential electors who will elect the President and Vice President of the United States will be chosen; a simple majority (270) of the 538 electoral votes are required to win the election. President Joe Biden is running for a second term, with Vice President Kamala Harris once again serving as his running mate. Other individuals have launched their candidacies in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries, though the last time a sitting president eligible for re-election did not win re-nomination from their respective party was in the 1968 presidential election.
In November 2022, former President Donald Trump announced his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election. Other candidates who have entered the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries include current governors Ron DeSantis and Doug Burgum, former governors Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, and Asa Hutchinson, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, and businessmen Vivek Ramaswamy and Ryan Binkley. The first Republican presidential debate was held on August 23, 2023, and the first scheduled primary contest is the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, which will be held on January 15, 2024.
Congressional elections
Senate elections
All 33 seats in Senate Class 1 and one seat in Senate Class 2 will be up for election; at least one additional special election will take place to fill vacancies that arise during the . Democrats control the majority in the closely-divided Senate following the 2022 U.S. Senate elections, but they will have to defend 23 seats in 2024. Three Democratic-held seats up for election are in the heavily Republican-leaning states of Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia, all of which were won comfortably by Trump in both 2016 and 2020. Other potential Republican targets include seats in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, while Democrats may target Republican-held seats in Florida and Texas.
Special elections
Two special elections are scheduled to fill the unexpired terms of senators who vacated their seats during the 118th Congress:
Nebraska Class 2: Republican Ben Sasse resigned his seat on January 8, 2023, to become President of the University of Florida. Pete Ricketts was appointed by Nebraska governor Jim Pillen to fill the seat until the special election, which will take place concurrently with the regularly-scheduled 2024 Senate elections.
California Class 1: Democrat Dianne Feinstein died on September 29, 2023. Laphonza Butler was appointed by California governor Gavin Newsom to fill the seat until the special election, which will take place concurrently with the regular election for a six-year term.
House of Representatives elections
All 435 voting seats in the United States House of Representatives will be up for election. Additionally, elections will be held to select the non-voting members who represent the District of Columbia and all five permanently-inhabited U.S. territories in the House of Representatives. Republicans hold a narrow majority in the House of Representatives following the 2022 U.S. House elections.
State elections
Gubernatorial elections
Elections will be held for the governorships of eleven of the fifty U.S. states and two U.S. territories. Special elections may be held for vacancies in the other states and territories, if required by respective state or territorial constitutions.
Attorney general elections
Ten states will hold attorney general elections.
Legislative elections
Most legislative chambers will hold regularly-scheduled elections in 2024. The exceptions are the Michigan Senate and both legislative chambers in the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia. In chambers that use staggered terms, only a portion of the seats in the chamber will be up for election.
Other executive and judicial elections
In addition to gubernatorial elections, various other executive and judicial positions will hold elections at the state level in 2024.
Local elections
Mayoral elections
A number of major cities will hold mayoral elections in 2024.
Eligible incumbents
Alexandria, Virginia: Two-term incumbent Justin Wilson is eligible for re-election.
Anchorage, Alaska: One-term incumbent Dave Bronson is running for re-election.
Austin, Texas: One-term incumbent Kirk Watson is eligible for re-election.
Baltimore, Maryland: One-term incumbent Brandon Scott is running for re-election.
Corpus Christi, Texas: Two-term incumbent Paulette Guajardo is eligible for re-election.
El Paso, Texas: One-term incumbent Oscar Leeser is eligible for re-election.
Fresno, California: One-term incumbent Jerry Dyer intends to run for re-election.
Miami-Dade County, Florida: One-term incumbent Daniella Levine Cava is running for re-election.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Incumbent Cavalier Johnson is eligible for re-election to a full term.
Honolulu, Hawaii: One-term incumbent Rick Blangiardi is eligible for re-election.
Phoenix, Arizona: One-term incumbent Kate Gallego is eligible for re-election.
Portland, Oregon: Two-term incumbent Ted Wheeler is eligible for re-election.
Raleigh, North Carolina: Two-term incumbent Mary-Ann Baldwin is eligible for re-election.
Salt Lake County, Utah: One-term incumbent Jenny Wilson is eligible for re-election.
San Diego, California: One-term incumbent Todd Gloria is eligible for re-election.
San Francisco, California: One-term incumbent London Breed is running for re-election.
San Jose, California: One-term incumbent Matt Mahan is eligible for re-election.
Stockton, California: One-term incumbent Kevin Lincoln is eligible for re-election, but is instead running for Congress.
Ineligible or retiring incumbents
Las Vegas, Nevada: Three-term incumbent Carolyn Goodman is term-limited and ineligible to run.
Richmond, Virginia: Two-term incumbent Levar Stoney is term-limited and ineligible to run.
Sacramento, California: Two-term incumbent Darrell Steinberg is retiring.
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Two-term incumbent G.T. Bynum is term-limited and ineligible to run.
Wilmington, Delaware: Two-term incumbent Mike Purzycki is retiring.
Table of state, territorial, and federal results
This table shows the partisan results of presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, and state legislative races held in each state and territory in 2024. Note that not all states and territories hold gubernatorial, state legislative, and Senate elections in 2024. The five territories and Washington, D.C., do not elect members of the Senate, and the territories do not take part in presidential elections; instead, they each elect one non-voting member of the House. Nebraska's unicameral legislature and the governorship and legislature of American Samoa are elected on a non-partisan basis, and political party affiliation is not listed.
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