US election results: voters turn to Trump in every state but one

The US moved almost entirely as one in installing Donald Trump in the White House.

The US moved almost entirely as one in installing Donald Trump in the White House.

In every state of America, with only one exception, the margin between the Republican vote and the Democrat vote shifted in Donald Trump’s favour by as much as almost 14 percentage points.

And a drop in voter turnout appears to have hurt the Democrats more, with Donald Trump on track to a similar number of votes as he received in losing to Joe Biden in 2020, while Kamala Harris’s vote count is likely to come in about 10 million below Biden’s total.

On latest counting, Trump has 295 electoral college votes, surpassing the 270 needed to win and on track for 312, while Harris has 226.

Trump is on track to win all five states that he surrendered to Joe Biden and the Democrats in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

He is also on track to win all seven of the “swing” states that were expected to decide the election: the above five plus North Carolina and Nevada.

And he has eaten into the margins between the two main parties from one end of America to the other, turning once safe Democrat seats into marginal ones and once marginal Republican states into safe ones.

In New Jersey, which has voted Democrat at every election since 1992, Harris won by just 5 per cent, compared with Biden’s margin of almost 16 per cent just four years earlier.

The Democrats’ margin in Illinois has been slashed from almost 17 per cent in 2020 to 8.4 per cent at this election

And the Democrats’ margin in New York halved, with Harris securing the state’s electoral college votes by 11.5 per cent, down from 23.2 per cent in 2020.

The biggest swing away from the Democrats was in Vermont – like New Jersey a state that has voted blue since 1992 – where Harris’s margin was 13.7 percentage points below Biden’s in 2020, albeit her highest of any state.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers her concession speech at Howard University in Washington DC on Thursday (AEDT). Picture: AP

On the other side of the ledger, Florida, a notoriously fickle state over the years, locked in behind Trump, who increased his margin from 3.3 per cent against Biden to 13.1 per cent against Harris.

Texas, which has voted Republican since the arrival of Ronald Reagan in 1980 but not always with big margins, has again shifted further from the Democrats’ grasp, after Trump widened the party’s margin from 5.6 per cent in 2020 to 14 per cent at this election.

Only in Washington, in the far northwest corner of America, was Kamala Harris able to improve the Democrats’ position, extending their margin from 19.2 per cent in 2020 to 20.3 per cent on latest counting.

At the 2020 election, Biden recorded 81.3 million votes to Trump’s 74.2 million, as two out of three eligible Americans cast a vote.

Trump currently has 72.5 million votes in latest counting, while Harris has only 67.8 million.