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Polls have shown a tight race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, with little to indicate which of the two will emerge victorious.
9news.com.au will be live reporting the results as they arrive on Election Day. For now, here are some things to know.
Election day is Tuesday, November 5. The US government sets the election date as “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November”.
The US election is on Tuesday with the expectation that voters will be able to go to church on Sunday, travel to the polls on Monday, vote on Tuesday and be at the market on Wednesday to sell their own food. farms.
Due to the time difference, most of Election Day itself will take place on Wednesday morning Australian time.
Polls start closing at 10:00 AEDT on Wednesday.
Results will start rolling in soon after.
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Poll closing times are decided on a state-by-state basis, with most of Indiana and Kentucky closing before anywhere else.
But Indiana and Kentucky will almost certainly vote for Donald Trump, and not much can be inferred from the results of those states.
In the next two hours, polls will close and counting will begin in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and North Carolina.
A candidate who wins at least three of those states will almost certainly become the next president.
The last polling stations in Alaska and Hawaii will be closed by 4 p.m.
When will we know the results of the US elections?
The first results will start coming in relatively soon after the polls close in any state.
In some states, the exit poll from the media houses will cause some states to call immediately.
We can expect states like West Virginia and Tennessee to be called for Donald Trump as soon as they close. The same goes for Massachusetts and Vermont for Kamala Harris.
But for states where things are close, it will take much longer.
Election Day ballots, early ballots, and mail-in ballots are usually counted separately.
And since Democrats are historically more likely to vote early, we should expect the results to swing from side to side depending on which ballots are counted first.
When was the winner of the previous elections announced?
Since there is no centralized body that counts the ballots across the country, there is no official declaration of who will win the presidential election for several weeks after the election.
However, media outlets like the Associated Press will tally the votes as they are reported and make state-by-state calls based on their predictions.
Because these establishments stake their reputations on being accurate, they will wait until they are absolutely certain of the outcome before making the call.
When the elections will be called depends entirely on how long the counting of ballots will take.
In 2008, Barack Obama’s victory was clear within hours.
While things were close in 2016, Trump was declared the winner on election night itself.
In 2020, four days passed before Joe Biden was declared the winner.
While Biden won in 2020 by more votes than Trump did in 2016, the sheer volume of mail-in ballots during the pandemic led to a much slower count.
So we could know the result within a few hours or a few days. As the polls are close, anything could happen.
9news.com.au will be reporting live election results from the United States starting Wednesday morning.
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