So who will win? Follow the latest announcements and first results live on our site.
What to remember at 4:15 a.m.
– Donald Trump is in the lead with 178 voters against 91 for Kamala Harris.
– No Swing State has fallen yet.
– Donald Trump has already expressed rumors concerning “massive fraud” in Pennsylvania, a key state in this election, without providing proof of his claims
– False bomb threats have been reported in several polling stations. The FBI attributed them to Russia
Tensions and concerns in the ranks of Donald Trump: “On reading these revelations, he was livid”
What time do the results of the American presidential election come out?
In most states, initial results are announced by local voting precincts shortly after polls close. Each state has its own rules on how officials conduct the counting, therefore affecting the speed at which results are released. As an example, the Washington Post cites the post-election process of the last presidential election, dating from 2020, during which it took four days to gather a sufficient number of votes for the major decision-making offices – which are made up teams of data experts brought together by news organizations to analyze the data and project the winners of the vote – officially announce Joe Biden's victory. And for good reason, at the time, the context of the Covid-19 pandemic had caused a substantial increase in postal votes and early votes.
