2024 United States elections

The 2024 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida narrowly defeated incumbent Democratic vice president Kamala Harris in the presidential election. Despite losing seats in the House, Republicans retained control of the chamber and gained control of the Senate. As a result, Republicans successfully obtained a government trifecta, the first time since the elections in 2016 that the party gained unified control of Congress and the presidency. This is the third consecutive election, after 2020 and 2022, that either chamber of Congress flipped partisan control; and the third consecutive election in which either party gained control of the presidency.

Presidential election
The U.S. presidential election of 2024 was the 60th quadrennial U.S. presidential election, and was held to fill a term lasting from January 20, 2025 to January 20, 2029. The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, was narrowly nominated by the Republican Party over the former president Donald Trump; while vice president Kamala Harris was nominated by Democrats as then-incumbent president Joe Biden decided to retire and not seek a second term.

DeSantis narrowly flipped Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin by 0.39%, 0.32% and 0.0024%, respectively. Harris held the swing states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, that Biden and her flipped back from Republicans in 2020, while narrowly winning in Nevada. DeSantis won the election with 271 electoral votes, one vote more than the 270-to-win majority, mainly due to his narrow victory in Wisconsin of 660 votes, which was contested in the Supreme Court by DeSantis, as the state's Democratic governor Tony Evers ordered a statewide recount without the support of the state legislature. Ultimately, a highly controversial 5–4 Supreme Court decision DeSantis v. Harris decided to end the recount, thus giving the victory to Ron DeSantis and his running mate, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas.