Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on Feb. 24, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The Associated Press has declared former President Donald Trump the winner of Idaho in the 2024 presidential election.
The Associated Press declared the winner of this race when polls closed statewide at 9 p.m. Mountain time. As of 9 p.m. Mountain time Tuesday, Trump had at least 71% of the vote in Idaho, compared to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris who received 26.5% of the vote, according to latest data on the Idaho Secretary of State’s website.
This means all four of Idaho’s electoral votes will go to Trump. The candidate who receives the majority of the country’s 538 electoral votes – or at least 270 of the votes – wins the presidential election.
This does not come as a surprise. In 2016, Trump received 59% of Idaho’s votes, and in 2020 he received 64% of the vote, according to data from the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office.
And in March, Trump won Idaho’s Republican caucus with 85% of the vote, beating Nikki Haley by more than 28,000 votes, the Idaho Capital Sun previously reported.
Latest data from the Idaho Secretary of State shows that no counties have fully reported their votes, with so far 51,151 Idahoans voting for Trump, and 18,996 for Harris. Idaho had nine candidates on the presidential ballot, including five independent candidates.
The outcome of the 2024 presidential election may not be determined on Election Day, and may take additional time to be finalized. In 2020, the high number of voters using absentee or mail-in ballots led to millions of backlogged ballots nationwide, causing delays in reporting results in several swing states, according to the Pew Research Center.
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