How many votes did Kamala Harris get in the 2024 election (if she ran) and what were the official totals?
Executive summary
Available reporting shows Kamala Harris was the Democratic nominee in 2024 and lost the election to Donald Trump; most sources report vote totals in the high tens of millions — for example, one outlet cites Trump 77.3 million and Harris about 75 million in the certified count [1] [2]. National outlets (BBC, CNN, Wikipedia summaries) document that Trump defeated Harris and that Harris conceded and later presided over the January 6, 2025 certification [3] [4] [5].
1. What the official tallies reported
Major news outlets and aggregators reporting on certification and final counts present vote totals showing Donald Trump with roughly 77.3 million votes and Kamala Harris receiving about 75 million votes in the 2024 popular vote, with the Associated Press-certified totals cited as final by local outlets [2]. Wikipedia and BBC election pages summarize the overall result — Trump defeating the Democratic ticket headed by Harris — and provide state and electoral-vote breakdowns in their election result write-ups [3] [6].
2. How sources describe the margin and outcome
Reporting frames the 2024 result as a Trump victory in both the Electoral College and the national popular vote. BBC’s results page lists state-level results and indicates Harris carried the Northeast, West Coast and several other states but finished short of an Electoral College majority [6]. Wikipedia’s summary likewise states the Republican ticket defeated the Democratic ticket, and its campaign page for Harris notes she lost the national popular vote and conceded [3] [7].
3. Certification and the formal transfer of power
Despite losing, Harris — in her constitutional role as president of the Senate — oversaw and certified the Electoral College count on January 6, 2025, an act covered directly by BBC and other outlets describing the formal certification of Trump and Vance as winners [5] [1]. Local reporting also referenced the certified, final vote totals used for that process [2].
4. Demographics and post‑election analysis
Analysts examined who voted for each ticket: Pew Research Center’s analysis reports demographic shifts, noting Trump’s 2024 coalition was more racially and ethnically diverse than in prior campaigns, while Harris’s voters were somewhat less diverse than Biden’s 2020 voters [8]. These demographic breakdowns inform post-election explanations for the outcome, but they do not change the certified totals themselves [8].
5. Local anomalies and claims of irregularities
Post-election reporting documented isolated anomalies — for example, precinct-level results in parts of Rockland County, New York, showing zero votes for Harris drew attention and social-media claims [9] [10]. Fact-checking and follow-up coverage investigated these specific data points; PolitiFact’s write-up explains why a single reported zero in a precinct is not evidence of a nationwide hack, and other outlets covered legal challenges and questions about particular county counts [9] [10]. Available sources do not assert that such anomalies overturned or altered the overall certified national totals [9] [10].
6. Competing perspectives in the coverage
Mainstream outlets (BBC, CNN, AP as cited by local reporting) present the certified results and describe the Trump victory using the same basic figures [4] [6] [2]. Conservative outlets and some commentators framed the outcome as validation of their messaging and raised questions about election administration; conversely, fact-checkers and election reporters cautioned against treating isolated precinct oddities as evidence of systemic fraud [9] [10] [2]. Wikipedia and longer-form pieces (including later memoir coverage) offer narrative context about Harris’s campaign choices and post‑election reflections [7] [11].
7. Limitations and what the sources do not provide
The set of provided sources does not include a single, consolidated official government table in this collection listing every certified state popular-vote subtotal for Harris; instead they relay finalized national totals via news reporting [2] and provide state-by-state result maps [6]. If you want the precise state-by-state certified vote totals or the official AP/State election certificates, available sources do not include those original certification documents in this set and do not list a complete nationwide table here (not found in current reporting).
8. Bottom line for your question
Based on the cited reporting, Kamala Harris ran as the Democratic nominee in 2024, lost the election to Donald Trump, and received roughly 75 million popular votes to Trump’s roughly 77.3 million in the certified nationwide count as reported by local outlets citing the Associated Press-certified totals [1] [2]. For a full, state-by-state certified breakdown you would need to consult the official state canvass documents or the AP’s full certification dataset (not found in current reporting).