Which states did kamala Harris win in the election
Executive summary
Kamala Harris, as the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 campaign covered by the provided reporting, carried several reliably Democratic states — including California, New York, New Jersey, Oregon and Virginia — but underperformed Joe Biden’s 2020 margins across much of the map and lost the crucial swing states that decided the election (sources document specific state wins but do not provide a complete state-by-state list) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6].
1. The blue anchors: California and New York were explicitly reported as Harris wins
The reporting makes clear that Harris won California, the state she previously represented in the Senate and which supplied its 55 electors to the Democratic ticket in the prior cycle [1], and that she also won New York State on Election Day even though her margins there were much smaller than Biden’s had been — a point Investigative Post documents as a sign of narrower Democratic turnout and regional erosion for the ticket in 2024 [2].
2. Smaller Blue-state victories cited in local and regional coverage
Local outlets that tracked returns reported Harris winning other Democratic-leaning states: Oregon’s eight electoral votes were called for her with coverage noting that the state continued its decades-long Democratic streak [3], and reporting from the Times of India and InsideNoVa show Harris carried Virginia statewide — with Northern Virginia delivering the margins that put the state in the Democratic column despite much smaller margins than in 2020 [4] [5].
3. New Jersey and other specific jurisdictions appear in the record but the full list is incomplete
National summaries and regional reporting indicate Harris won New Jersey (and that its margin, like New York’s and Virginia’s, shrank relative to 2020), but the sources provided do not include a comprehensive, authoritative statewide tally listing every state she won in 2024; therefore this analysis only asserts state wins that are explicitly documented in the supplied reporting [4] [2]. The reporting also emphasizes localized patterns — e.g., wins concentrated in big-city centers and bleeding Republican gains in suburbs and rural counties — which helps explain how a candidate can win some states while losing the electoral map overall [2] [3].
4. Context and competing narratives: underperformance vs. geographic holdouts
Multiple sources underscore an important counterpoint: while Harris carried a number of traditionally Democratic states, she underperformed Joe Biden’s 2020 coalition almost “everywhere” and lost the competitive swing states that Biden had won — a narrative highlighted in analysis pieces and encyclopedic summaries that frame her result as weaker than the prior Democratic performance [6] [7] [4]. Those same sources also show an alternate framing from outlets noting high absolute vote totals for Harris relative to historical Democratic candidates, creating tension between raw-vote tallies and geographic, electoral-college outcomes [8].
5. Limitations of the available reporting and what remains open
The documentation supplied to this briefing includes clear, cited statements that Harris won California, New York, New Jersey, Oregon and Virginia [1] [2] [3] [4] [5], but it does not contain a single, comprehensive official map or certified statewide list enumerating every state she won in the 2024 election; therefore any attempt here to produce a full state roster would exceed what the provided sources substantiate. The reporting does, however, consistently note the larger pattern that she lost key swing states and undercut Biden’s 2020 margins nationally, which explains how state wins in heavily Democratic jurisdictions coexisted with an overall electoral defeat [6] [7].