How Many People Voted for Donald Trump? 2024 Totals and Demographics

Donald Trump received roughly 77.3 million votes in the 2024 presidential election, the highest total of his three campaigns and enough to win both the popular vote and the Electoral College. If you are asking how many people voted for Donald Trump across his runs for the White House, the short answer is about 63 million in 2016, 74 million in 2020, and 77 million in 2024.¹

Vote Totals in 2016, 2020, and 2024

Trump’s raw vote total climbed with each campaign. In 2016, he received 62,955,340 votes, which was enough to win the Electoral College but left him behind Hillary Clinton in the popular vote.² In 2020, his total rose to 74,223,975, according to the Federal Election Commission, though he lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College to Joe Biden.³ In 2024, he received 77,303,568 votes, or 49.81% of all ballots cast, according to data compiled by the American Presidency Project.¹ That was a gain of roughly 3 million votes over 2020, and it came in a year when overall national turnout slipped.⁴

The 2024 Popular Vote and Margin

Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris nationally by about 2.3 million votes. Harris received 75,019,230 votes (48.34%), and third-party and independent candidates together drew about 2.9 million. Jill Stein of the Green Party took roughly 862,000 votes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about 756,000, and Libertarian Chase Oliver about 650,000.⁵ With those third-party totals in the mix, Trump finished just under 50% and won by plurality rather than outright majority.⁶ He was the first Republican to carry the national popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004.

His margin of roughly 1.5 percentage points was narrow by historical standards. PBS NewsHour reported it as the smallest percentage-point margin for any popular-vote winner since Bush’s 0.51-point victory in 2000.⁷

Electoral College Result

Trump won 312 electoral votes to Harris’s 226.¹ He carried all seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. His combined margin across those seven was about 760,000 votes. Pennsylvania, the largest of them at 19 electoral votes, went to Trump by roughly 120,000 votes, 50.37% to 48.66%.⁸

Turnout Context

Total ballots cast in 2024 came in somewhere between 155 million and 157 million, depending on the source. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that 154 million people voted, or 65.3% of the citizen voting-age population, a drop of 1.5 percentage points from 2020.⁹ Pew Research Center put turnout at 64%, tied with 1960 for the second-highest rate in the last century.¹⁰

The drop was uneven. Among 2020 Trump voters, 89% turned out again in 2024. Among 2020 Biden voters, only 85% did. Trump also won 2024 voters who had sat out 2020 by 54% to 42%, and among the 12% of 2024 voters who had not voted in 2020, he led 55% to 41%.¹⁰ Democratic turnout fell noticeably in several large blue states. Harris received about 1.8 million fewer votes in California than Biden had in 2020, roughly 626,000 fewer in New York (where Trump gained about 327,000), and about 640,000 fewer in New Jersey.⁴ Republicans gained vote share in every state compared to 2020, with the largest percentage-point swings in New York (6.4 points) and New Jersey (4.9 points).¹¹

Who Voted for Trump

Pew Research Center’s validated voter study, released in June 2025, found that Trump’s 2024 coalition was more racially and ethnically diverse than in either of his earlier campaigns, and that most of the movement came from differential turnout rather than large numbers of voters switching parties.

Race and Ethnicity

Trump received 48% of the Hispanic vote in 2024, up from 36% in 2020, closing to near parity with Harris at 51%. Among Hispanic voters who cast a ballot in 2024 but not in 2020, 60% backed Trump.¹² His share of the Black vote nearly doubled, from 8% to 15%, with 21% of Black men supporting him compared to 10% of Black women; Harris still carried Black voters overall with 83%. Among Asian voters, Trump rose from 30% to 40%. White voters stayed steady at 55% for Trump, essentially unchanged from 2020.¹³

Gender and Age

Men favored Trump by 12 points, 55% to 43%. Men under 50 split 49% Trump to 48% Harris, a sharp reversal from 2020, when the same group had gone for Biden by 10 points.¹⁴ Women favored Harris by about 7 points. Trump carried voters 50 and older 54% to 44%.¹³ Among voters aged 18 to 29, Harris led by just 4 points nationally, a dramatic narrowing from Biden’s 25-point advantage in 2020. Young men went for Trump by 14 points, while young women backed Harris by 17. Trump won the youth vote outright in 17 states, compared with seven in 2020.¹⁵

Education, Income, and Geography

Trump won voters without a four-year college degree by 14 points, 56% to 42%, double his 2016 margin among the same group. Harris carried college graduates 57% to 41%.¹⁴ AP VoteCast found Trump also gained ground among voters in households earning under $100,000, while Harris held her position with higher earners.¹⁶ Rural voters went for Trump by 40 points (69% to 29%). Harris led in urban areas 65% to 33%. The suburbs leaned Democratic by 4 points, down from a 10-point Democratic margin in 2020.¹³

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The American Presidency Project. 2024 Presidential Election Results
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The American Presidency Project. 2016 Presidential Election Results
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Federal Election Commission. Federal Elections 2020
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Brookings Institution. What the Nation Told Us in 2024, State by State
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Federal Election Commission. Official 2024 Presidential General Election Results
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FactCheck.org. Trump Won the Popular Vote
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PBS NewsHour. The Size of Donald Trumps 2024 Election Victory Explained in 5 Charts
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Pennsylvania Department of State. 2024 General Election Summary Results
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U.S. Census Bureau. 2024 Presidential Election Voting and Registration Tables
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Pew Research Center. Voter Turnout 2020-2024
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Al Jazeera. US Election Results Map 2024: How Does It Compare to 2020
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Pew Research Center. Validated Voters Report
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Pew Research Center. Voting Patterns in the 2024 Election
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Pew Research Center. Behind Trumps 2024 Victory
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CIRCLE at Tufts University. 2024 Election
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Associated Press. AP VoteCast: Voters Who Focused on the Economy Broke Hard for Trump