When will we know who won the 2024 election? Here’s what to know

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck heading into Election Day .

Both the 2020 and 2022 midterms saw significant delays in declaring a winner.

Harris campaign officials expect most of the results from Georgia and North Carolina to be posted by Tuesday night , but warned that those results might be delayed if they are particularly close.

There is a chance that Trump might declare victory before all the votes have been counted, like he did in 2020 .

Maricopa County , a hotbed for voter fraud claims in 2020 , said that it might take until 5:00 am EST on Wednesday to count and report all of the Election Day votes and potentially two weeks to count all of its mail ballots.

California will begin publishing results as soon as the polls close, but the state still accepts mail ballots through Nov. 12 , so it will take at least a full week to tally all the votes.

Nevada allows all voters waiting in line when the polls close to vote, and the state will not report any results until after those final votes are cast.

New Jersey allows properly postmarked mail ballots to be received and counted through Nov. 11 .

New Mexico begins reporting results shortly after polls close, but if not all votes are counted by 1:00 am EST on Wednesday , the count must be paused until 11:30 a.m. EST .