Live updates on the 2024 Wisconsin election results: Harris vs. Trump

Will Vice President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump win Wisconsin and the presidency in the 2024 presidential election?

The U.S. Senate race between Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican businessman Eric Hovde is also making headlines across Wisconsin.

We will be broadcasting the results live throughout the night. Follow the instructions below and update your browser to the latest version.

The polls close at 8 p.m

All ballots will be counted on Election Day. Mail-in ballots will also be processed on Election Day.

In addition to the presidential election, Wisconsin residents are voting for a U.S. Senate race, a referendum and statewide Senate and Assembly races under new maps.

Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes.

It is one of the battleground states in the 2024 election that will help determine the presidential winner. Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election by 20,000 votes.

Presidential candidates need 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump 306 to 232 in the 2020 election. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton 304 to 227 in 2016.

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter was barred from covering Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde's election night party at the Edgewater Hotel in Madison.

Mary Spicuzza, a veteran political reporter, was told by Hovde spokesman Zach Bannon that she had not confirmed her attendance at the event and that capacity was full. The Hovde campaign did not send the newspaper an invitation to the event.

“I always covered election night parties,” Spicuzza told Bannon. “I’ve never been kicked out of a party in the 15 years I’ve been covering this stuff.”

Bannon did not respond to calls, text messages and emails from the Journal Sentinel in the final weeks of the campaign.

Daniel Bice

Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson, the county's chief elections official, said he expects results for the city of Milwaukee to be available between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. because the city began recounting mail-in ballots today.

As polls closed at 8 p.m., Christenson spoke from the cafeteria of the Milwaukee County Courthouse, where results for each community are added to the county's vote totals.

The City of Milwaukee is among 19 municipalities in Milwaukee County whose results will be announced by the District Court. Results will also be available on the county website.

“We all understand the gravity of the moment before us, and the most important aspect of this election tonight is accurate reporting of the election results as they become available,” Christenson said.

“I ask everyone to be patient. We will send you the results as soon as possible as soon as they are available. It’s going to be a long night,” he continued.

– Sophie Carson

Sen. Ron Johnson and Wisconsin Republican Leader Brian Schimming weigh in on the question

Sen. Ron Johnson and Wisconsin GOP Chairman Brian Schimming are challenging the recount of more than 30,000 mail-in ballots in Milwaukee.

Senator Ron Johnson and Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Brian Schimming arrived at the City of Milwaukee's mail-in ballot count downtown just after 7:30 p.m

Their arrival followed news that the city was reprocessing 31,000 mail-in ballots after an observer noticed that some doors covering the on/off switches on ballot-counting machines were not properly closed.

Schimming said they wanted to trust the process but said it was “fair” to ask questions when an issue arose with so many ballots.

Johnson said “it doesn’t sound like” the city is ready to count mail-in ballots this Election Day.

—Alison Dirr

Milwaukee will recast about 31,000 mail-in ballots after a “sealing error” was discovered in counting machines at the central counting site downtown on Election Day, potentially delaying the final count by one to three hours, city spokesman Jeff Fleming said Tuesday.

“It’s just a big precaution. We have no reason to believe that there have been any compromises with any of the machines,” Fleming said. “But because they weren't fully sealed – human error – and weren't fully sealed, we're going to reset them all back to zero… and then re-run the audit that's already been processed.”

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