More than three-quarters of states saw one of the two major parties extend, set, or tie party records in elections to the White House this cycle

With only a handful of battleground states providing any drama in recent election cycles, the 2024 matchup between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris saw the extension of record-setting partisan performances by Democrats and Republicans in a supermajority of states across the nation.

Overall, 38 states extended, set, or tied a partisan winning streak in elections to the White House.

One state saw a new party record set:

  • Illinois Democrats won their ninth straight election for president. The party had previously won eight in a row from 1828 to 1856.

Democrats also tied their best streak ever in two states:

  • Kamala Harris carried New Hampshire for the sixth straight cycle for her party, matching the Democratic streak from 1832 through 1852.
  • New Mexico Democrats saw their party’s nominee win for a fifth consecutive election, equaling their streak from 1932 through 1948.

Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans in 35 states extended all-time party records already held heading into Election Day.

On the Republican side:

  • Nine states notched their 15th consecutive presidential win dating back to Richard Nixon’s victory in 1968: Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
  • Four states extended their GOP winning streaks to 12 in a row since 1980: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.
  • Montana’s GOP streak increased to eight straight elections since 1996.
  • Six states boosted their Republican winning streak to seven in a row since 2000: Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

The aforementioned nine states broke a tie with seven others for the second longest GOP winning streak in party history. [Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Rhode Island also rattled off 14 wins in a row from 1856-1908]. Vermont holds the all-time party record of 27 straight Republican victories set from 1856-1960.

On the Democratic side:

  • Minnesota extended its best-outside-the-South party record of 13 consecutive victories since 1976. Minnesota is currently tied for the eighth longest Democratic winning streak in party history along with North Carolina (1876-1924) and Virginia (1876-1924).
  • Harris also continued record party streaks for a 10th straight cycle in six states dating back to 1988: Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington.
  • Seven states won a party best nine consecutive elections since 1992: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, and Vermont.
  • Colorado also increased its Democratic record to five elections in a row since 2008.

All told, Republicans are currently in the midst of all-time state party records in 20 states with Democrats owning 18 in their column [plus the District of Columbia, which has never backed a GOP nominee for the office].

Looking ahead to 2028, one more state could be added to this list: a Republican victory in Florida would tie a party record with their fourth straight cycle of carrying the state.

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  1. Neu Deutschland on November 7, 2024 at 10:52 am

    – Hm…at least there shall be no commission that purportedly would investigate ‘massive’ fraudulent voting, like the one following the 2016 election, which produced a divergent result of the nonbinding popular vote and the binding Electoral College vote! (As well…no loud calls from detractors of the Electoral College, since a nationwide popular vote would have produced the same result.

    – Since the MAGA/R ticket won ‘well over’ the required 270 votes, the Omaha-centred EC vote will highly likely be preserved; had the grievances-filled ticket lost by a wafer-thin 268 to 270 votes the de facto MAGA-dominated Unicameral would assuredly have taken the vengeful step of abolishing the *district allocation electoral system*.

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