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Trump won Pennsylvania with 50.4% of the vote to Kamala Harris's 48.7%, defeating her by a margin of roughly 1.7% and flipping the state. This was the largest margin of victory for a Republican candidate since 1988, as well as the first time since that election that a Republican won over 50% of the state vote.
The 2024 Pennsylvania Republican presidential primary was held on April 23, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 67 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated.
Candidates can be placed on the ballot either by petition, or having the party submit their name to the secretary of state. [55] As his name was the only one on the ballot, the Democratic primary was cancelled under Florida law.
Pennsylvania is among 22 states with a "closed primary" system that doesn't permit the unaffiliated to cast a Democratic or Republican ballot, according to the nonprofit Unite America Institute.
Pennsylvanians will see candidates for statewide races including attorney general, as well as U.S. Senate, and more on the April 23 primary election ballot.
The state's electoral votes have been given to Democrats in the last 7 out of 8 elections dating back to the election of 1992, the sole Republican vote went to Trump in 2016.
Republican Dave McCormick defeated three-term incumbent Democratic senator Bob Casey Jr. in an upset victory. McCornick won with 48.82% of the vote to Casey's 48.60%. This was Pennsylvania's closest Senate election since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, as well as the closest Senate election of the 2024 cycle.
Democrats and Republicans will consider a number of races during Pennsylvania’s primary election on May 16, while other voters may have contests to consider depending on where they live.