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Elections 2024: the best photos from Election Day

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Elections 2024: the best photos from Election Day

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AAmericans settle at home to see results As the 2024 presidential election unfolds, TIME’s photo editors are tracking the images of photographers across the country.

From the first hours of the first polls to the late hours of the night awaiting election results, photographers across the United States are capturing the visual chronicle of Election Day. While navigating through repeated scenes of voting lines and Election Watch Partiesthey try to find compelling images throughout the evening.

Below is a selection of the most exciting and exciting photos from this Election Day as Vice President. Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump essentially equal in the polls.

The photographs capture the anxiety, uncertainty and excitement of this day like no other.

US Presidential Election Night 2024 at Howard University in Washington.
Members of the media work the scene of Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ nighttime rally during the 2024 US presidential election at Howard University in Washington, DC. Kevin Mohatt – Reuters
November 5, 2024, Howard University, Washington, DC. An American flag flies at Harris' election night watch party at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2024. Gabriella Demchuk / TIME
An American flag is raised at a Harris election watch party at Howard University in Washington, DC. Gabriella Demchuk for TIME
APTOPIX Election 2024 America votes in New York
Poll worker Marion Jordan-McFarlane helps voters retrieve their ballots at a busy polling station in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Seth Wenig — AP Photo
Florida residents vote in 2024 US presidential election
Rudy Giuliani, former lawyer for former President Donald Trump (center), speaks to the media outside a presidential election polling station at the Mandel Community Center in Palm Beach, Florida.Josh Ritchie – Bloomberg/Getty Images
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People attend a party at the bar at 230 Fifth Rooftop, with New York’s Empire State Building visible in the background.Andrew Kelly – Reuters
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris held an election night event at Howard University
Women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. sit together before an Election Night event hosted by Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris at Howard University in Washington, DC. Brandon Bell – Getty Images
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People vote during the US presidential election on Election Day at the Cable Community Center polling station in Bayfield County in Cable, Wisconsin. Erica Diskino – Reuters
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Supporters of former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gather outside his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Election Day.Giorgio Viera – AFP/Getty Images
APTOPIX Election 2024 America votes in Nevada
People line up to vote at a library in downtown Reno, Reno, Nevada.Godofredo A. Vazquez – AP Photo
APTOPIX Election 2024 America votes in New York
Susan B. Anthony’s headstone is covered in stickers reading “I Voted” at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. Lauren Petracca — AP Photo
November 5, 2024 Scenes on the road at Mar-a-Lago and inside the Palm Beach Convention Center during the Trump campaign. Photo by David Butow/Redux
Members of the media prepare for the evening at former President Donald Trump’s Election Night Watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.David Butow for TIME
Californians vote in the 2024 US presidential election
Voters mark their ballots at the San Francisco Columbarium and Funeral Home polling station in San Francisco.David Paul Morris – Bloomberg/Getty Images
APTOPIX Election 2024 America votes in New York
Voters cast their ballots at Precinct 256 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Yuki Iwamura — AP Photo
APTOPIX Election 2024 America votes in Arizona
Voters line up to cast their ballots outside a Navajo Nation polling place in Chinle, Arizona.Andres Leighton – AP Photo
Three-year-old Zane sits on his father's shoulders as he votes at First Presbyterian Church of Dearborn in Michigan on November 5, 2024.
Three-year-old Zane sits on his father’s shoulders as he votes at First Presbyterian Church of Dearborn in Michigan.David Goldman – AP
APTOPIX Global Reaction to the 2024 US Elections in Peru
Shamans perform a good luck ritual while holding posters of Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on a beach in Lima, Peru.Martin Mejia – AP Photo
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris held an election night event at Howard University
Kamala Harris stopped by a phone bank event at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Election Day in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik – Getty Images
APTOPIX America votes for space station in 2024 elections
In this photo provided by NASA, astronauts Butch Wilmore, Sunee Williams, Nick Hague and Don Pettit (from left to right) show off their U.S. flag socks aboard the International Space Station on Election Day. NASA/AP
APTOPIX Election 2024 America votes in Arizona
Voters line up outside a polling station at Madison Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Matt York—AP
The dogs are driven to a polling place in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the tiny town that traditionally hosts the nation's first vote, just after midnight on Election Day, Tuesday, November 5, 2024. (Ryan David Brown/The New York Times)
The dogs were driven to a polling station in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the tiny town that traditionally hosts the nation’s first vote, just after midnight on Election Day. Twelve minutes after midnight, at least in Dixville Notch, the general election ended in a tie: three votes for Kamala Harris and three for Donald Trump. Ryan David Brown – The New York Times/Redux

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