Surprising Numbers
Third highest US popular vote of all time: Kamala Harris (74.3 million)
Narrowest popular vote margin since Bush-Gore in 2000:
Trump-Harris 2024 (2.5 million)
Unusually high US voter turnouts:
2020 (65.8%) and 2024 (63.7% of registered voters)
29% of US adults voted for Trump in 2024
(76.8 million out of 265.6 million adults;
roughly 100 million are not registered to vote)
About the numbers: click on the links for the sources. The total number of votes is documented on Axios. The exact number of American adults is an estimate based on US census data. The 100 million not registered to vote number is estimated by subtracting total voters from total adults.