Some voters in reliably blue cities shifted towards Trump in 2024published at 21:49 Greenwich Mean Time 9 November
21:49 GMT 9 November
Though some votes are still being counted, it has become clear that Donald Trump and the Republicans increased their support this week over recent previous US elections.
Even in areas which reliably blue – meaning they usually vote for Democrats, including in 2024 -more voters backed Trump than ever before, including in overwhelmingly Democratic urban centres.
In Chicago, a slight majority of voters in the city’s 41st Ward, on the city’s northwest side, voted for Trump. It’s the first time a Chicago ward voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1992. Overall, 69% of voters still supported Democrat Kamala Harris in Chicago’s Cook County as of Saturday afternoon, with nearly 84% of the vote counted.
Down in Texas, the mostly blue city of Houston voted for Trump in larger numbers than in the last presidential election, according to the Houston Chronicle. Harris County, which includes all of Houston, narrowly voted for Harris overall.
In the nation’s capital Washington DC, Trump won his highest amount of support in three elections, capturing 6.5% of the vote with 99 percent of ballots counted as of Saturday afternoon. Harris won 90.4%.
Trump’s support also increased over previous elections in his hometown of New York City.
In the Bronx, which has a large Latino population, Trump had earned 27% support in 2024 – with 82% of the vote counted – compared to 16% in 2020, echoing rising levels of support for the president-elect among Latino voters elsewhere in the country as well.
In the borough of Queens, Trump earned 38% support in 2024, with 86 percent of the vote counted, compared to 21.8% support in 2016.
In Manhattan, Trump won about 17% of the 2024 vote, with 99% of ballots counted, also a slight increase from 2020.
While a political divide between urban and rural communities still exists in the US, there were more Trump supporters in major Democratic cities in 2024 than the previous two times the former president was on the ballot.
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