Aug 28, 2024 - Politics & Policy
The 2024 election’s most competitive battleground states
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Voters in just a handful of states will effectively decide this November's presidential election. But which states flipped parties most recently and are seen as especially up for grabs?
Driving the news: The above maps show the last year each state went for a different party than it did in 2020, starting in 1964.
- That's when Washington, D.C., residents were first able to vote in presidential contests (they went blue, for LBJ, and have voted that way ever since).
Zoom in: Minnesota — blue since '76 — is also as solid a Democratic stronghold as they come.
- And a "red line" runs right through the middle of the country, with North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma going Republican since 1968.
- Texas took a bit longer to start its streak; it's been red since 1980.
What's next: All eyes this year are on the states with the lightest shades of red and blue.
