Here's how each state voted for Trump and Clinton

Votes are being counted in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and some are looking to past races to get a sense of how the race might turn out.

The 2016 election was the first general election in which now-former President Donald Trump ran as a major party nominee, defeating then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Trump won the Electoral College with 306 electoral votes but lost the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes.

The result was a shock, as Clinton was considered the heavy favorite to win the White House.

“It was a bit of a traumatic election,” Anna Moody, a Democratic voter in Santa Clarita, California, told USA TODAY in an interview on Tuesday. “I still remember when all the results came in.”

Here is the 2016 Electoral College map.

2016 Electoral College map

2016 election results by state

Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | District of Columbia | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming

How to follow the 2024 election results

USA TODAY will publish the results of all races tracked by the Associated Press. When polls statewide begin to close at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET, results will be posted on our election results page.

You can follow the election results as they are reported here:

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Check out the results of the 2016 presidential election, Trump vs. Clinton