January 3, 2025
A majority of the public has confidence that the vote count in the 2024 presidential election was accurate, though they have more faith in the vote tallies in their own locality or state than nationwide.
Democrats and Republicans have similar levels of confidence that the vote was counted accurately at every level in the 2024 presidential election. Independents are less confident with only one third feeling the nationwide vote count was accurate. Even at the local level, while 71% of both Democrats and Republicans express confidence in the vote count, only 48% of independents agree.
Age is also correlated with views on election vote count accuracy with younger adults less likely to have confidence in the count than those who are older.
Ahead of the election, the public was more wary that votes would be counted accurately. According to the October 2024 AP-NORC poll, 47% of the public was confident the 2024 presidential vote would be tallied correctly, compared with 57% in December.
The nationwide poll was conducted December 5-9, 2024 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,251 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.7 percentage points.
- Suggested Citation: AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. “Most adults are confident votes were counted accurately in the 2024 presidential election” (December 2024). https://apnorc.org/projects/most-are-confident-votes-were-counted-accurately-in-the-2024-presidential-election/
