Election Day 2024

An Election Worker moves ballots inside a warehouse on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in the North Side. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)
Amber Jackson and her husband Ed Jackson of Mount Lebanon dance and cheer to Sweet Caroline at U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick’s watch party at the Fairmont Pittsburgh hotel downtown on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)
Glenn Schweickert, of Sacramento, California, front center, and J. Paul Knight of Austin, Texas, right watch election results with other supporters of U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick at McCormick’s watch party at the Fairmont Pittsburgh hotel downtown Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)
Andres Alaniz, a freshman screenwriting major at Point Park University, views an election map during a watch party at the Point Park University Center For Media Innovation on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Downtown. Andres, who hails from Dallas, Texas, but voted in PA. shares, “It’s very heart-dropping. I expected it to be very close; there’s a lot of tension in the US. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)
Jaden Persaud, 18, of Richland Township watches Fox News’s election results broadcast at U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick’s watch party at the Fairmont Pittsburgh hotel downtown Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Persaud said he’s been interested in politics since he was young and was excited to be voting for the first time. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)
Election Workers move ballots inside a warehouse on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in the North Side. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)
Jennifer Modell of Highland Park, center, working for Common Cause PA, passes out stickers to voters at Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. She also answered questions and steered voters to the right door. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
Pitt senior Michael Makowski, 21, left, from Binghamton, New York, waits to vote at the Oakland Career Center on Semple Street on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
A voter is directed into the poling place at precinct 6 in Beaver Falls, at the College. Hill Church of the Nazerene on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
Angela Park, a cello teacher at Carnegie Mellon University, plays some classical Bach for voters at Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Ms. Park volunteered her time for Play for the Vote, a non-profit that organizes musical performances for voters on Election Day “with the goal of increasing voter turnout by providing a more positive experience.” (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
Leanne Spearman of Beaver Falls, right, a member of the Beaver County Democratic Committee, greets Amaya Harper, 18, a first-time voter, outside of the College Hill Church of the Nazerene poling place on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Amaya said she was excited to vote for the first time, and looked forward to watching the results on tv, and would “feel a part of the whole process.” (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
A collection of signs encouraging the public to vote covers the side of a building on the corner of Brighton & Riversea Road in the North Side on Tuesday morning. (Laura Esposito/Post-Gazette)
Celeste Taylor, a consultant for B-Pep, Black Political Empowerment Project, waits for folks who need a ride to vote outside of the B-Pep office in the Hill District on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. The ride program is called Roll to the Polls. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
A long line of voters, mostly college students, wrap around the Oakland Career Center on Semple Street in Oakland on Monday, Nov. 5, 2024. A volunteer at the scene said voters were waiting an average of an hour and a half, and the line started immediately when the doors opened at 7 a.m. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
Drivers go past candidate signs along Darlington Road in Chippewa, Beaver County, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
Voters line up outside of Truck Company 14 firehouse, or precinct 15 in Oakland on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
Pitt graduate Trevor Maracle, left, working for Nextgenamerica, hands out free tacos and directions to a voter outside of precinct 16 on Semple Street in Oakland on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
A sign hangs on a light pole in East Liberty encouraging people to vote on the eve of the 2024 Presidential Election, Tuesday, November 5, 2024. (Hanna Webster/Post-Gazette)
University of Pittsburgh students and Feminist Majority Foundation volunteers Bree Francis, 19, and Sophie Stefancic, 21, pose in front of their table outside of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall at the University of Pittsburgh on Tuesday. (Maddy Rubin/Post-Gazette)
Judith Painter, a 77-year-old retired Republican, greets a friend after voting for Kamala Harris at Whittier Elementary School on Nov. 5. (Samuel Long/Post-Gazette)