PHOENIX (AZFamille) — No winner was still declared for Arizona as Donald Trump secured the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency early Wednesday morning.

Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States after winning in Wisconsin. He remains in the lead for Arizona with 1,152,733 votes, a total of 51.9% to Kamala Harris’ 1,047,864 votes, or about 47.2%.

For Trump, it will either be his first victory in the state since beating Hillary Clinton by nearly four percentage points in 2016, or his second straight loss. If Harris wins, she will become only the third Democratic presidential candidate to achieve such a result since 1948 in the longtime Republican stronghold.

Polls showed the race between the former president and Kamala Harris was virtually tied in Arizona in the days leading up to the election, with at least one survey indicating that Trump was ahead.

Both candidates and their running mates made several visits to Arizona ahead of the election, which remained a major electoral battleground in 2024. During his most recent visit, Trump made an appearance with conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson in Glendale last Thursday.

The vice president also campaigned actively in Arizona, one of the swing states in the run-up to the election. His last visit Last Thursday was a rally in Phoenix to increase turnout among Latino voters.

Maricopa County is by far the most influential of the state’s 15 counties in statewide elections. It is home to Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe and Mesa and contributed nearly 62% of the vote in the 2020 presidential race. Pima County came in a distant second with about 15% of the vote.

In Arizona, ballots cast and processed before Election Day are the first to be reported after the polls close. These polls have tended to favor Democrats, since the issue of early and mail-in voting became highly politicized in the 2020 election.

Mail-in ballots delivered on Election Day take much longer to tabulate because election workers don’t begin processing or verifying them until after the polls close. In Maricopa County, which has the state’s largest population, about 20% of the nearly 1.6 million votes cast in 2022 were absentee ballots cast on Election Day.

View the latest election results here.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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