Ny Times Election Results 2024 Needle. The purpose of the needle is to put election results in proper context as they come in. The times’ needle suggested a donald trump victory was likely hours before the ap called the race for him.

A strike by new york times tech workers, who built and maintain the infrastructure behind the election predictions, could prevent the needle from being published. The times publishes its own estimates for each candidate’s share of the final vote and the number of remaining votes, based on historic turnout data and reporting from results.