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The2024 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus theDistrict of Columbia participated.District of Columbia voters chose electors to represent them in theElectoral College via a popular vote. The District of Columbia has 3 electoral votes in the Electoral College, followingreapportionment due to the2020 United States census in which the district neither gained nor lost a seat. Per the Constitution, the District of Columbia can not be apportioned more members of the Electoral College than the number apportioned to the state with the fewest.[2]
As anextremely blue urban district with anAfrican American plurality, Democrats have faced no challenge to earning the District of Columbia's electoral votes in presidential elections since it was first granted its electoral college representation. Starting withLyndon B. Johnson's victory in1964, every Democratic nominee for president has won the District by massive margins, including the 49-state landslide defeats ofGeorge McGovern andWalter Mondale in1972 and1984. Thus, the district was expected to be a certain lock for Kamala Harris in 2024.[3]
Harris won the district overwhelmingly with 90.28% of the vote. The district was both Harris' strongest electoral jurisdiction and county-equivalent jurisdiction, voting more Democratic than all state counties in the United States.[4] Trump won 6.47% of the vote, his best performance in terms of percentage of votes cast in all three of his runs. Trump also won the highest raw total in the district over all three of his runs, though this was still lower than2012.
Despite overwhelmingly voting Democratic, the district still shifted right by approximately 3 percentage points from 2020, in addition to all 50 states shifting right from 2020 to 2024. Harris won the lowest vote share in the district since2004, though she still won over 90% of the vote.
The District of Columbia Republican presidential primary was held on March 1–3, 2024, alongside primaries inMontana,New Jersey,New Mexico, andSouth Dakota.
The District of Columbia was one of only two jurisdictions not to be won by Trump in the2024 Republican primaries, the other beingVermont.
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
| Nikki Haley | 1,274 | 62.76% | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| Donald Trump | 676 | 33.30% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ron DeSantis (withdrawn) | 38 | 1.87% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Christie (withdrawn) | 18 | 0.89% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vivek Ramaswamy (withdrawn) | 15 | 0.74% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| David Stuckenberg | 8 | 0.39% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ryan Binkley (withdrawn) | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total: | 2,030 | 100.00% | 19 | 0 | 19 |
The 2024 District of Columbia was held on June 4, 2024, alongside primaries inSouth Dakota,New Mexico,New Jersey,Montana.
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
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| Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |||
| Joe Biden (incumbent) | 80,240 | 86.90% | 16 | ||
| Write-in votes | 7,113 | 7.70% | |||
| Marianne Williamson | 3,958 | 4.29% | |||
| Armando Perez-Serrato | 1,030 | 1.12% | |||
| Total: | 92,341 | 100.0% | 20 | 32 | 52 |
TheD.C. Statehood Green Party primary was held on June 4, 2024, alongside primaries inMontana. No candidate appeared on the ballot.
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Delegates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scattered write-ins | 317 | 58.81% | 0 | ||
| Under votes | 222 | 41.19% | 0 | ||
| Total: | 539 | 100.00% | 5 | ||
| Source: District of Columbia: Board of Elections[8] | |||||
| Source | Ranking | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Political Report[9] | Solid D | December 19, 2023 |
| Inside Elections[10] | Solid D | April 26, 2023 |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball[11] | Safe D | June 29, 2023 |
| Decision Desk HQ/The Hill[12] | Safe D | December 14, 2023 |
| CNalysis[13] | Solid D | December 30, 2023 |
| CNN[14] | Solid D | January 14, 2024 |
| The Economist[15] | Safe D | June 12, 2024 |
| 538[16] | Solid D | June 11, 2024 |
| RCP[17] | Solid D | June 26, 2024 |
| NBC News[18] | Safe D | October 6, 2024 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | 294,185 | 90.28 | −1.87 | ||
| Republican | 21,076 | 6.47 | +1.07 | ||
| Independent |
| 2,778 | 0.85 | N/A | |
| Write-in | 7,830 | 2.40 | +1.49 | ||
| Total votes | 325,869 | 100 | N/A | ||
| Ward[20] | Kamala Harris Democratic | Donald Trump Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Ward 1 | 36,882 | 91.15% | 2,056 | 5.08% | 1,525 | 3.77% | 34,826 | 86.07% | 40,463 |
| Ward 2 | 33,571 | 88.44% | 2,982 | 7.86% | 1,406 | 3.70% | 30,589 | 80.58% | 37,959 |
| Ward 3 | 39,521 | 88.64% | 3,544 | 7.95% | 1,519 | 3.41% | 35,977 | 80.69% | 44,584 |
| Ward 4 | 38,628 | 91.10% | 2,511 | 5.92% | 1,264 | 2.98% | 36,117 | 85.18% | 42,403 |
| Ward 5 | 41,413 | 91.80% | 2,309 | 5.12% | 1,392 | 3.09% | 39,104 | 86.68% | 45,114 |
| Ward 6 | 43,262 | 88.87% | 3,638 | 7.47% | 1,778 | 3.65% | 39,624 | 81.40% | 48,678 |
| Ward 7 | 33,972 | 91.72% | 2,092 | 5.65% | 973 | 2.63% | 31,880 | 86.07% | 37,037 |
| Ward 8 | 26,936 | 90.90% | 1,944 | 6.56% | 751 | 2.53% | 24,992 | 84.34% | 29,631 |
| Total | 294,185 | 90.28% | 21,076 | 6.47% | 10,608 | 3.25% | 273,109 | 83.81% | 325,869 |
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