2024 District of Columbia elections

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2024 District of Columbia elections
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Turnout70.8% [1]

On November 5, 2024, the District of Columbia held elections for several local and federal government offices. Its primary elections were held on June 4, 2024. [2]

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In addition to the U.S. presidential race voters elected one of its two shadow senators, its nonvoting member of the House of Representatives, its Shadow congressperson to the House of Representatives, and 5 of 13 seats on the council.

There is also one ballot measure which was voted on. [3]

Federal elections

President of the United States

Washington, D.C., has 3 electoral votes in the Electoral College. The district has leaned heavily Democratic in each presidential election since 1964, the first one in which its population was able to vote.

2024 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic
294,185 90.28 −1.87
Republican
21,0766.47+1.07
Independent
2,7780.85N/A
Write-in 7,8302.40+1.49
Total votes325,869 100 N/A

United States House of Representatives

Eleanor Holmes Norton ran for re-election as a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives.

2024 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Eleanor Holmes Norton (incumbent) 251,540 80.09 −6.45
DC Statehood Green Kymone Freeman21,8736.96+2.06
Republican Myrtle Patricia Alexander19,7656.29+0.48
Independent Michael A. Brown 19,0336.06N/A
Write-in 1,8580.59-0.17
Total votes314,069 100.00
Democratic hold

Shadow Senator

2024 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Ankit Jain 261,075 90.7%
Republican Nelson Rimensnyder26,6159.3%
Write-in
Total votes287,690 100.0%
Democratic hold

Shadow Representative

2024 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Oye Owolewa 267,661 90.75
Republican Ciprian Ivanof25,0408.49
Write-in 2,2530.76
Total votes294,954 100.0%
Democratic hold

District elections

Council

Ballot measure

Initiative 83, titled Ranked Choice Voting and Open the Primary Elections to Independent Voters Act of 2024, aims to permit ranked-choice voting and open the primary elections to independent voters. It allows voters registered as “unaffiliated” to participate in primaries, which were closed to these voters prior to the passage of the initiative.

Result

Initiative 83
ChoiceVotes%
Check-71-128-204-brightblue.svg Yes212,33272.89
No78,96127.11
Valid votes291,29389.33
Overvotes and undervotes34,78810.67
Total votes326,081100.00
Registered voters/turnout326,12970.80
Source: District of Columbia Board of Elections [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Election Statistics". District of Columbia Board of Elections. 2024-12-02.
  2. ↑ "City elections in Washington, D.C. (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  3. ↑ Austermuhle, Martin (May 18, 2023). "New Ballot Initiative Proposes Bringing Ranked-Choice Voting And Open Primaries To D.C." DCist. Archived from the original on May 18, 2023. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
  4. ↑ "2024 Elections". District of Columbia Board of Elections. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  5. ↑ "General Election 2024 - Certified Results". DC Board of Elections. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "Washington, D.C. Shadow Senator Election Results". The New York Times . November 5, 2024. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
  7. ↑ "General Election 2024 - Certified Results". District of Columbia Board of Elections. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  8. ↑ "General Election 2024 - Certified Results". District of Columbia Board of Elections. December 2, 2024. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
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