See main article: 2024 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 2024 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia |
| Country: | District of Columbia |
| Type: | Presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia |
| Previous Year: | 2020 |
| Election Date: | November 5, 2024 |
| Next Election: | 2028 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia |
| Next Year: | 2028 |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Joe Biden |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Image1: | Kamala Harris Vice Presidential Portrait (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Kamala Harris |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | California |
| Running Mate1: | Tim Walz |
| Nominee2: | Donald Trump |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Florida |
| Running Mate2: | JD Vance |
The 2024 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. District of Columbia voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The District of Columbia has 3 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 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 apportioned the fewest.[1]
As an extremely blue urban district with an African American plurality and higher educational attainment than every state, Democrats have faced almost no challenge to earning the District of Columbia's electoral votes in presidential elections since it was first granted its electoral college representation. Starting with Lyndon B. Johnson's victory in 1964, every Democratic nominee for president has won the District by massive margins, including the 49-state landslide defeats of George McGovern and Walter Mondale in 1972 and 1984. Thus, the district is predicted to again be a very easy Democratic win in 2024.[2]
Incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden was running for re-election to a second term, and became the party's presumptive nominee, but withdrew from the race on July 21.[3] [4] He then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who launched her presidential campaign the same day.[5] The Republican nominee is former president Donald Trump.[6]
On August 9, 2024, the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. presidential campaign announced that they submitted 19,000 signatures to put RFK Jr. on the ballot in the District of Columbia.[7] This total is more than the votes George W. Bush received in 2000, John McCain received in 2008, and Donald Trump received in 2016 and 2020.
See main article: 2024 District of Columbia Republican presidential primary.
The District of Columbia Republican presidential primary was held on June 4, 2024, alongside primaries in Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota.
The District of Columbia was one of only two jurisdictions not to be won by Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries, the other being Vermont.
See main article: 2024 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary. The 2024 District of Columbia was held on June 4, 2024, alongside primaries in South Dakota, New Mexico, New Jersey, Montana.
See main article: 2024 Green Party presidential primaries. The D.C. Statehood Green Party primary was held on June 4, 2024, alongside primaries in Montana. 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:[8] | ||||||
| Source | Ranking | As of | |
|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | Cook Political Report[9] | December 19, 2023 | |
| align=left | Inside Elections[10] | April 26, 2023 | |
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball[11] | June 29, 2023 | |
| align=left | Decision Desk HQ/The Hill[12] | December 14, 2023 | |
| align=left | CNalysis[13] | December 30, 2023 | |
| align=left | CNN[14] | January 14, 2024 | |
| align=left | The Economist[15] | June 12, 2024 | |
| 538[16] | June 11, 2024 | ||
| RCP[17] | June 26, 2024 |