2024 United States presidential election in California

2024 United States presidential election in California

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Nominee Kamala Harris Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state California Florida
Running mate Tim Walz JD Vance

Incumbent President

Joe Biden
Democratic



The 2024 United States presidential election in California 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.[1] California voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. California has 54 electoral votes in the Electoral College, the most in the country.[2]

The most populous state in the Union as well as one of the most Democratic, California has voted Democratic in every presidential election starting in 1992. It has done so by double digits in each of them excluding 2004, when John Kerry won it by 9.95%. It is thus expected that California will be a safe blue state, with Vice President Kamala Harris –a native Californian who served as the state's Attorney General from 2011 to 2017 and later represented it in the U.S. Senate from 2017 to 2021 before assuming the vice presidency– being the Democratic nominee for president.

Harris is the first Californian to appear on a major party presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan in 1984, and if elected, she will be the fourth president from California after Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, and Reagan, as well as the first Californian and Western Democrat to do so.[a][3][4]

In April 2024, the American Independent Party of California nominated independent candidate, environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (whom resides in the state) as its presidential nominee, despite not seeking the party's nomination.[5]

  1. ^ Kelly, Ben (August 13, 2018). "US elections key dates: When are the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential campaign?". The Independent. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  2. ^ "Distribution of Electoral Votes". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  3. ^ Wislon, Reid (August 11, 2020). "Kamala Harris makes history — as a Westerner". The Hill. Archived from the original on December 15, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  4. ^ Masih, Niha (July 23, 2024). "The dizzying array of firsts for Harris if she wins nomination or election". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 23, 2024. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
  5. ^ "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear on California ballot with this small, far-right party". Sacramento Bee. April 29, 2024.


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