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In the 2000 presidential election, Barbara Lett-Simmons, an elector from the district, left her ballot blank to protest its lack of voting representation in Congress. As a result, Al Gore received only two of the three electoral votes from Washington, D.C. [4] In 2016, 85.7% of the registered voters approved a statehood referendum. [5]
The District of Columbia participated in the 2020 United States presidential election with the other 50 states on Tuesday, November 3. [2] District of Columbia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee ...
The District of Columbia is not a U.S. state and therefore has no voting representation. [8] In 1970, Congress enacted the District of Columbia Delegate Act, which established the District of Columbia's at-large congressional district and permitted residents to elect a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. [9]
On November 3, 2020, the District of Columbia held elections for several local and federal government offices. Its primary elections were held on June 2, 2020. [2]In addition to the U.S. presidential race voters elected one of its two shadow senators, its nonvoting member of the House of Representatives and 6 of 13 seats on the council.
It is rare for a state to have a complete run of historical election records online; many of the official documents are only available in paper format, especially for years prior to 1990. Previous studies of election results data have noted that official records at the county level have been routinely archived, forgotten, or discarded. [1]
Thus, the district was expected to be a certain lock for Kamala Harris in 2024. [2] 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. [3]
The 2024 United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a non-voting delegate to represent the District of Columbia in the United States House of Representatives.
The District of Columbia has three electoral votes in the Electoral College. [1] Prior to the election, Clinton was considered to be virtually certain to win Washington DC. Clinton won the election with 282,830 votes, or 90.9%, thereby becoming the first presidential candidate to win over 95% of the district's two-party vote.