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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.
D.C. At Large Congressional District Election (2020) [14] Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Eleanor Holmes Norton (incumbent) 231,327 : 86.83 : Libertarian: Patrick Hynes 7,525 2.82 Independent: Barbara Washington Franklin 5,969 2.24 Socialist Workers: Omari Musa 5,106 1.92 DC Statehood Green: Natale Lino Stracuzzi 4,463 1.68 Independent ...
The city went nearly 100 years without any representation in Congress. [4] With the enactment of the District of Columbia Delegate Act in 1970, its at-large congressional district was established. Constituents are again authorized to elect a delegate House. [5] The district has held 29 delegate elections in total. [needs update]
On November 8, 2022, the District of Columbia held an election for its non-voting House delegate representing the District of Columbia's at-large congressional district. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
The Choctaw tribe has never appointed a delegate to Congress [22] and the Cherokee had not until 2019. [23] However, the Choctaw did send a non-congressional delegate to Washington for most of the 19th century as an ambassador to represent them before the U.S. government, the most noteworthy being Peter Pitchlynn. [24]
In addition, each of the five inhabited U.S. territories and the federal district of Washington, D. C., sends a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. The Bureau of the Census conducts a constitutionally mandated decennial census whose figures are used to determine the number of congressional districts to which each state is ...
On November 6, 2018, the District of Columbia held an election for its non-voting House delegate representing the District of Columbia's at-large congressional district. The election coincided with the 2018 elections of other federal, state, and local offices. The non-voting delegate is elected for a two-year term.
Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) [1] [2] is an American politician, lawyer, and human rights activist. [3] Norton serves as a congressional delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she has represented the District of Columbia since 1991 as a member of the Democratic Party.