California 2024 Election Results

Ballot Measures, March 5, 2024

California voters decided 1 statewide ballot measure on March 5, 2024.

Ballot measures

General Election, November 5, 2024

California held its general election on November 5, 2024, deciding 100 legislative seats. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Democrats kept two-thirds supermajorities in both chambers, but Republicans flipped three Democratic seats in a rightward year, taking the Assembly from 62-18 to 60-20 and the Senate from 31-9 to 30-10 as the count stretched for weeks.
• The headline flip was Orange County's Senate District 37, where former Assemblymember Steve Choi (R) unseated Sen. Josh Newman (D) by about 1.3 points. Newman, who conceded on November 25, was the first Democratic senator ousted in a presidential year since 1980 and the only Democratic incumbent to lose in either chamber.
• The Assembly pickups were both Latino-majority open seats:
  • Jeff Gonzalez (R) won Assembly District 36, in the Imperial and Coachella valleys, by about four points; Eduardo Garcia (D) had vacated the seat, and Democrats hold a 14-point registration edge there.
  • Leticia Castillo (R) won the state's closest legislative race, Assembly District 58 in the Inland Empire, over Clarissa Cervantes (D) by about 600 votes; the seat had been held by Cervantes's sister Sabrina, who moved up to the Senate.
  • Republicans also held their one tossup, Oceanside's Assembly District 74, where Rep. Laurie Davies (R) beat Chris Duncan (D) by about 1.6 points in a rematch of 2022.
• Across the 100 legislative races, 1 incumbent was defeated, 2 finished inside two points, and only 1 drew a single candidate under California's top-two primary system. Two Republican seats also sat empty when the session opened: Sen. Janet Nguyen, elected in 2022, resigned for the Orange County Board of Supervisors, and Assemblymember Vince Fong, reelected while already serving in Congress, kept the congressional seat.
• Six of ten propositions passed:
  • Proposition 36, restoring felony charges for repeat theft and drug crimes, won with 68 percent.
  • Proposition 3 wrote a right to same-sex marriage into the constitution.
  • Proposition 2 and Proposition 4 authorized $10 billion bonds apiece, one for schools and one for climate projects.
  • Proposition 35 made the managed-care tax permanent.
  • Proposition 34, restricting how one health-care nonprofit spends federal drug-discount revenue, squeaked through after the Associated Press took two weeks to call it.
  • Voters rejected Proposition 33 (local rent control), Proposition 32 (an $18 minimum wage, which trailed for weeks before failing at 49 percent), Proposition 5 (a 55 percent threshold for local bonds), and Proposition 6 (removing involuntary servitude from the constitution).

Legislature

• Assembly (80 seats): 62 D, 18 R before the election, 60 D, 19 R, 1 other or vacant after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (40 seats): 32 D, 8 R before the election, 30 D, 10 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Legislative races

Ballot measures