RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — On Tuesday, the Riverside County Registrar of Voters officially certified the results of the November 5, 2024, Presidential General Election, and tallies for the big races are not that dissimilar to the election outcome of four years ago.
The 2024 results must still be signed off by the County Board of Supervisors and the California Secretary of State, and recount requests can still be submitted through 5 p.m. Dec. 8. (A recount cost is the requestor’s responsibility.)
Here are some at-a-glance stats from the 2024 certified results:
- A total of 959,098 ballots were processed and counted with 69.89% of eligible Riverside County voters turning out.
- Riverside County was evenly split on its choice for president. Republican Donald Trump received 463,677 votes, or 49.30%, while Democrat Kamala D. Harris garnered 451,782 votes, or 48.04%. Of the other candidates on the ballot, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (AIP) received the most votes in Riverside County with 11,160, or 1.19%.
- Though former Major League Baseball star Steve Garvey (R) lost his U.S. Senate bid to Democrat Adam Schiff in the statewide contest, the ex-first baseman narrowly beat the veteran politician in Riverside County by just over 3 percentage points.
- In the six U.S. House races in Riverside County, county voters chose a Republican over a Democrat in four of the contests.
- Likewise, in Riverside County’s six state Assembly races, voters chose a Republican in four of the contests.
- In the two state Senate races, it was a different story: Riverside County voters chose Democrats.
See Riverside County’s full Nov. 5, 2024, Presidential General Election results here.
Riverside County’s 2024 Presidential General Election results were not so different from the 2020 final tallies, though the race for the White House shows a contrast:
- A total of 1,016,896 ballots were processed and counted in 2020, with 81.80% of eligible Riverside County voters turning out.
- When Joe Biden ran against Trump four years ago, Biden garnered 528,340 votes in Riverside County compared to Trump’s 449,144.
- In 2020, there were four U.S. House races to be decided in Riverside County, with local voters choosing Democrats in two of the contests and Republicans in the others.
- The two state Senate races on the ballot in 2020 were also evenly split in Riverside County, with local voters picking a Democrat in one and a Republican in the other.
- In Riverside County, seven state assembly races were voted on in 2020. County voters chose Democrats in three of the contests and Republicans in three others. In the seventh race, county voters chose a “No Party Preference” candidate over a Republican.
See Riverside County’s full Nov. 3, 2020, Presidential General Election results here.
