California Election Results 2024: Key Races to Watch Like the Presidential Election, Los Angeles DA Race, and Prop 32

It’s election night and the polls are closed in California.

Here’s a look at the key races in the 2024 presidential election and where they stand with the latest election results.

Presidential elections

From President Joe Biden’s unprecedented decision to step aside as Democratic nominee and two assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump, the candidates’ path to Election Day had dominated headlines this year.

This election year, there are six people running for the US presidency: Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Green Party Jill Stein, Libertarian Chase Oliver, Peace and Freedom Party Claudia de la Cruz.

How many electoral votes does California have?

California has 54 votes in the Electoral College. Kamala Harris will win the California and ABC News projects, meaning she will get all the electoral votes.

US Senate – California

Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff is expected to defeat Republican Steve Garvey in the race for California’s U.S. Senate seat previously held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ABC News projects.

Schiff is a longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives and was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2000. Garvey, a 10-time MLB All-Star, is a former first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres . More recently he worked as a businessman and motivational speaker.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Race: George Gascón vs. Nathan Hochman

It’s one of California’s most-watched races: Los Angeles County District Attorney. Incumbent George Gascón will face challenger Nathan Hochman.

The two candidates describe each other’s plans as extreme, with Gascón saying Hochman is someone who promises to put everyone in jail.

“We’re actually going back to the days of mass incarceration,” he said.

Hochman portrayed Gascón as someone who wants every criminal to walk free.

“They will be arrested in the morning and gone by the afternoon,” he said.

California Proposition 32: Raise the minimum wage

Californians are taking their wages into their own hands at the polls on Election Day as they vote on Proposition 32.

The minimum wage would be increased from $16 to $18 per hour. Proposition 32 would not apply to independent contractors or self-employed individuals. Since some cities already have higher minimum wages, this would not affect them.

California Proposition 33: Rent Control

Rent control is a term Californians are familiar with, but for nearly three decades, state law has placed restrictions on rent control ordinances.

Voters will decide whether local governments should be given the power to expand rent control if they so choose. Not all California cities have rent control, so Prop 33 aims to address that.

Cities can limit how much a homeowner can collect annually, but they can’t impose rent controls on single-family homes, homes built after 1995, and they can’t tell landlords how much they can charge a new tenant.

California Proposition 36: Increase penalties for theft and drug trafficking

Proposition 36 has divided California lawmakers, including many Democrats. It would essentially be Prop. 47 settlement, which was passed a decade ago and made some theft and drug offenses instead of misdemeanors.

Prop. 36 would reclassify some misdemeanor theft and drug offenses as felonies, creating a new category of crimes called “treatment-mandated crimes,” which would allow the person charged to undergo treatment instead of in prison.