How did Citrus Heights vote for president in 2024?

By Sara Beth Williams–
While Sacramento County voted 58% in favor of Kamala Harris in the 2024 General Election, the majority of voting precincts in Citrus Heights favored Donald Trump.

Compared with Trump’s election in 2016, only two precincts in Citrus Heights favored then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. However, in 2020 that number increased to 10 precincts favoring Joe Biden, and in 2024 the total was again 10 precincts favoring the Democratic nominee.

According to the latest county election results released Nov. 25, a total of 58% of votes in Sacramento County favored Harris, while 38% were in favor of Trump. About 3.5% of voters cast ballots for one of the third-party candidates. A total of 648,103 votes for president have been counted, according to Sacramento County’s elections website.

Most precincts in Citrus Heights favored Trump by 50% or higher. As well, almost all precincts showed at least 1% of voters casting ballots for Robert F. Kennedy and his running mate Nicole Shanahan, who represent the American Independent party.

Precincts in the northern areas of the city closer to Antelope, Roseville, and Orangevale tended to favor Trump, while blue precincts increased near the southern borders of the city.

Most precincts showed voter percentages between 50 and 56% in favor of Trump. Only a handful of precincts showed more than 56% of voters in favor of Trump, including one precinct on the norther border with Placer County between Interstate 80 and Sunrise Boulevard, which showed 58% of the vote went to Trump. Nearly 4% of votes also went to third-party or write-in candidates.

Another precinct located in the eastern section of the city close to Orangevale showed 57% of voters favored Trump and 39% favored Harris.

Some precincts show voters were neck-and-neck for Trump and Harris, with three precincts showing a tied or nearly tied vote at 48% each. One precinct, surrounding Brooktree Park, voted in favor of Harris by just a two-vote margin, with 477 votes going to Harris and 475 going toward Trump. 29 people in that precinct voted for third-party candidates.

Another southwestern precinct showed 49.8% favored Harris while 47.7% favored Trump.

Countywide, other precincts with a very low populus yielded high percentages in comparison with the number of votes cast. One precinct with only three votes cast fell 100% in favor of Trump. Another showed four votes, with three favoring Trump. Another precinct shows only one vote cast, also in favor of Trump.

An interactive map can be viewed here, showing precinct-level results for Citrus Heights and Sacramento County. A desktop device may be required to see vote counts listed in the sidebar when clicking on each precinct. An interactive 2020 comparison map can be viewed here.

Vote count results reported in this article are from a Nov. 25 update from the Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Office. The next release date for voting results is scheduled for Dec. 3 at 5:15 p.m. An estimated total of 8,600 ballots remain to be counted in Sacramento County.