Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2022–20242 cycles · 2 audited
2024 turnout
97.0%7,661 participants ÷ 7,902 CVAP
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%100%
58.7%
20222024
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Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
7,661
7,902 ± 707
97.0%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
4,085
6,956 ± 707
58.7%
Audited
E/D
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
presidential history
Party record book
Rancho Mission Viejo, CA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1992–2024 · 8 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
48.1%
3,000 votes · R+2.5
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 47.5%
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
69.7%
168 votes · R+41.9
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · 67.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
3,569votes
47.5% of the vote · R+2.6
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 3,000 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
3,766votes
50.1% of the vote · R+2.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 3,154 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
−1.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+2.6 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · −6.9 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
+54.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.9 · U.S. D+8.5
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +45.8 pts
U.S. House elections · 2 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Rancho Mission Viejo · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain. The figures below are Orange County, California, the county containing Rancho Mission Viejo — Rancho Mission Viejo’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Rancho Mission Viejo, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
Rancho Mission Viejo is one of California's newer planned communities, built out largely after 2014 in southern Orange County. Its unusual demographic youth and high homeownership rates make it a closely watched data point in suburban voting trend analysis.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 45.9 points in 1996. The 2024 margin was 2.6 points.
A population of 11,971, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $192,813 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Belterra and Ladera Ranch.
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Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
How did Rancho Mission Viejo, California vote in 2024?
In 2024, Rancho Mission Viejo, California voted Republican by 2.6 points (R+2.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 7,511 votes cast, 3,569 went Democratic and 3,766 went Republican.
How many people live in Rancho Mission Viejo, California?
Rancho Mission Viejo, California has a population of 11,971 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rancho Mission Viejo, California?
Median household income in Rancho Mission Viejo, California is $192,813 — above the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Rancho Mission Viejo, California?
Akashic tracks 8 presidential elections in Rancho Mission Viejo, California from 1992 to 2024. Of those, 0 went Democratic and 8 went Republican.
