Maricopa County finishes canvass of 2024 general election

PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors canvassed the 2024 general election on Thursday, the next step in the post-election process for the cycle.

There were 2,078,640 residents who voted in the Nov. 5 election, the second-most in the history of Maricopa County trailing 2020, according to a press release. That represented 80.3% of registered voters in Arizona’s most populous county.

“In particular, I want to thank our Elections Director, Scott Jarrett, Assistant County Manager Zach Schira, and the rest of our hard-working elections team and the 4,300+ temporary staff who invested long hours over the last year preparing for and administering this election,” Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates said in a statement.

“The planning and logistical preparation that goes into securing 246 vote centers and then accurately tabulating 4.1 million ballot pages should not be underappreciated. Your community thanks you.”

Maricopa County canvass: By the numbers

Since Maricopa County ballots were two pages long this cycle, more than 4,300 special election workers tabulated a record 4.1 million ballots across 10 days.

County voters, across all ballot styles, had to decide on 265 contests. Of those, 144 were for elected offices, 76 were for ballot measures and the remaining 45 were for judges.

A record amount of voters — 218,368 — did so in-person at a vote center. Another 256,057 people voted in-person on election day.

Numbers were higher for ballots returned early.

Nearly a million voters — 973,029 — returned an early ballot by mail while another 631,006 returned an early ballot to a vote center or drop box.

As a result, early voting remained king with 87.6% of residents choosing to vote that way.

In total, the county employed more than 4,300 members of the public for ballot tabulation that received nearly 20,000 hours of training.

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