Vehicle control apparatus

A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle that includes a parking lock device configured to selectively switch, by driving an actuator, a parking switching position between a parking lock position and a non-parking lock position, and in which an electric power source state is switched between an ignition-on state in which vehicle travel is enabled and an ignition-off state in which a power supply related to vehicle travel is turned off and vehicle travel is disabled, the vehicle control apparatus including an electronic control device being configured to perform, in a case where switching to the ignition-on state is performed, initial position determination control of recognizing and determining the parking switching position at a time of switching to the ignition-on state by driving the actuator, wherein:

• the electronic control device is configured to store, in a case where switching to the ignition-off state is performed, the parking switching position at a time of switching to the ignition-off state in each of a plurality of non-volatile memories as a previous position;
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• the electronic control device is configured to determine, in a case where the previous position acquired from each of the non-volatile memories matches the parking lock position or the non-parking lock position in the ignition-off state, the previous position that is matched, as the parking switching position in the ignition-off state.