- Lead
- 28,108
- Total
- 336,594
- vs nation
- D+9.8
California 6th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 44,850
- Total
- 357,490
- vs nation
- D+8.1
- Lead
- 27,075
- Total
- 278,053
- vs nation
- D+7.6
- Lead
- 8,097
- Total
- 255,929
- vs nation
- R+0.7
- Lead
- 16,759
- Total
- 265,956
- vs nation
- R+1.0
- Lead
- 26,384
- Total
- 236,028
- vs nation
- R+8.7
- Lead
- 14,935
- Total
- 202,039
- vs nation
- R+7.9
- Lead
- 1,238
- Total
- 181,771
- vs nation
- R+9.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 757,5332024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,621 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 209 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,9162024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 47.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 51, CA · twin score 86.9
presidential history
Party record book
California 6th Congressional District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
75.0%
18,540 votes · D+51.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 66.8%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
66.6%
7,414 votes · R+38.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 65.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
196,544votes
55.0% of the vote · D+12.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 176,976 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
151,694votes
42.4% of the vote · D+12.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 148,868 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
+27.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+51.3 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +24.9 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+21.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +13.7 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
CA-6 covers central Sacramento and posted a 36-point Democratic margin in 2024, reflecting a dense, majority-minority urban electorate with low homeownership rates and a high share of government and healthcare workers.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 40.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.4 points.
A population of 757,533, a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,916 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 51 and Congressional District 50.
The congressional districts 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.
District research tools
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California 6th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/0606/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.