- Lead
- 101,854
- Total
- 315,261
- vs nation
- R+30.8
California 20th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 86,624
- Total
- 330,677
- vs nation
- R+30.7
- Lead
- 82,297
- Total
- 260,397
- vs nation
- R+33.7
- Lead
- 86,049
- Total
- 237,219
- vs nation
- R+40.1
- Lead
- 93,080
- Total
- 252,001
- vs nation
- R+44.2
- Lead
- 123,479
- Total
- 238,870
- vs nation
- R+49.2
- Lead
- 87,714
- Total
- 204,645
- vs nation
- R+43.4
- Lead
- 65,206
- Total
- 190,130
- vs nation
- R+42.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+32.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 762,8232024 5-year
- Population density
- 73 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10,441 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $84,4142024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 35.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+39.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.7 in 2004MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 4, WA · twin score 89.6
presidential history
Party record book
California 20th 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
62.3%
26,616 votes · D+26.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 56.2%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
75.4%
180,063 votes · R+51.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 73.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
118,315votes
35.8% of the vote · R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 103,391 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
205,245votes
65.1% of the vote · R+32.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 204,939 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+20.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +2.0 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+49.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.7 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +44.2 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.
California 20th Congressional District sits in the Pacific Coast. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 51.7 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.3 points.
A population of 762,823, a 36% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,414 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 4 and Congressional District 23.
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 20th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/0620/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.