- Lead
- 20,169
- Total
- 260,677
- vs nation
- D+9.2
California 35th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 68,438
- Total
- 290,673
- vs nation
- D+19.1
- Lead
- 60,292
- Total
- 216,771
- vs nation
- D+25.7
- Lead
- 47,118
- Total
- 193,232
- vs nation
- D+20.5
- Lead
- 47,525
- Total
- 198,407
- vs nation
- D+16.7
- Lead
- 12,176
- Total
- 168,854
- vs nation
- D+9.7
- Lead
- 23,758
- Total
- 147,665
- vs nation
- D+15.6
- Lead
- 22,255
- Total
- 133,220
- vs nation
- D+8.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+7.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 764,9212024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,382 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 226 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $96,9502024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 18.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 58.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+36.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 39, CA · twin score 94.1
presidential history
Party record book
California 35th 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
64.9%
17,447 votes · D+31.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
68.3%
11,864 votes · R+38.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 58.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
176,455votes
60.7% of the vote · D+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 136,461 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
116,292votes
44.6% of the vote · D+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 108,017 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
Hillary Clinton2016
+25.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+27.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +20.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+21.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.8 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +21.3 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 35th Congressional District sits in the Pacific Coast. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 46.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 15.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.7 points.
A population of 764,921, a 19% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $96,950 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 39 and Congressional District 31.
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 35th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/0635/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.