- Lead
- 31,452
- Total
- 292,826
- vs nation
- R+9.3
California 5th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 26,845
- Total
- 294,632
- vs nation
- R+13.6
- Lead
- 32,611
- Total
- 235,588
- vs nation
- R+15.9
- Lead
- 45,141
- Total
- 218,663
- vs nation
- R+24.5
- Lead
- 28,783
- Total
- 223,175
- vs nation
- R+20.2
- Lead
- 55,051
- Total
- 200,297
- vs nation
- R+25.0
- Lead
- 39,076
- Total
- 158,029
- vs nation
- R+25.2
- Lead
- 22,965
- Total
- 130,387
- vs nation
- R+26.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+10.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 497,3202024 5-year
- Population density
- 695 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 715 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $118,6442024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31.2 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 75, CA · twin score 91.7
presidential history
Party record book
California 5th State House 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%
9,934 votes · D+51.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 70.7%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
64.7%
55,240 votes · R+31.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 63.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
130,400votes
44.3% of the vote · R+9.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 126,471 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
157,923votes
53.9% of the vote · R+10.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 157,245 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
+28.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+47.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +26.9 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
+26.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.6 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +25.2 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Anchored in the rural northern Sierra Nevada and upper Central Valley, this district delivered a 10.7-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — an outlier in a state where most assembly seats lean heavily the other way.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 31.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.7 points.
A population of 497,320, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $118,644 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 75 and State House District 4.
The state-house 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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