- Lead
- 72,625
- Total
- 160,306
- vs nation
- D+46.8
California 26th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 98,198
- Total
- 182,754
- vs nation
- D+49.3
- Lead
- 84,140
- Total
- 153,917
- vs nation
- D+52.6
- Lead
- 64,531
- Total
- 139,848
- vs nation
- D+42.3
- Lead
- 64,007
- Total
- 144,248
- vs nation
- D+37.1
- Lead
- 43,306
- Total
- 129,971
- vs nation
- D+35.8
- Lead
- 35,454
- Total
- 118,377
- vs nation
- D+29.4
- Lead
- 31,741
- Total
- 113,562
- vs nation
- D+19.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+45.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 471,0662024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,844 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 80.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $178,0902024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+54.7 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 21, CA · twin score 97.2
presidential history
Party record book
California 26th 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
Joe Biden2020
75.7%
138,417 votes · D+53.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 73.8%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
66.9%
3,978 votes · R+43.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 62.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
138,417votes
75.7% of the vote · D+53.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 113,541 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
58,605votes
52.6% of the vote · R+6.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 51,680 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
+52.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+54.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +49.3 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+22.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · +17.6 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+45.3, Assembly District 26 ranks among the state's most reliably one-sided legislative districts, leaving general-election competition virtually absent and primary dynamics as the dominant political force.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.7 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 47.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.3 points.
A population of 471,066, a 27% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $178,090 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 21 and Assembly District 24.
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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California 26th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/06026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.