- Lead
- 447
- Total
- 107,083
- vs nation
- D+1.9
California 35th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 24,725
- Total
- 117,908
- vs nation
- D+16.5
- Lead
- 23,254
- Total
- 94,081
- vs nation
- D+22.6
- Lead
- 18,379
- Total
- 84,723
- vs nation
- D+17.8
- Lead
- 18,836
- Total
- 88,141
- vs nation
- D+14.1
- Lead
- 3,737
- Total
- 74,510
- vs nation
- D+7.5
- Lead
- 9,368
- Total
- 67,252
- vs nation
- D+13.4
- Lead
- 12,183
- Total
- 64,584
- vs nation
- D+10.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+0.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 493,5442024 5-year
- Population density
- 262 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,881 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,1472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 74.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+77.0 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 27, CA · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
California 35th 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
Winfield S. Hancock1880
88.4%
403 votes · D+77.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 88.2%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
48.4%
51,821 votes · D+0.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 46.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
69,857votes
59.2% of the vote · D+21.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 55,547 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
51,821votes
48.4% of the vote · D+0.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 45,132 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
William J. Bryan1896
+72.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+66.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +70.0 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
−1.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+0.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · −7.5 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | R | 39.6%43,072 | 60.4%65,775 | 108,847 |
California 35th State House District sits in the Pacific Coast. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.0 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 20.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.4 points.
A population of 493,544, a 13% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,147 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 27 and Assembly District 60.
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 35th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/06035/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.