- Lead
- 2,000
- Total
- 158,077
- vs nation
- D+0.2
California 36th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 23,545
- Total
- 162,032
- vs nation
- D+10.1
- Lead
- 26,349
- Total
- 127,048
- vs nation
- D+18.6
- Lead
- 15,391
- Total
- 108,373
- vs nation
- D+10.3
- Lead
- 13,558
- Total
- 107,298
- vs nation
- D+5.4
- Lead
- 6,236
- Total
- 92,962
- vs nation
- R+4.3
- Lead
- 1,291
- Total
- 76,210
- vs nation
- D+1.2
- Lead
- 4,671
- Total
- 67,006
- vs nation
- R+1.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 474,6552024 5-year
- Population density
- 45 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10,597 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,4622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 21.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 69.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+38.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+100.0 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 58, CA · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
California 36th 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. Roosevelt1932
63.9%
9,999 votes · D+31.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 58.8%
Republican
James G. Blaine1884
100.0%
2 votes · R+100.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 100.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
91,257votes
56.3% of the vote · D+14.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 76,147 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
78,147votes
49.4% of the vote · R+1.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 67,712 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
+18.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+20.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +18.5 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+64.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+62.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +31.9 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.
Assembly District 36 sits at the competitive edge of California's legislative map, where a presidential margin of R+1.2 signals a constituency that neither party can take for granted in statewide or legislative contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 100.0 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 15.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.3 points.
A population of 474,655, a 21% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,462 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 58 and Assembly District 35.
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 36th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/06036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.