- Lead
- 103,403
- Total
- 192,831
- vs nation
- D+55.1
California 52nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 140,052
- Total
- 221,833
- vs nation
- D+58.7
- Lead
- 127,916
- Total
- 183,177
- vs nation
- D+67.7
- Lead
- 109,387
- Total
- 165,125
- vs nation
- D+62.4
- Lead
- 112,080
- Total
- 171,158
- vs nation
- D+58.2
- Lead
- 84,982
- Total
- 149,750
- vs nation
- D+59.2
- Lead
- 79,068
- Total
- 135,469
- vs nation
- D+57.8
- Lead
- 65,372
- Total
- 121,795
- vs nation
- D+45.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+53.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 516,0982024 5-year
- Population density
- 11,783 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 43.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $84,6562024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 25.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 57.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+71.5 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+36.4 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 46, CA · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
California 52nd 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
85.6%
249 votes · D+71.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 81.9%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
51.6%
14,686 votes · R+6.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 50.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
178,619votes
80.5% of the vote · D+63.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 150,046 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
44,499votes
36.5% of the vote · D+22.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 41,093 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
+67.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+69.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +62.4 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+11.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · −9.5 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.
Assembly District 52 recorded a 53.6-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most lopsided state house districts in California. Its urban core and demographic composition consistently produce some of the widest partisan gaps in the state legislature.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 71.5 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 36.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.6 points.
A population of 516,098, a 26% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,656 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 46 and Assembly District 54.
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 52nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/06052/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.