- Lead
- 18,307
- Total
- 153,373
- vs nation
- D+13.4
California 53rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 50,678
- Total
- 170,786
- vs nation
- D+25.2
- Lead
- 45,312
- Total
- 127,797
- vs nation
- D+33.4
- Lead
- 36,539
- Total
- 114,285
- vs nation
- D+28.1
- Lead
- 36,686
- Total
- 119,148
- vs nation
- D+23.5
- Lead
- 15,704
- Total
- 101,916
- vs nation
- D+17.9
- Lead
- 20,909
- Total
- 90,831
- vs nation
- D+22.5
- Lead
- 18,403
- Total
- 82,688
- vs nation
- D+13.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+11.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 477,3412024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,708 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 101 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $87,4242024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 14.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 66.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.9 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 64, CA · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
California 53rd 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
68.1%
14,356 votes · D+37.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 64.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
65.7%
8,543 votes · R+33.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 57.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
108,798votes
63.7% of the vote · D+29.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 83,543 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
65,236votes
42.5% of the vote · D+11.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 58,120 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
+33.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+35.5 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +28.1 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+20.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.9 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +16.3 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 53 backed the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee by nearly 30 points, reflecting a dense, heavily urbanized constituency where Democratic performance consistently ranks among the strongest in the state legislature.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.9 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 17.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.9 points.
A population of 477,341, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,424 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 64 and Assembly District 62.
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 53rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/06053/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.