- Lead
- 31,950
- Total
- 180,199
- vs nation
- D+19.2
California 56th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 70,121
- Total
- 210,164
- vs nation
- D+28.9
- Lead
- 64,837
- Total
- 163,977
- vs nation
- D+37.5
- Lead
- 47,118
- Total
- 153,663
- vs nation
- D+26.8
- Lead
- 46,481
- Total
- 161,109
- vs nation
- D+21.6
- Lead
- 22,220
- Total
- 149,057
- vs nation
- D+17.4
- Lead
- 25,297
- Total
- 132,628
- vs nation
- D+18.6
- Lead
- 20,251
- Total
- 118,483
- vs nation
- D+8.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 491,4542024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,130 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 119 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $96,0012024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 10.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 59.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+39.5 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+64.6 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 48, CA · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
California 56th 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
Hillary Clinton2016
66.9%
109,662 votes · D+39.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 65.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
74.5%
29,496 votes · R+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 73.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
138,076votes
65.7% of the vote · D+33.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 109,662 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
90,273votes
61.0% of the vote · R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 82,856 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
+37.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.5 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +28.9 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+39.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+64.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +38.1 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 56 has delivered double-digit Democratic presidential margins in recent cycles, reflecting a diverse, urban-leaning electorate concentrated in the greater Los Angeles basin where Latino and working-class communities shape the political baseline.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.5 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 64.6 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 15.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.7 points.
A population of 491,454, a 10% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $96,001 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 48 and Assembly District 80.
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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