- Lead
- 40,309
- Total
- 140,271
- vs nation
- D+30.2
California 62nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 79,991
- Total
- 166,506
- vs nation
- D+43.6
- Lead
- 77,133
- Total
- 134,315
- vs nation
- D+55.3
- Lead
- 63,300
- Total
- 122,962
- vs nation
- D+47.6
- Lead
- 64,042
- Total
- 128,635
- vs nation
- D+42.5
- Lead
- 44,288
- Total
- 114,995
- vs nation
- D+41.0
- Lead
- 42,689
- Total
- 103,391
- vs nation
- D+40.8
- Lead
- 35,071
- Total
- 91,892
- vs nation
- D+29.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+28.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 470,7682024 5-year
- Population density
- 12,587 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 37.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $79,9472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 76.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+57.4 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 43, CA · twin score 99.0
presidential history
Party record book
California 62nd 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
76.0%
102,035 votes · D+57.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 74.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
63.8%
16,433 votes · R+30.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 63.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
121,313votes
72.9% of the vote · D+48.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 102,035 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
50,203votes
48.7% of the vote · R+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 47,717 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
+55.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+57.4 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +47.6 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
+26.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +12.8 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 | D | 78.2%103,977 | 21.8%28,958 | 132,935 |
Assembly District 62 sits within Los Angeles County and posts presidential margins well above the state average, reflecting a dense, majority-minority constituency that has backed Democratic candidates by double digits across multiple election cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 57.4 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 51.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 19.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 28.7 points.
A population of 470,768, a 9% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,947 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 43 and Assembly District 64.
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 62nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/06062/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.