- Lead
- 27,431
- Total
- 217,327
- vs nation
- D+14.1
California 76th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 36,427
- Total
- 231,747
- vs nation
- D+11.3
- Lead
- 14,901
- Total
- 184,473
- vs nation
- D+6.0
- Lead
- 8,425
- Total
- 170,975
- vs nation
- R+8.8
- Lead
- 4,133
- Total
- 176,575
- vs nation
- R+9.6
- Lead
- 30,772
- Total
- 165,723
- vs nation
- R+16.1
- Lead
- 22,424
- Total
- 138,968
- vs nation
- R+16.7
- Lead
- 16,521
- Total
- 127,723
- vs nation
- R+21.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 470,1902024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,223 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 212 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $121,6622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 44.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 30.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+41.5 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.5 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 13, AZ · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
California 76th 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
57.2%
8,137 votes · D+16.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 56.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
71.7%
7,703 votes · R+45.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 70.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
131,446votes
56.7% of the vote · D+15.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 118,914 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
97,312votes
58.7% of the vote · R+18.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 95,019 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+21.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +14.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+36.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · +33.4 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 76 covers coastal and inland communities in the San Diego region, where a 12.6-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024 reflects a competitive-leaning but reliably center-left electorate in statewide cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 49.5 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.6 points.
A population of 470,190, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $121,662 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 13 and State House District 12.
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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