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State

California

Office (updates table and map)

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1892–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1892 → 2024

2024StatewideD+20.1

58 counties by 2024 margin · County presidential returns

County results58 areas · 2024 President vote · select an area for its full record

San FranciscoD+64.8Dem 323,719Rep 62,594Other 16,651Total 402,964MarinD+63.9Dem 116,152Rep 24,054Other 3,907Total 144,113Santa CruzD+54.4Dem 100,998Rep 27,978Other 5,159Total 134,135AlamedaD+53.6Dem 499,551Rep 140,789Other 29,460Total 669,800San MateoD+50.3Dem 242,957Rep 76,616Other 10,937Total 330,510SonomaD+46.2Dem 179,600Rep 63,426Other 8,400Total 251,426Santa ClaraD+40.0Dem 510,744Rep 210,924Other 28,765Total 750,433Contra CostaD+37.9Dem 356,008Rep 155,308Other 17,588Total 528,904YoloD+36.2Dem 61,405Rep 27,844Other 3,340Total 92,589NapaD+34.9Dem 43,212Rep 20,357Other 1,980Total 65,549Los AngelesD+32.9Dem 2,417,109Rep 1,189,862Other 121,456Total 3,728,427AlpineD+32.0Dem 479Rep 243Other 16Total 738MontereyD+29.9Dem 93,060Rep 49,226Other 4,432Total 146,718HumboldtD+28.4Dem 39,800Rep 21,559Other 2,869Total 64,228MendocinoD+26.8Dem 24,049Rep 13,528Other 1,639Total 39,216Santa BarbaraD+26.7Dem 114,149Rep 64,870Other 5,696Total 184,715SolanoD+23.0Dem 113,997Rep 70,345Other 5,492Total 189,834MonoD+20.3Dem 3,522Rep 2,294Other 248Total 6,064SacramentoD+19.7Dem 381,564Rep 252,140Other 22,922Total 656,626San DiegoD+16.8Dem 841,372Rep 593,270Other 43,144Total 1,477,786VenturaD+15.1Dem 217,424Rep 158,901Other 11,270Total 387,595San BenitoD+12.6Dem 15,179Rep 11,702Other 768Total 27,649NevadaD+12.2Dem 33,784Rep 26,177Other 2,171Total 62,132San Luis ObispoD+10.9Dem 81,314Rep 64,932Other 4,520Total 150,766OrangeD+2.7Dem 691,731Rep 654,815Other 44,419Total 1,390,965ImperialR+0.9Dem 26,083Rep 26,546Other 1,396Total 54,025San JoaquinR+0.9Dem 126,647Rep 128,996Other 8,028Total 263,671RiversideR+1.3Dem 451,782Rep 463,677Other 24,946Total 940,405LakeR+1.4Dem 12,794Rep 13,161Other 804Total 26,759San BernardinoR+2.1Dem 362,114Rep 378,416Other 21,184Total 761,714InyoR+3.0Dem 4,201Rep 4,468Other 282Total 8,951ButteR+3.1Dem 44,228Rep 47,179Other 3,116Total 94,523MercedR+4.4Dem 40,190Rep 43,955Other 2,247Total 86,392FresnoR+4.4Dem 151,628Rep 165,924Other 8,442Total 325,994PlacerR+8.5Dem 103,958Rep 123,941Other 6,910Total 234,809TrinityR+9.4Dem 2,449Rep 2,979Other 217Total 5,645StanislausR+11.0Dem 85,347Rep 106,986Other 5,139Total 197,472El DoradoR+12.0Dem 47,703Rep 61,109Other 3,078Total 111,890Del NorteR+16.4Dem 4,266Rep 5,999Other 299Total 10,564PlumasR+16.9Dem 4,020Rep 5,725Other 322Total 10,067SiskiyouR+19.2Dem 8,329Rep 12,461Other 699Total 21,489TulareR+20.7Dem 53,221Rep 81,854Other 3,196Total 138,271MaderaR+20.8Dem 20,981Rep 32,344Other 1,299Total 54,624KernR+21.1Dem 108,241Rep 167,879Other 7,126Total 283,246MariposaR+21.1Dem 3,622Rep 5,625Other 262Total 9,509TuolumneR+21.9Dem 10,909Rep 17,210Other 691Total 28,810KingsR+23.0Dem 15,519Rep 25,074Other 908Total 41,501SierraR+24.2Dem 641Rep 1,066Other 47Total 1,754YubaR+25.8Dem 10,725Rep 18,491Other 854Total 30,070AmadorR+27.8Dem 7,783Rep 14,018Other 601Total 22,402CalaverasR+28.1Dem 9,181Rep 16,625Other 673Total 26,479ColusaR+28.2Dem 2,431Rep 4,414Other 176Total 7,021SutterR+31.4Dem 13,016Rep 25,372Other 948Total 39,336GlennR+34.9Dem 3,260Rep 6,904Other 278Total 10,442ShastaR+36.5Dem 27,130Rep 59,539Other 2,231Total 88,900TehamaR+41.8Dem 7,415Rep 18,503Other 614Total 26,532ModocR+46.7Dem 1,008Rep 2,884Other 124Total 4,016LassenR+54.0Dem 2,478Rep 8,619Other 274Total 11,371

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

Mexican32.3%11.3%

Salvadoran2.0%0.7%

Guatemalan1.3%0.5%

Puerto Rican0.6%1.8%

Nicaraguan0.3%—

Spaniard0.3%—

Spanish0.3%—

Colombian0.3%0.4%

German6.8%12.5%

English6.3%9.5%

Irish5.9%9.4%

Italian3.4%4.8%

American2.8%5.3%

French1.3%1.6%

Polish0.9%2.2%

Scottish0.9%1.3%

Chinese3.9%1.3%

Filipino3.3%0.9%

Asian Indian2.3%1.4%

Vietnamese1.7%0.6%

Korean1.2%0.4%

Japanese0.6%0.2%

Taiwanese0.3%—

Hmong0.3%—

African American†4.4%9.9%

African0.3%0.5%

Aztec0.3%—

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	California	United States
Median age	37.9	39.1
Age 18–24	9.1%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	15.6%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	California	United States
Median household income	$99,122	$84,427
Poverty rate	12.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	36.6%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	California	United States
Owner-occupied homes	55.9%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	44.1%	34.8%
Median home value	$734,700	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$2,036	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	55.3%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	7.5%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	California	United States
Mean commute	28.7 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	11.1%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	65.7%	68.8%
Takes public transit	2.9%	3.2%
Works from home	17.2%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	California	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	44.4%	22.3%
Spanish	28.4%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	3.4%	2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)	3.5%	1.1%
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)	2.1%	0.6%

Religious landscape

Measure	California	United States
Catholic	26.2%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	9.0%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	55.2%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	California	United States
Foreign-born residents	27.0%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	14.7%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	12.3%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	4.3%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.489	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

2024 turnout 61.9% of 26,132,801 citizens 18+

HarrisDemocratic58.5%9,276,179TrumpRepublican38.3%6,081,697KennedyAmerican Independent1.2%197,645

D+20.1

Lead: 3,194,482
Total: 15,865,475
vs nation: D+21.6
Turnout: 61.9%

BidenDemocratic63.5%11,110,639TrumpRepublican34.3%6,006,518JorgensenLibertarian1.1%187,895

D+29.2

Lead: 5,104,121
Total: 17,501,380
vs nation: D+24.7
Turnout: 68.8%

ClintonDemocratic61.5%8,753,792TrumpRepublican31.5%4,483,814JohnsonLibertarian3.4%478,500

D+30.0

Lead: 4,269,978
Total: 14,243,449
vs nation: D+27.9
Turnout: 59.4%

ObamaDemocratic60.2%7,854,285RomneyRepublican37.1%4,839,958JohnsonLibertarian1.1%143,221

D+23.1

Lead: 3,014,327
Total: 13,055,815
vs nation: D+19.2
Turnout: —

ObamaDemocratic60.9%8,274,473MccainRepublican36.9%5,011,781NaderPeace & Freedom0.8%108,381

D+24.0

Lead: 3,262,692
Total: 13,583,083
vs nation: D+16.7
Turnout: —

KerryDemocratic54.3%6,745,485BushRepublican44.4%5,509,826BadnarikLibertarian0.4%50,165

D+9.9

Lead: 1,235,659
Total: 12,421,859
vs nation: D+12.4
Turnout: —

GoreDemocratic53.4%5,861,203BushRepublican41.7%4,567,429NaderGreen3.8%418,707

D+11.8

Lead: 1,293,774
Total: 10,965,856
vs nation: D+11.3
Turnout: —

ClintonDemocratic51.1%5,119,835DoleRepublican38.2%3,828,380PerotReform Party7.0%697,847

D+12.9

Lead: 1,291,455
Total: 10,019,484
vs nation: D+4.4
Turnout: —

California is the largest prize in American politics — 54 electoral votes and 52 U.S. House seats, carried by the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1992. In November 2025 its voters approved Proposition 50, replacing the state’s independent-commission congressional map with a legislatively drawn one expected to add about five Democratic seats — Governor Gavin Newsom’s answer to a mid-decade Republican redraw in Texas. The fight lifted Newsom, term-limited in 2026, to the front of the early 2028 Democratic field.

Yet California moved toward Donald Trump in 2024 nearly as fast as anywhere — a nine-point drop in its Democratic margin, from 29 points in 2020 to 20, the fourth-largest shift of any state. The move ran deepest in the heavily Latino interior: Imperial County, 86 percent Hispanic, gave Hillary Clinton a 42-point margin in 2016, then flipped to Trump by 2024 — a reversal of more than 40 points in eight years. The Central Valley counties of Merced, Tulare, and Fresno each moved double digits. By Akashic’s analysis the swing tracked the state’s immigrant geography — the communities that give California the highest share of non-English-speaking households in the country, 44 percent — part of a national shift among Latino voters.

The state is unlike any other in scale and mix: 39 million people, a Hispanic plurality at 40 percent and 15 percent Asian, with non-Hispanic White residents about a third. It is wealthy, with a median household income of $99,122, fifth-highest in the nation, and Catholic where it is religious, at 26 percent — though a 55 percent unaffiliated majority leaves it among the least religiously affiliated states. No single group is a majority.

current representation

Current officeholders

DGavin NewsomGovernor

DEleni KounalakisLt. Governor

DRob BontaAttorney General

DShirley WeberSecretary of State

DMalia CohenController

DFiona MaTreasurer

DRicardo LaraInsurance Commissioner

DTony ThurmondSuperintendent of Public Instruction

DAdam SchiffU.S. Senate-0.35

DAlex PadillaU.S. Senate-0.44

U.S. House52 seats · D 42 · R 9 · 1 vacant

RCA-01James Gallagher

DCA-02Jared Huffman

RCA-03Kevin Kiley

DCA-04Mike Thompson

RCA-05Tom McClintock

DCA-06Ami Bera

DCA-07Doris Matsui

DCA-08John Garamendi

DCA-09Josh Harder

DCA-10Mark DeSaulnier

DCA-11Nancy Pelosi

DCA-12Lateefah Simon

DCA-13Adam Gray

DCA-15Kevin Mullin

DCA-16Sam Liccardo

DCA-17Ro Khanna

DCA-18Zoe Lofgren

DCA-19Jimmy Panetta

RCA-20Vince Fong

DCA-21Jim Costa

RCA-22David Valadao

RCA-23Jay Obernolte

DCA-24Salud Carbajal

DCA-25Raul Ruiz

DCA-26Julia Brownley

DCA-27George Whitesides

DCA-28Judy Chu

DCA-29Luz Rivas

DCA-30Laura Friedman

DCA-31Gilbert Cisneros

DCA-32Brad Sherman

DCA-33Pete Aguilar

DCA-34Jimmy Gomez

DCA-35Norma Torres

DCA-36Ted Lieu

DCA-37Sydney Kamlager-Dove

DCA-38Linda Sánchez

DCA-39Mark Takano

RCA-40Young Kim

RCA-41Ken Calvert

DCA-42Robert Garcia

DCA-43Maxine Waters

DCA-44Nanette Barragán

DCA-45Derek Tran

DCA-46Luis Correa

DCA-47Dave Min

RCA-48Darrell Issa

DCA-49Mike Levin

DCA-50Scott Peters

DCA-51Sara Jacobs

DCA-52Juan Vargas

∅CA-14vacant · fills Nov 2026

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS). U.S. delegation current per unitedstates/congress-legislators; any vacant seat is shown with the election that fills it.

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