Akashic

2024StatewideD+20.1

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

County58 areas · 2024 presidential vote

San Francisco323,71962,594D+64.8402,964 Marin116,15224,054D+63.9144,113 Santa Cruz100,99827,978D+54.4134,135 Alameda499,551140,789D+53.6669,800 San Mateo242,95776,616D+50.3330,510 Sonoma179,60063,426D+46.2251,426 Santa Clara510,744210,924D+40.0750,433 Contra Costa356,008155,308D+37.9528,904 Yolo61,40527,844D+36.292,589 Napa43,21220,357D+34.965,549 Los Angeles2,417,1091,189,862D+32.93,728,427 Alpine479243D+32.0738 Monterey93,06049,226D+29.9146,718 Humboldt39,80021,559D+28.464,228 Mendocino24,04913,528D+26.839,216 Santa Barbara114,14964,870D+26.7184,715 Solano113,99770,345D+23.0189,834 Mono3,5222,294D+20.36,064 Sacramento381,564252,140D+19.7656,626 San Diego841,372593,270D+16.81,477,786 Ventura217,424158,901D+15.1387,595 San Benito15,17911,702D+12.627,649 Nevada33,78426,177D+12.262,132 San Luis Obispo81,31464,932D+10.9150,766 Orange691,731654,815D+2.71,390,965 Imperial26,08326,546R+0.954,025 San Joaquin126,647128,996R+0.9263,671 Riverside451,782463,677R+1.3940,405 Lake12,79413,161R+1.426,759 San Bernardino362,114378,416R+2.1761,714 Inyo4,2014,468R+3.08,951 Butte44,22847,179R+3.194,523 Merced40,19043,955R+4.486,392 Fresno151,628165,924R+4.4325,994 Placer103,958123,941R+8.5234,809 Trinity2,4492,979R+9.45,645 Stanislaus85,347106,986R+11.0197,472 El Dorado47,70361,109R+12.0111,890 Del Norte4,2665,999R+16.410,564 Plumas4,0205,725R+16.910,067 Siskiyou8,32912,461R+19.221,489 Tulare53,22181,854R+20.7138,271 Madera20,98132,344R+20.854,624 Kern108,241167,879R+21.1283,246 Mariposa3,6225,625R+21.19,509 Tuolumne10,90917,210R+21.928,810 Kings15,51925,074R+23.041,501 Sierra6411,066R+24.21,754 Yuba10,72518,491R+25.830,070 Amador7,78314,018R+27.822,402 Calaveras9,18116,625R+28.126,479 Colusa2,4314,414R+28.27,021 Sutter13,01625,372R+31.439,336 Glenn3,2606,904R+34.910,442 Shasta27,13059,539R+36.588,900 Tehama7,41518,503R+41.826,532 Modoc1,0082,884R+46.74,016 Lassen2,4788,619R+54.011,371

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.

presidential margin

2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican

2004D+9.9

2008D+24.0

2012D+23.1

2016D+30.0

2020D+29.1

2024D+20.1

full record · 1892 → 2024

presidential returns

2024 turnout 60.7% of 26,132,801 citizens 18+

Year	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	CVAP	Turnout
2024	9,276,179	6,081,697	507,599	15,865,475	26,132,801	60.7%
2020	11,110,639	6,006,518	414,688	17,531,845	25,774,911	68.0%
2016	8,753,792	4,483,814	1,005,843	14,243,449	24,582,603	57.9%
2012	7,854,285	4,839,958	361,572	13,055,815	23,072,672	56.6%
2008	8,274,473	5,011,781	296,829	13,583,083	21,942,928	61.9%
2004	6,745,485	5,509,826	166,548	12,421,859	20,813,184^†	59.7%

^† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.

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%

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%

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.

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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