Results by state · 54 electoral votes
California Presidential Election Results
California voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, 58.5% to 38.3% (Harris +20.1); all 54 of its electoral votes went to Harris. It has backed the winning candidate in 8 of the last 13 presidential elections.
15,865,475 votes cast in 2024. Certified results, via the MIT Election Data and Science Lab. CSV
- Electoral votes
- 54
- for 2024 and 2028 (2020 census)
- Partisan lean, 2024
- D+21.6
- margin compared with the national result (Trump +1.5)
- Picked the winner
- 8 of 13
- elections since 1976
- Last Democratic win
- 2024
- 9 in a row
- Last Republican win
- 1988
Margin by election
Columns: California · line: national popular voteEvery election since 1976
CSV →| Year | Democrat | % | Republican | % | Other | Margin | Lean | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kamala Harris | 58.5 | Donald Trump | 38.3 | 3.2 | Harris +20.1 | D+21.6 | 54 D |
| 2020 | Joe Biden | 63.5 | Donald Trump | 34.3 | 2.2 | Biden +29.2 | D+24.7 | 55 D |
| 2016 | Hillary Clinton | 61.7 | Donald Trump | 31.6 | 6.7 | Clinton +30.1 | D+28.0 | 55 D |
| 2012 | Barack Obama | 60.2 | Mitt Romney | 37.1 | 2.6 | Obama +23.1 | D+19.3 | 55 D |
| 2008 | Barack Obama | 61.0 | John McCain | 37.0 | 2.0 | Obama +24.1 | D+16.8 | 55 D |
| 2004 | John Kerry | 54.3 | George W. Bush | 44.4 | 1.3 | Kerry +9.9 | D+12.4 | 55 D |
| 2000 | Al Gore | 53.4 | George W. Bush | 41.7 | 4.9 | Gore +11.8 | D+11.3 | 54 D |
| 1996 | Bill Clinton | 51.1 | Bob Dole | 38.2 | 10.7ⓘ | Clinton +12.9 | D+4.4 | 54 D |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton | 46.0 | George H.W. Bush | 32.6 | 21.4ⓘ | Clinton +13.4 | D+7.8 | 54 D |
| 1988 | Michael Dukakis | 47.6 | George H.W. Bush | 51.1 | 1.3 | Bush +3.6 | D+4.2 | 47 R |
| 1984 | Walter Mondale | 41.3 | Ronald Reagan | 57.5 | 1.2 | Reagan +16.2 | D+2.0 | 47 R |
| 1980 | Jimmy Carter | 35.9 | Ronald Reagan | 52.7 | 11.4ⓘ | Reagan +16.8 | R+7.0 | 45 R |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter | 48.0 | Gerald Ford | 49.7 | 2.3 | Ford +1.8 | R+3.9 | 45 R |
Winner highlighted. Percentages are of all votes cast, so Democrat + Republican + Other = 100. Lean is the state's margin minus the national popular-vote margin. Rows marked ⓘ name a third-party candidate above 5% or a split electoral vote.
About these numbers
Vote counts are the certified state results compiled by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab from the Clerk of the U.S. House's official statistics and released under CC0. Electoral votes follow the Census Bureau's House apportionment in force at each election. They are shown as the state's result pledged them; the few electors who voted otherwise or abstained (one each in 1976, 1988, 2000 and 2004; seven in 2016) are not reflected.
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