United States · Election results history · 1996 House · California

Election 1996 Results

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1996 US House elections in California

California elected 52 members of the House in 1996: Democrats won 29 seats and Republicans 23.

The closest was the 42nd district, decided by 1.0 point: George E. Brown Jr. (Democrat) beat Linda M. Wilde (Republican), 50.5% to 49.5%, a margin of 1.0 point and 996 votes.

In the House vote by county, Republicans led in 39 of the 58 counties and Democrats in 19. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,296,158 votes and went to the Democrat by 20.0 points. The closest was Alpine, where 80 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Every district

District	Democrat	Votes	Republican	Votes	Others	Margin
1	Michela Alioto	96,522 (43.5%)	Frank Riggs	110,243 (49.6%)	15,354	R+6.2
2	Roberts A. Braden	80,401 (33.7%)	Wally Herger	144,913 (60.8%)	13,012	R+27.1
3	Vic Fazio	118,663 (53.5%)	Tim Lefever	91,134 (41.1%)	11,940	D+12.4
4	Katie Hirning	97,948 (36.1%)	John T. Doolittle	164,048 (60.5%)	9,319	R+24.4
5	Robert T. Matsui	142,618 (70.4%)	Robert S. Dinsmore	52,940 (26.1%)	6,902	D+44.3
6	Lynn C. Woolsey	156,958 (61.8%)	Duane C. Hughes	86,278 (34.0%)	10,600	D+27.8
7	George Miller	137,089 (71.8%)	Norman H. Reece	42,542 (22.3%)	11,286	D+49.5
8	Nancy Pelosi	175,216 (84.3%)	Justin Raimondo	25,739 (12.4%)	6,783	D+72.0
9	Ronald V. Dellums	154,806 (77.0%)	Deborah Wright	37,126 (18.5%)	9,036	D+58.6
10	Ellen O. Tauscher	137,726 (48.6%)	Bill Baker	133,633 (47.2%)	11,824	D+1.5
11	Jason Silva	65,536 (36.2%)	Richard W. Pombo	107,477 (59.3%)	8,083	R+23.2
12	Tom Lantos	149,049 (71.7%)	Storm Jenkins	49,276 (23.7%)	9,583	D+48.0
13	Fortney Pete Stark	114,408 (65.2%)	James S. Fay	53,385 (30.4%)	7,746	D+34.8
14	Anna G. Eshoo	148,773 (64.8%)	Ben Brink	71,571 (31.2%)	9,289	D+33.6
15	Dick Lane	79,048 (34.8%)	Tom Campbell	132,737 (58.5%)	15,083	R+23.7
16	Zoe Lofgren	94,020 (65.7%)	Chuck Wojslaw	43,197 (30.2%)	5,990	D+35.5
17	Sam Farr	115,116 (58.9%)	Jess Brown	73,856 (37.8%)	6,573	D+21.1
18	Gary A. Condit	108,827 (65.7%)	Bill Conrad	52,695 (31.8%)	4,064	D+33.9
19	Paul Barile	58,452 (28.3%)	George P. Radanovich	137,402 (66.6%)	10,525	R+38.3
20	Calvin M. Dooley	65,381 (56.5%)	Trice Harvey	45,276 (39.1%)	5,048	D+17.4
21	Deborah A. Vollmer	50,694 (26.5%)	William M. Thomas	125,916 (65.9%)	14,542	R+39.4
22	Walter H. Capps	118,299 (48.4%)	Andrea H. Seastrand	107,987 (44.2%)	17,900	D+4.2
23	Robert R. Unruhe	70,035 (35.1%)	Elton Gallegly	118,880 (59.6%)	10,592	R+24.5
24	Brad Sherman	106,193 (49.4%)	Rich Sybert	93,629 (43.6%)	15,026	D+5.9
25	Diane Trautman	65,089 (33.2%)	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon	122,428 (62.4%)	8,686	R+29.2
26	Howard L. Berman	67,525 (65.9%)	Bill Glass	29,332 (28.6%)	5,658	D+37.3
27	Doug Kahn	82,014 (43.2%)	James E. Rogan	95,310 (50.2%)	12,606	R+7.0
28	David Levering	69,037 (36.9%)	David Dreier	113,389 (60.7%)	4,459	R+23.7
29	Henry A. Waxman	145,278 (67.6%)	Paul Stepanek	52,857 (24.6%)	16,682	D+43.0
30	Xavier Becerra	58,283 (72.3%)	Patricia Jean Parker	15,078 (18.7%)	7,229	D+53.6
31	Matthew G. Martinez	69,285 (67.5%)	John V. Flores	28,705 (28.0%)	4,700	D+39.5
32	Julian C. Dixon	124,712 (82.4%)	Larry Ardito	18,768 (12.4%)	7,947	D+70.0
33	Lucille Roybal-Allard	47,478 (82.1%)	John P. Leonard	8,147 (14.1%)	2,203	D+68.0
34	Esteban Edward Torres	94,730 (68.4%)	David G. Nunez	36,852 (26.6%)	6,858	D+41.8
35	Maxine Waters	92,762 (85.5%)	Eric Carlson	13,116 (12.1%)	2,610	D+73.4
36	Jane Harman	117,752 (52.5%)	Susan Brooks	98,538 (43.9%)	8,169	D+8.6
37	Juanita Millender-McDonald	87,247 (85.0%)	Michael E. Voetee	15,399 (15.0%)		D+70.0
38	Rick Zbur	71,627 (42.7%)	Stephen Horn	88,136 (52.6%)	7,882	R+9.9
39	R. O. "Bob" Davis	61,392 (31.9%)	Edward R. Royce	120,761 (62.8%)	10,137	R+30.9
40	Robert "Bob" Conaway	44,102 (29.0%)	Jerry Lewis	98,821 (64.9%)	9,338	R+35.9
41	Richard L. Waldron	47,346 (33.0%)	Jay Kim	83,934 (58.5%)	12,165	R+25.5
42	George E. Brown Jr.	52,166 (50.5%)	Linda M. Wilde	51,170 (49.5%)		D+1.0
43	Guy C. Kimbrough	67,422 (38.0%)	Ken Calvert	97,247 (54.7%)	12,971	R+16.8
44	Anita Rufus	73,844 (38.6%)	Sonny Bono	110,643 (57.8%)	7,031	R+19.2
45	Sally J. Alexander	68,312 (33.2%)	Dana Rohrabacher	125,326 (61.0%)	11,884	R+27.7
46	Loretta Sanchez	47,964 (46.7%)	Robert K. Dornan	46,980 (45.7%)	7,840	D+1.0
47	Tina Louise Laine	70,362 (28.9%)	Christopher Cox	160,078 (65.7%)	13,337	R+36.8
48	Dan Farrell	59,558 (26.9%)	Ron Packard	145,814 (65.9%)	16,019	R+39.0
49	Peter Navarro	86,657 (41.9%)	Brian P. Bilbray	108,806 (52.6%)	11,305	R+10.7
50	Bob Filner	73,200 (61.9%)	Jim Baize	38,351 (32.4%)	6,789	D+29.5
51	Rita Tamerius	66,250 (28.9%)	Randy "Duke" Cunningham	149,032 (65.1%)	13,742	R+36.2
52	Darity Wesley	53,104 (29.8%)	Duncan Hunter	116,746 (65.5%)	8,471	R+35.7

The House vote in every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Los Angeles	1,320,186 57.5%	860,681 37.5%	115,291	2,296,158	D+20.0
Orange	263,933 31.7%	516,851 62.1%	50,971	831,755	R+30.4
San Diego	295,151 37.0%	455,990 57.2%	45,740	796,881	R+20.2
Santa Clara	262,002 52.4%	212,116 42.5%	25,531	499,649	D+10.0
Alameda	300,156 67.7%	123,736 27.9%	19,714	443,606	D+39.8
Sacramento	223,204 57.1%	151,621 38.8%	15,872	390,697	D+18.3
Riverside	145,147 37.5%	218,678 56.5%	22,969	386,794	R+19.0
Contra Costa	205,074 59.1%	125,239 36.1%	16,547	346,860	D+23.0
San Bernardino	115,921 36.9%	183,678 58.5%	14,389	313,988	R+21.6
San Francisco	218,367 82.2%	37,683 14.2%	9,707	265,757	D+68.0
Ventura	86,221 35.3%	145,184 59.4%	13,124	244,529	R+24.1
San Mateo	167,504 69.0%	65,142 26.8%	10,123	242,769	D+42.2
Fresno	73,661 36.8%	116,619 58.3%	9,884	200,164	R+21.5
Sonoma	103,714 58.4%	64,111 36.1%	9,652	177,477	D+22.3
Kern	51,211 30.4%	105,017 62.4%	12,008	168,236	R+32.0
Santa Barbara	75,888 50.8%	63,886 42.7%	9,715	149,489	D+8.0
San Joaquin	52,313 36.6%	84,347 59.1%	6,176	142,836	R+22.4
Stanislaus	76,451 66.6%	35,379 30.8%	2,967	114,797	D+35.8
Monterey	59,406 55.7%	44,187 41.4%	3,030	106,623	D+14.3
Solano	56,591 55.2%	39,998 39.0%	5,902	102,491	D+16.2
Santa Cruz	57,974 57.4%	37,520 37.2%	5,433	100,927	D+20.3
Marin	63,945 63.9%	33,204 33.2%	2,961	100,110	D+30.7
San Luis Obispo	44,879 45.0%	46,372 46.5%	8,458	99,709	R+1.5
Placer	33,805 36.6%	55,677 60.3%	2,922	92,404	R+23.7
Tulare	27,346 32.4%	51,082 60.5%	6,060	84,488	R+28.1
Butte	30,347 38.7%	44,103 56.2%	3,976	78,426	R+17.5
El Dorado	20,994 35.9%	35,328 60.5%	2,090	58,412	R+24.5
Yolo	37,178 65.7%	16,505 29.2%	2,895	56,578	D+36.5
Shasta	17,447 31.2%	36,357 65.1%	2,084	55,888	R+33.8
Humboldt	23,357 42.5%	27,783 50.5%	3,833	54,973	R+8.1
Napa	19,634 42.8%	22,685 49.5%	3,519	45,838	R+6.7
Merced	29,613 65.1%	14,931 32.8%	945	45,489	D+32.3
Nevada	13,636 32.6%	24,968 59.7%	3,234	41,838	R+27.1
Madera	8,413 28.4%	19,950 67.4%	1,231	29,594	R+39.0
Mendocino	13,500 48.2%	12,400 44.3%	2,088	27,988	D+3.9
Imperial	9,711 38.1%	14,389 56.5%	1,388	25,488	R+18.4
Kings	12,365 49.9%	11,341 45.8%	1,077	24,783	D+4.1
Sutter	9,753 40.0%	13,304 54.5%	1,351	24,408	R+14.5
Lake	9,477 44.2%	10,581 49.4%	1,378	21,436	R+5.2
Tehama	9,341 46.5%	9,640 48.0%	1,099	20,080	R+1.5
Tuolumne	6,549 33.6%	12,231 62.7%	715	19,495	R+29.1
Calaveras	8,120 43.0%	9,994 53.0%	749	18,863	R+9.9
Siskiyou	6,150 32.8%	11,378 60.7%	1,210	18,738	R+27.9
Yuba	4,756 30.9%	9,843 64.0%	778	15,377	R+33.1
Amador	5,153 36.3%	8,625 60.8%	410	14,188	R+24.5
San Benito	7,025 51.5%	6,214 45.6%	394	13,633	D+5.9
Lassen	2,827 29.2%	6,247 64.6%	595	9,669	R+35.4
Plumas	2,900 31.0%	5,898 63.1%	552	9,350	R+32.1
Del Norte	2,409 27.6%	5,730 65.7%	578	8,717	R+38.1
Glenn	3,655 42.8%	4,555 53.3%	329	8,539	R+10.5
Mariposa	2,464 31.4%	5,010 63.8%	378	7,852	R+32.4
Inyo	2,188 29.9%	4,771 65.3%	351	7,310	R+35.3
Trinity	2,060 35.6%	3,307 57.2%	417	5,784	R+21.6
Colusa	2,529 45.8%	2,762 50.0%	232	5,523	R+4.2
Modoc	1,035 24.5%	2,987 70.8%	194	4,216	R+46.3
Mono	1,504 36.8%	2,392 58.5%	196	4,092	R+21.7
Sierra	413 25.4%	1,115 68.6%	98	1,626	R+43.2
Alpine	238 41.5%	318 55.4%	18	574	R+13.9

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every House election we hold

Year	Seats	House vote
2024	D 43, R 9	D+19.9
2022	D 40, R 12	D+23.3
2020	D 42, R 11	D+28.6
2018	D 46, R 7	D+32.7
2016	D 39, R 14	D+26.2
2014	D 39, R 14	D+15.3
2012	D 38, R 15	D+21.0
2010	D 34, R 19	D+9.9
2008	D 34, R 19	D+23.2
2006	D 34, R 19	D+16.9
2004	D 33, R 20	D+10.3
2002	D 33, R 20	D+7.0
2000	D 32, R 20	D+9.2
1998	D 28, R 24	D+6.6
1996	D 29, R 23	D+4.4
1994	D 27, R 25	R+1.3
1992	D 30, R 22	D+10.2
1990	D 26, R 19	D+3.0

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