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Election 1998 Results

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1998 US House elections in California

California elected 52 members of the House in 1998: Democrats won 28 seats and Republicans 24.

The closest was the 49th district, decided by 2.2 points: Brian P. Bilbray (Republican) beat Christine T. Kehoe (Democrat), 48.8% to 46.6%, a margin of 2.2 points and 4,116 votes.

In the House vote by county, Republicans led in 34 of the 58 counties and Democrats in 24. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 1,896,709 votes and went to the Democrat by 22.5 points. The closest was Alpine, where 83 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

DistrictDemocratVotesRepublicanVotesOthersMargin
1 Mike Thompson121,713 (61.8%) Mark C. Luce64,692 (32.9%) 10,400 D+29.0
2 Roberts 'Rob' Braden70,837 (34.5%) Wally Herger128,372 (62.5%) 6,138 R+28.0
3 Sandie Dunn86,471 (45.0%) Doug Ose100,621 (52.4%) 4,914 R+7.4
4 David Shapiro85,394 (34.4%) John T. Doolittle155,306 (62.6%) 7,524 R+28.2
5 Robert T. Matsui130,715 (71.9%) Robert S. Dinsmore47,307 (26.0%) 3,746 D+45.9
6 Lynn C. Woolsey158,446 (68.0%) Ken McAuliffe69,295 (29.7%) 5,240 D+38.3
7 George Miller125,842 (76.7%) Norman H. Reece38,290 (23.3%) D+53.3
8 Nancy Pelosi148,027 (85.8%) David J. Martz20,781 (12.0%) 3,654 D+73.8
9 Barbara Lee140,722 (82.8%) Claiborne 'Clay' Sanders22,431 (13.2%) 6,742 D+69.6
10 Ellen O. Tauscher127,134 (53.5%) Charles Ball103,299 (43.4%) 7,376 D+10.0
11 Robert L. Figueroa56,345 (36.2%) Richard W. Pombo95,496 (61.4%) 3,608 R+25.2
12 Tom Lantos128,135 (74.0%) Robert H. Evans36,562 (21.1%) 8,515 D+52.9
13 Fortney Pete Stark101,671 (71.2%) James R. Goetz38,050 (26.6%) 3,066 D+44.6
14 Anna G. Eshoo129,663 (68.6%) John C. 'Chris' Haugen53,719 (28.4%) 5,528 D+40.2
15 Dick Lane70,059 (37.9%) Tom Campbell111,876 (60.5%) 2,843 R+22.6
16 Zoe Lofgren85,503 (72.8%) Horace Eugene Thayn27,494 (23.4%) 4,417 D+49.4
17 Sam Farr103,719 (64.5%) Bill McCampbell52,470 (32.7%) 4,501 D+31.9
18 Gary A. Condit118,842 (86.8%) none 18,089 D+86.8
19 none George P. Radanovich131,105 (79.4%) 34,044 R+79.4
20 Calvin M. Dooley60,599 (60.7%) Cliff Unruh39,183 (39.3%) D+21.5
21 none William M. Thomas115,989 (78.9%) 30,994 R+78.9
22 Lois Capps109,517 (55.0%) Tom J. Bordonaro, Jr.85,927 (43.1%) 3,820 D+11.8
23 Daniel 'Dan' Gonzalez64,032 (39.9%) Elton Gallegly96,322 (60.1%) R+20.1
24 Brad Sherman103,491 (57.3%) Randy Hoffman69,501 (38.5%) 7,588 D+18.8
25 none Howard P. "Buck" McKeon114,013 (74.7%) 38,669 R+74.7
26 Howard L. Berman69,000 (82.5%) none 14,662 D+82.5
27 Barry A. Gordon73,875 (46.4%) James E. Rogan80,702 (50.7%) 4,489 R+4.3
28 Janice M. Nelson61,721 (39.3%) David Dreier90,607 (57.6%) 4,872 R+18.4
29 Henry A. Waxman131,561 (73.9%) Mike Gottlieb40,282 (22.6%) 6,251 D+51.3
30 Xavier Becerra58,230 (82.4%) Patricia Parker12,441 (17.6%) D+64.8
31 Matthew G. Martinez61,173 (70.0%) Frank C. Moreno19,786 (22.6%) 6,401 D+47.4
32 Julian C. Dixon112,253 (86.7%) Laurence Ardito14,622 (11.3%) 2,617 D+75.4
33 Lucille Roybal-Allard43,310 (87.2%) Wayne Miller6,364 (12.8%) D+74.4
34 Grace Flores Napolitano76,471 (67.6%) Ed Perez32,321 (28.6%) 4,283 D+39.0
35 Maxine Waters78,732 (89.3%) none 9,413 D+89.3
36 Janice Hahn84,624 (46.6%) Steven T. Kuykendall88,843 (48.9%) 8,239 R+2.3
37 Juanita Millender-McDonald70,026 (85.1%) Saul E. Lankster12,301 (14.9%) D+70.1
38 Peter Mathews59,767 (44.3%) Stephen Horn71,386 (52.9%) 3,705 R+8.6
39 A. 'Cecy' R. Groom52,815 (34.0%) Edward R. Royce97,366 (62.6%) 5,284 R+28.7
40 Robert 'Bob' Conaway47,897 (31.9%) Jerry Lewis97,406 (64.9%) 4,822 R+33.0
41 Eileen R. Ansari52,264 (40.7%) Gary G. Miller68,310 (53.2%) 7,840 R+12.5
42 George E. Brown, Jr.62,207 (55.3%) Elia Pirozzi45,328 (40.3%) 4,985 D+15.0
43 Mike Rayburn56,373 (37.8%) Ken Calvert83,012 (55.7%) 9,686 R+17.9
44 Ralph Waite57,697 (35.7%) Mary Bono97,013 (60.1%) 6,818 R+24.3
45 Patricia W. Neal60,022 (37.3%) Dana Rohrabacher94,296 (58.7%) 6,452 R+21.3
46 Loretta Sanchez47,964 (56.4%) Robert Kenneth 'Bob' Dornan33,388 (39.3%) 3,650 D+17.2
47 Christina Avalos57,938 (29.5%) Christopher Cox132,711 (67.6%) 5,667 R+38.1
48 none Ron Packard138,948 (76.9%) 41,771 R+76.9
49 Christine T. Kehoe86,400 (46.6%) Brian P. Bilbray90,516 (48.8%) 8,603 R+2.2
50 Bob Filner77,354 (100.0%) none D+100.0
51 Dan Kripke71,706 (34.7%) Randy "Duke" Cunningham126,229 (61.0%) 8,943 R+26.4
52 none Duncan Hunter116,251 (75.7%) 37,313 R+75.7

The House vote in every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 1,105,034 58.3% 678,469 35.8% 113,206 1,896,709 D+22.5
San Diego 235,460 34.7% 374,197 55.1% 68,908 678,565 R+20.4
Orange 204,942 30.9% 417,837 63.0% 40,677 663,456 R+32.1
Santa Clara 231,888 57.0% 164,625 40.5% 10,398 406,911 D+16.5
Alameda 269,924 73.4% 85,835 23.3% 11,927 367,686 D+50.1
Sacramento 195,321 56.0% 144,915 41.6% 8,307 348,543 D+14.5
Riverside 114,070 35.2% 191,021 58.9% 19,145 324,236 R+23.7
San Bernardino 134,655 42.0% 172,567 53.8% 13,707 320,929 R+11.8
Contra Costa 185,354 63.6% 101,297 34.7% 4,954 291,605 D+28.8
San Francisco 187,453 84.5% 28,933 13.0% 5,490 221,876 D+71.4
San Mateo 142,359 70.9% 49,566 24.7% 8,899 200,824 D+46.2
Ventura 80,574 40.8% 115,175 58.3% 1,807 197,556 R+17.5
Fresno 26,926 16.7% 108,926 67.5% 25,455 161,307 R+50.8
Sonoma 101,915 65.9% 48,009 31.0% 4,787 154,711 D+34.8
Kern 15,261 11.7% 92,095 70.5% 23,284 130,640 R+58.8
San Joaquin 45,227 37.8% 71,238 59.6% 3,156 119,621 R+21.7
Santa Barbara 68,721 57.9% 47,607 40.1% 2,348 118,676 D+17.8
Marin 69,375 70.1% 28,024 28.3% 1,524 98,923 D+41.8
Solano 61,110 62.6% 34,326 35.2% 2,142 97,578 D+27.4
Stanislaus 81,888 86.1% 0 0.0% 13,275 95,163 D+86.1
Monterey 52,250 59.9% 32,709 37.5% 2,236 87,195 D+22.4
San Luis Obispo 42,796 50.5% 40,408 47.7% 1,472 84,676 D+2.8
Placer 28,632 34.1% 52,574 62.7% 2,656 83,862 R+28.5
Santa Cruz 53,248 64.6% 26,773 32.5% 2,381 82,402 D+32.1
Tulare 7,536 11.1% 50,680 74.5% 9,804 68,020 R+63.4
Butte 24,351 38.2% 37,562 58.9% 1,846 63,759 R+20.7
El Dorado 18,650 33.8% 34,803 63.1% 1,744 55,197 R+29.3
Shasta 16,303 31.3% 34,381 66.0% 1,420 52,104 R+34.7
Yolo 27,659 57.3% 19,599 40.6% 1,010 48,268 D+16.7
Humboldt 28,840 63.6% 13,765 30.4% 2,707 45,312 D+33.3
Napa 25,451 62.0% 14,114 34.4% 1,505 41,070 D+27.6
Nevada 13,394 35.7% 22,803 60.8% 1,328 37,525 R+25.1
Merced 33,330 89.2% 0 0.0% 4,033 37,363 D+89.2
Mendocino 17,448 62.8% 7,865 28.3% 2,466 27,779 D+34.5
Madera 240 1.0% 19,495 79.1% 4,917 24,652 R+78.1
Kings 11,831 54.1% 10,039 45.9% 21,870 D+8.2
Imperial 0 0.0% 15,574 72.0% 6,052 21,626 R+72.0
Sutter 7,118 33.2% 13,878 64.7% 443 21,439 R+31.5
Tuolumne 7,462 38.0% 11,676 59.4% 521 19,659 R+21.4
Lake 11,636 64.0% 5,833 32.1% 704 18,173 D+31.9
Tehama 6,082 34.4% 10,784 61.0% 821 17,687 R+26.6
Siskiyou 5,460 34.9% 9,691 62.0% 491 15,642 R+27.0
Calaveras 5,229 33.8% 9,612 62.1% 626 15,467 R+28.3
Amador 4,541 34.7% 8,230 62.8% 324 13,095 R+28.2
Yuba 4,209 32.4% 8,448 65.1% 314 12,971 R+32.7
San Benito 7,361 58.8% 4,795 38.3% 365 12,521 D+20.5
Plumas 2,523 31.1% 5,388 66.4% 206 8,117 R+35.3
Lassen 2,349 29.6% 5,340 67.4% 239 7,928 R+37.7
Glenn 2,423 33.6% 4,607 64.0% 173 7,203 R+30.3
Del Norte 4,171 58.8% 2,626 37.0% 296 7,093 D+21.8
Mariposa 0 0.0% 5,042 74.7% 1,706 6,748 R+74.7
Inyo 1,968 30.4% 4,337 66.9% 179 6,484 R+36.5
Trinity 1,741 36.7% 2,795 58.9% 206 4,742 R+22.2
Colusa 1,668 36.2% 2,846 61.8% 93 4,607 R+25.6
Modoc 887 26.6% 2,345 70.3% 103 3,335 R+43.7
Mono 1,138 35.7% 1,924 60.4% 123 3,185 R+24.7
Sierra 456 27.3% 1,158 69.3% 57 1,671 R+42.0
Alpine 216 41.0% 299 56.7% 12 527 R+15.7

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

YearSeatsHouse 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