United States · Election results history · 2002 House · California

Election 2002 Results

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2002 US House elections in California

California elected 53 members of the House in 2002: Democrats won 33 seats and Republicans 20.

The closest was the 18th district, decided by 7.9 points: Dennis A. Cardoza (Democrat) beat Dick Monteith (Republican), 51.3% to 43.4%, a margin of 7.9 points and 8,653 votes.

In the House vote by county, Republicans led in 37 of the 58 counties and Democrats in 21. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 1,672,795 votes and went to the Democrat by 28.6 points. The closest was Alpine, where 5 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	Mike Thompson	118,669 (64.1%)	Lawrence R. Wiesner	60,013 (32.4%)	6,534	D+31.7
2	Mike Johnson	52,455 (29.3%)	Wally Herger	117,747 (65.8%)	8,783	R+36.5
3	Howard Beeman	67,136 (34.4%)	Doug Ose	121,732 (62.5%)	6,050	R+28.0
4	Mark A. Norberg	72,860 (31.9%)	John T. Doolittle	147,997 (64.8%)	7,649	R+32.9
5	Robert T. Matsui	92,726 (70.5%)	Richard Frankhuizen	34,749 (26.4%)	4,103	D+44.1
6	Lynn C. Woolsey	139,750 (66.7%)	Paul L. Erickson	62,052 (29.6%)	7,761	D+37.1
7	George Miller	97,849 (70.7%)	Charles R. Hargrave	36,584 (26.4%)	3,943	D+44.3
8	Nancy Pelosi	127,684 (79.6%)	G. Michael German	20,063 (12.5%)	12,694	D+67.1
9	Barbara Lee	135,893 (81.4%)	Jerald Udinsky	25,333 (15.2%)	5,691	D+66.2
10	Ellen O. Tauscher	126,390 (75.6%)	none		40,807	D+75.6
11	Elaine Shaw	69,035 (39.7%)	Richard W. Pombo	104,921 (60.3%)		R+20.6
12	Tom Lantos	105,597 (68.1%)	Michael Moloney	38,381 (24.8%)	11,006	D+43.4
13	Fortney Pete Stark	86,495 (71.1%)	Syed R. Mahmood	26,852 (22.1%)	8,376	D+49.0
14	Anna G. Eshoo	117,055 (68.2%)	Joseph Henry Nixon	48,346 (28.2%)	6,277	D+40.0
15	Michael M. Honda	87,482 (65.8%)	Linda Rae Hermann	41,251 (31.0%)	4,289	D+34.8
16	Zoe Lofgren	72,370 (67.0%)	Douglas Adams McNea	32,182 (29.8%)	3,434	D+37.2
17	Sam Farr	101,632 (68.1%)	Clint C. Engler	40,334 (27.0%)	7,330	D+41.1
18	Dennis A. Cardoza	56,181 (51.3%)	Dick Monteith	47,528 (43.4%)	5,884	D+7.9
19	John Veen	47,403 (30.0%)	George Radanovich	106,209 (67.3%)	4,190	R+37.3
20	Calvin M. Dooley	47,627 (63.7%)	Andre Minuth	25,628 (34.3%)	1,515	D+29.4
21	David G. Lapere	32,584 (26.2%)	Devin Nunes	87,544 (70.5%)	4,070	R+44.3
22	Jaime A. Corvera	38,988 (23.7%)	William M. Thomas	120,473 (73.3%)	4,824	R+49.6
23	Lois Capps	95,752 (59.0%)	Beth Rogers	62,604 (38.6%)	3,866	D+20.4
24	Fern Rudin	58,755 (31.8%)	Elton Gallegly	120,585 (65.2%)	5,666	R+33.4
25	Bob Conaway	38,674 (31.1%)	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon	80,775 (65.0%)	4,887	R+33.9
26	Marjorie Mikels	50,081 (33.5%)	David Dreier	95,360 (63.8%)	4,089	R+30.3
27	Brad Sherman	79,815 (62.0%)	Robert M. Levy	48,996 (38.0%)		D+23.9
28	Howard L. Berman	73,771 (71.4%)	David R. Hernandez	23,926 (23.2%)	5,629	D+48.2
29	Adam B. Schiff	76,036 (62.6%)	Jim Scileppi	40,616 (33.4%)	4,889	D+29.1
30	Henry A. Waxman	130,604 (70.4%)	Tony D. Goss	54,989 (29.6%)		D+40.7
31	Xavier Becerra	54,569 (81.2%)	Luis Vega	12,674 (18.8%)		D+62.3
32	Hilda L. Solis	58,530 (68.8%)	Emma E. Fischbeck	23,366 (27.5%)	3,183	D+41.3
33	Diane E. Watson	97,779 (82.5%)	Andrew Kim	16,699 (14.1%)	3,971	D+68.5
34	Lucille Roybal-Allard	48,734 (74.0%)	Wayne Miller	17,090 (26.0%)		D+48.1
35	Maxine Waters	72,401 (77.5%)	Ross Moen	18,094 (19.4%)	2,912	D+58.1
36	Jane Harman	88,198 (61.4%)	Stuart Johnson	50,328 (35.0%)	5,225	D+26.3
37	Juanita Millender-McDonald	63,445 (72.9%)	Oscar A. Velasco	20,154 (23.2%)	3,413	D+49.8
38	Grace F. Napolitano	62,600 (71.1%)	Alex A. Burrola	23,126 (26.3%)	2,301	D+44.8
39	Linda T. Sánchez	52,256 (54.8%)	Tim Escobar	38,925 (40.8%)	4,165	D+14.0
40	Christina Avalos	40,265 (29.5%)	Edward R. Royce	92,422 (67.6%)	3,955	R+38.2
41	Keith Alan Johnson	40,155 (29.6%)	Jerry Lewis	91,326 (67.4%)	4,052	R+37.8
42	Richard Waldron	42,090 (29.0%)	Gary G. Miller	98,476 (67.8%)	4,680	R+38.8
43	Joe Baca	45,374 (66.4%)	Wendy C. Neighbor	20,821 (30.5%)	2,145	D+35.9
44	Louis Vandenberg	38,021 (31.6%)	Ken Calvert	76,686 (63.7%)	5,756	R+32.1
45	Elle K. Kurpiewski	43,692 (32.7%)	Mary Bono	87,101 (65.2%)	2,740	R+32.5
46	Gerrie Schipske	60,890 (34.5%)	Dana Rohrabacher	108,807 (61.7%)	6,568	R+27.2
47	Loretta Sanchez	42,501 (60.6%)	Jeff Chavez	24,346 (34.7%)	3,331	D+25.9
48	John L. Graham	51,058 (28.4%)	Christopher Cox	122,884 (68.4%)	5,607	R+40.0
49	none		Darrell E. Issa	94,594 (77.2%)	27,903	R+77.2
50	Del G. Stewart	55,855 (32.3%)	Randy "Duke" Cunningham	111,095 (64.3%)	5,751	R+32.0
51	Bob Filner	59,541 (57.9%)	Maria Guadalupe Garcia	40,430 (39.3%)	2,816	D+18.6
52	Peter Moore-Kochlacs	43,526 (25.8%)	Duncan Hunter	118,561 (70.2%)	6,923	R+44.4
53	Susan A. Davis	72,252 (62.2%)	Bill Vandeweghe	43,891 (37.8%)	37	D+24.4

The House vote in every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Los Angeles	1,053,219 63.0%	574,116 34.3%	45,460	1,672,795	D+28.6
Orange	204,564 32.5%	403,674 64.1%	21,737	629,975	R+31.6
San Diego	220,508 35.6%	365,949 59.1%	33,012	619,469	R+23.5
Santa Clara	231,841 66.3%	106,453 30.5%	11,167	349,461	D+35.9
Alameda	247,762 74.8%	64,590 19.5%	19,005	331,357	D+55.3
Sacramento	151,399 49.7%	143,918 47.2%	9,477	304,794	D+2.5
Riverside	84,888 28.8%	192,180 65.2%	17,709	294,777	R+36.4
San Bernardino	109,670 40.2%	154,952 56.8%	8,395	273,017	R+16.6
Contra Costa	175,407 70.2%	43,529 17.4%	30,863	249,799	D+52.8
San Francisco	156,287 78.6%	27,301 13.7%	15,320	198,908	D+64.8
Ventura	71,046 37.3%	113,498 59.6%	5,788	190,332	R+22.3
San Mateo	111,554 67.6%	43,697 26.5%	9,857	165,108	D+41.1
Fresno	53,355 34.9%	95,362 62.3%	4,265	152,982	R+27.5
Sonoma	93,467 64.5%	45,475 31.4%	6,051	144,993	D+33.1
Kern	40,149 29.8%	91,215 67.6%	3,519	134,883	R+37.9
San Joaquin	51,594 41.8%	70,029 56.8%	1,694	123,317	R+14.9
Santa Barbara	59,572 52.3%	51,941 45.6%	2,444	113,957	D+6.7
Placer	29,772 31.4%	62,156 65.6%	2,764	94,692	R+34.2
Stanislaus	35,273 38.7%	51,858 56.9%	4,023	91,154	R+18.2
Marin	61,052 69.7%	23,931 27.3%	2,565	87,548	D+42.4
Monterey	54,865 65.0%	26,374 31.3%	3,153	84,392	D+33.8
Solano	55,097 65.6%	20,030 23.9%	8,822	83,949	D+41.8
San Luis Obispo	35,040 43.1%	43,601 53.7%	2,572	81,213	R+10.5
Santa Cruz	54,381 70.3%	17,778 23.0%	5,163	77,322	D+47.3
Tulare	16,703 27.1%	43,080 69.9%	1,857	61,640	R+42.8
Butte	20,805 34.4%	36,356 60.1%	3,323	60,484	R+25.7
El Dorado	17,034 31.2%	35,937 65.7%	1,702	54,673	R+34.6
Shasta	12,912 26.7%	33,324 68.9%	2,102	48,338	R+42.2
Yolo	26,097 59.7%	16,140 36.9%	1,486	43,723	D+22.8
Humboldt	27,626 65.2%	13,291 31.4%	1,473	42,390	D+33.8
Merced	19,222 47.2%	20,077 49.3%	1,457	40,756	R+2.1
Nevada	13,906 36.4%	22,903 60.0%	1,383	38,192	R+23.6
Napa	23,045 64.8%	11,577 32.5%	952	35,574	D+32.2
Madera	7,114 27.6%	17,978 69.8%	649	25,741	R+42.2
Mendocino	15,961 65.3%	7,222 29.6%	1,250	24,433	D+35.8
Kings	10,301 48.3%	10,563 49.5%	455	21,319	R+1.2
Imperial	10,666 52.0%	9,199 44.8%	656	20,521	D+7.1
Sutter	4,956 26.3%	13,230 70.3%	637	18,823	R+44.0
Tuolumne	6,016 34.3%	10,881 62.0%	650	17,547	R+27.7
Lake	9,588 60.8%	5,618 35.6%	563	15,769	D+25.2
Siskiyou	4,138 26.8%	10,379 67.1%	949	15,466	R+40.4
Tehama	4,282 28.9%	9,823 66.3%	717	14,822	R+37.4
Calaveras	5,478 37.4%	8,500 58.0%	686	14,664	R+20.6
Amador	4,596 36.5%	7,589 60.3%	408	12,593	R+23.8
San Benito	7,432 62.9%	4,018 34.0%	370	11,820	D+28.9
Yuba	3,044 27.2%	7,661 68.4%	497	11,202	R+41.2
Plumas	2,351 30.4%	5,116 66.2%	261	7,728	R+35.8
Lassen	1,999 26.3%	5,377 70.8%	215	7,591	R+44.5
Del Norte	3,649 56.2%	2,646 40.7%	202	6,497	D+15.4
Mariposa	1,810 28.2%	4,393 68.4%	215	6,418	R+40.2
Glenn	1,592 25.5%	4,405 70.5%	252	6,249	R+45.0
Inyo	1,972 33.2%	3,744 63.0%	231	5,947	R+29.8
Trinity	1,393 28.5%	3,134 64.1%	359	4,886	R+35.6
Colusa	1,142 26.4%	3,056 70.6%	133	4,331	R+44.2
Modoc	788 24.0%	2,381 72.6%	109	3,278	R+48.6
Mono	1,037 35.8%	1,704 58.8%	155	2,896	R+23.0
Sierra	409 29.8%	898 65.4%	66	1,373	R+35.6
Alpine	255 47.3%	260 48.2%	24	539	R+0.9

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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