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Election 2008 Results

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2008 US House elections in California

California elected 53 members of the House in 2008: Democrats won 34 seats and Republicans 19.

The closest was the 4th district, decided by 0.5 points: Tom McClintock (Republican) beat Charlie Brown (Democrat), 50.2% to 49.8%, a margin of 0.5 points and 1,800 votes.

In the House vote by county, Democrats led in 30 of the 58 counties and Republicans in 28. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,839,657 votes and went to the Democrat by 53.0 points. The closest was Sierra, where 9 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	197,812 (68.1%)	Zane Starkewolf	67,853 (23.4%)	24,807	D+44.7
2	Jeff Morris	118,878 (42.1%)	Wally Herger	163,459 (57.9%)		R+15.8
3	Bill Durston	137,971 (43.9%)	Daniel E. Lungren	155,424 (49.5%)	20,651	R+5.6
4	Charlie Brown	183,990 (49.8%)	Tom McClintock	185,790 (50.2%)		R+0.5
5	Doris O. Matsui	164,242 (74.3%)	Paul A. Smith	46,002 (20.8%)	10,911	D+53.5
6	Lynn C. Woolsey	229,672 (71.7%)	Mike Halliwell	77,073 (24.1%)	13,617	D+47.6
7	George Miller	170,962 (72.8%)	Roger Allen Peterson	51,166 (21.8%)	12,645	D+51.0
8	Nancy Pelosi	204,996 (71.9%)	Dana Walsh	27,614 (9.7%)	52,637	D+62.2
9	Barbara Lee	238,915 (86.1%)	Charles Hargrave	26,917 (9.7%)	11,768	D+76.4
10	Ellen O. Tauscher	192,226 (65.1%)	Nicholas Gerber	91,877 (31.1%)	11,062	D+34.0
11	Jerry McNerney	164,500 (55.3%)	Dean Andal	133,104 (44.7%)	12	D+10.6
12	Jackie Speier	200,442 (75.1%)	Greg Conlon	49,258 (18.5%)	17,153	D+56.7
13	Fortney Pete Stark	166,829 (76.4%)	Raymond Chui	51,447 (23.6%)		D+52.9
14	Anna G. Eshoo	190,301 (69.8%)	Ronny Santana	60,610 (22.2%)	21,855	D+47.6
15	Michael M. Honda	170,977 (71.7%)	Joyce Stoer Cordi	55,489 (23.3%)	12,123	D+48.4
16	Zoe Lofgren	146,481 (71.3%)	Charel Winston	49,399 (24.1%)	9,447	D+47.3
17	Sam Farr	168,907 (73.9%)	Jeff Taylor	59,037 (25.8%)	682	D+48.1
18	Dennis A. Cardoza	130,192 (100.0%)	none			D+100.0
19	Peter Leinau		George Radanovich	179,245 (98.4%)	2,856	R+98.4
20	Jim Costa	93,023 (74.3%)	Jim Lopez	32,118 (25.7%)		D+48.7
21	Larry Johnson	66,317 (31.6%)	Devin Nunes	143,498 (68.4%)		R+36.8
22	none		Kevin McCarthy	224,549 (100.0%)		R+100.0
23	Lois Capps	171,403 (68.1%)	Matt T. Kokkonen	80,385 (31.9%)		D+36.2
24	Marta Ann Jorgensen	125,560 (41.8%)	Elton Gallegly	174,492 (58.2%)		R+16.3
25	Jackie Conaway	105,929 (42.3%)	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon	144,660 (57.7%)		R+15.5
26	Russ Warner	108,039 (40.4%)	David Dreier	140,615 (52.6%)	18,476	R+12.2
27	Brad Sherman	145,812 (68.5%)	Navraj Singh	52,852 (24.8%)	14,171	D+43.7
28	Howard L. Berman	137,471 (99.9%)	none		150	D+99.9
29	Adam B. Schiff	146,198 (68.9%)	Charles Hahn	56,727 (26.7%)	9,219	D+42.2
30	Henry A. Waxman	242,792 (100.0%)	none			D+100.0
31	Xavier Becerra	110,955 (100.0%)	none			D+100.0
32	Hilda L. Solis	130,142 (100.0%)	none		8	D+100.0
33	Diane E. Watson	186,924 (87.6%)	David C. Crowley II	26,536 (12.4%)		D+75.1
34	Lucille Roybal-Allard	98,503 (77.1%)	Christopher Balding	29,266 (22.9%)		D+54.2
35	Maxine Waters	150,778 (82.6%)	Ted Hayes	24,169 (13.2%)	7,632	D+69.3
36	Jane Harman	171,948 (68.6%)	Brian Gibson	78,543 (31.4%)		D+37.3
37	Laura Richardson	131,342 (74.9%)	none		43,910	D+74.9
38	Grace F. Napolitano	130,211 (81.7%)	none		29,113	D+81.7
39	Linda T. Sánchez	125,289 (69.7%)	Diane A. Lenning	54,533 (30.3%)		D+39.4
40	Christina Avalos	86,772 (37.5%)	Edward R. Royce	144,923 (62.5%)		R+25.1
41	Tim Prince	99,214 (38.4%)	Jerry Lewis	159,486 (61.6%)		R+23.3
42	Edwin "Ed" Chau	104,909 (39.8%)	Gary G. Miller	158,404 (60.2%)		R+20.3
43	Joe Baca	108,259 (69.1%)	John Roberts	48,312 (30.9%)		D+38.3
44	Bill Hedrick	123,890 (48.8%)	Ken Calvert	129,937 (51.2%)		R+2.4
45	Julie Bornstein	111,026 (41.7%)	Mary Bono Mack	155,166 (58.3%)		R+16.6
46	Debbie Cook	122,891 (43.1%)	Dana Rohrabacher	149,818 (52.5%)	12,568	R+9.4
47	Loretta Sanchez	85,878 (69.5%)	Rosemarie "Rosie" Avila	31,432 (25.4%)	6,274	D+44.1
48	Steve Young	125,537 (40.7%)	John Campbell	171,658 (55.6%)	11,507	R+14.9
49	Robert Hamilton	90,138 (37.5%)	Darrell E. Issa	140,300 (58.3%)	10,232	R+20.8
50	Nick Leibham	141,635 (45.2%)	Brian P. Bilbray	157,502 (50.2%)	14,365	R+5.1
51	Bob Filner	148,281 (72.7%)	David Lee Joy	49,345 (24.2%)	6,199	D+48.5
52	Mike Lumpkin	111,051 (38.9%)	Duncan D. Hunter	160,724 (56.4%)	13,363	R+17.4
53	Susan A. Davis	161,315 (68.5%)	Michael Crimmins	64,658 (27.5%)	9,569	D+41.0

The House vote in every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Los Angeles	2,113,151 74.4%	609,328 21.5%	117,178	2,839,657	D+53.0
San Diego	585,103 51.3%	507,249 44.5%	48,310	1,140,662	D+6.8
Orange	462,363 42.6%	595,572 54.9%	26,601	1,084,536	R+12.3
Santa Clara	436,807 70.7%	147,209 23.8%	34,211	618,227	D+46.8
Riverside	275,415 44.8%	334,627 54.5%	4,353	614,395	R+9.6
Alameda	456,530 78.9%	108,996 18.8%	13,093	578,619	D+60.1
San Bernardino	273,747 48.2%	286,274 50.4%	8,113	568,134	R+2.2
Sacramento	289,790 57.7%	184,361 36.7%	28,455	502,606	D+21.0
Contra Costa	287,440 68.1%	120,177 28.5%	14,730	422,347	D+39.6
San Francisco	252,264 72.9%	35,998 10.4%	57,963	346,225	D+62.5
Ventura	155,570 48.5%	165,420 51.5%		320,990	R+3.1
San Mateo	211,615 73.9%	57,479 20.1%	17,077	286,171	D+53.9
Fresno	80,549 34.7%	151,329 65.3%	6	231,884	R+30.5
Sonoma	156,371 70.4%	54,862 24.7%	10,818	222,051	D+45.7
Kern	28,301 14.5%	167,357 85.5%		195,658	R+71.1
San Joaquin	118,575 61.1%	75,414 38.9%	3	193,992	D+22.2
Placer	81,850 49.0%	85,358 51.0%		167,208	R+2.1
Santa Barbara	101,850 61.1%	64,742 38.9%		166,592	D+22.3
Solano	99,208 65.1%	45,233 29.7%	7,969	152,410	D+35.4
Marin	97,067 73.0%	30,565 23.0%	5,408	133,040	D+50.0
Monterey	87,336 69.2%	38,252 30.3%	614	126,202	D+38.9
Santa Cruz	92,676 77.2%	23,340 19.4%	4,031	120,047	D+57.8
San Luis Obispo	39,543 35.7%	71,254 64.3%		110,797	R+28.6
Stanislaus	44,051 43.5%	56,937 56.2%	324	101,312	R+12.7
Tulare	30,097 29.9%	70,607 70.1%		100,704	R+40.2
Butte	46,688 49.6%	47,441 50.4%		94,129	R+0.8
El Dorado	44,302 49.3%	45,542 50.7%		89,844	R+1.4
Shasta	31,039 40.0%	46,472 60.0%		77,511	R+19.9
Yolo	47,905 65.0%	20,655 28.0%	5,156	73,716	D+37.0
Humboldt	41,113 67.0%	13,949 22.7%	6,311	61,373	D+44.3
Napa	40,346 71.1%	12,881 22.7%	3,494	56,721	D+48.4
Nevada	31,075 57.7%	22,800 42.3%		53,875	D+15.4
Merced	48,656 100.0%	0 0.0%		48,656	D+100.0
Mendocino	26,351 68.4%	7,435 19.3%	4,714	38,500	D+49.1
Imperial	28,122 74.3%	8,672 22.9%	1,065	37,859	D+51.4
Kings	21,882 63.6%	12,530 36.4%		34,412	D+27.2
Madera	1,087 3.4%	31,168 96.6%	7	32,262	R+93.2
Sutter	10,980 34.9%	20,456 65.1%		31,436	R+30.1
Lake	16,531 66.0%	6,562 26.2%	1,946	25,039	D+39.8
Tehama	8,445 35.6%	15,291 64.4%		23,736	R+28.8
Calaveras	9,051 40.6%	11,562 51.9%	1,672	22,285	R+11.3
Siskiyou	9,056 43.6%	11,701 56.4%		20,757	R+12.7
Yuba	7,819 38.4%	12,560 61.6%		20,379	R+23.3
San Benito	12,293 64.7%	6,693 35.2%	2	18,988	D+29.5
Amador	7,164 39.4%	9,929 54.7%	1,068	18,161	R+15.2
Tuolumne	465 2.6%	17,494 97.3%	25	17,984	R+94.7
Lassen	4,083 36.7%	7,041 63.3%		11,124	R+26.6
Plumas	5,603 52.1%	5,146 47.9%		10,749	D+4.3
Glenn	3,331 34.5%	6,318 65.5%		9,649	R+31.0
Del Norte	5,496 59.2%	3,205 34.5%	577	9,278	D+24.7
Inyo	3,517 44.7%	4,356 55.3%		7,873	R+10.7
Mariposa	220 3.2%	6,613 96.7%	4	6,837	R+93.5
Trinity	3,586 57.4%	2,664 42.6%		6,250	D+14.8
Colusa	2,086 34.0%	4,056 66.0%		6,142	R+32.1
Mono	2,321 44.9%	2,850 55.1%		5,171	R+10.2
Modoc	1,602 37.3%	2,698 62.7%		4,300	R+25.5
Sierra	980 50.2%	971 49.8%		1,951	D+0.5
Alpine	361 54.2%	274 41.1%	31	666	D+13.1

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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