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Election 1920 Results

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1920 presidential election in California

Warren G. Harding (Republican) beat James M. Cox (Democrat) in California in 1920, 66.2% to 24.3%, a margin of 41.9 points and 395,801 votes.

California voted 15.8 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+26.2.

California changed party: in 1916 it went Democratic, for Woodrow Wilson.

Republicans led in 58 of the 58 counties as they stood then. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 257,739 votes and went to the Republican by 47.5 points. The closest was Alpine, where 58 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.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Warren G. Harding won Republican 624,992 66.2%
James M. Cox Democratic 229,191 24.3%
Eugene V. Debs Socialist 64,076 6.8%
All other candidates 25,791 2.7%
Total944,050

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 55,661 21.6% 178,117 69.1% 23,961 257,739 R+47.5
San Francisco 32,637 22.1% 96,105 65.2% 18,676 147,418 R+43.1
Alameda 21,468 20.3% 73,177 69.1% 11,235 105,880 R+48.8
San Diego 8,478 27.3% 19,826 63.8% 2,770 31,074 R+36.5
Santa Clara 6,485 22.6% 19,565 68.1% 2,681 28,731 R+45.5
Fresno 9,613 36.4% 14,621 55.3% 2,185 26,419 R+19.0
Sacramento 7,150 29.7% 15,634 64.9% 1,315 24,099 R+35.2
San Bernardino 5,620 28.2% 12,518 62.8% 1,787 19,925 R+34.6
San Joaquin 6,487 33.0% 12,003 61.0% 1,197 19,687 R+28.0
Orange 3,502 19.6% 12,797 71.5% 1,602 17,901 R+51.9
Sonoma 4,070 26.2% 10,377 66.9% 1,063 15,510 R+40.7
Tulare 4,837 32.4% 9,136 61.3% 941 14,914 R+28.8
Kern 6,095 42.2% 7,079 49.0% 1,270 14,444 R+6.8
Contra Costa 3,483 24.6% 9,041 63.8% 1,652 14,176 R+39.2
Riverside 2,798 21.3% 9,124 69.5% 1,198 13,120 R+48.2
Stanislaus 3,055 26.7% 7,038 61.6% 1,330 11,423 R+34.9
Solano 2,954 26.9% 7,102 64.8% 909 10,965 R+37.8
Santa Barbara 2,586 25.1% 6,970 67.5% 767 10,323 R+42.5
San Mateo 1,958 19.2% 7,205 70.5% 1,056 10,219 R+51.3
Humboldt 1,778 19.0% 6,528 69.9% 1,028 9,334 R+50.9
Butte 2,262 27.5% 5,409 65.7% 563 8,234 R+38.2
Santa Cruz 1,957 24.5% 5,285 66.3% 732 7,974 R+41.7
Marin 1,688 21.6% 5,375 68.8% 749 7,812 R+47.2
Imperial 2,022 27.8% 4,699 64.5% 562 7,283 R+36.8
Monterey 1,771 24.9% 4,817 67.8% 516 7,104 R+42.9
Ventura 1,305 19.0% 5,231 76.0% 346 6,882 R+57.0
Mendocino 1,789 26.5% 4,443 65.9% 515 6,747 R+39.3
San Luis Obispo 1,606 23.9% 4,123 61.3% 992 6,721 R+37.4
Napa 1,444 23.0% 4,448 71.0% 375 6,267 R+47.9
Merced 1,537 28.0% 3,457 63.0% 494 5,488 R+35.0
Yolo 1,787 32.8% 3,375 61.9% 289 5,451 R+29.1
Placer 1,559 32.0% 2,894 59.4% 415 4,868 R+27.4
Siskiyou 1,502 31.0% 2,909 60.1% 432 4,843 R+29.1
Kings 1,604 34.1% 2,806 59.7% 294 4,704 R+25.6
Tehama 1,079 27.1% 2,462 61.8% 443 3,984 R+34.7
Shasta 1,028 30.3% 2,108 62.1% 258 3,394 R+31.8
Madera 1,145 35.7% 1,779 55.5% 283 3,207 R+19.8
Nevada 747 23.6% 2,055 65.0% 361 3,163 R+41.4
San Benito 900 29.8% 1,965 65.0% 159 3,024 R+35.2
Glenn 902 30.3% 1,916 64.3% 163 2,981 R+34.0
Yuba 696 24.5% 2,012 70.7% 138 2,846 R+46.2
Colusa 907 33.8% 1,645 61.2% 135 2,687 R+27.5
Sutter 636 24.0% 1,862 70.4% 147 2,645 R+46.4
El Dorado 726 28.5% 1,636 64.3% 181 2,543 R+35.8
Lassen 643 26.9% 1,582 66.3% 162 2,387 R+39.3
Calaveras 641 27.7% 1,480 64.0% 193 2,314 R+36.3
Tuolumne 659 30.5% 1,285 59.4% 219 2,163 R+28.9
Amador 639 30.3% 1,350 64.0% 119 2,108 R+33.7
Inyo 682 32.6% 1,195 57.2% 212 2,089 R+24.6
Lake 571 32.9% 993 57.2% 172 1,736 R+24.3
Modoc 535 33.8% 992 62.6% 58 1,585 R+28.8
Plumas 403 25.8% 999 64.1% 157 1,559 R+38.2
Trinity 285 28.8% 622 62.9% 82 989 R+34.1
Del Norte 279 29.3% 596 62.5% 78 953 R+33.3
Mariposa 320 36.7% 484 55.4% 69 873 R+18.8
Sierra 158 22.5% 506 72.2% 37 701 R+49.6
Mono 56 22.3% 170 67.7% 25 251 R+45.4
Alpine 6 8.6% 64 91.4% 70 R+82.9

Counties as they stood in 1920; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5