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Election 1928 Results

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1928 presidential election in California

Herbert Hoover (Republican) beat Al Smith (Democrat) in California in 1928, 64.7% to 34.2%, a margin of 30.5 points and 547,958 votes.

California voted 13.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+17.4.

The Republican hold continued from 1924, when Calvin Coolidge won.

Republicans led in 51 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 6. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 731,301 votes and went to the Republican by 40.6 points. The closest was Trinity, where 3 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
Herbert Hoover won Republican 1,162,323 64.7%
Al Smith Democratic 614,365 34.2%
All other candidates 19,968 1.1%
Total1,796,656

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 209,945 28.7% 507,068 69.3% 14,288 731,301 R+40.6
San Francisco 96,632 49.4% 94,154 48.2% 4,682 195,468 D+1.3
Alameda 60,875 33.6% 117,399 64.8% 2,920 181,194 R+31.2
San Diego 22,749 32.0% 47,190 66.3% 1,212 71,151 R+34.4
Santa Clara 17,589 35.4% 31,569 63.5% 536 49,694 R+28.1
Sacramento 19,684 48.2% 20,528 50.3% 637 40,849 R+2.1
San Bernardino 9,436 24.1% 29,028 74.2% 648 39,112 R+50.1
Orange 7,611 19.8% 30,270 78.6% 646 38,527 R+58.8
Fresno 16,884 44.3% 20,280 53.2% 934 38,098 R+8.9
San Joaquin 10,343 37.9% 16,480 60.3% 503 27,326 R+22.5
San Mateo 9,755 40.0% 14,221 58.3% 416 24,392 R+18.3
Kern 8,541 36.4% 14,522 61.9% 382 23,445 R+25.5
Riverside 4,769 21.1% 17,492 77.5% 320 22,581 R+56.3
Contra Costa 8,573 38.4% 13,373 59.8% 403 22,349 R+21.5
Sonoma 8,506 39.4% 12,782 59.2% 303 21,591 R+19.8
Tulare 6,635 35.1% 11,739 62.1% 536 18,910 R+27.0
Santa Barbara 4,954 29.5% 11,486 68.4% 359 16,799 R+38.9
Stanislaus 5,063 31.6% 10,588 66.1% 368 16,019 R+34.5
Marin 5,686 41.5% 7,844 57.3% 158 13,688 R+15.8
Solano 6,278 46.5% 7,006 51.9% 213 13,497 R+5.4
Humboldt 3,726 28.4% 9,053 68.9% 356 13,135 R+40.6
Ventura 3,717 28.9% 8,925 69.4% 209 12,851 R+40.5
Santa Cruz 3,688 30.5% 8,140 67.4% 247 12,075 R+36.9
Monterey 4,138 36.1% 7,144 62.4% 170 11,452 R+26.2
Butte 3,946 37.8% 6,144 58.9% 342 10,432 R+21.1
San Luis Obispo 3,336 37.4% 5,397 60.5% 187 8,920 R+23.1
Napa 3,422 41.9% 4,626 56.6% 127 8,175 R+14.7
Imperial 2,486 31.0% 5,327 66.5% 199 8,012 R+35.5
Merced 2,970 38.5% 4,623 59.9% 125 7,718 R+21.4
Mendocino 2,628 34.6% 4,751 62.6% 209 7,588 R+28.0
Placer 3,685 49.5% 3,639 48.8% 126 7,450 D+0.6
Siskiyou 2,916 43.1% 3,740 55.2% 116 6,772 R+12.2
Yolo 2,641 42.4% 3,497 56.2% 86 6,224 R+13.8
Kings 2,701 47.2% 2,898 50.7% 122 5,721 R+3.4
Tehama 1,650 31.9% 3,369 65.1% 155 5,174 R+33.2
Shasta 2,025 45.9% 2,238 50.8% 145 4,408 R+4.8
Madera 1,896 44.2% 2,334 54.4% 59 4,289 R+10.2
Nevada 1,959 46.9% 2,168 51.9% 52 4,179 R+5.0
Sutter 1,875 45.2% 2,206 53.2% 67 4,148 R+8.0
Yuba 1,990 49.2% 1,990 49.2% 62 4,042 level
Glenn 1,297 34.2% 2,452 64.7% 43 3,792 R+30.5
Lassen 1,597 42.9% 2,082 56.0% 42 3,721 R+13.0
San Benito 1,366 40.8% 1,939 57.9% 43 3,348 R+17.1
Tuolumne 1,360 43.1% 1,702 53.9% 97 3,159 R+10.8
Colusa 1,338 43.0% 1,746 56.1% 28 3,112 R+13.1
Lake 926 33.3% 1,768 63.5% 90 2,784 R+30.2
El Dorado 1,516 54.6% 1,203 43.4% 56 2,775 D+11.3
Calaveras 1,066 45.4% 1,245 53.1% 35 2,346 R+7.6
Amador 1,246 55.5% 972 43.3% 26 2,244 D+12.2
Inyo 861 41.0% 1,177 56.0% 64 2,102 R+15.0
Plumas 1,079 52.0% 935 45.1% 61 2,075 D+6.9
Modoc 711 42.8% 927 55.8% 22 1,660 R+13.0
Del Norte 599 43.4% 768 55.7% 13 1,380 R+12.2
Mariposa 517 43.4% 640 53.7% 35 1,192 R+10.3
Trinity 433 47.3% 430 47.0% 52 915 D+0.3
Sierra 420 47.4% 449 50.6% 18 887 R+3.3
Mono 127 35.7% 217 61.0% 12 356 R+25.3
Alpine 3 5.8% 49 94.2% 52 R+88.5

Counties as they stood in 1928; 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