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Election 1936 Results

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1936 presidential election in California

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Alf Landon (Republican) in California in 1936, 67.0% to 31.7%, a margin of 35.3 points and 930,405 votes.

California voted 11.0 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+24.3.

The Democratic hold continued from 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt also won.

Democrats led in 58 of the 58 counties as they stood then. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 1,129,964 votes and went to the Democrat by 35.4 points. The closest was Alpine, where 11 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt won Democratic 1,766,836 67.0%
Alf Landon Republican 836,431 31.7%
All other candidates 35,615 1.3%
Total2,638,882

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 757,351 67.0% 357,401 31.6% 15,212 1,129,964 D+35.4
San Francisco 196,197 74.1% 65,436 24.7% 3,319 264,952 D+49.4
Alameda 149,323 63.6% 82,352 35.1% 3,012 234,687 D+28.5
San Diego 64,628 63.5% 35,686 35.0% 1,540 101,854 D+28.4
Santa Clara 38,346 58.5% 26,498 40.4% 733 65,577 D+18.1
Sacramento 47,265 78.5% 12,119 20.1% 789 60,173 D+58.4
San Bernardino 33,955 59.6% 22,219 39.0% 844 57,018 D+20.6
Fresno 42,859 77.7% 11,545 20.9% 722 55,126 D+56.8
Orange 29,836 55.0% 23,494 43.3% 923 54,253 D+11.7
San Mateo 27,087 65.7% 13,650 33.1% 511 41,248 D+32.6
San Joaquin 29,078 73.2% 10,172 25.6% 473 39,723 D+47.6
Contra Costa 26,007 72.3% 9,604 26.7% 364 35,975 D+45.6
Kern 25,726 74.6% 8,345 24.2% 410 34,481 D+50.4
Riverside 17,011 49.9% 16,674 48.9% 422 34,107 D+1.0
Sonoma 17,273 60.2% 11,185 39.0% 248 28,706 D+21.2
Tulare 18,956 67.7% 8,624 30.8% 435 28,015 D+36.9
Santa Barbara 15,923 61.1% 9,728 37.3% 396 26,047 D+23.8
Stanislaus 15,341 63.1% 8,613 35.4% 348 24,302 D+27.7
Ventura 13,384 63.1% 7,579 35.8% 233 21,196 D+27.4
Monterey 12,267 61.1% 7,565 37.7% 235 20,067 D+23.4
Humboldt 11,909 62.9% 6,808 36.0% 208 18,925 D+27.0
Marin 12,152 65.4% 6,211 33.4% 209 18,572 D+32.0
Santa Cruz 9,326 52.1% 8,260 46.1% 322 17,908 D+6.0
Solano 13,459 78.1% 3,603 20.9% 182 17,244 D+57.2
Butte 10,490 65.9% 5,103 32.0% 335 15,928 D+33.8
San Luis Obispo 7,889 61.1% 4,812 37.3% 206 12,907 D+23.8
Merced 9,208 72.7% 3,230 25.5% 230 12,668 D+47.2
Imperial 7,560 60.8% 4,771 38.3% 113 12,444 D+22.4
Napa 6,270 60.3% 3,973 38.2% 147 10,390 D+22.1
Placer 7,959 76.6% 2,321 22.3% 108 10,388 D+54.3
Mendocino 6,432 62.7% 3,670 35.7% 164 10,266 D+26.9
Siskiyou 6,865 69.3% 2,919 29.5% 125 9,909 D+39.8
Kings 7,062 75.1% 2,226 23.7% 117 9,405 D+51.4
Yolo 5,992 68.9% 2,594 29.8% 107 8,693 D+39.1
Shasta 5,236 69.7% 2,159 28.7% 117 7,512 D+41.0
Nevada 5,128 71.9% 1,913 26.8% 90 7,131 D+45.1
Tehama 3,687 59.7% 2,376 38.5% 115 6,178 D+21.2
Madera 4,646 75.7% 1,387 22.6% 101 6,134 D+53.1
Sutter 4,019 70.0% 1,613 28.1% 106 5,738 D+41.9
Yuba 4,125 74.2% 1,332 24.0% 104 5,561 D+50.2
El Dorado 4,019 75.7% 1,228 23.1% 65 5,312 D+52.5
Lassen 4,193 79.5% 1,035 19.6% 48 5,276 D+59.9
Glenn 3,288 66.0% 1,620 32.5% 76 4,984 D+33.5
Tuolumne 3,303 72.7% 1,199 26.4% 40 4,542 D+46.3
Colusa 2,965 70.4% 1,186 28.1% 63 4,214 D+42.2
San Benito 2,565 61.9% 1,515 36.6% 62 4,142 D+25.4
Lake 1,837 49.8% 1,797 48.7% 53 3,687 D+1.1
Calaveras 2,520 71.3% 960 27.2% 54 3,534 D+44.1
Plumas 2,707 78.8% 680 19.8% 48 3,435 D+59.0
Amador 2,506 75.4% 777 23.4% 40 3,323 D+52.0
Modoc 1,828 64.6% 968 34.2% 35 2,831 D+30.4
Mariposa 1,907 74.4% 621 24.2% 35 2,563 D+50.2
Inyo 1,560 62.4% 912 36.5% 30 2,502 D+25.9
Del Norte 1,292 59.4% 853 39.2% 29 2,174 D+20.2
Trinity 1,424 67.1% 655 30.9% 43 2,122 D+36.2
Sierra 1,152 76.4% 340 22.6% 15 1,507 D+53.9
Mono 458 64.8% 241 34.1% 8 707 D+30.7
Alpine 85 53.5% 74 46.5% 159 D+6.9

Counties as they stood in 1936; 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