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Election 1992 Results

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1992 presidential election in California

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat George H. W. Bush (Republican) in California in 1992, 46.0% to 32.6%, a margin of 13.4 points and 1,490,751 votes.

California changed party: in 1988 it went Republican, for George H. W. Bush.

Democrats led in 36 of the 58 counties and Republicans in 21 and other candidates in 1. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,753,403 votes and went to the Democrat by 23.5 points. The closest was Alpine, where 7 votes separated the top two.

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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
Bill Clinton won Democratic 5,121,325 46.0%
George H. W. Bush Republican 3,630,574 32.6%
Ross Perot Independent 2,296,006 20.6%
All other candidates 83,816 0.8%
Total11,131,721

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 1,446,529 52.5% 799,607 29.0% 507,267 2,753,403 D+23.5
San Diego 367,397 37.2% 352,125 35.7% 267,124 986,646 D+1.5
Orange 306,930 31.6% 426,613 43.9% 239,006 972,549 R+12.3
Santa Clara 296,265 49.2% 170,870 28.4% 134,920 602,055 D+20.8
Alameda 334,224 63.0% 109,292 20.6% 86,629 530,145 D+42.4
San Bernardino 183,634 38.7% 176,563 37.2% 113,873 474,070 D+1.5
Sacramento 197,540 43.6% 160,366 35.4% 95,606 453,512 D+8.2
Riverside 166,241 38.6% 159,457 37.1% 104,577 430,275 D+1.6
Contra Costa 194,960 50.9% 112,965 29.5% 74,898 382,823 D+21.4
San Francisco 233,263 72.4% 57,352 17.8% 31,592 322,207 D+54.6
San Mateo 149,232 54.0% 75,080 27.2% 52,196 276,508 D+26.8
Ventura 99,011 37.0% 94,911 35.5% 73,725 267,647 D+1.5
Fresno 92,418 42.2% 89,137 40.7% 37,606 219,161 D+1.5
Sonoma 104,334 52.8% 47,619 24.1% 45,738 197,691 D+28.7
Kern 60,510 33.8% 80,762 45.1% 37,991 179,263 R+11.3
Santa Barbara 69,215 42.5% 57,375 35.3% 36,166 162,756 D+7.3
San Joaquin 63,655 41.3% 58,355 37.8% 32,200 154,210 D+3.4
Solano 64,320 48.7% 38,883 29.4% 28,908 132,111 D+19.3
Marin 76,158 58.3% 30,479 23.3% 24,070 130,707 D+34.9
Stanislaus 52,415 40.9% 47,275 36.9% 28,315 128,005 D+4.0
Monterey 54,861 47.0% 36,461 31.2% 25,367 116,689 D+15.8
Santa Cruz 66,183 58.1% 24,916 21.9% 22,893 113,992 D+36.2
San Luis Obispo 40,136 38.4% 36,384 34.8% 28,099 104,619 D+3.6
Placer 30,783 33.7% 38,298 41.9% 22,285 91,366 R+8.2
Tulare 31,188 35.2% 40,482 45.7% 16,883 88,553 R+10.5
Butte 32,489 38.2% 31,608 37.2% 20,917 85,014 D+1.0
Shasta 21,605 31.6% 28,190 41.2% 18,564 68,359 R+9.6
El Dorado 21,012 32.4% 25,906 39.9% 17,969 64,887 R+7.5
Yolo 33,297 53.3% 17,574 28.1% 11,565 62,436 D+25.2
Humboldt 28,854 48.1% 18,299 30.5% 12,868 60,021 D+17.6
Napa 24,215 45.3% 15,662 29.3% 13,578 53,455 D+16.0
Merced 20,133 40.9% 17,981 36.5% 11,170 49,284 D+4.4
Nevada 15,433 34.9% 17,343 39.2% 11,425 44,201 R+4.3
Mendocino 18,344 50.2% 7,958 21.8% 10,236 36,538 D+28.4
Madera 10,863 35.9% 13,066 43.2% 6,316 30,245 R+7.3
Sutter 7,883 30.5% 12,956 50.1% 5,021 25,860 R+19.6
Kings 9,982 38.9% 10,673 41.6% 4,996 25,651 R+2.7
Imperial 11,109 43.9% 9,759 38.5% 4,450 25,318 D+5.3
Tuolumne 9,216 38.1% 8,525 35.3% 6,437 24,178 D+2.9
Lake 10,548 45.4% 6,678 28.8% 5,987 23,213 D+16.7
Tehama 7,508 35.8% 7,419 35.4% 6,052 20,979 D+0.4
Siskiyou 8,254 39.9% 6,660 32.2% 5,765 20,679 D+7.7
Calaveras 5,989 35.2% 6,006 35.3% 4,996 16,991 R+0.1
Yuba 5,785 34.2% 7,333 43.4% 3,777 16,895 R+9.2
Amador 5,286 34.2% 5,477 35.5% 4,671 15,434 R+1.2
San Benito 5,354 42.0% 4,112 32.3% 3,273 12,739 D+9.7
Lassen 3,388 32.7% 3,836 37.0% 3,138 10,362 R+4.3
Plumas 3,742 37.6% 3,599 36.2% 2,608 9,949 D+1.4
Del Norte 3,639 38.9% 3,083 33.0% 2,631 9,353 D+5.9
Glenn 2,666 30.2% 3,812 43.2% 2,338 8,816 R+13.0
Inyo 2,695 31.8% 3,689 43.6% 2,080 8,464 R+11.7
Mariposa 3,023 36.5% 2,982 36.0% 2,282 8,287 D+0.5
Trinity 1,967 32.6% 1,886 31.3% 2,176 6,029 Others
Colusa 1,798 31.9% 2,589 45.9% 1,248 5,635 R+14.0
Modoc 1,489 32.2% 1,803 39.0% 1,333 4,625 R+6.8
Mono 1,489 34.2% 1,570 36.1% 1,296 4,355 R+1.9
Sierra 653 34.8% 691 36.9% 531 1,875 R+2.0
Alpine 215 34.1% 222 35.2% 194 631 R+1.1

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