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Election 1996 Results

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1996 presidential election in California

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat Bob Dole (Republican) in California in 1996, 51.1% to 38.2%, a margin of 12.9 points and 1,291,455 votes.

California voted 4.4 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+8.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1992, when Bill Clinton also won.

Republicans led in 33 of the 58 counties and Democrats in 25. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,411,014 votes and went to the Democrat by 28.4 points. The closest was Alpine, where 6 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
Bill Clinton won Democratic 5,119,835 51.1%
Bob Dole Republican 3,828,380 38.2%
Ross Perot Reform 697,847 7.0%
All other candidates 373,422 3.7%
Total10,019,484

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 1,430,629 59.3% 746,544 31.0% 233,841 2,411,014 D+28.4
San Diego 389,964 44.1% 402,876 45.6% 91,311 884,151 R+1.5
Orange 327,485 37.9% 446,717 51.7% 90,374 864,576 R+13.8
Santa Clara 297,639 56.9% 168,291 32.2% 57,361 523,291 D+24.7
Alameda 303,903 65.8% 106,581 23.1% 51,560 462,044 D+42.7
San Bernardino 183,372 44.4% 180,135 43.6% 49,848 413,355 D+0.8
Sacramento 203,019 49.8% 166,049 40.8% 38,346 407,414 D+9.1
Riverside 168,579 43.0% 178,611 45.6% 44,423 391,613 R+2.6
Contra Costa 196,512 55.7% 123,954 35.2% 32,136 352,602 D+20.6
San Francisco 209,777 72.2% 45,479 15.7% 35,129 290,385 D+56.6
San Mateo 152,304 60.6% 73,508 29.2% 25,720 251,532 D+31.3
Ventura 110,772 44.1% 109,202 43.5% 31,220 251,194 D+0.6
Fresno 94,448 45.3% 98,813 47.4% 15,132 208,393 R+2.1
Sonoma 100,738 55.6% 53,555 29.5% 27,004 181,297 D+26.0
Kern 62,658 36.6% 92,151 53.8% 16,582 171,391 R+17.2
Santa Barbara 70,650 46.9% 63,915 42.4% 16,180 150,745 D+4.5
San Joaquin 67,253 46.3% 65,131 44.9% 12,756 145,140 D+1.5
Solano 64,644 55.1% 40,742 34.7% 11,893 117,279 D+20.4
Stanislaus 53,738 45.9% 52,403 44.8% 10,866 117,007 D+1.1
Marin 67,406 58.0% 32,714 28.2% 16,020 116,140 D+29.9
Monterey 57,700 53.2% 39,794 36.7% 11,064 108,558 D+16.5
Santa Cruz 58,250 56.5% 27,766 26.9% 17,046 103,062 D+29.6
San Luis Obispo 40,395 40.2% 46,733 46.5% 13,372 100,500 R+6.3
Placer 34,981 37.0% 49,808 52.7% 9,638 94,427 R+15.7
Tulare 32,669 38.1% 46,272 53.9% 6,905 85,846 R+15.8
Butte 30,651 38.5% 38,961 49.0% 9,938 79,550 R+10.4
El Dorado 22,957 36.3% 32,759 51.8% 7,480 63,196 R+15.5
Shasta 20,848 33.1% 34,736 55.2% 7,377 62,961 R+22.1
Yolo 33,033 56.9% 18,807 32.4% 6,239 58,079 D+24.5
Humboldt 24,628 44.2% 19,803 35.5% 11,326 55,757 D+8.7
Napa 24,588 50.9% 17,439 36.1% 6,292 48,319 D+14.8
Merced 21,786 46.4% 20,847 44.4% 4,305 46,938 D+2.0
Nevada 15,369 35.6% 21,784 50.4% 6,066 43,219 R+14.8
Mendocino 14,952 45.7% 9,765 29.9% 7,975 32,692 D+15.9
Madera 11,254 36.7% 16,510 53.8% 2,898 30,662 R+17.1
Imperial 14,591 55.3% 9,705 36.8% 2,104 26,400 D+18.5
Kings 11,254 43.6% 12,368 47.9% 2,193 25,815 R+4.3
Sutter 8,504 34.4% 14,264 57.6% 1,977 24,745 R+23.3
Tuolumne 8,950 40.7% 10,386 47.3% 2,636 21,972 R+6.5
Lake 10,432 48.9% 7,458 35.0% 3,445 21,335 D+13.9
Tehama 7,290 35.7% 10,292 50.3% 2,861 20,443 R+14.7
Siskiyou 7,022 38.4% 8,653 47.3% 2,618 18,293 R+8.9
Calaveras 6,646 38.6% 8,279 48.1% 2,281 17,206 R+9.5
Yuba 5,789 37.4% 7,971 51.5% 1,710 15,470 R+14.1
Amador 5,868 40.6% 6,870 47.5% 1,714 14,452 R+6.9
San Benito 7,030 50.6% 5,384 38.7% 1,492 13,906 D+11.8
Lassen 3,318 33.6% 5,194 52.6% 1,363 9,875 R+19.0
Plumas 3,540 36.3% 4,905 50.3% 1,305 9,750 R+14.0
Del Norte 3,652 41.1% 3,670 41.3% 1,567 8,889 R+0.2
Glenn 2,841 32.0% 5,041 56.9% 984 8,866 R+24.8
Mariposa 2,920 36.7% 3,976 50.0% 1,053 7,949 R+13.3
Inyo 2,601 34.4% 3,924 51.8% 1,044 7,569 R+17.5
Trinity 2,203 37.4% 2,530 42.9% 1,160 5,893 R+5.5
Colusa 2,054 36.6% 3,047 54.3% 511 5,612 R+17.7
Modoc 1,368 31.8% 2,285 53.1% 650 4,303 R+21.3
Mono 1,580 38.6% 1,882 46.0% 629 4,091 R+7.4
Sierra 573 33.6% 877 51.4% 257 1,707 R+17.8
Alpine 258 42.0% 264 43.0% 92 614 R+1.0

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