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Election 2020 Results

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2020 presidential election in California

Joe Biden (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in California in 2020, 63.5% to 34.3%, a margin of 29.2 points and 5,104,121 votes.

California voted 24.7 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2016, when Hillary Clinton won.

Democrats led in 35 of the 58 counties and Republicans in 23. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 4,263,316 votes and went to the Democrat by 44.2 points. The closest was Inyo, 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
Joe Biden won Democratic 11,110,639 63.5%
Donald Trump Republican 6,006,518 34.3%
All other candidates 384,223 2.2%
Total17,501,380

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 3,028,795 71.0% 1,145,493 26.9% 89,028 4,263,316 D+44.2
San Diego 964,561 60.2% 600,039 37.5% 36,976 1,601,576 D+22.8
Orange 814,027 53.5% 676,494 44.5% 31,219 1,521,740 D+9.0
Riverside 528,350 53.0% 449,153 45.0% 19,524 997,027 D+7.9
Santa Clara 617,992 72.7% 214,607 25.2% 17,944 850,543 D+47.4
San Bernardino 455,850 54.2% 366,243 43.6% 18,814 840,907 D+10.7
Alameda 617,572 80.2% 136,335 17.7% 15,896 769,803 D+62.5
Sacramento 440,764 61.4% 259,360 36.1% 18,075 718,199 D+25.3
Contra Costa 416,557 71.6% 152,878 26.3% 11,970 581,405 D+45.4
San Francisco 378,053 85.3% 56,386 12.7% 8,883 443,322 D+72.6
Ventura 251,400 59.5% 162,213 38.4% 9,103 422,716 D+21.1
San Mateo 291,515 77.9% 75,603 20.2% 7,091 374,209 D+57.7
Fresno 192,966 52.9% 164,386 45.1% 7,318 364,670 D+7.8
Kern 133,361 43.7% 164,480 53.9% 7,375 305,216 R+10.2
San Joaquin 161,148 55.9% 121,101 42.0% 6,208 288,457 D+13.9
Sonoma 199,939 74.5% 61,826 23.0% 6,489 268,254 D+51.5
Placer 106,892 45.5% 122,525 52.1% 5,662 235,079 R+6.7
Stanislaus 105,820 49.3% 104,120 48.5% 4,889 214,829 D+0.8
Solano 131,654 64.0% 69,306 33.7% 4,886 205,846 D+30.3
Santa Barbara 129,893 64.9% 65,667 32.8% 4,586 200,146 D+32.1
Monterey 113,951 69.5% 46,304 28.3% 3,631 163,886 D+41.3
San Luis Obispo 88,382 55.3% 67,507 42.2% 3,937 159,826 D+13.1
Marin 128,288 82.3% 24,612 15.8% 2,901 155,801 D+66.5
Tulare 66,123 45.0% 77,603 52.8% 3,149 146,875 R+7.8
Santa Cruz 114,241 78.9% 26,936 18.6% 3,612 144,789 D+60.3
El Dorado 51,622 44.4% 61,837 53.2% 2,679 116,138 R+8.8
Butte 50,791 49.6% 48,787 47.6% 2,906 102,484 D+2.0
Yolo 67,578 69.5% 27,280 28.1% 2,373 97,231 D+41.4
Shasta 29,992 32.3% 60,774 65.4% 2,111 92,877 R+33.1
Merced 49,001 54.1% 39,418 43.5% 2,154 90,573 D+10.6
Napa 49,812 69.1% 20,673 28.7% 1,629 72,114 D+40.4
Humboldt 44,766 65.0% 21,769 31.6% 2,290 68,825 D+33.4
Nevada 36,374 56.2% 26,788 41.4% 1,601 64,763 D+14.8
Imperial 34,678 61.1% 20,847 36.8% 1,194 56,719 D+24.4
Madera 23,221 43.1% 29,444 54.7% 1,177 53,842 R+11.6
Kings 18,691 42.6% 24,057 54.9% 1,087 43,835 R+12.2
Mendocino 28,785 66.4% 13,271 30.6% 1,287 43,343 D+35.8
Sutter 17,394 40.7% 24,404 57.2% 900 42,698 R+16.4
Tuolumne 11,979 39.4% 17,689 58.2% 734 30,402 R+18.8
Yuba 11,206 37.7% 17,649 59.4% 879 29,734 R+21.7
San Benito 17,618 61.2% 10,580 36.7% 604 28,802 D+24.4
Lake 14,939 51.9% 13,120 45.6% 736 28,795 D+6.3
Tehama 8,919 31.0% 19,153 66.6% 669 28,741 R+35.6
Calaveras 10,051 37.0% 16,533 60.8% 600 27,184 R+23.8
Siskiyou 9,597 40.9% 13,298 56.7% 567 23,462 R+15.8
Amador 8,151 36.6% 13,580 60.9% 564 22,295 R+24.4
Lassen 2,799 23.4% 8,969 74.8% 216 11,984 R+51.5
Del Norte 4,677 40.8% 6,461 56.4% 313 11,451 R+15.6
Glenn 4,014 35.4% 7,088 62.5% 235 11,337 R+27.1
Plumas 4,561 40.5% 6,446 57.3% 250 11,257 R+16.7
Mariposa 4,087 39.8% 5,950 57.9% 242 10,279 R+18.1
Inyo 4,635 48.9% 4,624 48.7% 228 9,487 D+0.1
Colusa 3,240 40.7% 4,561 57.3% 163 7,964 R+16.6
Mono 4,011 59.6% 2,512 37.3% 212 6,735 D+22.3
Trinity 2,854 45.6% 3,190 50.9% 219 6,263 R+5.4
Modoc 1,150 26.5% 3,109 71.7% 79 4,338 R+45.2
Sierra 730 37.8% 1,142 59.2% 58 1,930 R+21.3
Alpine 477 64.2% 245 33.0% 21 743 D+31.2

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