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Since being admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850, California has participated in 43 presidential elections. A bellwether from 1888 to 1996, voting for the losing candidates only three times in that span, California has become a reliable state for Democratic presidential candidates since 1992.
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other | TEV | Sources | ||||||||||||
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | EV | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | EV | Votes | % | ||||||
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce | Democratic | 40,721 | 53 % | 4 | Winfield Scott | Whig | 35,972 | 46 % | ||||||||
| 1856 | James Buchanan | Democratic | 53,342 | 48 % | 4 | Millard Fillmore | Know Nothing | 36,195 | 32 % | ||||||||
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln | Republican | 38,733 | 32 % | 4 | Stephen A. Douglas | Democratic | 37,999 | 31 % | ||||||||
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln | National Union | 62,053 | 58 % | 5 | George B. McClellan | Democratic | 43,837 | 41 % | ||||||||
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant | Republican | 54,588 | 50 % | 5 | Horatio Seymour | Democratic | 54,068 | 49 % | ||||||||
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant | Republican | 54,007 | 56 % | 6 | Horace Greeley | Liberal Republican | 40,717 | 42 % | ||||||||
| 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican | 79,258 | 50 % | 6 | Samuel J. Tilden | Democratic | 76,460 | 49 % | ||||||||
| 1880 | Winfield Scott Hancock | Democratic | 80,426 | 48 % | 5 | James A. Garfield | Republican | 80,282 | 48 % | ||||||||
| 1884 | James G. Blaine | Republican | 102,369 | 51 % | 8 | Grover Cleveland | Democratic | 89,288 | 45 % | ||||||||
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison | Republican | 124,816 | 49 % | 8 | Grover Cleveland | Democratic | 117,729 | 46 % | ||||||||
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland | Democratic | 118,174 | 43 % | 8 | Benjamin Harrison | Republican | 118,027 | 43 % | ||||||||
| 1896 | William McKinley | Republican | 146,688 | 49 % | 8 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic | 144,766 | 48 % | ||||||||
| 1900 | William McKinley | Republican | 164,755 | 54 % | 9 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic | 124,985 | 41 % | ||||||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | Republican | 205,226 | 61 % | 10 | Alton B. Parker | Democratic | 89,404 | 26 % | ||||||||
| 1908 | William Howard Taft | Republican | 214,398 | 55 % | 10 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic | 127,492 | 32 % | ||||||||
| 1912 | Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive | 283,610 | 41 % | 11 | Woodrow Wilson | Democratic | 283,436 | 41 % | ||||||||
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | Democratic | 466,289 | 46 % | 13 | Charles Evans Hughes | Republican | 462,516 | 46 % | ||||||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding | Republican | 624,992 | 66 % | 13 | James M. Cox | Democratic | 229,191 | 24 % | ||||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge | Republican | 733,250 | 57 % | 13 | Robert M. La Follette | Socialist | 424,649 | 33 % | ||||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover | Republican | 1,162,323 | 64 % | 13 | Al Smith | Democratic | 614,365 | 34 % | ||||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | 1,324,157 | 58 % | 22 | Herbert Hoover | Republican | 847,902 | 37 % | ||||||||
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | 1,766,836 | 66 % | 22 | Alf Landon | Republican | 836,431 | 31 % | ||||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | 1,877,618 | 57 % | 22 | Wendell Willkie | Republican | 1,351,419 | 41 % | ||||||||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | 1,988,564 | 56 % | 25 | Thomas E. Dewey | Republican | 1,512,965 | 42 % | ||||||||
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman | Democratic | 1,913,134 | 47 % | 25 | Thomas E. Dewey | Republican | 1,895,269 | 47 % | ||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican | 3,035,587 | 56 % | 32 | Adlai Stevenson II | Democratic | 2,257,646 | 42 % | ||||||||
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican | 3,027,668 | 55 % | 32 | Adlai Stevenson II | Democratic | 2,420,135 | 44 % | ||||||||
| 1960 | Richard Nixon | Republican | 3,259,722 | 50 % | 32 | John F. Kennedy | Democratic | 3,224,099 | 49 % | ||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Democratic | 4,171,877 | 59 % | 40 | Barry Goldwater | Republican | 2,879,108 | 40 % | ||||||||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon | Republican | 3,467,664 | 47 % | 40 | Hubert Humphrey | Democratic | 3,244,318 | 44 % | ||||||||
| 1972 | Richard Nixon | Republican | 4,602,096 | 55 % | 45 | George McGovern | Democratic | 3,475,847 | 41 % | ||||||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford | Republican | 3,882,244 | 49 % | 45 | Jimmy Carter | Democratic | 3,742,284 | 47 % | ||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan | Republican | 4,524,858 | 52 % | 45 | Jimmy Carter | Democratic | 3,083,661 | 35 % | ||||||||
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan | Republican | 5,467,009 | 57 % | 47 | Walter Mondale | Democratic | 3,922,519 | 41 % | ||||||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush | Republican | 5,054,917 | 51 % | 47 | Michael Dukakis | Democratic | 4,702,233 | 47 % | ||||||||
| 1992 | Bill Clinton | Democratic | 5,121,325 | 46 % | 54 | George H. W. Bush | Republican | 3,630,574 | 32 % | ||||||||
| 1996 | Bill Clinton | Democratic | 5,119,835 | 51 % | 54 | Bob Dole | Republican | 3,828,380 | 38 % | ||||||||
| 2000 | Al Gore | Democratic | 5,861,203 | 53 % | 54 | George W. Bush | Republican | 4,567,429 | 41 % | ||||||||
| 2004 | John Kerry | Democratic | 6,745,485 | 54 % | 55 | George W. Bush | Republican | 5,509,826 | 44 % | ||||||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama | Democratic | 8,274,473 | 61 % | 55 | John McCain | Republican | 5,011,781 | 36 % | ||||||||
| 2012 | Barack Obama | Democratic | 7,854,285 | 60 % | 55 | Mitt Romney | Republican | 4,839,958 | 37 % | ||||||||
| 2016 | Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 8,753,788 | 61 % | 55 | Donald Trump | Republican | 4,483,810 | 31 % | ||||||||
| 2020 | Joe Biden | Democratic | 11,110,250 | 63 % | 55 | Donald Trump | Republican | 6,006,429 | 34 % | ||||||||
| 2024 | Kamala Harris | Democratic | 9,276,179 | 58 % | 54 | Donald Trump | Republican | 6,081,697 | 38 % | ||||||||
| Year | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | EV | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | EV | Votes | ||||||
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