United States presidential elections in California

Presidential elections in California

Number of elections	42
Voted Democrat	17
Voted Republican	24
Voted other	1[1]
Voted for winning candidate	32
Voted for losing candidate	10

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in California, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1850, California has participated in every U.S. presidential election.

Winners of the state are in bold.

Elections from 1864 to present

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates[2]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
2016	Donald Trump	3,553,853	33.0	Hillary Clinton	6,636,962	61.55	-	-		55
2012	Barack Obama	7,854,285	60.24	Mitt Romney	4,839,958	37.12	-			55
2008	Barack Obama	8,274,473	61.01	John McCain	5,011,781	36.95	-			55
2004	George W. Bush	5,509,826	44.36	John Kerry	6,745,485	54.31	-			55
2000	George W. Bush	4,567,429	41.65	Al Gore	5,861,203	53.45	-			54
1996	Bill Clinton	5,119,835	51.1	Bob Dole	3,828,380	38.21	Ross Perot	697,847	6.96	54
1992	Bill Clinton	5,121,325	46.01	George H. W. Bush	3,630,574	32.61	Ross Perot	2,296,006	20.63	54
1988	George H. W. Bush	5,054,917	51.13	Michael Dukakis	4,702,233	47.56	-			47
1984	Ronald Reagan	5,467,009	57.51	Walter Mondale	3,922,519	41.27	-			47
1980	Ronald Reagan	4,524,858	52.69	Jimmy Carter	3,083,661	35.91	John B. Anderson	739,833	8.62	45
1976	Jimmy Carter	3,742,284	47.57	Gerald Ford	3,882,244	49.35	-			45
1972	Richard Nixon	4,602,096	55	George McGovern	3,475,847	41.54	-			45
1968	Richard Nixon	3,467,664	47.82	Hubert Humphrey	3,244,318	44.74	George Wallace	487,270	6.72	40
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	4,171,877	59.11	Barry Goldwater	2,879,108	40.79	-			40
1960	John F. Kennedy	3,224,099	49.55	Richard Nixon	3,259,722	50.1	-			32
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	3,027,668	55.39	Adlai Stevenson II	2,420,135	44.27	-			32
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	3,035,587	56.83	Adlai Stevenson II	2,257,646	42.27	-			32
1948	Harry S. Truman	1,913,134	47.57	Thomas E. Dewey	1,895,269	47.13	Strom Thurmond	1,228	0.03	25
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1,988,564	56.48	Thomas E. Dewey	1,512,965	42.97	-			25
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1,877,618	57.44	Wendell Willkie	1,351,419	41.34	-			22
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1,766,836	66.95	Alf Landon	836,431	31.7	-			22
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1,324,157	58.39	Herbert Hoover	847,902	37.39	-			22
1928	Herbert Hoover	1,162,323	64.69	Al Smith	614,365	34.19	-			13
1924	Calvin Coolidge	733,250	57.2	John W. Davis	105,514	8.23	Robert M. La Follette Sr.	424,649	33.13	13
1920	Warren G. Harding	624,992	66.2	James M. Cox	229,191	24.28	-			13
1916	Woodrow Wilson	466,289	46.65	Charles E. Hughes	462,516	46.27	-			13
1912	Woodrow Wilson	283,436	41.81	Theodore Roosevelt	283,610	41.83	William H. Taft	3,914	0.58	13	electoral vote split: 11 to Roosevelt, 2 to Wilson.
1908	William H. Taft	214,398	55.46	William Jennings Bryan	127,492	32.98	-	28,659	7.41	10
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	205,226	61.84	Alton B. Parker	89,404	26.94	-			10
1900	William McKinley	164,755	54.5	William Jennings Bryan	124,985	41.34	-			9
1896	William McKinley	146,688	49.16	William Jennings Bryan	144,766	48.51	-			8	Electoral vote split 8 to 1.
1892	Grover Cleveland	118,174	43.83	Benjamin Harrison	118,027	43.78	James B. Weaver	25,311	9.39	8	Electoral vote split 8 to 1.
1888	Benjamin Harrison	124,816	49.66	Grover Cleveland	117,729	46.84	-			8
1884	Grover Cleveland	89,288	45.33	James G. Blaine	102,369	51.97	-			8
1880	James A. Garfield	80,282	48.89	Winfield S. Hancock	80,426	48.98	-			6	Electoral vote split 5 to 1.
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes	76,460	49.08	Samuel J. Tilden	79,258	50.88	-			6
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	54,007	56.38	Horace Greeley	40,717	42.51	-			6
1868	Ulysses S. Grant	54,588	50.2	Horatio Seymour	54,068	49.8	-			5
1864	Abraham Lincoln	62,053	58.6	George B. McClellan	43,837	41.4	-			5

Election of 1860

The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes
1860	Abraham Lincoln	38,733	32.3	Stephen A. Douglas	37,999	31.7	John C. Breckinridge	33,969	28.4	John Bell	9,111	7.6	4

Elections prior to 1860

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates[2]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
1856	James Buchanan	53,342	48.38	John C. Frémont	20,704	18.78	Millard Fillmore	36,195	32.83	4
1852	Franklin Pierce	40,721	53.02	Winfield Scott	35,972	46.83	John P. Hale	no ballots	n/a	4

References

1. Theodore Roosevelt, 1912.
2. For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.