2016 United States presidential election in California

During the 2016 United States presidential election on November 8, in the state of California, all 55 electoral votes were for Democrat, Hillary Clinton because 61.7% of people in the state voted for her.

### Results

|colspan=3 width=300|Presidential election||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**Hillary Clinton**|align=right|**8,753,788**|align=right|**61.73%**|
|Donald Trump|align=right|4,483,810|align=right|31.62%|
|Gary Johnson|align=right|478,500|align=right|3.37%|
|Jill Stein|align=right|278,657|align=right|1.96%|
|Bernie Sanders (write-in)|align=right|79,341|align=right|0.56%|
|Gloria La Riva|align=right|66,101|align=right|0.47%|
|Evan McMullin (write-in)|align=right|39,596|align=right|0.28%|
|Mike Maturen (write-in)|align=right|1,316|align=right|0.01%|
|Laurence Kotikoff (write-in)|align=right|402|align=right|>0.01%|
|Jerry White (write-in)|align=right|84|align=right|>0.01%|

### Polling

The following are poll results from www.realclearpolitics.com All polls showed that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had a big lead.

|colspan=5 width=300|Trump Vs. Clinton||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2 Nov|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**54.3%**|align=center|32.0%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+22.3%**|
|26 Oct|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**53.3%**|align=center|30.3%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+23.0%**|
|14 Oct|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**52.0%**|align=center|32.3%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+19.7%**|
|30 May|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**48.7%**|align=center|36.7%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+12.0%**|

|colspan=7 width=300|Trump Vs. Clinton Vs. Johnson Vs. Stein||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|28 Oct to 31 Oct|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**56.0%**|align=center|35.0%|align=center|4.0%|align=center|1.0%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+21.0%**|
|25 Oct to 31 Oct|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**53.0%**|align=center|33.0%|align=center|4.0%|align=center|3.0%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+20.0%**|
|14 Oct to 23 Oct|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**54.0%**|align=center|28.0%|align=center|5.0%|align=center|5.0%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+26.0%**|
|27 Sep to 28 Sep|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**59.0%**|align=center|33.0%|align=center|3.0%|align=center|2.0%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+26.0%**|
|9 Sep to 18 Sep|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**47.0%**|align=center|31.0%|align=center|10.0%|align=center|5.0%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+26.0%**|
|7 Sep to 13 Sep|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**50.0%**|align=center|33.0%|align=center|5.0%|align=center|6.0%|align=center bgcolor=#87C2FF|**+17.0%**|

### Democratic

|colspan="6"|California Democratic primary, June 7, 2016||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:left;" bgcolor=#E2B500|**Hillary Clinton**|2,745,302|53.07%|254|66|320|
|style="text-align:left;"|Bernie Sanders|2,381,722|46.04%|221|0|221|
|style="text-align:left;"|Willie Wilson|12,014|0.23%||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Michael Steinberg|10,880|0.21%||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Rocky De La Fuente|8,453|0.16%||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Henry Hewes|7,743|0.15%||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Keith Russell Judd|7,201|0.14%||||
|style="text-align:left;"|write-in|23|0.00%||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Uncommitted|colspan="2"||10|10||
|colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"|Source: _The Green Papers_||||||

#### By county

Again, yellow is a victory for Clinton while green is a victory for Sanders.

|style="width:11%;"|County|style="width:10%;"|Clinton|style="width:10%;"|Votes|style="width:10%;"|Sanders|style="width:10%;"|Votes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Alameda|51.5%|164,889|48.0%|153,955||||||
|Alpine|44.8%|113|54.4%|137||||||
|Amador|50.4%|2,516|47.8%|2,386||||||
|Butte|37.0%|11,766|62.0%|19,739||||||
|Calaveras|49.5%|2,971|48.5%|2,914||||||
|Colusa|49.3%|835|47.8%|809||||||
|Contra Costa|56.7%|103,333|42.7%|77,862||||||
|Del Norte|40.4%|1,119|57.6%|1,598||||||
|El Dorado|49.1%|12,492|49.6%|12,620||||||
|Fresno|56.0%|45,436|42.7%|34,663||||||
|Glenn|46.8%|911|51.5%|1,003||||||
|Humboldt|28.7%|8,135|70.4%|19,928||||||
|Imperial|65.0%|9,843|33.7%|5,111||||||
|Inyo|42.5%|1,001|55.7%|1,313||||||
|Kern|54.1%|28,806|43.9%|23,374||||||
|Kings|57.8%|4,150|39.9%|2,869||||||
|Lake|42.7%|3,988|55.7%|5,195||||||
|Lassen|42.6%|812|53.7%|1,023||||||
|Los Angeles|54.4%|780,013|44.6%|639,886||||||
|Madera|53.1%|5,808|44.4%|4,852||||||
|Marin|56.4%|43,283|43.3%|33,214||||||
|Mariposa|44.1%|1,102|54.2%|1,355||||||
|Mendocino|32.8%|6,048|66.5%|12,259||||||
|Merced|53.0%|10,839|45.3%|9,273||||||
|Modoc|42.3%|281|52.5%|349||||||
|Mono|43.3%|799|56.2%|1,038||||||
|Monterey|52.8%|29,730|46.3%|26,073||||||
|Napa|53.4%|13,583|45.9%|11,682||||||
|Nevada|36.9%|8,175|62.4%|13,827||||||
|Orange|51.9%|171,593|47.3%|156,235||||||
|Placer|54.1%|25,249|44.8%|20,916||||||
|Plumas|44.1%|1,211|53.7%|1,475||||||
|Riverside|56.1%|112,526|42.8%|85,918||||||
|Sacramento|54.6%|109,898|44.4%|89,428||||||
|San Benito|54.3%|4,112|44.6%|3,380||||||
|San Bernardino|54.6%|96,076|44.2%|77,706||||||
|San Diego|51.6%|215,655|47.7%|199,716||||||
|San Francisco|53.6%|116,359|45.9%|99,594||||||
|San Joaquin|56.5%|38,212|42.2%|28,523||||||
|San Luis Obispo|46.7%|21,637|52.6%|24,379||||||
|San Mateo|58.7%|79,756|40.8%|55,367||||||
|Santa Barbara|46.9%|31,927|52.4%|35,717||||||
|Santa Clara|57.5%|159,480|41.9%|116,193||||||
|Santa Cruz|40.5%|29,520|59.0%|42,940||||||
|Shasta|45.4%|7,809|52.4%|9,026||||||
|Sierra|42.5%|224|56.4%|297||||||
|Siskiyou|38.0%|2,466|60.0%|3,894||||||
|Solano|55.3%|34,231|43.8%|27,122||||||
|Sonoma|47.3%|55,595|52.0%|61,167||||||
|Stanislaus|51.2%|24,359|47.1%|22,384||||||
|Sutter|52.7%|4,023|45.4%|3,463||||||
|Tehama|45.9%|2,372|51.4%|2,655||||||
|Trinity|35.1%|672|63.3%|1,211||||||
|Tulare|54.4%|13,472|43.7%|10,834||||||
|Tuolumne|48.2%|3,433|50.5%|3,592||||||
|Ventura|51.2%|60,615|47.9%|56,751||||||
|Yolo|48.2%|17,655|51.3%|18,761||||||
|Yuba|45.1%|2,388|52.4%|2,771||||||
|**Total**|**53.1%**|**2,745,302**|46.0%|2,381,722||||||

### Republican

|colspan="6"|California Republican primary, June 7, 2016|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**Donald Trump**|**1,665,135**|**74.76%**|**172**|**0**|**172**|
|John Kasich <small>(withdrawn)</small>|252,544|11.34%|0|0|0|
|Ted Cruz <small>(withdrawn)</small>|211,576|9.50%|0|0|0|
|Ben Carson <small>(withdrawn)</small>|82,259|3.69%|0|0|0|
|Jim Gilmore <small>(withdrawn)</small>|15,691|0.70%|0|0|0|
|Write-ins|101|0.00%|0|0|0|
|colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"|Source: _The Green Papers_|||||

### Libertarian

|colspan="3"|California Libertarian presidential primary, June 7, 2016|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:left;"|**Gary Johnson**|**19,294**|**62%**|||
|style="text-align:left;"|John McAfee|3,139|10%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Austin Petersen|1,853|6%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Rhett Smith|1,531|5%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Joy Waymire|923|3%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|John David Hale|873|3%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Marc Allan Feldman|867|3%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Jack Robinson, Jr.|739|2%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Steve Kerbel|556|2%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Darryl Perry|521|2%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Derrick Michael Reid|462|1%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Cecil Ince|417|1%|||
|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**Total**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**31,175**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**100%**|

### Green

|colspan="4"|Green Party of California presidential primary, June 7, 2016|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:left;"|**Jill Stein**|**10,134**|**76.4%**|**-**||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Darryl Cherney|1,288|9.7%|-||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza Curry|762|5.7%|-||||
|style="text-align:left;"|William Kreml|555|4.2%|-||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Kent Mesplay|528|4.0%|-||||
|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**Total**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**13,267**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**100%**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**-**|

### American Independent

|colspan="3"|California American Independent presidential primary, June 7, 2016|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**Alan Spears**|**7,348**|**19%**||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Arthur Harris|6,510|17%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Robert Ornelas|6,411|17%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|J.R. Myers|4,898|13%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Wiley Drake|4,828|13%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|James Hedges|3,989|11%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Thomas Hoefling|3,917|10%|||
|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**Total**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**37,901**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**100%**|

### Peace and Freedom

|colspan="3"|California Peace and Freedom presidential primary, June 7, 2016|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**Gloria Estela La Riva**|**2,232**|**49%**||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Monica Moorehead|1,369|30%|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Lynn Sandra Kahn|963|21%|||
|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**Total**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**4,564**|style="margin-right:0.50px"|**100%**|

## Related pages

- Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016
- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016

## Other websites

- RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process
- Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions
- 2016 Presidential primaries , ElectionProjection.com

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: United States presidential election in California, 2016
- **country**: California
- **type**: presidential
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: United States presidential election in California, 2012
- **previous year**: 2012
- **election date**: November 8, 2016
- **next election**: 2020 United States presidential election in California, 2020
- **next year**: 2020 United States presidential election in California, 2020
- **turnout**: 75.27%
- **image1**: Hillary Clinton crop.jpg
- **image1 size**: x200px
- **nominee1**: **Hillary Clinton**
- **party1**: Democratic Party (United States)
- **home state1**: New York (state), New York
- **running mate1**: **Tim Kaine**
- **electoral vote1**: **55**
- **popular vote1**: **8,753,788**
- **percentage1**: **61.73%**
- **image2**: Donald Trump official portrait (3x4a).jpg
- **image2 size**: x200px
- **nominee2**: Donald Trump
- **running mate2**: Mike Pence
- **party2**: Republican Party (United States)
- **home state2**: New York (state), New York
- **electoral vote2**: 0
- **popular vote2**: 4,483,810
- **percentage2**: 31.62%
- **map image**: California Presidential Election Results 2016.svg
- **map size**: 300px
- **map caption**: County Results

**Clinton**

**Trump**
- **title**: President
- **before election**: Barack Obama
- **before party**: Democratic Party (United States)
- **after election**: Donald Trump
- **after party**: Republican Party (United States)
- **map2 image**: California 2016 presidential results by county.png
- **map2 size**: 400px
- **map2 caption**: Results by county with size showing number of votes