2016 California Democratic primary

The **2016 California Democratic primary** was held on June 7 in the U.S. state of California. The primary was nonpartisan, meaning the candidates were not divided based on their political party. Hillary Clinton won the primary with 53.07% of the popular vote.

Other primaries/caucuses occurred on the same day. Those states included Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North and South Dakota.

## Polls

In 2015, Hillary Clinton dominated the polls. It slowly become a close call between Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The most recent poll before the primary, which was conducted by Fox News from April 18-21, 2016, said that Clinton had 48% of the vote compared to 46% for Sanders. The sample size was 623 people with a 4% margin of error.

## Results

|colspan="6"|California Democratic primary, June 7, 2016||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:left;"|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

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||||||