California presidential election results 2016

Hillary Clinton carried California by 30.11 points (4,269,978 votes), winning 55 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 55
Votes counted: 14,181,595
CA result: D+30.1
Compared with the nation: 28.1 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2012: 7.0 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	8,753,788	61.70%	55
Donald J. Trump	Republican	4,483,810	31.60%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	478,500	3.40%	—
Total votes		14,181,595

Sources: ca.pdf · 2016

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California Secretary of State, Statement of Vote, November 8, 2016, General Election (81 pages): President by county (pages 19-24; pages 22-24 hold two more write-in columns)
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All 10 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Hillary Clinton (DEM)	DEM	8,753,788	61.73%
Donald J. Trump (REP, AI)	—	4,483,810	31.62%
Gary Johnson (LIB)	LIB	478,500	3.37%
Jill Stein (GRN)	GRN	278,657	1.96%
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (W/I)	W/I	79,341	0.56%
Gloria Estela La Riva (PF)	PF	66,101	0.47%
Evan McMullin (W/I)	W/I	39,596	0.28%
Mike Maturen (W/I)	W/I	1,316	0.01%
Laurence Kotlikoff (W/I)	W/I	402	0.00%
Jerry White (W/I)	W/I	84	0.00%

Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Hillary Clinton	Donald J. Trump	Jill Stein	Gary Johnson	Gloria Estela La Riva	Laurence Kotlikoff	Mike Maturen	Evan McMullin	Bernard "Bernie" Sanders	Jerry White	Total	Margin
Alameda	514,842	95,922	17,830	16,906	3,162	27	71	1,291	4,206	9	654,266	64.0
Alpine	334	217	21	25	3	0	0	1	1	0	602	19.4
Amador	6,004	10,485	227	804	55	0	0	59	100	0	17,734	25.3
Butte	41,567	45,144	2,594	4,625	501	0	10	340	782	1	95,564	3.7
Calaveras	7,944	13,511	424	1,104	56	0	0	22	75	0	23,136	24.1
Colusa	2,661	3,551	85	260	39	0	0	12	24	0	6,632	13.4
Contra Costa	319,287	115,956	8,637	16,123	1,566	11	36	1,355	3,204	0	466,175	43.6
Del Norte	3,485	5,134	245	416	81	0	0	58	139	0	9,558	17.3
El Dorado	36,404	49,247	1,425	5,027	190	3	4	578	713	0	93,591	13.7
Fresno	141,341	124,049	4,300	9,246	875	3	17	1,070	1,417	1	282,319	6.1
Glenn	3,065	5,788	97	375	54	0	2	31	58	0	9,470	28.8
Humboldt	33,200	18,373	3,681	2,163	379	0	5	181	1,264	0	59,246	25.0
Imperial	32,667	12,704	745	1,221	339	0	43	81	291	0	48,091	41.5
Inyo	3,155	4,248	214	328	51	0	0	24	66	0	8,086	13.5
Kern	98,689	129,584	2,887	9,359	1,522	3	27	891	1,199	2	244,163	12.7
Kings	13,617	18,093	411	1,338	251	0	0	90	115	0	33,915	13.2
Lake	11,496	10,599	930	1,095	103	0	1	53	219	0	24,496	3.7
Lassen	2,224	7,574	105	473	46	2	1	47	52	0	10,524	50.8
Los Angeles	2,464,364	769,743	76,465	88,968	21,993	155	274	4,607	7,724	15	3,434,308	49.3
Madera	17,029	23,357	644	1,558	187	0	9	145	183	0	43,112	14.7
Marin	108,707	21,771	3,109	4,180	351	6	4	249	896	0	139,273	62.4
Mariposa	3,122	5,185	189	326	55	0	0	0	0	0	8,877	23.2
Mendocino	22,079	10,888	2,108	1,331	151	3	4	124	789	0	37,477	29.9
Merced	37,317	28,725	1,209	2,410	454	0	6	162	506	0	70,789	12.1
Modoc	877	2,696	50	122	13	0	0	11	19	0	3,788	48.0
Mono	2,773	2,111	142	222	23	0	0	3	2	0	5,276	12.5
Monterey	89,088	34,895	2,823	4,547	661	2	8	358	1,025	1	133,408	40.6
Napa	39,199	17,411	1,262	2,551	207	0	3	154	585	0	61,372	35.5
Nevada	26,053	23,365	2,189	2,378	85	0	0	179	685	1	54,935	4.9
Orange	609,961	507,148	18,068	46,128	4,898	27	131	4,917	6,239	4	1,197,521	8.6
Placer	73,509	95,138	2,501	9,245	238	10	33	1,032	1,132	1	182,839	11.8
Plumas	3,459	5,420	186	411	29	0	0	51	120	0	9,676	20.3
Riverside	373,695	333,243	11,320	24,089	3,433	4	49	2,168	3,387	3	751,391	5.4
Sacramento	326,023	189,789	9,846	24,412	2,556	5	65	2,205	4,429	0	559,330	24.4
San Benito	12,521	7,841	364	815	138	1	0	86	158	0	21,924	21.3
San Bernardino	340,833	271,240	10,604	21,050	3,786	5	37	1,877	4,551	0	653,983	10.6
San Diego	735,476	477,766	22,820	51,663	3,353	42	152	4,851	10,255	22	1,306,400	19.7
San Francisco	345,084	37,688	9,904	8,883	1,799	13	22	373	2,021	5	405,792	75.8
San Joaquin	121,124	88,936	3,134	8,049	903	5	26	617	1,372	0	224,166	14.4
San Luis Obispo	67,107	56,164	2,848	6,473	425	3	13	702	1,273	1	135,009	8.1
San Mateo	237,882	57,929	5,102	9,464	1,047	15	23	760	2,159	3	314,384	57.2
Santa Barbara	107,142	56,365	3,719	6,748	693	1	18	733	1,366	1	176,786	28.7
Santa Clara	511,684	144,826	12,664	25,325	2,759	25	61	2,296	4,066	3	703,709	52.1
Santa Cruz	95,249	22,438	4,485	4,325	627	4	10	283	1,395	5	128,821	56.5
Shasta	22,301	51,778	1,300	3,382	329	2	2	439	520	0	80,053	36.8
Sierra	601	1,048	42	98	15	0	0	6	20	0	1,830	24.4
Siskiyou	7,234	11,341	575	875	88	1	5	104	269	0	20,492	20.0
Solano	102,360	51,920	2,771	6,254	804	0	10	557	1,437	0	166,113	30.4
Sonoma	160,435	51,408	7,347	8,987	679	8	9	543	1,835	2	231,253	47.1
Stanislaus	81,647	78,494	2,562	6,662	986	2	46	563	1,184	0	172,146	1.8
Sutter	13,076	18,176	382	1,437	198	0	0	134	120	0	33,523	15.2
Tehama	6,809	15,494	290	953	138	0	3	82	139	0	23,908	36.3
Trinity	2,214	2,812	239	302	21	0	0	18	80	0	5,686	10.5
Tulare	47,585	58,299	1,620	3,800	636	0	5	163	226	0	112,334	9.5
Tuolumne	9,123	14,551	384	1,101	63	0	0	71	236	0	25,529	21.3
Ventura	194,402	132,323	6,315	13,679	1,481	9	60	1,422	2,031	4	351,726	17.6
Yolo	54,752	20,739	1,779	3,346	358	5	11	256	844	0	82,090	41.4
Yuba	7,910	13,170	438	1,063	168	0	0	111	138	0	22,998	22.9

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Each county's Percent line is skipped; the write-in columns are named candidates.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

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Questions and answers

Who won California in 2016?

Hillary Clinton won California by 30.11 percentage points (4,269,978 votes).

How many electoral votes did California have in 2016?

California cast 55 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in California in 2016?

14,181,595 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in California in 2016?

Hillary Clinton 33, Donald J. Trump 25 (out of 58 counties with results).

How did California change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 7.0 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 23.1 points to Democratic by 30.1 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data