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In the 2020 election, California had 55 electoral votes in the Electoral College, the most of any state. Biden won by a wide margin, as was expected; however, California was one of six states where Trump received a larger percentage of the two-party vote than he did in 2016.
Neither of the state's two U.S. Senate seats were up for election in 2020. Pursuant to Proposition 14 passed in 2010, California uses a nonpartisan blanket primary for almost all races, with the presidential primary races being the notable exception.
Since being admitted to the Union in 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.
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The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
The 2020 U.S. presidential election is being used as the baseline for analysis of 2024 in three key ways: In analyzing the early vote, making voter targets and in polling. All are misguided.
Elections Information California Voter Foundation "State Elections Legislation Database", Ncsl.org, Washington, D.C.: National Conference of State Legislatures, archived from the original on 2021-02-03 State legislation related to the administration of elections introduced in 2011 through this year, 2020
The state remains a battleground for several seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.