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California voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. California has 54 electoral votes in the Electoral College, the most in the country. [3] The most populous state in the union, California is considered a strong blue state, having voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1992.
Elections for president, vice president, political party state central committees, and county central committees are "party-nominated". [ 7 ] Candidates may qualify in one of two ways: by payment of a fee, or by the collection of registered voters' signatures on an in-lieu-of-filing-fee petition. [ 8 ]
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.
California will decide whether Biden or Trump gets its 54 electoral votes for president, an important haul as 270 are needed to elect. It’ll elect a new U.S. senator, either Schiff or Garvey.
Still, it would take very little for Trump to flip Georgia (he lost by just under 12,000 votes in 2020) and Arizona (the margin was just over 10,000 last time).
A solidly red California county flipped for Biden in 2020 by 14 votes. How does it view Harris and Trump?
Biden's vote margin was the largest vote margin for a presidential candidate in a singular state. California was also one of five states in the nation in which Biden's victory margin was larger than 1 million raw votes, the others being New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois. Biden's Californian margin of victory of 5.1 million votes ...
Kings County had the lowest percentage of registered voters, with just 34.7 percent of its population registered to vote. The two smallest counties in California by population also had the highest percentage of registered voters; Sierra County had the highest percentage, with 73.1 percent of its population registered to vote.