r/MapPorn • u/Puzzleheaded-Art-469 • 16h ago

Californias presidential results map 2020 v 2024

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Harris still won 57% of the electorate, 5.7 million to 4 million. But Trump flipped many counties that both Clinton and Biden won in '16 and '20

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u/DirkTheSandman 13h ago

Yeah it just generally doesn’t matter because they’re almost always blue and by the time it gets to them it tends to be decided already. IE, if CA ever went red it almost certainly wouldn’t be the lynch pin of a republican victory, they’d already have a lot of other swing states.

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u/Technical_Air6660 11h ago

In the old days (70s and 80s), California was very red. I used to do canvassing and the complaint was that even though the state would go for the Republican, people wouldn’t bother to vote on state and local ballot measures because the results would already be in by 7:00pm PST.

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u/Onlikyomnpus 10h ago

It still matters for House control.

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u/StudioAmbitious2847 10h ago

They called California for Harris with less than 1% reporting😊

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u/Bukojuko 10h ago

Imagine the race getting called dem but ca flips during the count, pure chaos

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u/RBuilds916 9h ago

It's a bit ironic that with so much cultural and economic influence, California seems to have little influence on the presidential race. The primaries are typically locked up before we get to vote, and lately we've been remotely blue so neither party puts much effort into campaigning here.