Since 1852, the U.S. presidential election has been contested in California 44 times, with Californians successfully voting for the winning candidate on 35 occasions, giving an overall success rate of 80 percent. California has awarded the majority of its electoral votes to the Republican Party in 23 elections, the Democratic Party in 20 elections, and the only year when a third-party candidate won a majority was in 1912, where Theodore Roosevelt won the state while campaigning as the Progressive Party's nominee. Between 1952 and 1988, there was only one election that was not won by the Republican candidate, while all elections since 1992 have been won by the Democratic nominee. In the 2024 election, Oakland-born Vice President Kamala Harris ran as the Democratic nominee, and comfortably won her home state but lost the nationwide vote. Californian under-representation? California was admitted to the union in 1850, and was granted just four electoral votes in its first three presidential elections. In the past two centuries, California's population has grown rapidly, largely due to a positive net migration rate from within the U.S. and abroad. Today, it has the highest population of any state in the U.S, with almost forty million people, and has therefore been designated 54 electoral votes; the most of any state. Although California has been allocated around ten percent of the total electoral votes on offer nationwide, The Golden State is home to roughly twelve percent of the total U.S. population, therefore a number closer to 62 electoral votes would be more proportional to the U.S. population distribution. Despite this, California's total allocation was reduced to 54 in the 2024 election. Native Californians As of 2020, Richard Nixon is the only native Californian to have been elected to the presidency, having won the election in 1968 and 1972. California also voted for Nixon in the 1960 election, although John F. Kennedy was the overall winner. Two other U.S. Presidents had declared California as their home state; they were Herbert Hoover, who won the 1928 election, and Ronald Reagan, who won in 1980 and 1984 respectively. While states generally support candidates who were born or reside there, Californian candidates have failed to carry their home state or state of birth in four U.S. presidential elections, these were; John C. Frémont in 1854 (who actually came third in California), Herbert Hoover in 1932, and Adlai Stevenson in both the 1952 and 1956 elections.

The table ME-Demographic-2025-03-05 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 2226632 rows across 698 variables.

In the 2024 Mexican presidential elections, the rate of voter abstention reached its peak in the state of Baja California, with approximately 51.28 percent of the elegible population refraining from voting. Sonora and Chihuahua followed closely as the states with the next highest abstention rates.

The table WA-Demographic-2025-03-30 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 5143676 rows across 698 variables.

The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Congressional districts are the 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After the apportionment of congressional seats among the states based on census population counts, each state is responsible for establishing congressional districts for the purpose of electing representatives. Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districts in a state as practicable. The 118th Congress is seated from January 2023 through December 2024. In Connecticut, Illinois, and New Hampshire, the Redistricting Data Program (RDP) participant did not define the CDs to cover all of the state or state equivalent area. In these areas with no CDs defined, the code "ZZ" has been assigned, which is treated as a single CD for purposes of data presentation. The TIGER/Line shapefiles for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) each contain a single record for the non-voting delegate district in these areas. The boundaries of all other congressional districts reflect information provided to the Census Bureau by the states by August 31, 2022.

The table NE-Demographic-2025-02-19 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 2438276 rows across 698 variables.

Florida was admitted to the union in 1845, and has taken part in 43 U.S. presidential elections since this time. In these 43 elections, Florida has voted for the overall winner thirty times, giving a success rate of seventy percent. Since 1928, Florida has voted for the winning candidate in 21 out of 24 elections, and is considered a key battleground state in modern elections. Florida has voted for a major party nominee in every election, backing the Republican nominee 17 times, Democrat 25 times, and the only time it did not vote Republican or Democrat was in 1848 when it voted for the Whig Party's Zachary Taylor. Florida did not take part in the 1864 election due to its secession from the Union in the American Civil War, and like most other southern states it primarily voted Democrat until the mid-twentieth century, when it then started leaning more Republican. No U.S. President has ever been born in Florida, or resided there when taking office; although Donald Trump declared himself a resident of Florida in 2019, therefore making it his official home state during the 2020 election. The 2020 election in Florida proved to be a surprise for many, as Donald Trump won the popular vote by a 3.4 percent margin; most polls had favored Biden going into election day, however intensive campaigning and increased Republican support among Cuban Americans has been cited as the reason for Trump's victory in Florida.

Florida's importance

In 1920, Florida's population was fewer than one million people; however it has grown drastically in the past century to almost 22 million people, making Florida the third most populous state in the country. With this population boom, Florida's allocation of electoral votes has surged, from just six in the 1920s, to 29 in recent elections (this is expected to increase to 31 votes in the 2024 election). Unlike the other most populous states, such as California and New York, which are considered safe Democratic states, or Texas, which is considered a safe Republican state, presidential elections in Florida are much more unpredictable. Florida is a southern state, and its majority-white, rural and suburban districts tend to vote in favor of the Republican Party (Republicans have also dominated state elections in recent decades), although, Florida is also home to substantial Hispanic population, and is a popular destination for young workers in the tourism sector and retirees from across the U.S., with these groups considered more likely to vote Democrat. However, the discrepancy between voters of Cuban (58 percent voted Republican) and Puerto Rican (66 percent voted Democrat) origin in the 2020 election shows that these traditional attitudes towards Hispanic voters may need to be re-evaluated.

2000 controversy The 2000 U.S. presidential election is one of the most famous and controversial elections in U.S. history, due to the results from Florida. The election was contested by the Republican Party's George W. Bush and the Democratic Party's Al Gore; by the end of election day, it became clear that Florida's 25 electoral votes would decide the outcome, as neither candidate had surpassed the 270 vote margin needed to win nationwide. While Florida's early results showed Bush in the lead, Gore's share of the results in urban areas then brought their totals close enough to trigger a recount; after a month of recounts and legal proceedings, Bush was eventually declared the winner of Florida by a margin of 537 popular votes (or 0.009 percent). Although Gore did win a plurality of the votes nationwide, Bush had won 271 electoral votes overall, and was named the 43rd President of the United States; this was just one of five elections where the candidate with the most popular votes did not win the election. In the six most recent U.S. presidential elections in Florida, the difference in the share of popular votes between the Republican and Democratic candidates has been just two percent on average.

The table VT-Demographic-2025-03-26 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 473639 rows across 698 variables.

The table IA-Demographic-2025-03-25 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 2175201 rows across 698 variables.

New York has taken part in all U.S. presidential elections since 1792, and has cast the majority of its electoral votes for the nationwide winner in 47 elections, giving a success rate of 81 percent. New York has generally voted for the more liberal candidate in U.S. elections, and has been a safe Democratic state since the 1988 election. In the 2020 election, New York was a comfortable win for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who carried the state by a 23 percent margin; however, the native New Yorker, Donald Trump, won in several of New York's more rural districts with around seventy percent of their popular vote, showing a stark contrast between urban and rural districts. Presidents from the Empire State A total of five U.S. presidents were born in New York; these were Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald Trump. These five men ran for president in eleven different elections, and carried their home state in six elections; Donald Trump is the only New Yorker to have won the election without carrying his home state. Several other losing candidates have carried their home state, with the most recent being Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 (both held public office in New York, but were born elsewhere).

Declining significance Throughout most of U.S. history, New York was the most populous state, and therefore had the largest share of electoral votes. This began in the 1812 election, where New York had 29 electoral votes; the allocation then fluctuated throughout the rest of the 1800s and early 1900s, peaking at 47 votes in the 1930s and 1940s. Since the 1950s, however, New York's allocation of electoral votes has gradually declined, and it was overtaken by California in the 1972 election, and then Texas in 2004. This is due to differing population growth rates across various regions of the U.S., as growth rates along the southern border tend to be much higher than in states along the east coast. In the 2020 election, New York's allocation of electoral votes is 29; this is expected to fall again to 28 votes in the 2024 election, where it will likely be overtaken by Florida as the third-most populous state.

The table ID-Demographic-2025-03-27 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 982662 rows across 698 variables.

The table OR-Demographic-2025-03-21 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 3384760 rows across 698 variables.

The table CT-Demographic-2025-03-14 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 2414160 rows across 698 variables.

Nombre estimé de personnes au 1er juillet selon le groupe d'âge de 5 ans et le genre, et âge médian, Canada, provinces et territoires.

Texas has taken part in 42 U.S presidential elections between 1848 and 2020, correctly voting for the overall winner on 24 occasions, giving a success rate of 57 percent. Texas has voted for the Democratic nominee in 27 elections, and the Republican nominee in 15 elections, although eleven of these 15 results make up Texas' current voting streak. Texas has been considered a Republican stronghold for the past two decades (after being heavily contested throughout the 80s and 90s), but was viewed as a battleground state going into the 2020 election; however, Donald Trump surprised many by winning the popular vote by a relatively comfortable, six percent margin. Texan presidents Two U.S. presidents have been born in Texas; the first was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was born in Denison (the family moved to Kansas while he was an infant, which he considered his home state); the second was Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), who was born, raised and died in Stonewall, Texas. Two other presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, also considered themselves Texans, having held public office there and resided there for the majority of their lives, although both were born in other states. All four of these presidents won the popular vote in Texas in each election, and LBJ's inclusion as John F. Kennedy's running mate in the 1960 was seen as a deciding factor in helping Kennedy win in the south. No other major party candidate has come from the Lone Star State, although the Independent and Reform Party candidate, Ross Perot, who was influential in the 1992 and 1996 elections, came from Texarkana. Demographic changes Texas' allocation of electoral votes has consistently grown throughout its history, and recent elections, Texas has had the second-most electoral votes of any state (behind California), with 38 votes. This number is expected to increase to 42 votes in the 2024 election, as Texas' birth rate and positive migration rate are both higher than the national average. Much of this demographic change is due to the growth of the Hispanic community in Texas, which is also seen as the reason for the Democratic Party's growing popularity in the state.

The table AK-Demographic-2025-02-14 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 1170938 rows across 698 variables.

The table KS-Demographic-2025-04-02 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 1882979 rows across 698 variables.

The table TX-Demographic-2025-03-01 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 35111382 rows across 698 variables.

The table OH-Voter-History-2025-03-30 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 7838364 rows across 428 variables.

The table LA-Demographic-2025-03-27 is part of the dataset L2 Voter and Demographic Dataset, available at https://redivis.com/datasets/t6qv-ad1vt3wqf. It contains 2947870 rows across 698 variables.