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| Turnout | 79.78% (of registered voters) 6.44pp56.98% (of eligible voters) 8.45pp[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The1928 United States presidential election in California took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
California voted for theRepublican nominee, formerCommerce SecretaryHerbert Hoover, in a landslide over theDemocratic nominee,New York GovernorAl Smith. This was also the first election in California where the winning candidate received over 1 million votes. This also remains the last time that a Republican got more than 60% of the vote in California.
This was the last time until1952 that a Republican presidential nominee carried California. After this election, no Republican candidate would winPlumas County again until1980, and no Republican would carryFresno County,Kings County,Lassen County,Madera County, andSolano County again until1972.
| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Harriet W. Works | 1,162,323 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Rolfe L. Thompson | 1,160,780 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Ben R. Meyer | 1,160,770 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | John A. O'Connell | 1,160,539 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Harry K. Wolff | 1,160,536 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Aurelia H. Reinhardt | 1,160,490 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Marshall DeMotte | 1,160,488 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | James F. Collins | 1,160,443 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | C. P. Rendon | 1,160,407 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | A. W. McPherson | 1,160,332 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | L. L. Dennett | 1,160,308 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Fred H. Schauer | 1,160,296 | |
| Republican Party &Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | R. Y. Williams | 1,160,126 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | James D. Phelan | 614,365 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Clara Hellman Heller | 611,430 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | John H. Young | 611,348 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | R. M. Fitzgerald | 611,321 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Ross W. Pool | 611,316 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Justus S. Wardell | 611,279 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | A. L. Conrad | 611,236 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Estill Stephens Bartell | 611,220 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Milton K. Young | 611,156 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Julia Babcock | 611,143 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | C. M. Brown Jr. | 611,083 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Phil Dodson | 611,004 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Curtis Hillyer | 610,680 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Upton Sinclair | 19,595 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Addie M. Benedict | 19,240 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | E. Backus | 19,170 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Mary M. Morgan | 19,168 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Agnes H. Downing | 19,157 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | N. A. Richardson | 19,154 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | W. H. Eastman | 19,153 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Allen K. Clifford | 19,152 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Philip Bernstein | 19,150 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Walter E. Walker | 19,144 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Julius Levitt | 19,135 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | W. T. Tipton | 19,091 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | F. L. Neustein | 19,082 | |
| Write-in | William Z. Foster[a] | 112 | ||
| Write-in | Benjamin Gitlow | 104 | ||
| Write-in | H. Morgan | 6 | ||
| Write-in | Scattering | 151 | ||
| Votes cast[b] | 1,796,656 | |||
| County | Herbert Hoover Republican/Prohibition | Al Smith Democratic | Norman Thomas Socialist | William Z. Foster Communist | Scattering Write-in | Margin | Total votes cast[c] | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Alameda | 118,539 | 65.42% | 60,875 | 33.60% | 1,717 | 0.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 63 | 0.03% | 57,664 | 31.82% | 181,194 |
| Alpine | 49 | 94.23% | 3 | 5.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 46 | 88.46% | 52 |
| Amador | 990 | 44.12% | 1,246 | 55.53% | 8 | 0.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -256 | -11.41% | 2,244 |
| Butte | 6,306 | 60.45% | 3,946 | 37.83% | 180 | 1.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,360 | 22.62% | 10,432 |
| Calaveras | 1,262 | 53.79% | 1,066 | 45.44% | 18 | 0.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 196 | 8.35% | 2,346 |
| Colusa | 1,752 | 56.30% | 1,338 | 42.99% | 22 | 0.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 414 | 13.30% | 3,112 |
| Contra Costa | 13,495 | 60.38% | 8,573 | 38.36% | 281 | 1.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,922 | 22.02% | 22,349 |
| Del Norte | 771 | 55.87% | 599 | 43.41% | 10 | 0.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 172 | 12.46% | 1,380 |
| El Dorado | 1,228 | 44.25% | 1,516 | 54.63% | 31 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -288 | -10.38% | 2,775 |
| Fresno | 20,687 | 54.30% | 16,884 | 44.32% | 527 | 1.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,803 | 9.98% | 38,098 |
| Glenn | 2,466 | 65.03% | 1,297 | 34.20% | 29 | 0.76% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,169 | 30.83% | 3,792 |
| Humboldt | 9,162 | 69.75% | 3,726 | 28.37% | 247 | 1.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,436 | 41.39% | 13,135 |
| Imperial | 5,417 | 67.61% | 2,486 | 31.03% | 109 | 1.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,931 | 36.58% | 8,012 |
| Inyo | 1,206 | 57.37% | 861 | 40.96% | 35 | 1.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 345 | 16.41% | 2,102 |
| Kern | 14,692 | 62.67% | 8,541 | 36.43% | 212 | 0.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,151 | 26.24% | 23,445 |
| Kings | 2,947 | 51.51% | 2,701 | 47.21% | 73 | 1.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 246 | 4.30% | 5,721 |
| Lake | 1,820 | 65.37% | 926 | 33.26% | 38 | 1.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 894 | 32.11% | 2,784 |
| Lassen | 2,111 | 56.73% | 1,597 | 42.92% | 13 | 0.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 514 | 13.81% | 3,721 |
| Los Angeles | 513,526 | 70.22% | 209,945 | 28.71% | 7,589 | 1.04% | 78 | 0.01% | 163 | 0.02% | 303,581 | 41.51% | 731,301 |
| Madera | 2,354 | 54.88% | 1,896 | 44.21% | 37 | 0.86% | 1 | 0.02% | 1 | 0.02% | 458 | 10.68% | 4,289 |
| Marin | 7,862 | 57.44% | 5,686 | 41.54% | 140 | 1.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,176 | 15.90% | 13,688 |
| Mariposa | 656 | 55.03% | 517 | 43.37% | 19 | 1.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 139 | 11.66% | 1,192 |
| Mendocino | 4,810 | 63.39% | 2,628 | 34.63% | 150 | 1.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,182 | 28.76% | 7,588 |
| Merced | 4,644 | 60.17% | 2,970 | 38.48% | 104 | 1.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,674 | 21.69% | 7,718 |
| Modoc | 942 | 56.75% | 711 | 42.83% | 7 | 0.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 231 | 13.92% | 1,660 |
| Mono | 220 | 61.80% | 127 | 35.67% | 9 | 2.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 93 | 26.12% | 356 |
| Monterey | 7,228 | 63.12% | 4,138 | 36.13% | 86 | 0.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,090 | 26.98% | 11,452 |
| Napa | 4,699 | 57.48% | 3,422 | 41.86% | 54 | 0.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,277 | 15.62% | 8,175 |
| Nevada | 2,173 | 52.00% | 1,959 | 46.88% | 47 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 214 | 5.12% | 4,179 |
| Orange | 30,572 | 79.35% | 7,611 | 19.75% | 344 | 0.89% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 22,961 | 59.60% | 38,527 |
| Placer | 3,669 | 49.25% | 3,685 | 49.46% | 96 | 1.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -16 | -0.21% | 7,450 |
| Plumas | 947 | 45.64% | 1,079 | 52.00% | 49 | 2.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -132 | -6.36% | 2,075 |
| Riverside | 17,600 | 77.94% | 4,769 | 21.12% | 212 | 0.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 12,831 | 56.82% | 22,581 |
| Sacramento | 20,762 | 50.83% | 19,684 | 48.19% | 403 | 0.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,078 | 2.64% | 40,849 |
| San Benito | 1,971 | 58.87% | 1,366 | 40.80% | 11 | 0.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 605 | 18.07% | 3,348 |
| San Bernardino | 29,229 | 74.73% | 9,436 | 24.13% | 447 | 1.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 19,793 | 50.61% | 39,112 |
| San Diego | 47,769 | 67.14% | 22,749 | 31.97% | 633 | 0.89% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 25,020 | 35.16% | 71,151 |
| San Francisco | 95,987 | 49.11% | 96,632 | 49.44% | 2,799 | 1.43% | 24 | 0.01% | 26 | 0.01% | -645 | -0.33% | 195,468 |
| San Joaquin | 16,695 | 61.10% | 10,343 | 37.85% | 288 | 1.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,352 | 23.25% | 27,326 |
| San Luis Obispo | 5,425 | 60.82% | 3,336 | 37.40% | 159 | 1.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,089 | 23.42% | 8,920 |
| San Mateo | 14,360 | 58.87% | 9,755 | 39.99% | 267 | 1.09% | 5 | 0.02% | 5 | 0.02% | 4,605 | 18.88% | 24,392 |
| Santa Barbara | 11,666 | 69.44% | 4,954 | 29.49% | 179 | 1.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,712 | 23.25% | 16,799 |
| Santa Clara | 31,710 | 63.81% | 17,589 | 35.39% | 388 | 0.78% | 4 | 0.01% | 3 | 0.01% | 14,121 | 28.42% | 49,694 |
| Santa Cruz | 8,275 | 68.53% | 3,688 | 30.54% | 112 | 0.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,587 | 37.99% | 12,075 |
| Shasta | 2,301 | 52.20% | 2,025 | 45.94% | 82 | 1.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 276 | 6.26% | 4,408 |
| Sierra | 457 | 51.52% | 420 | 47.35% | 10 | 1.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 37 | 4.17% | 887 |
| Siskiyou | 3,758 | 55.49% | 2,916 | 43.06% | 98 | 1.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 842 | 12.43% | 6,772 |
| Solano | 7,061 | 52.32% | 6,278 | 46.51% | 158 | 1.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 783 | 5.80% | 13,497 |
| Sonoma | 12,891 | 59.71% | 8,506 | 39.40% | 194 | 0.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,385 | 20.31% | 21,591 |
| Stanislaus | 10,753 | 67.13% | 5,063 | 31.61% | 203 | 1.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,690 | 35.52% | 16,019 |
| Sutter | 2,239 | 53.98% | 1,875 | 45.20% | 34 | 0.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 364 | 8.78% | 4,148 |
| Tehama | 3,393 | 65.58% | 1,650 | 31.89% | 131 | 2.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,743 | 33.69% | 5,174 |
| Trinity | 447 | 48.85% | 433 | 47.32% | 35 | 3.83% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 14 | 1.53% | 915 |
| Tulare | 12,057 | 63.76% | 6,635 | 35.09% | 218 | 1.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,422 | 28.67% | 18,910 |
| Tuolumne | 1,731 | 54.80% | 1,360 | 43.05% | 68 | 2.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 371 | 11.74% | 3,159 |
| Ventura | 9,017 | 70.17% | 3,717 | 28.92% | 117 | 0.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,300 | 41.24% | 12,851 |
| Yolo | 3,545 | 56.96% | 2,641 | 42.43% | 38 | 0.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 904 | 14.52% | 6,224 |
| Yuba | 2,022 | 50.02% | 1,990 | 49.23% | 30 | 0.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 32 | 0.79% | 4,042 |
| Total | 1,162,323 | 64.69% | 614,365 | 34.19% | 19,595 | 1.09% | 112 | 0.01% | 261 | 0.01% | 547,958 | 30.50% | 1,796,656 |
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