<P> Barack Obama Democratic </P> <P> Donald Trump Republican </P> <P> The 2016 United States presidential election in California of November 8, 2016 was won by Democrat Hillary Clinton with a 61.7% majority of the popular vote over Republican Donald Trump . California's 55 electoral votes were assigned to Clinton . </P> <P> Clinton won the state with 61.73% of the vote and a 30.11% margin, both the highest since Franklin D. Roosevelt's 66.95% vote share and 35.25% margin in 1936 . This was also the first time Orange County voted Democratic since 1936, when Franklin D. Roosevelt swept every single county in the state . Trump's vote share in the state (31.62%) was the lowest for a major - party candidate since John W. Davis's 8.2% in 1924 . </P>

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