United States presidential election in California, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



In the 2016 United States presidential election, the state of California voted for the incumbent Democratic President, Henry T. Ferguson, in a landslide over the Republican nominee, Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. of Alabama.

As Ferguson won nationally in a massive landslide, taking 61.05 percent of the vote nationwide, and dominating many Northeastern and Midwestern states by record landslide margins, California weighed in as about 7.2 percent more Democratic than the national average in the 2016 election. The President earned the second-highest percentage and second-largest margin of victory for a Democratic candidate after Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the 1936 election. He carried all but one of California's counties-Sutter County, which has not voted Democratic since Roosevelt won it in 1940.

Notably, Ferguson became the first Democrat since Roosevelt in 1936 to win Orange County, and the first since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to win Kern, Inyo, and Glenn Counties. He broke sixty percent in thirty-five counties, reached seventy percent in the state's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and in nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area, and even broke eighty percent in the City of San Francisco itself. Ferguson won all fifty-one congressional districts in the state.