How Many Registered Democratic Voters In California

California has over 22 million registered voters, an all-time tape achieved alee of the 2020 presidential election. The land'south number of registered voters now surpasses Florida's entire population.

Of the 22 million, well-nigh 10 1000000 (or 46%) are Democrat and 5 million (24%) are Republicans. The remaining half-dozen.5 meg (30%) are independents or registered to other parties, according to the most recent Report of Registration from the California Secretarial assistant of Country released in Feb 2021.

The traditional political map of California below shows the party breakdown varies by county. Those in the Bay Area tend to have large shares of Democrats, while northern, eastern and some central counties lean more Republican.

Party registration by canton

Mouse over a canton to see details

Share of two-party registration:

Lassen Canton is the reddest county, with 55% of its 16,000 registered voters identifying as Republican and eighteen% as Democratic. Neighboring Modoc County, with a niggling over 5,000 registered voters, was the 2d most Republican.

As for the bluest, it's difficult to see in the map above, merely it's San Francisco. The county, which is also a urban center, has nine times every bit many registered Democrats every bit Republicans. But seeing San Francisco on a traditional map is difficult because of the county'south small-scale state surface area.

To more clearly see each county'due south political makeup, we can instead expect at what cartographers telephone call a "tile grid map," where counties are represented by uniformly-sized hexagons. This blazon of map adds visual weight to smaller counties, similar San Francisco, while removing it from larger counties, like San Bernardino.

California tile grid map

Each hexagon represents a county. Mouse over each to see details.

Share of ii-party registration:

But while this map allows for easier comparisons, it gives the impression that counties with the same coloring are of equal importance electorally. Take Sacramento and Alpine counties. The ii counties have similar shares of registered Democrats and Republicans — most 45% are Democrats and 25% are Republicans. Only Sacramento County has more than 860,000 registered voters. Alpine Canton has fewer than 900.

This means election results in Sacramento Canton — and other counties with more voters — tin outweigh results from Alpine County and other less-populated ones. This argues for maps that size each canton by its number of registered votes, similar the 1 below.

Tile grid map sized by the number of registered voters

Each hexagon is sized in proportion to the number of registered voters

Share of 2-party registration:

The resulting tile grid map is largely blue. Counties in the Bay Area and southern California remain sizable, while many of the northern and central counties — those that lean Republican — are mere dots. Where and then exercise the country'southward five million Republicans live?

The post-obit maps testify each county's population sized by share of the state'south registered voters in that county. The maps bear witness that the preponderance of Republicans can be constitute in southern California.

Where are the land's Democrats and Republicans?

Each hexagon is sized past the number of Democrats or Republicans in that canton. The two maps use unlike scales.

LA has the biggest hexagon because it has the almost registered Dems.

... and the most registered Reps.

Los Angeles County has the most registered Republicans (and therefore has the largest hexagon in the map above). The county has nigh one one thousand thousand registered Republicans, equal to almost xix% of the state'due south total. Why is the county shaded blue in the original map? Because it has mode more Democrats living there — three times as many.

On September 14, California voters will decide whether to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. Given the spread of voters across the land — or lack thereof — the outcome may come up down to what happens in just a few counties.