November 3, 1936
General Election
A total of 2,712,342 Californians voted in this election.
| President | |||
| Earl Browder | Communist | 0.4% | Loss |
| D. Leigh Colvin | Prohibition | 0.5% | Loss |
| Alfred Mossman Landon | Republican | 31.7% | Loss |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | 67% | Win |
| Norman Thomas | Socialist | 0.4% | Loss |
| CD-01 | |||
| Vernon Dennis Healy | Communist | 1.1% | Loss |
| Clarence F. Lea | Democratic | 53.8% | Win |
| Nelson B. Van Matre | Republican | 45.1% | Loss |
| CD-02 | |||
| Harry L. Englebright | Republican | 100% | Win |
| CD-03 | |||
| Frank H. Buck | Democratic | 90.6% | Win |
| Perry Hill | Communist | 4.3% | Loss |
| Walter Schaefer | Write-in | 5.2% | Loss |
| CD-04 | |||
| Franck R. Havenner | Progressive | 58.5% | Win |
| Florence P. Kahn | Republican | 40% | Loss |
| Anita Whitney | Communist | 1.6% | Loss |
| CD-05 | |||
| Lawrence Ross | Communist | 5.2% | Loss |
| Richard J. Welch | Republican | 94.8% | Win |
| CD-06 | |||
| Albert E. Carter | Republican | 91% | Win |
| Lloyd L. Harris | Communist | 1.8% | Loss |
| Clarence E. Rust | Socialist | 7.2% | Loss |
| CD-07 | |||
| Charles W. Fisher | Republican | 40.2% | Loss |
| John H. Tolan | Democratic | 59.8% | Win |
| CD-08 | |||
| Alonzo L. Baker | Republican | 42.4% | Loss |
| John J. McGrath | Democratic | 57.6% | Win |
| CD-09 | |||
| Bertrand W. Gearhart | Republican | 97% | Win |
| Carl B. Patterson | Communist | 3% | Loss |
| CD-10 | |||
| George R. Bliss | Republican | 30.4% | Loss |
| Henry E. Stubbs | Democratic | 69.6% | Win |
| CD-11 | |||
| Robert S. Funk | Progressive | 8.9% | Loss |
| Carl Hinshaw | Democratic | 39.8% | Loss |
| William Ingham | Communist | 0.8% | Loss |
| John Steven McGroarty | Republican | 50.5% | Win |
| CD-12 | |||
| Fred N. Howser | Republican | 46.3% | Loss |
| Jerry Voorhis | Democratic | 53.7% | Win |
| CD-13 | |||
| Emma Cutler | Communist | 4.8% | Loss |
| Charles Kramer | Democratic | 90% | Win |
| Floyd Seaman | Write-in | 5.2% | Loss |
| CD-14 | |||
| Harold J. Ashe | Communist | 1.3% | Loss |
| William D. Campbell | Republican | 24.6% | Loss |
| Thomas F. Ford | Democratic | 61% | Win |
| Albert L. Johnson | Progressive | 12.4% | Loss |
| Glen Trible | Socialist | 0.7% | Loss |
| CD-15 | |||
| John M. Costello | Democratic | 69% | Win |
| Ernest Walker Sawyer | Republican | 31% | Loss |
| CD-16 | |||
| Raymond V. Darby | Republican | 42.3% | Loss |
| John F. Dockweiler | Democratic | 57.7% | Win |
| CD-17 | |||
| Charles J. Colden | Democratic | 71.9% | Win |
| John L. Leech | Communist | 1.7% | Loss |
| Leonard Roach | Republican | 26.4% | Loss |
| CD-18 | |||
| James F. Collins | Republican | 41% | Loss |
| Byron N. Scott | Democratic | 59% | Win |
| CD-19 | |||
| Sam L. Collins | Republican | 45.2% | Loss |
| Charles McLauchlan | Communist | 1% | Loss |
| Harry R. Sheppard | Democratic | 53.8% | Win |
| CD-20 | |||
| Ed Izac | Democratic | 56.4% | Win |
| Esco L. Richardson | Communist | 0.9% | Loss |
| Ed P. Sample | Republican | 42.8% | Loss |
| SD-01 | |||
| Harold J. Powers | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-03 | |||
| Irwin T. Quinn | Democratic | 50.9% | Win |
| John W. Runner | Republican | 49.1% | Loss |
| SD-05 | |||
| John B. McColl | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-07 | |||
| Jerrold L. Seawell | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-09 | |||
| A. L. Pierovich | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| SD-11 | |||
| Frank L. Gordon | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-13 | |||
| Thomas F. Keating | Democratic | 50.1% | Win |
| Charles F. Reindollar | Republican | 49.9% | Loss |
| SD-15 | |||
| Thomas McCormack | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-17 | |||
| Truman H. DeLap | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-19 | |||
| Roy J. Nielsen | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-21 | |||
| Harry L. Parkman | Republican | 88% | Win |
| Edward V. Peterson | Socialist | 12% | Loss |
| SD-23 | |||
| James B. Holohan | Democratic | 54.3% | Win |
| Bert B. Snyder | Republican | 45.7% | Loss |
| SD-25 | |||
| Raymond W. Shellooe | Democratic | 46.7% | Loss |
| Edward H. Tickle | Republican | 53.3% | Win |
| SD-27 | |||
| Robert Roy Cunningham | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| SD-29 | |||
| Chris N. Jespersen | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-31 | |||
| John James "Jim" Hollister Sr. | Democratic | 50.8% | Win |
| Edgar W. Stow | Republican | 49.2% | Loss |
| SD-33 | |||
| James J. McBride | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| SD-35 | |||
| Thomas L. McFadden | Republican | 45.3% | Loss |
| Harry C. Westover | Democratic | 54.7% | Win |
| SD-37 | |||
| Marcus W. Meairs | Democratic | 49.6% | Loss |
| John R. Phillips | Republican | 50.4% | Win |
| SD-39 | |||
| W. S. Dunn | Republican | 42.3% | Loss |
| Edward H. Law | Democratic | 57.7% | Win |
| AD-01 | |||
| Michael J. Burns | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-02 | |||
| Clinton J. Fulcher | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-03 | |||
| John H. O'Donnell | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-04 | |||
| Seth Millington Jr. | Democratic | 60.5% | Win |
| Herman E. Neyens | Republican | 39.5% | Loss |
| AD-05 | |||
| Ernest C. Crowley | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-06 | |||
| Jesse M. Mayo | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-07 | |||
| Hubert B. Scudder | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-08 | |||
| Chester M. Gannon | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-09 | |||
| Earl D. Desmond | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-10 | |||
| William J. Prater | Communist | 4.2% | Loss |
| Harold F. Sawallisch | Democratic | 95.8% | Win |
| AD-11 | |||
| Joseph A. Plecarpo | Socialist | 9% | Loss |
| Charles M. Weber III | Republican | 91% | Win |
| AD-12 | |||
| James E. Thorp | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-13 | |||
| James M. Cassidy | Democratic | 96.1% | Win |
| Joseph Sturtevant | Republican | 3.9% | Loss |
| AD-14 | |||
| Leon H. Ader | Republican | 42.8% | Loss |
| George Paul Miller | Democratic | 57.2% | Win |
| AD-15 | |||
| James S. Blaine | Republican | 29.8% | Loss |
| Leon M. Donihue | Democratic | 70.2% | Win |
| AD-16 | |||
| Laura Barnes | Progressive | 19.5% | Loss |
| Arthur H. Breed Jr. | Republican | 80.5% | Win |
| AD-17 | |||
| Francis H. Gonsalves | Progressive | 11.6% | Loss |
| Henry P. Meehan | Democratic | 85.7% | Win |
| Leon Vannier | Communist | 2.7% | Loss |
| AD-18 | |||
| Henry A. Dannenbrink | Democratic | 51.9% | Win |
| Richard S. Ludlow | Communist | 1.5% | Loss |
| Jessie S. Williamson | Republican | 46.7% | Loss |
| AD-19 | |||
| Gardiner Johnson | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-20 | |||
| Sam Jaye | Communist | 11.4% | Loss |
| Thomas A. Maloney | Republican | 88.6% | Win |
| AD-21 | |||
| Joseph P. Gilmore | Republican | 35.4% | Loss |
| Joseph Francis Sheehan | Democratic | 64.6% | Win |
| AD-22 | |||
| Archie Brown | Communist | 9.3% | Loss |
| Kennett B. Dawson | Republican | 90.7% | Win |
| AD-23 | |||
| William B. Hornblower | Republican | 94.4% | Win |
| Alexander Noral | Democratic | 5.6% | Loss |
| AD-24 | |||
| Patrick J. McMurray | Democratic | 67.7% | Win |
| Franklyn M. O'Brien | Republican | 32.3% | Loss |
| AD-25 | |||
| Melvyn I. Cronin | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-26 | |||
| Peter J. Garrison | Democratic | 7.7% | Loss |
| Ray Williamson | Republican | 92.3% | Win |
| AD-27 | |||
| Jefferson E. Peyser | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-28 | |||
| Edgar C. Levey | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-29 | |||
| Harrison W. Call | Republican | 91.2% | Win |
| Catherine McCauley | Socialist | 8.8% | Loss |
| AD-30 | |||
| Adron A. Beene | Republican | 87.9% | Win |
| Trelfa Lund | Socialist | 12.1% | Loss |
| AD-31 | |||
| C. C. Cottrell | Republican | 51.3% | Win |
| John D. Foley | Democratic | 48.7% | Loss |
| AD-32 | |||
| Hugh P. Donnelly | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-33 | |||
| James D. Garibaldi | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-34 | |||
| Jacob M. Leonard | Republican | 51.4% | Win |
| James R. White | Democratic | 48.6% | Loss |
| AD-35 | |||
| Ellis E. Patterson | Write-in | 50.4% | Win |
| Henry P. Russell | Republican | 49.6% | Loss |
| AD-36 | |||
| Hugh M. Burns | Democratic | 63% | Win |
| Milo E. Rowell | Republican | 37% | Loss |
| AD-37 | |||
| S. L. Heisinger | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-38 | |||
| Gordon H. Garland | Democratic | 58.2% | Win |
| Leroy McCormick | Republican | 41.8% | Loss |
| AD-39 | |||
| Alfred W. Robertson | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-40 | |||
| Marcus S. Johnson | Republican | 49.4% | Loss |
| Fred P. Muldoon | Democratic | 50.6% | Win |
| AD-41 | |||
| Alanson E. Sessions | Progressive | 28.3% | Loss |
| Rodney L. Turner | Democratic | 71.7% | Win |
| AD-42 | |||
| Lawrence C. Brightwell | Republican | 38.6% | Loss |
| Elizabeth K. Burgess | Communist | 1.4% | Loss |
| Elmer E. Lore | Democratic | 60% | Win |
| AD-43 | |||
| Huntington P. Bledsoe | Democratic | 49% | Loss |
| C. Don Field | Republican | 50.1% | Win |
| William E. Sherwood | Communist | 0.9% | Loss |
| AD-44 | |||
| Ernest Q. Norman | Republican | 23.9% | Loss |
| John B. Pelletier | Democratic | 76.1% | Win |
| AD-45 | |||
| Thomas J. Doyle | Republican | 34% | Loss |
| Charles A. Hunt | Democratic | 54.6% | Win |
| James H. Rowe | Progressive | 11.4% | Loss |
| AD-46 | |||
| James A. Ayres | Communist | 2.5% | Loss |
| Guy Lewis | Republican | 31.6% | Loss |
| Jack B. Tenney | Democratic | 65.9% | Win |
| AD-47 | |||
| Carl L. D. Echols | Communist | 1.1% | Loss |
| Eleanor Miller | Republican | 59.5% | Win |
| Don Stoner | Democratic | 39.4% | Loss |
| AD-48 | |||
| Frank G. Martin | Republican | 62.7% | Win |
| A. D. Orme | Democratic | 37.3% | Loss |
| AD-49 | |||
| Frank L. Baynham | Democratic | 51% | Win |
| Herbert Johnston Evans | Republican | 49% | Loss |
| AD-50 | |||
| Gerald C. Kepple | Republican | 50.6% | Win |
| John MacRae | Democratic | 49.4% | Loss |
| AD-51 | |||
| William Moseley Jones | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-52 | |||
| Leslie B. Crossan | Republican | 28.6% | Loss |
| Herbert S. Elstein | Communist | 1.9% | Loss |
| Lillian M. Elstein | Socialist | 1% | Loss |
| Ben Rosenthal | Democratic | 68.4% | Win |
| AD-53 | |||
| E. V. Latham | Republican | 55.5% | Win |
| Frank G. Pellett | Democratic | 42.8% | Loss |
| William H. Weiding | Progressive | 1.7% | Loss |
| AD-54 | |||
| Wilbur F. Gilbert | Democratic | 62.2% | Win |
| Albert A. Heltness | Communist | 1.2% | Loss |
| J. George Ohanneson | Republican | 36.6% | Loss |
| AD-55 | |||
| Emory J. Arnold | Republican | 33.8% | Loss |
| Dana G. Boleyn | Prohibition | 2% | Loss |
| Frank D. Laughlin | Democratic | 64.2% | Win |
| AD-56 | |||
| Thomas J. Cunningham | Republican | 53.9% | Win |
| Clifford A. Leckrone | Communist | 1.4% | Loss |
| Edward P. Morton | Democratic | 44.7% | Loss |
| AD-57 | |||
| Emil Freed | Communist | 6.6% | Loss |
| Kent H. Redwine | Republican | 93.4% | Win |
| AD-58 | |||
| Frank J. Waters Sr. | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-59 | |||
| Charles W. Lyon | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-60 | |||
| Lester W. Beck | Communist | 2.3% | Loss |
| Harry Farrell | Progressive | 16.3% | Loss |
| Geoffrey F. Morgan | Republican | 81.4% | Win |
| AD-61 | |||
| William Thomas Davis | Republican | 33.2% | Loss |
| Floyd E. Solomon | Communist | 1.3% | Loss |
| Ernest O. Voigt | Democratic | 65.5% | Win |
| AD-62 | |||
| Augustus F. "Gus" Hawkins | Democratic | 67.9% | Win |
| Frederick M. Roberts | Republican | 30.6% | Loss |
| Louis Rosser | Communist | 1.5% | Loss |
| AD-63 | |||
| Percy Fenton Adams | Prohibition | 2.3% | Loss |
| Willard E. Badham | Republican | 36.6% | Loss |
| Morris Ostar | Communist | 1.4% | Loss |
| Ralph Lewis Welsh | Democratic | 59.8% | Win |
| AD-64 | |||
| Alfred James Barnes | Progressive | 6.3% | Loss |
| Harry Lyons | Republican | 32.8% | Loss |
| Sam Yorty | Democratic | 60.9% | Win |
| AD-65 | |||
| Frank L. Borden | Republican | 34.9% | Loss |
| Gene Flint | Democratic | 65.1% | Win |
| AD-66 | |||
| James J. Boyle | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-67 | |||
| Adele Arbo | Republican | 17.4% | Loss |
| Ray H. Garner | Communist | 1.8% | Loss |
| Edwin G. Gettins | Progressive | 6.5% | Loss |
| Cecil R. King | Democratic | 73.3% | Win |
| Ralph W. Musson | Socialist | 1% | Loss |
| AD-68 | |||
| Perry G. Briney | Republican | 25.2% | Loss |
| Fred Reaves | Democratic | 74.8% | Win |
| AD-69 | |||
| Warren W. Butler | Republican | 27.3% | Loss |
| Thomas J. Cooney | Communist | 3.1% | Loss |
| Fred P. Glick | Democratic | 69.5% | Win |
| AD-70 | |||
| John Gee Clark | Democratic | 60.5% | Win |
| Harvey B. Freeman | Republican | 39.5% | Loss |
| AD-71 | |||
| Donald P. Lane | Republican | 40.4% | Loss |
| Paul Peek | Democratic | 59.6% | Win |
| AD-72 | |||
| Godfrey A. Andreas | Democratic | 49.6% | Win |
| Arthur John Dubois | Progressive | 6.6% | Loss |
| Wardell D. Evans | Republican | 43.7% | Loss |
| AD-73 | |||
| Gordon W. Corwin | Republican | 71.1% | Win |
| C. G. Potter | Progressive | 28.9% | Loss |
| AD-74 | |||
| James B. Utt | Republican | 49% | Loss |
| Clyde A. Watson | Democratic | 51% | Win |
| AD-75 | |||
| James H. Heffron | Democratic | 47.2% | Loss |
| Thomas H. Kuchel | Republican | 52.8% | Win |
| AD-76 | |||
| Nelson S. Dilworth | Republican | 50.7% | Win |
| Emmett L. Singletary | Democratic | 49.3% | Loss |
| AD-77 | |||
| Clarence B. Walker | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-78 | |||
| Jeanette E. Daley | Democratic | 51.7% | Win |
| Ralph W. Wallace | Republican | 48.3% | Loss |
| AD-79 | |||
| Charles C. Niehouse | Republican | 40.7% | Loss |
| Paul A. Richie | Democratic | 59.3% | Win |
| AD-80 | |||
| Bessie A. Keckler | Communist | 1.9% | Loss |
| Ebon B. McGregor | Democratic | 45.8% | Loss |
| Charles W. Stream | Republican | 52.2% | Win |