Source notes · U.S. House by county, 2022 vs 2026
File: CA.csv (58 counties). Columns: d = candidates whose ballot party preference is Democratic, r = Republican preference, o = all other U.S. House candidates (Green, No Party Preference). California's top-two general elections do not allow write-ins for these offices, so there are no write-in votes. Votes summed over every U.S. Representative district touching each county.
https://api.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-rep/district/<n>/county/<county-slug> (e.g. https://api.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-rep/district/12/county/alameda), plus districtwide https://api.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-rep/district/<n>. All 52 × 58 combinations were requested; a county-level result is returned only where the district includes that county.
As of: districtwide ReportingTime "November 9, 2026, 5:14 p.m." (PT) = 8:14 pm ET Nov 9 for all 52 districts; downloaded 2026-11-10 02:53–03:03 UTC (6:53–7:03 pm PT). County-level ReportingTime values are each county's last upload (e.g. many small counties last reported Nov 5–7).
(The public site electionresults.sos.ca.gov is behind bot protection; the API is the SOS's documented machine-readable feed. Note: the API's /returns/query?r=[...] endpoint silently omitted many district×county combinations, so it was not used.)national_county2020.txt.| Year | Column | Our sum | Reference | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | D | 6,743,737 | 6,822,766 (FEC) | −79,029 |
| 2022 | R | 3,859,666 | 3,780,637 (FEC) | +79,029 |
| 2022 | Other | 52,965 | 52,965 (FEC) | 0 |
| 2026 | D | 7,482,538 | 7,089,396 (Nov 9 6:10 pm ET aggregate) | +393,142 |
| 2026 | R | 3,147,369 | 3,023,215 | +124,154 |
| 2026 | Other | 76,313 | (not given) | — |
2022: total votes match FEC exactly (10,656,368). The offsetting ±79,029 is a single candidate: Douglas Brower (CA-2), 79,029 votes, whom FEC labels "D" but the SOS Statement of Vote lists with party preference Republican. We follow the SOS (the ballot designation). With Brower moved to D, our sums would equal FEC exactly.
2026: for every one of the 52 districts, the county rows sum exactly to the API's districtwide totals. The excess over the national aggregate is because our data (SOS update of Nov 9, 5:14 pm PT = 8:14 pm ET) is two hours newer than the 6:10 pm ET aggregate and includes the late-afternoon county uploads. California counts for weeks after Election Day (mail ballots postmarked by Election Day accepted for 7 days; counties have 30 days to certify), so a large number of ballots remain uncounted and the numbers will change substantially.
2022
- No R candidate: CA-10 (DeSaulnier D vs Kerr, Green — Kerr's 52,965 votes are all of CA's 2022 o); D vs D: CA-15 (Canepa vs Mullin), CA-16 (Eshoo vs Kumar), CA-29 (Cárdenas vs Dueñas), CA-30 (Schiff vs Pudlo), CA-34 (Gomez vs Kim), CA-37 (Kamlager vs Perry). In these, the county's R from that district is 0 and both candidates count as D.
- No D candidate: none.
2026
- No R candidate: CA-6 (Pan, D vs Kiley, No Party Preference — Kiley's 76,313 votes are all of CA's 2026 o); D vs D: CA-4 (Thompson vs Jones), CA-7 (Matsui vs Vang), CA-11 (Wiener vs Chan), CA-12 (Simon vs Joyce), CA-14 (Wahab vs Hernandez), CA-29 (Rivas vs Dueñas), CA-34 (Gomez vs Gonzales-Torres), CA-37 (Kamlager-Dove vs Mota).
- No D candidate: CA-40 (R vs R: Calvert vs Kim) — both count as R.
These notes record where each number came from and how it was checked. 2026 figures are unofficial. See the methodology and disclaimer.