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The 2024 California Democratic presidential primary took place on March 5, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 497 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated to presidential candidates. [1] The contest was held on Super Tuesday alongside primaries in 14 other states and territories. Biden won the primary in a landslide. Marianne Williamson received 4.1 percent of the vote, and Congressman Dean Phillips received 2.8 percent of the vote. [2]
The following candidates were certified: [3]
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Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [a] | Margin of error | Joe Biden | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Dean Phillips | Marianne Williamson | Other | Undecided |
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Williamson re-launches her candidacy | |||||||||
Williamson suspends her candidacy | |||||||||
Emerson College/Nexstar [15] | Nov 11–14, 2023 | 523 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 51% | – | 2% | 7% | 21% [b] | 13% |
62% | – | 4% | 8% | 9% | 18% | ||||
Phillips declares his candidacy | |||||||||
Kennedy withdraws from the primaries | |||||||||
UC Berkeley IGS [16] | Aug 24–29, 2023 | 2,833 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 66% | 9% | – | 3% | 6% | 16% |
Emerson College [17] | Jun 4–7, 2023 | 585 (LV) | ± 2.9% | 72% | 17% | – | 7% | 5% | – |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [a] | Margin of error | Stacey Abrams | Pete Buttigieg | Hillary Clinton | Kamala Harris | Amy Klobuchar | Gavin Newsom | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Bernie Sanders | Elizabeth Warren | Other | Undecided |
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UC Berkeley IGS [18] | Aug 9–15, 2022 | 9,254 (RV) | ± 2.5% | 3% | 7% | 4% | 10% | 3% | 13% | 7% | 13% | 6% | 14% [c] | 19% |
4% | 8% | 5% | 12% | 4% | – | 7% | 15% | 7% | 18% [d] | 21% |
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
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Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
Joe Biden (incumbent) | 3,207,687 | 89.1% | 424 | 424 | |
Marianne Williamson | 146,356 | 4.1% | |||
Dean Phillips | 100,284 | 2.8% | |||
Armando Perez-Serrato | 43,105 | 1.2% | |||
Gabriel Cornejo | 41,390 | 1.2% | |||
"President" R. Boddie | 25,455 | 0.7% | |||
Stephen P. Lyons | 21,062 | 0.6% | |||
Eban Cambridge | 12,758 | 0.3% | |||
Total (including write-ins): | 3,598,126 | 100.00% | 424 | 73 | 497 |
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