California's 12th congressional district | |
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Interactive map of district boundaries since 2023 (Used in the 2022 elections) | |
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Population (2023) | 734,171 |
Median household income | $100,789 |
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Cook PVI | D+40 [1] |
California's 12th congressional district is a congressional district in northern California. Lateefah Simon, a Democrat, has represented the district since January 2025. The district was represented previously by longtime congresswoman, Barbara Lee.
Currently, the 12th district is located in Alameda County and includes the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Alameda, Albany, Piedmont, and most of San Leandro. With a Cook Partisan Voter Index rating of D+40, the 12th district is the most Democratic district in both California and the United States, giving nearly 90% of its vote to Democrats in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. [1] [2]
Before redistricting in 2023, the 12th district was within San Francisco, encompassing most of the city. [3] The remainder of the city was included in the 14th district.
When the district was created after the 1930 census, it was located in Los Angeles County. As California's population grew, however, the district generally was moved northward, eventually to the San Francisco peninsula. [4]
Richard Nixon, who would subsequently serve as the 37th president of the United States, represented this district from 1947 to 1951, when it was located to the east of Los Angeles. Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House, represented the district from 2013 to 2023, when it covered most of San Francisco. She had previously served California's 5th congressional district from 1987 to 1993 and California's 8th congressional district from 1993 to 2013 and currently represents California's 11th congressional district.
Year | Office | Results [5] [6] [7] [8] |
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2008 | President | Obama 90% - 10% |
2012 | President | Obama 91% - 9% |
2016 | President | Clinton 88% - 6% |
2018 | Governor | Newsom 91% - 9% |
Attorney General | Becerra 91% - 9% | |
2020 | President | Biden 89% - 9% |
2022 | Senate (Reg.) | Padilla 91% - 9% |
Governor | Newsom 90% - 10% | |
Lt. Governor | Kounalakis 90% - 10% | |
Secretary of State | Weber 90% - 10% | |
Attorney General | Bonta 89% - 11% | |
Treasurer | Ma 89% - 11% | |
Controller | Cohen 84% - 16% | |
2024 | President | Harris 85% - 11% |
Senate (Reg.) | Schiff 88% - 12% |
# | County | Seat | Population |
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1 | Alameda | Oakland | 1,622,188 |
Due to the 2020 redistricting, California's 12th district has effectively been shifted to the former geography of the 13th district. It encompasses the coastal section of Alameda, and is anchored by Oakland. This district borders the 13th district, and Alameda County is partitioned between them by Grant Ave, Union Pacific, Lewelling Blvd, Wicks Blvd, Manor Blvd, Juniper St, Dayton Ave, Padre Ave, Fargo Ave, Edgemoor St, Trojan Ave, Beatty St, Fleming St, Highway 880, Floresta Blvd, Halcyon Dr, Hesperian Blvd, Thornally Dr, Highway 185, 150th Ave, Highway 580, Benedict Dr, San Leandro Creek, and Lake Chabot Regional Park. Alongside Oakland, the 12th district takes in the cities of Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont, and San Leandro. Technically, the western most tip of Alameda Island is part of the City and County of San Francisco. However, it is uninhabited.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | John H. Hoeppel | 43,122 | 45.8% | ||
Republican | Frederick F. Houser | 40,674 | 43.2% | ||
Prohibition | Richard M. Cannon | 10,308 | 11.0% | ||
Total votes | 94,104 | 100.0% | |||
Turnout | |||||
Democratic win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John H. Hoeppel (Incumbent) | 52,595 | 50.7% | |
Republican | Frederick F. Houser | 51,216 | 49.3% | |
Total votes | 103,811 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jerry Voorhis | 62,034 | 53.7% | |
Republican | Frederick F. Houser | 53,445 | 46.3% | |
Total votes | 115,479 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jerry Voorhis (Incumbent) | 75,003 | 60.8% | |
Republican | Eugene W. Nixon | 40,457 | 32.8% | |
Townsend | Russell R. Hand | 7,903 | 6.4% | |
Total votes | 123,363 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jerry Voorhis (Incumbent) | 99,494 | 64.0% | |
Republican | Eugene W. Nixon | 54,731 | 35.2% | |
Communist | Albert Lewis | 1,152 | 0.8% | |
Total votes | 155,377 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jerry Voorhis (Incumbent) | 53,705 | 56.8% | |
Republican | Robert P. Shuler | 40,780 | 43.2% | |
Total votes | 94,485 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jerry Voorhis (Incumbent) | 77,385 | 55.3% | |
Republican | Roy P. McLaughlin | 62,524 | 44.7% | |
Total votes | 139,909 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Richard Nixon | 65,586 | 56.0% | |||
Democratic | Jerry Voorhis (Incumbent) | 49,994 | 42.7% | |||
Prohibition | John Henry Hoeppel | 1,476 | 1.3% | |||
Total votes | 117,056 | 100.0% | ||||
Turnout | ||||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Richard Nixon (Incumbent) | 141,509 | 87.8% | |
Progressive | Una W. Rice | 19,631 | 12.2% | |
Total votes | 161,140 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Patrick J. Hillings | 107,933 | 60.1% | |
Democratic | Steve Zetterberg | 71,682 | 39.9% | |
Total votes | 179,615 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Allan O. Hunter (Incumbent) | 103,587 | 100.0% | |
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | B. F. Sisk | 63,911 | 53.8% | |||
Republican | Allan O. Hunter (Incumbent) | 54,903 | 46.2% | |||
Total votes | 118,814 | 100.0% | ||||
Turnout | ||||||
Democratic gain from Republican |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | B. F. Sisk (Incumbent) | 109,920 | 73% | |
Republican | Robert B. Moore | 40,663 | 27% | |
Total votes | 150,583 | 100% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | B. F. Sisk (Incumbent) | 112,702 | 81.1% | |
Republican | Daniel K. Halpin | 26,228 | 18.9% | |
Total votes | 138,930 | 100% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | B. F. Sisk (Incumbent) | 141,974 | 100.0% | |
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Republican | Burt Talcott (Incumbent) | 75,424 | 61.3% | ||
Democratic | William K. Steward | 47,576 | 38.7% | ||
Total votes | 123,000 | 100.0% | |||
Turnout | |||||
Republican win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Burt Talcott (Incumbent) | 93,112 | 61.9% | |
Democratic | William K. Steward | 57,242 | 38.1% | |
Total votes | 150,354 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Burt Talcott (Incumbent) | 108,070 | 77.3% | |
Democratic | Gerald V. Barron | 31,787 | 22.7% | |
Total votes | 139,857 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Burt Talcott (Incumbent) | 140,713 | 94.9% | |
American Independent | Ann J. Holliday | 7,593 | 5.1% | |
Total votes | 148,308 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Burt Talcott (Incumbent) | 95,549 | 63.6% | |
Democratic | O'Brien Riordan | 50,942 | 33.9% | |
Peace and Freedom | Herbert H. Foster Jr. | 3,682 | 2.5% | |
Total votes | 150,173 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Burt Talcott (Incumbent) | 105,555 | 54.0% | |
Democratic | Julian Camacho | 84,268 | 43.1% | |
American Independent | Stanley K. Monteith | 5,753 | 2.9% | |
Total votes | 195,576 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Pete McCloskey (Incumbent) | 103,228 | 69.1% | |
Democratic | Gary G. Gillmor | 46,197 | 30.9% | |
Total votes | 149,425 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Pete McCloskey (Incumbent) | 130,332 | 66.2% | |
Democratic | David T. Harris | 61,526 | 31.3% | |
American Independent | Joseph David "Joss" Cooney | 4,999 | 2.5% | |
Total votes | 196,857 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Pete McCloskey (Incumbent) | 116,982 | 73.1% | |
Democratic | Kirsten Olsen | 34,472 | 21.5% | |
American Independent | Harold R. Boylan | 5,609 | 3.5% | |
Peace and Freedom | Adele Fumino | 3,022 | 1.9% | |
Total votes | 160,085 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Pete McCloskey (Incumbent) | 143,817 | 72.2% | |
Democratic | Kirsten Olsen | 37,009 | 18.6% | |
Libertarian | Bill Evers | 15,073 | 7.6% | |
Peace and Freedom | Adele Fumino | 3,184 | 1.6% | |
Total votes | 199,083 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Ed Zschau | 115,365 | 63.0% | |
Democratic | Emmett Lynch | 61,372 | 33.5% | |
Libertarian | William C. "Bill" White | 6,471 | 3.5% | |
Total votes | 183,208 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Ed Zschau (Incumbent) | 155,795 | 61.7% | |
Democratic | Martin Carnoy | 91,026 | 36.0% | |
Libertarian | William C. "Bill" White | 5,872 | 2.3% | |
Total votes | 252,963 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Ernie Konnyu | 111,252 | 59.5% | |
Democratic | Lance T. Weil | 69,564 | 37.2% | |
Libertarian | William C. "Bill" White | 6,227 | 3.3% | |
Total votes | 187,043 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Tom Campbell | 136,384 | 51.7% | |
Democratic | Anna Eshoo | 121,523 | 46.0% | |
Libertarian | Tom Grey | 6,023 | 2.3% | |
Total votes | 263,930 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Tom Campbell (Incumbent) | 125,157 | 60.8% | |
Democratic | Bob Palmer | 69,270 | 33.7% | |
Libertarian | Chuck Olson | 11,271 | 5.5% | |
Total votes | 205,698 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Tom Lantos | 157,205 | 68.8% | |||
Republican | Jim R. Tomlin | 53,278 | 23.3% | |||
Peace and Freedom | Mary Weldon | 10,142 | 4.4% | |||
Libertarian | George L. O'Brien | 7,782 | 3.4% | |||
Total votes | 228,407 | 100.0% | ||||
Turnout | ||||||
Democratic gain from Republican |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Tom Lantos (Incumbent) | 118,408 | 67.42% | |
Republican | Deborah Wilder | 57,228 | 32.58% | |
Total votes | 175,636 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Tom Lantos (Incumbent) | 149,052 | 71.7% | |
Republican | Storm Jenkins | 49,278 | 23.8% | |
Libertarian | Christopher Schmidt | 6,111 | 2.9% | |
Natural Law | Richard Bong | 3,472 | 1.6% | |
Total votes | 207,913 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Tom Lantos (Incumbent) | 128,135 | 73.98% | |
Republican | Robert H. Evans Jr. | 36,562 | 21.11% | |
Libertarian | Michael J. Moloney | 8,515 | 4.92% | |
Total votes | 173,212 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Tom Lantos (Incumbent) | 158,404 | 74.6% | |
Republican | Mike Garza | 44,162 | 20.8% | |
Libertarian | Barbara J. Less | 6,431 | 3.0% | |
Natural Law | Rifkin Young | 3,559 | 1.6% | |
Total votes | 212,556 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Tom Lantos (Incumbent) | 105,597 | 68.1% | |
Republican | Michael J. Moloney | 38,381 | 24.8% | |
Libertarian | Maad Abu-Ghazalah | 11,006 | 7.1% | |
Total votes | 185,216 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Tom Lantos (Incumbent) | 171,852 | 68.1% | |
Republican | Mike Garza | 52,593 | 20.8% | |
Green | Pat Green | 23,038 | 9.1% | |
Libertarian | Harland Harrison | 5,116 | 2.0% | |
Total votes | 252,599 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Tom Lantos (Incumbent) | 138,650 | 76.1% | |
Republican | Mike Moloney | 43,674 | 23.9% | |
Total votes | 182,324 | 100.0% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jackie Speier | 66,279 | 76.90% | |
Republican | Greg Conlon | 7,990 | 9.27% | |
Democratic | Michelle McMurry | 4,546 | 5.27% | |
Republican | Mike Moloney | 4,517 | 5.24% | |
Green | Barry Hermanson | 1,947 | 2.26% | |
Libertarian | Kevin Peterson (write-in) | 2 | 0.00% | |
Invalid or blank votes | 903 | 1.05% | ||
Total votes | 86,184 | 100.00% | ||
Turnout | 25.69% | |||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jackie Speier (Incumbent) | 200,442 | 75.2% | |
Republican | Greg Conlon | 49,258 | 18.5% | |
Peace and Freedom | Nathalie Hrizi | 5,793 | 2.2% | |
Green | Barry Hermanson | 5,776 | 2.1% | |
Libertarian | Kevin Dempsey Peterson | 5,584 | 2.0% | |
Total votes | 266,853 | 100% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jackie Speier (Incumbent) | 152,044 | 75.6% | |
Republican | Mike Moloney | 44,475 | 22.2% | |
Libertarian | Mark Paul Williams | 4,611 | 2.2% | |
Independent | Joseph Michael Harding (write-in) | 32 | 0.0% | |
Total votes | 201,162 | 100% | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Nancy Pelosi | 253,709 | 85.1% | |
Republican | John Dennis | 44,478 | 14.9% | |
Total votes | 298,187 | 100.0% | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Nancy Pelosi (Incumbent) | 160,067 | 83.3% | |
Republican | John Dennis | 32,197 | 16.7% | |
Total votes | 192,264 | 100.0% | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Nancy Pelosi (Incumbent) | 274,035 | 80.9% | |
Independent | Preston Picus | 64,810 | 19.1% | |
Total votes | 338,845 | 100% | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Nancy Pelosi (Incumbent) | 275,292 | 86.8% | |
Republican | Lisa Remmer | 41,780 | 13.2% | |
Total votes | 317,072 | 100% | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Nancy Pelosi (incumbent) | 281,776 | 77.6% | |
Democratic | Shahid Buttar | 81,174 | 22.4% | |
Total votes | 362,950 | 100% | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Barbara Lee (incumbent) | 217,110 | 90.5% | |
Republican | Stephen Slauson | 22,859 | 9.5% | |
Total votes | 239,969 | 100% | ||
Democratic hold |