Editing Alameda County, California (section)

===Politics===
Since 1932, Alameda County has been a stronghold of the Democratic Party, with [[Dwight Eisenhower]] being the only Republican presidential nominee to have carried the county since. Prior to 1932, the county had been a Republican stronghold. [[Piedmont, California|Piedmont]] resident [[William F. Knowland]] was the Republican U.S. Senate Leader from 1953 to 1959. Even when [[Ronald Reagan]] won the national popular vote by an 18.3% margin in [[1984 United States presidential election|1984]], [[Walter Mondale]] won Alameda County by a larger margin. In [[2004 United States presidential election|2004]] it voted for [[John Kerry]], who won over 75% of the vote. Every city and town voted Democratic.<ref>[http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/sov/2004_general/ssov/pres_general_ssov_all.pdf pres_general_ssov_for_all.xls<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> George H.W. Bush in 1988 was the last Republican to break 30% of the county's vote and Ronald Reagan in 1984 was the last to break 40% of the vote (carrying 40.01%).<ref name="Leip">{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=August 30, 2018}}</ref>

{{PresHead|place=Alameda County, California|source=<ref name="Leip"/>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|140,789|499,551|29,567|California}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|136,309|617,659|19,785|California}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|95,922|514,842|48,779|California}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|108,182|469,684|19,027|California}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|119,555|489,106|14,252|California}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|130,911|422,585|8,594|California}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|119,279|342,889|32,168|California}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|106,581|303,903|51,560|California}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|109,292|334,224|86,629|California}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|162,815|310,283|5,899|California}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|192,408|282,041|6,425|California}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|158,531|201,720|57,366|California}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|155,280|235,988|16,413|California}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|201,862|259,254|10,079|California}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|153,285|219,545|34,519|California}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|142,998|283,833|509|California}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|183,354|217,172|1,474|California}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|192,911|174,033|1,187|California}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|201,976|178,239|3,079|California}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|150,588|154,549|18,194|California}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|122,982|169,631|1,374|California}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|116,961|148,224|3,311|California}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|82,352|149,323|3,011|California}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|89,303|106,388|8,761|California}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|118,539|60,875|1,780|California}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|81,454|8,020|43,016|California}} 
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|73,177|21,468|11,244|California}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|51,417|43,748|6,966|California}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|0|24,418|42,034|California}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|21,380|7,110|4,793|California}} 
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|19,065|4,399|3,646|California}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|14,324|6,677|1,158|California}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|13,429|8,394|400|California}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|8,792|7,114|2,564|California}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|8,840|5,693|928|California}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|7,471|4,734|193|California}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|5,899|3,894|96|California}}

On November 4, 2008, Alameda County voted 61.92% against [[California Proposition 8 (2008)|Proposition 8]], which won statewide, and which amended the [[California Constitution]] to ban [[same-sex marriage]]. The county garnered the sixth highest "no" vote, by percentage, of all California counties, and was the second largest county, by total voter turnout, to vote against it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2008_general/sov_complete.pdf |title= Statement of Vote |website=www.sos.ca.gov |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018225250/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2008_general/sov_complete.pdf |archive-date=October 18, 2012}}</ref>

==== Voter registration statistics as of October 24, 2022====

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
! colspan="3" | Population and registered voters
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | Total eligible population<ref name="2022reg">{{cite web |title=Statement of Vote, November 8, 2022, General Election |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2022-general/sov/complete.pdf |website=California Secretary of State |access-date=May 5, 2023}}</ref>
| colspan="2" | 1,140,774
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;Registered voters<ref name="2022reg"/><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note>Percentage of registered voters with respect to total population. Percentages of party members with respect to registered voters follow.</ref>
| 931,130
| 81.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 562,093
| 60.4%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 100,977
| 10.8%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic–Republican spread<ref name="2022reg"/>
| <span style="color:#00f;">'''+461,116'''</span>
| <span style="color:#00f;">'''+49.6%'''</span>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;American Independent<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 21,621
| 2.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Libertarian<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 6,351
| 0.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Green<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 5,628
| 0.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Peace and Freedom<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 4,340
| 0.4%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unknown<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 26
| 0.0%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 5,686
| 0.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No party preference<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 224,408
| 24.1%
|}

===== Cities by population and voter registration =====

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed sortable" style="width: 100%;"
|-
! colspan="8" | Cities by population and voter registration as of 2013
|-
! City
! data-sort-type="number" | Population<ref name="US-CB-B02001"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS">California Secretary of State. [http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf February 10, 2013 – Report of Registration] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727173649/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf |date=July 27, 2013 }}. Retrieved October 31, 2013.</ref><br /><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | D–R spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
|-
| [[Alameda, California|Alameda]] || 73,239 || 59.7% || 55.0% || 14.2% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+40.8%'''</span> || 10.0% || 20.8%
|-
| [[Albany, California|Albany]] || 18,217 || 59.1% || 64.0% || 6.5% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+57.5%'''</span> || 11.8% || 18.9%
|-
| [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] || 111,008 || 72.9% || 64.7% || 4.4% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+60.3%'''</span> || 15.3% || 17.0%
|-
| [[Dublin, California|Dublin]] || 44,171 || 52.7% || 42.7% || 24.6% || <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+18.1%'''</span> || 14.3% || 21.3%
|-
| [[Emeryville, California|Emeryville]] || 9,698 || 64.7% || 59.6% || 7.6% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+52.0%'''</span> || 15.3% || 19.5%
|-
| [[Fremont, California|Fremont]] || 211,748 || 47.9% || 46.4% || 17.5% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+28.9%'''</span> || 12.2% || 26.0%
|-
| [[Hayward, California|Hayward]] || 142,936 || 43.7% || 60.1% || 12.7% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+47.4%'''</span> || 11.0% || 18.4%
|-
| [[Livermore, California|Livermore]] || 79,710 || 61.5% || 39.4% || 33.1% || <span style="color:purple;">'''+6.3%'''</span> || 12.4% || 18.2%
|-
| [[Newark, California|Newark]] || 42,322 || 48.6% || 53.9% || 16.6% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+37.3%'''</span> || 10.7% || 21.1%
|-
| [[Oakland, California|Oakland]] || 389,397 || 55.4% || 66.7% || 5.9% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+60.8%'''</span> || 12.1% || 16.9%
|-
| [[Piedmont, California|Piedmont]] || 10,640 || 79.7% || 56.0% || 19.6% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+36.4%'''</span> || 8.4% || 17.9%
|-
| [[Pleasanton, California|Pleasanton]] || 69,220 || 61.5% || 38.2% || 31.8% || <span style="color:purple;">'''+6.4%'''</span> || 12.0% || 20.5%
|-
| [[San Leandro, California|San Leandro]] || 83,877 || 50.9% || 58.7% || 13.7% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+45.0%'''</span> || 10.2% || 19.5%
|-
| [[Union City, California|Union City]] || 68,830 || 48.6% || 54.9% || 13.1% || <span style="color:#00f;">'''+41.8%'''</span> || 10.5% || 23.3%
|}