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Presidential Candidate | Vice Presidential Candidate | Political Party | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote |
| Barack H. Obama | Joseph R. Biden, Jr. | Democratic |
8,274,473 |
60.92% | 55 |
| John S. McCain, III | Sarah Palin | Republican |
5,011,781 |
36.90% | 0 |
| Ralph Nader | Matt Gonzalez | Peace and Freedom |
108,381 |
0.80% | 0 |
| Bob Barr | Wayne A. Root | Libertarian |
67,582 |
0.50% | 0 |
| Alan Keyes | Wiley S. Drake, Sr. | American Independent |
40,673 |
0.30% | 0 |
| Cynthia A. McKinney | Rosa A. Clemente | Green |
38,774 |
0.29% | 0 |
| Other (+) | - | - |
41,419 |
0.30% | 0 |
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| Election Notes:
- The Statement of Vote does not count any write-in votes for candidates that did not register for qualified write-in status. Officially, Frank Moore received 36 write-in votes. The write-ins votes listed here were collected from each county election agency (incomplete data).
- James Harris appeared as a qualified write-in candidate as a stand-in candidate for RĂ³ger Calero
| Demographic Data
2010 Population: | 37,253,956 | Enum. | 2010 Population Density: | 92.2 | persons/km2 | 2008 Population: | 36,604,337 | Est. | 2008 Population Density: | 90.6 | persons/km2 | 2000 Population: | 33,871,648 | Enum. | 2000 Population Density: | 83.9 | persons/km2 | Total Electoral Vote: | 55 | | Electoral Vote Density: | 665,533 | persons/EV | Land Area (2000): | 403,933 | km2 | Annual Pop Growth Rate: | 1.0 | % |
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Data Sources:
- Source for Popular Vote data: California Secretary of State, "President," Statement of Vote November 4, 2008, General Election (Sacramento, 2008)
- Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.
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