Who Carried California in Each Election

Can you name the presidential candidate that carried California in each presidential election by the percentage of the popular vote of California that they received?

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Popular Vote Percentage	Presidential Candidate	Election Year
66.95%	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1936
66.20%	Warren G. Harding	1920
64.69%	Herbert Hoover	1928
63.37%	Joe Biden	2020
61.84%	Theodore Roosevelt	1904
61.46%	Hillary Clinton	2016
60.92%	Barack Obama	2008
60.16%	Barack Obama	2012
59.11%	Lyndon B. Johnson	1964
58.60%	Abraham Lincoln	1864
58.45%	Kamala Harris	2024
58.39%	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1932
57.51%	Ronald Reagan	1984
57.44%	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1940
57.20%	Calvin Coolidge	1924
56.48%	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1944
56.38%	Ulysses S. Grant	1872
56.35%	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1952
55.46%	William Howard Taft	1908
55.39%	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1956
55.00%	Richard Nixon	1972
54.37%	William McKinley	1900

Popular Vote Percentage	Presidential Candidate	Election Year
54.30%	John Kerry	2004
53.45%	Al Gore	2000
53.02%	Franklin Pierce	1852
52.69%	Ronald Reagan	1980
51.97%	James G. Blaine	1884
51.13%	George H.W. Bush	1988
51.10%	Bill Clinton	1996
50.88%	Rutherford B. Hayes	1876
50.24%	Ulysses S. Grant	1868
50.10%	Richard Nixon	1960
49.66%	Benjamin Harrison	1888
49.35%	Gerald Ford	1976
49.16%	William McKinley	1896
48.98%	Winfield Scott Hancock	1880
48.38%	James Buchanan	1856
47.82%	Richard Nixon	1968
47.57%	Harry S. Truman	1948
46.65%	Woodrow Wilson	1916
46.01%	Bill Clinton	1992
43.83%	Grover Cleveland	1892
41.83%	Theodore Roosevelt	1912
32.32%	Abraham Lincoln	1860