FINAL CALIFORNIA ELECTION RETURNS / PRESIDENT

Key to Election Tables

* An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent candidate; a dagger (**) denotes an appointed incumbent.

* A double dagger (***) indicates a race where a runoff election will be held between the top two candidates if no one receives more than half of the vote.

* Elected candidates and approved measures--or those leading with 99% of precincts reporting--are in bold type. Runoff elections may be required in nonpartisan races where no candidate receives over 50% of the vote. Results are not official and could be affected by absentee ballots.

* For primary races, candidates are grouped by party; for other races, party affiliation is indicated in parentheses:

(A) American Independent

(D) Democrat

(G) Green

(I) Independent

(N) Natural Law

(P) Peace and Freedom

(M) Reform

(R) Republican

* 0% indicates returns were unavailable at edition time or only absentee ballots had been counted.

* District locations are identified by county. In Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Ventura counties, they are identified by community.

* Uncontested local offices are not included in the tables.

How California Voted

Returns in the “How California Voted” columns represent vote totals from the entire state.

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Democrat

Bill Clinton*: 2,177,187 (93%)

Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.: 162,656 (7%)

Republican

Bob Dole: 1,477,199 (66%)

Pat Buchanan: 415,133 (19%)

Steve Forbes: 168,977 (8%)

Alan Keyes: 84,828 (4%)

Lamar Alexander: 40,656 (2%)

Robert K. Dornan: 21,242 (1%)

Phil Gramm: 13,957 (1%)

Richard Lugar: 13,557 (1%)

Morry Taylor: 5,347 (0%)

Green

Ralph Nader: 20,571 (100%)

American Independent

Howard Phillips: 18,172 (100%)

Libertarian

Harry Browne: 6,731 (50%)

Rick Tompkins: 3,188 (24%)

Irwin Schiff: 2,065 (15%)

Douglass J. Ohmen: 1,415 (11%)

Natural Law

John Hagelin: 3,576 (100%)

Peace & Freedom

Monica Moorehead: 2,006 (35%)

Jan Tucker: 1,406 (25%)

Gerald Horne: 1,327 (23%)

Mary C. Hollis: 984 (17%)

How L. A. County Voted

Returns in the “How Los Angeles County Voted” columns represent vote totals from Los Angeles County only.

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Democrat

Bill Clinton*: 563,600 (94%)

Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.: 38,656 (6%)

Republican

Bob Dole: 275,167 (64%)

Pat Buchanan: 91,633 (21%)

Steve Forbes: 30,730 (7%)

Alan Keyes: 13,879 (3%)

Lamar Alexander: 8,041 (2%)

Robert K. Dornan: 5,084 (1%)

Richard Lugar: 3,085 (1%)

Phil Gramm: 3,057 (1%)

Morry Taylor: 1,203 (0%)

Green

Ralph Nader: 2,824 (100%)

American Independent

Howard Phillips: 4,285 (100%)

Libertarian

Harry Browne: 1,180 (49%)

Rick Tompkins: 556 (23%)

Irwin Schiff: 441 (18%)

Douglass J. Ohmen: 255 (11%)

Natural Law

John Hagelin: 1,401 (100%)

Peace & Freedom

Monica Moorehead: 522 (32%)

Jan Tucker: 412 (25%)

Gerald Horne: 399 (24%)

Mary C. Hollis: 317 (19%)

Contributing to The Times’ election coverage:

* Technical assistance: Systems architect Victor I. Pulver, systems analyst Jane Hwa, deputy systems editor James D. Angius.

* Compiled by: Times editorial researchers Nona Yates and Tracy Thomas.

* Contributing: Cecilia Rasmussen, Lilia Thompson, Michael D. Alvarez, Margaret Keefer, Christina Kelch, Anthony Kelker, Adrienne Lynch, Roshawn Mathias, Ed Saguin, Monika Torres, Rachel Vargas.

Sources: Election returns provided by the office of the secretary of state, county registrars of voters and the Associated Press.