HIGHEST VOTE COUNTS EVER

As you'd probably expect, it's the statewide offices (with the highest number of voters) that lead the highest-vote counts in California history. Of these statewide offices, it's most often the federal offices (and particularly in Presidential election years) that receive the highest numbers of votes.

Italicized vote counts are not yet finalized and are expected to change.
In 2024, Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey were candidates for both a full 6-year term (FT) in the US Senate as well as a partial term (PT).

CANDIDATES WITH THE HIGHEST VOTE COUNTS

Another way to evaluate the relative successes of candidates is to compare the total vote counts they receive. The following is a list of the most popular candidates from each of four categories (the statewide category excludes US Senate and the Presidential candidates). The all-time highest vote counts received by a candidate in California in a single election was;

WINNING CANDIDATES WITH THE LOWEST VOTE COUNTS
It can also be interesting to see what the lowest votre requirements for a certain office might be. It takes a combination of factors to reach some of these numbers, as in the case of Assemblyman Fuentes, who got just over 50% of the votes in an election with low turn-out (10.24%) in an Assembly district with the second lowest voter registration rates in the state (only AD-46 had fewer voters).