United States / 2026 California gubernatorial election
ActiVote
Voting intention · published 16 Oct 2026
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Election
- 2026 California gubernatorial election
- Polling institute
- ActiVote
- Published
- 16 Oct 2026
- Fieldwork
- 24 Sept 2026 – 16 Oct 2026
- Sample size
- 400
- Margin of error
- ±4.9
- Methodology
- Not published
Results
ActiVote, 16 Oct 2026: Becerra (D) leads with 63.0%, 26.0 points ahead of Hilton (R).
- Xavier Becerra (D)63.0%new
- Steve Hilton (R)37.0%new
No earlier poll by this institute for this election, so no change is shown.
How to read a poll
- Sample size is how many people were asked. More people means less random error, never none.
- ±3 is the margin of error: the real figure is likely within 3 points either way of the one shown.
- Two polls can differ because they were taken on different dates, with different methods and different samples.
- est. means the institute did not publish a margin of error, so it is estimated from the sample size.
- The average smooths this out: it combines recent polls, so one unusual poll cannot swing the picture.