List of United States Senate elections in California
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United States Senate elections in California occur when voters in the U.S. state of California select an individual to represent the state in the United States Senate in either of the state's two seats allotted by the Constitution. Regularly scheduled general elections occur on Election Day, coinciding with various other federal, statewide, and local races.
Each state is allotted two U.S. Senators elected to staggered six-year terms, which were originally selected by the state legislature. The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon California's admission to the Union in 1850, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1849. Since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, U.S. Senators are elected directly by the voters of each state. Special elections may be held to fill mid-term vacancies to elect an individual to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.
The list below contains results from all U.S. Senate elections held in California after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, sorted by year. The next scheduled election for the Class 1 seat is in 2024, while the Class 3 seat will hold its next election in 2028.
List of recent elections[edit]
Class 1[edit]
| Year | Winner | Runner(s)-up | Others | Ref | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1916 | Hiram Johnson | Republican[a] | 574,667 | 61.09% | George S. Patton | Democratic | 277,852 | 29.54% | 38,797 | 4.12% | [1] | ||
| Walter Thomas Mills | Socialist | 49,341 | 5.25% | ||||||||||
| 1922 | Hiram Johnson | Republican | 564,422 | 62.17% | William J. Pearson | Democratic | 215,748 | 23.76% | [2] | ||||
| Henry Clay Needham | Prohibition | 70,748 | 7.79% | ||||||||||
| Upton Sinclair | Socialist | 56,982 | 6.28% | ||||||||||
| 1928 | Hiram Johnson | Republican | 1,148,397 | 74.11% | Minor Moore | Democratic | 282,411 | 18.23% | 26,624 | 1.72% | [3] | ||
| Charles Hiram Randall | Prohibition | 92,106 | 5.94% | ||||||||||
| 1934 | Hiram Johnson | Republican[b] | 1,946,572 | 94.66% | George Ross Kirkpatrick | Socialist | 108,748 | 5.29% | 1,025 | 0.05% | [4] | ||
| 1940 | Hiram Johnson | Republican[c] | 2,238,899 | 82.62% | Fred Dyster | Prohibition | 366,044 | 13.51% | 104,893 | 3.87% | [5] | ||
| 1946 (sp) | William Knowland | Write-in | 425,273 | 74.31% | Will Rogers Jr. | Write-in | 90,723 | 15.85% | 56,325 | 9.84% | [6] | ||
| 1946 | William Knowland | Republican | 1,428,067 | 54.10% | Will Rogers Jr. | Democratic | 1,167,161 | 44.22% | 44,237 | 1.68% | |||
| 1952 | William Knowland | Republican[b] | 3,982,448 | 87.79% | Reuben W. Borough | Progressive | 542,270 | 11.95% | 11,812 | 0.26% | [7] | ||
| 1958 | Clair Engle | Democratic | 2,927,693 | 57.01% | Goodwin Knight | Republican | 2,204,337 | 42.93% | 3,191 | 0.06% | [8] | ||
| 1964 | George Murphy | Republican | 3,628,552 | 51.54% | Pierre Salinger | Democratic | 3,411,915 | 48.46% | [9] | ||||
| 1970 | John V. Tunney | Democratic | 3,496,558 | 53.86% | George Murphy | Republican | 2,877,617 | 44.33% | 117,982 | 1.81% | [10] | ||
| 1976 | S. I. Hayakawa | Republican | 3,748,973 | 50.17% | John V. Tunney | Democratic | 3,502,862 | 46.88% | 220,433 | 2.95% | [11] | ||
| 1982 | Pete Wilson | Republican | 4,022,565 | 51.54% | Jerry Brown | Democratic | 3,494,968 | 44.78% | 288,005 | 3.68% | [12] | ||
| 1988 | Pete Wilson | Republican | 5,143,409 | 52.79% | Leo T. McCarthy | Democratic | 4,287,253 | 44.00% | 312,939 | 3.21% | [13] | ||
| 1992 (sp) | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | 5,853,651 | 54.29% | John Seymour | Republican | 4,093,501 | 37.96% | 835,591 | 7.75% | [14] | ||
| 1994 | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | 3,979,152 | 46.74% | Michael Huffington | Republican | 3,817,025 | 44.83% | 717,912 | 8.43% | [15] | ||
| 2000 | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | 5,932,522 | 55.84% | Tom Campbell | Republican | 3,886,853 | 36.59% | 804,239 | 7.57% | [16] | ||
| 2006 | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | 5,076,289 | 59.43% | Dick Mountjoy | Republican | 2,990,822 | 35.02% | 474,365 | 5.55% | [17] | ||
| 2012 | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | 7,864,624 | 62.52% | Elizabeth Emken | Republican | 4,713,887 | 37.48% | [18] | ||||
| 2018 | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | 6,019,422 | 54.16% | Kevin de León | Democratic | 5,093,942 | 45.84% | [19] | ||||
- County results of Class 1 elections since 2000
Class 3[edit]
| Year | Winner | Runner(s)-up | Others | Ref | |||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1914 | James D. Phelan | Democratic | 279,896 | 31.59% | Francis J. Heney | Progressive | 255,232 | 28.81% | 39,921 | 4.51% | [20] | ||
| Joseph R. Knowland | Republican | 254,159 | 28.69% | ||||||||||
| Ernest Untermann | Socialist | 56,805 | 6.41% | ||||||||||
| 1920 | Samuel M. Shortridge | Republican | 447,835 | 49.01% | James D. Phelan | Democratic | 371,580 | 40.67% | 36,545 | 4.00% | [21] | ||
| James S. Edwards | Prohibition | 57,768 | 6.32% | ||||||||||
| 1926 | Samuel M. Shortridge | Republican | 670,128 | 63.12% | John B. Elliott | Democratic | 391,599 | 36.88% | [22] | ||||
| 1932 | William Gibbs McAdoo | Democratic | 943,164 | 43.39% | Tallant Tubbs | Republican | 669,676 | 30.81% | 906 | 0.03% | [23] | ||
| Robert P. Shuler | Prohibition | 560,088 | 25.77% | ||||||||||
| 1938 | Sheridan Downey | Democratic[d] | 1,372,314 | 54.43% | Philip Bancroft | Republican | 1,126,240 | 44.67% | 22,569 | 0.90% | [24] | ||
| 1944 | Sheridan Downey | Democratic | 1,728,155 | 52.29% | Frederick F. Houser | Republican[e] | 1,576,553 | 47.71% | [25] | ||||
| 1950 | Richard Nixon | Republican | 2,183,454 | 59.23% | Helen Gahagan Douglas | Democratic | 1,502,507 | 40.76% | 354 | 0.01% | [26] | ||
| 1954 (sp) | Thomas Kuchel | Republican | 2,090,836 | 53.21% | Sam Yorty | Democratic | 1,788,071 | 45.51% | 50,506 | 1.29% | [27] | ||
| 1956 | Thomas Kuchel | Republican | 2,892,918 | 53.96% | Richard Richards | Democratic | 2,445,816 | 45.62% | 22,410 | 0.42% | [28] | ||
| 1962 | Thomas Kuchel | Republican | 3,180,483 | 56.33% | Richard Richards | Democratic | 2,452,839 | 43.44% | 12,941 | 0.23% | [29] | ||
| 1968 | Alan Cranston | Democratic | 3,680,352 | 51.82% | Max Rafferty | Republican | 3,329,148 | 46.87% | 92,965 | 1.31% | [30] | ||
| 1974 | Alan Cranston | Democratic | 3,693,160 | 60.52% | H. L. Richardson | Republican | 2,210,267 | 36.22% | 199,005 | 3.26% | [31] | ||
| 1980 | Alan Cranston | Democratic | 4,705,399 | 56.50% | Paul Gann | Republican | 3,093,426 | 37.15% | 528,657 | 6.35% | [32] | ||
| 1986 | Alan Cranston | Democratic | 3,646,672 | 49.29% | Ed Zschau | Republican | 3,541,804 | 47.87% | 210,073 | 2.84% | [33] | ||
| 1992 | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | 5,173,467 | 47.90% | Bruce Herschensohn | Republican | 4,644,182 | 43.00% | 982,054 | 9.10% | [14] | ||
| 1998 | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | 4,411,705 | 53.06% | Matt Fong | Republican | 3,576,351 | 43.01% | 326,897 | 3.93% | [34] | ||
| 2004 | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | 6,955,728 | 57.71% | Bill Jones | Republican | 4,555,922 | 37.80% | 541,643 | 7.49% | [35] | ||
| 2010 | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | 5,218,441 | 52.18% | Carly Fiorina | Republican | 4,217,366 | 42.17% | 564,353 | 5.65% | [36] | ||
| 2016 | Kamala Harris | Democratic | 7,542,753 | 61.60% | Loretta Sanchez | Democratic | 4,701,417 | 38.40% | [37] | ||||
| 2022 (sp) | Alex Padilla | Democratic | 6,559,303 | 60.89% | Mark Meuser | Republican | 4,212,446 | 39.11% | [38] | ||||
| 2022 | Alex Padilla | Democratic | 6,621,616 | 61.06% | Mark Meuser | Republican | 4,222,025 | 38.94% | [39] | ||||
- County results of Class 3 elections since 2004
See also[edit]
- List of United States senators from California
- List of United States presidential elections in California
- Elections in California
Notes[edit]
- ^ Cross-nominated by the Progressive Party.
- ^ a b Cross-nominated by the Democratic Party.
- ^ Cross-nominated by the Democratic Party and the California Progressive Party.
- ^ Cross-nominated by the California Progressive Party and the Townsend Party.
- ^ Cross-nominated by the Prohibition Party.
References[edit]
- ^ "CA US Senate Race - Nov 07, 1916". Our Campaigns.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1922" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 6, 1928" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1934" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1940" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 1946" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1952" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1958" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 3, 1964" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1970" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 1976" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1982" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1988" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ a b "Federal Elections 1992" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1994" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2000" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2006" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2012" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2018" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "CA US Senate Race - Nov 03, 1914". Our Campaigns.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 2, 1920" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 1926" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 8, 1932" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1938" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 1944" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1950" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 1954" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1956" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1962" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1974" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1980" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1986" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1998" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2004" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2010" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2016" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "United States Senator (Partial Term) - General Election - Statement of the Vote, November 8, 2022" (PDF). Secretary of State of California.
- ^ "United States Senator (Full Term) - General Election - Statement of the Vote, November 8, 2022" (PDF). Secretary of State of California.
External links[edit]
- Elections and Voter Information, Secretary of State of California
- Election Information, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
- Election and Voting Information, Federal Election Commission
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