1946 California gubernatorial election
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The 1946 California gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1946.
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It is notable for the incumbent Governor, Earl Warren, being nominated by both the Republican and Democratic parties.[1] Subsequently, Warren won re-election effectively unopposed, receiving more than 90% of the vote. He was the first Governor of the state to win two elections since Hiram Johnson in 1914.
Primary election results
editRepublican primary
editThe Republican primary occurred on June 5, 1946. Incumbent Governor Earl Warren won 91.10% of the vote.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Earl Warren (incumbent) | 774,502 | 91.10% | |
Republican | Robert W. Kenny | 70,331 | 8.27% | |
Republican | William E. Riker | 5,359 | 0.63% | |
Total votes | 850,192 | 100.00% |
Democratic primary
editThe Democratic primary occurred on June 5, 1946. Despite being a Republican, Earl Warren won 51.93% of the vote and the Democratic nomination.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Earl Warren | 593,180 | 51.93% | |
Democratic | Robert W. Kenny | 530,968 | 46.49% | |
Democratic | A. Beldon Gilbert | 9,865 | 0.86% | |
Democratic | William E. Riker | 8,175 | 0.72% | |
Total votes | 1,142,188 | 100.00% |
Prohibition primary
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Prohibition | Henry R. Schmidt | 1,786 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 1,786 | 100.00% |
General election results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Earl Warren (incumbent) | 2,344,542 | 91.64% | +34.57% | |
Prohibition | Henry R. Schmidt | 180,579 | 7.06% | +6.58% | |
Independent | Archie Brown (write-in)[a] | 22,606 | 0.88% | ||
Independent | James Roosevelt (write-in)[b] | 3,210 | 0.13% | ||
Independent | Robert W. Kenny (write-in) | 1,636 | 0.06% | ||
Independent | Albert Clark (write-in) | 835 | 0.03% | ||
Independent | Robert W. Long (write-in) | 679 | 0.02% | ||
Scattering | 4,312 | 0.17% | |||
Majority | 2,163,963 | 84.58% | |||
Total votes | 2,558,399 | 100.00% | |||
Republican hold | Swing | +76.20% |
Results by county
editCounty | Earl Warren Republican |
Henry R. Schmidt Prohibition |
Archie Brown Communist |
All Others[c] Write-in |
Margin | Total votes cast[3] | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Alameda | 179,864 | 88.32% | 19,457 | 9.55% | 3,776 | 1.85% | 543[d] | 0.27% | 160,407 | 78.77% | 203,640 |
Alpine | 106 | 98.15% | 2 | 1.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 104 | 96.30% | 108 |
Amador | 2,416 | 92.39% | 190 | 7.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 9 | 0.34% | 2,226 | 85.12% | 2,615 |
Butte | 12,534 | 94.13% | 782 | 5.87% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 11,752 | 88.25% | 13,316 |
Calaveras | 2,507 | 94.78% | 135 | 5.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 0.11% | 2,372 | 89.68% | 2,645 |
Colusa | 2,750 | 95.52% | 129 | 4.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,621 | 91.04% | 2,879 |
Contra Costa | 44,668 | 89.92% | 3,921 | 7.89% | 1,010 | 2.03% | 77 | 0.16% | 40,747 | 82.03% | 49,676 |
Del Norte | 2,138 | 95.02% | 112 | 4.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,026 | 90.04% | 2,250 |
El Dorado | 3,886 | 92.52% | 314 | 7.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,572 | 85.05% | 4,200 |
Fresno | 48,151 | 92.05% | 4,051 | 7.74% | 90 | 0.17% | 20[e] | 0.04% | 44,100 | 84.30% | 52,312 |
Glenn | 3,293 | 95.23% | 155 | 4.48% | 7 | 0.20% | 3[f] | 0.09% | 3,138 | 90.75% | 3,458 |
Humboldt | 14,446 | 95.03% | 677 | 4.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 79 | 0.52% | 13,769 | 90.57% | 15,202 |
Imperial | 7,167 | 93.91% | 446 | 5.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 19 | 0.25% | 6,721 | 88.06% | 7,632 |
Inyo | 2,337 | 94.42% | 125 | 5.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 0.53% | 2,212 | 89.37% | 2,475 |
Kern | 32,497 | 92.37% | 2,608 | 7.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 78 | 0.22% | 29,889 | 84.95% | 35,183 |
Kings | 7,512 | 93.88% | 472 | 5.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 18 | 0.22% | 7,040 | 87.98% | 8,002 |
Lake | 3,016 | 94.55% | 164 | 5.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 10 | 0.31% | 2,852 | 89.40% | 3,190 |
Lassen | 3,565 | 93.94% | 223 | 5.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 7[g] | 0.18% | 3,342 | 88.06% | 3,795 |
Los Angeles | 988,710 | 90.57% | 81,301 | 7.45% | 13,949 | 1.28% | 7,670[h] | 0.70% | 907,409 | 83.12% | 1,091,630 |
Madera | 5,575 | 92.22% | 457 | 7.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 0.22% | 5,118 | 84.67% | 6,045 |
Marin | 19,912 | 95.15% | 762 | 3.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 252 | 1.20% | 19,150 | 91.51% | 20,926 |
Mariposa | 1,492 | 94.85% | 75 | 4.77% | 6 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,417 | 90.08% | 1,573 |
Mendocino | 7,048 | 93.92% | 373 | 4.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 83 | 1.11% | 6,675 | 88.95% | 7,504 |
Merced | 11,263 | 94.48% | 658 | 5.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 10.605 | 88.96% | 11,921 |
Modoc | 1,846 | 94.86% | 100 | 5.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,746 | 89.72% | 1,946 |
Mono | 502 | 94.36% | 30 | 5.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 472 | 88.72% | 532 |
Monterey | 20,674 | 95.67% | 834 | 3.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 101 | 0.47% | 19,840 | 91.81% | 21,609 |
Napa | 10,786 | 95.30% | 522 | 4.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 10 | 0.09% | 10,264 | 90.69% | 11,318 |
Nevada | 6,483 | 93.75% | 432 | 6.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,051 | 87.51% | 6,915 |
Orange | 51,058 | 93.13% | 3,616 | 6.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 151 | 0.28% | 47,442 | 86.53% | 54,825 |
Placer | 9,209 | 92.33% | 765 | 7.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 8,444 | 84.66% | 9,974 |
Plumas | 3,652 | 93.28% | 260 | 6.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 3[i] | 0.08% | 3,392 | 86.64% | 3,915 |
Riverside | 33,193 | 92.44% | 2,552 | 7.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 162 | 0.45% | 30,641 | 85.33% | 35,907 |
Sacramento | 54,145 | 91.64% | 4,464 | 7.56% | 385 | 0.65% | 89 | 0.15% | 49,681 | 84.09% | 59,083 |
San Benito | 3,807 | 96.80% | 126 | 3.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,681 | 93.59% | 3,933 |
San Bernardino | 55,874 | 92.07% | 4,500 | 7.41% | 227 | 0.37% | 88 | 0.15% | 51,374 | 84.65% | 60,689 |
San Diego | 115,666 | 93.48% | 8,074 | 6.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 107,592 | 86.95% | 123,740 |
San Francisco | 220,344 | 92.15% | 16,716 | 6.99% | 2,056 | 0.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 203,628 | 85.16% | 239,116 |
San Joaquin | 37,291 | 93.90% | 2,290 | 5.77% | 103 | 0.26% | 30 | 0.08% | 35,001 | 88.13% | 39,714 |
San Luis Obispo | 12,277 | 94.16% | 698 | 5.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 64 | 0.49% | 11,579 | 88.80% | 13,039 |
San Mateo | 47,672 | 94.80% | 2,183 | 4.34% | 331 | 0.66% | 99 | 0.20% | 45,489 | 90.46% | 50,285 |
Santa Barbara | 22,306 | 95.11% | 1,020 | 4.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 128 | 0.55% | 21,286 | 90.76% | 23,454 |
Santa Clara | 62,641 | 94.28% | 3,393 | 5.11% | 410 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 59,248 | 89.17% | 66,444 |
Santa Cruz | 17,224 | 94.22% | 965 | 5.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 92 | 0.50% | 16,259 | 88.94% | 18,281 |
Shasta | 7,862 | 94.45% | 447 | 5.37% | 15 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,415 | 89.08% | 8,324 |
Sierra | 836 | 95.65% | 37 | 4.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.11% | 799 | 91.42% | 874 |
Siskiyou | 7,504 | 94.31% | 453 | 5.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,051 | 88.61% | 7,957 |
Solano | 21,609 | 94.93% | 1,155 | 5.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 20,454 | 89.85% | 22,764 |
Sonoma | 22,692 | 94.15% | 1,219 | 5.06% | 172 | 0.71% | 20 | 0.08% | 21,473 | 89.09% | 24,103 |
Stanislaus | 21,608 | 92.67% | 1,628 | 6.98% | 57 | 0.24% | 24[j] | 0.10% | 19,980 | 85.69% | 23,317 |
Sutter | 4,486 | 94.66% | 253 | 5.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,233 | 89.32% | 4,739 |
Tehama | 3,836 | 92.66% | 304 | 7.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,532 | 85.31% | 4,140 |
Trinity | 1,799 | 93.80% | 109 | 5.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 10 | 0.52% | 1,690 | 88.11% | 1,918 |
Tulare | 23,361 | 93.50% | 1,587 | 6.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 36 | 0.14% | 21,774 | 87.15% | 24,984 |
Tuolumne | 4,301 | 95.24% | 203 | 4.50% | 12 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,098 | 90.74% | 4,516 |
Ventura | 19,012 | 90.74% | 1,340 | 6.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 601 | 2.87% | 17,672 | 84.34% | 20,953 |
Yolo | 7,719 | 94.28% | 420 | 5.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 48 | 0.59% | 7,299 | 89.15% | 8,187 |
Yuba | 4,414 | 93.38% | 295 | 6.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 18 | 0.38% | 4,119 | 87.14% | 4,727 |
Total | 2,344,542 | 91.64% | 180,579 | 7.06% | 22,606 | 0.88% | 10,672 | 0.42% | 2,163,963 | 84.58% | 2,558,399 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editNotes
edit- ^ Affiliated with Communist Party
- ^ Affiliated with Democratic Party
- ^ These votes were Scattering unless otherwise noted in each county
- ^ 247 for Kenny, 102 for Clark
- ^ 2 for Roosevelt, 13 for Clark
- ^ 2 for Kenny, 1 for Long
- ^ 7 for Kenny
- ^ 3,203 for Roosevelt, 1,370 for Kenny, 716 for Clark, 674 for Long
- ^ 3 for Kenny
- ^ 5 for Roosevelt, 7 for Kenny, 4 for Clark, 4 for Long
References
edit- ^ Newton, Jim (October 22, 2006). "The Earl Warren precedent". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 9, 2018.
- ^ a b c California Secretary of State. State of California Statement of Vote Primary Election June 4, 1946. Sacramento, California: State Printing Office. p. 4. Retrieved July 20, 2024.
- ^ a b California Secretary of State. State of California Statement of Vote General Election November 5, 1946. Sacramento, California: State Printing Office. p. 4. Retrieved July 20, 2024.