1946 California gubernatorial election
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The 1946 California gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1946. 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
[edit]Republican primary
[edit]The 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
[edit]The 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
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prohibition | Henry R. Schmidt | 1,786 | 100.00% | |
| Total votes | 1,786 | 100.00% | ||
General election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
[edit]| County | Earl Warren Republican |
Henry R. Schmidt Prohibition |
Archie Brown Communist |
All Others[c] Write-in |
Margin | Total votes cast[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| 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
[edit]Notes
[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.
