List of Governors of California
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This is a list of Governors of California since California attained statehood in 1850, together with a list of the results of the Gubernatorial elections.
- For a description of the office and its responsibilities and privileges, see Governor of California.
- For Spanish, Mexican, Bear Flag, military and territorial governors of Alta California, see list of pre-statehood governors of California.
According to the California Elections Code, elections are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November (§1001). According to Article 5, §2 of the California Constitution, each governor's term lasts 4 years. In 1990, the electorate adopted an amendment to Article 5, §2 implementing a term limit of two terms. (Regardless, prior to this limit, only one governor had been elected to more than two terms, Earl Warren.) The term of office of a governor begins on the first Monday after January 1 after the election and lasts until the first Monday after January 1 after the next election. In the gubernatorial elections, there is a primary election wherein each party can decide upon a candidate to nominate for the general elections.
[edit] List of Governors
[edit] Gubernatorial election
(winners are in bold)
Name
Party
Votes
(percentage of votes)
| Year | First | Second | Third (if notable) |
Fourth (if notable) |
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| 1849 | Peter H. Burnett Nonpartisan 6,783 |
Winfield S. Sherwood Unknown 3,220 |
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| 1851 | John Bigler Democrat 22,613 |
Pierson B. Reading Whig 21,531 |
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| 1853 | John Bigler Democrat 38,940 |
William Waldo Whig 37,454 |
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| 1855 | John Neeley Johnson American 51,157 |
John Bigler Democrat 46,225 |
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| 1857 | John B. Weller Democrat 57,661 |
Edward Stanly Republican |
George W. Bowie American |
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| 1859 | Milton Slocum Latham Democrat 62,255 |
John Currey A.L. Democrat 20,847 |
Leland Stanford Republican 10,110 |
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| 1861 | Leland Stanford Republican 56,056 46.4% |
John R. McConnell Democrat 33,750 28% |
John Conness Union Democrat 30,944 25.6% |
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| 1863 | Frederick F. Low Unionist Republican 64,447 |
John Gately Downey Lecompton Democrat 44,843 |
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| 1867 | Henry Huntly Haight Democrat 49,895 |
George Congdon Gorham Republican 40,359 |
Caleb T. Fay Indep. Republican 2,088 |
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| 1871 Sept. 6th |
Newton Booth Republican 62,581 |
Henry Huntly Haight Democrat 57,520 |
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| 1875 | William Irwin Democrat 61,509 |
Timothy G. Phelps Republican 31,322 |
John Bidwell Anti-Monopoly 29,752 |
William E. Lovett Prohibition 356 |
| 1879† | George Clement Perkins Republican 67,965 |
Hugh J. Glenn Democrat 47,667 |
William F. White Workingman's Party ~46,000 |
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| 1882 | George Stoneman Democrat 90,694 |
Morris M. Estee Republican 67,175 |
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| 1886 | Washington Montgomery Bartlett Democrat 84,965 |
John F. Swift Republican 84,316 |
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| 1890 | Henry Markham Republican 125,129 |
Edward B. Pond Democrat 117,184 |
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| 1894 | James H. Budd Democrat 111,944 39.3% |
Morris M. Estee Republican 110,738 38.9% |
Jonathan V. Webster People's Party 51,304 18% |
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| 1898 | Henry T. Gage Republican 148,354 |
James G. McGuire Democrat 129,261 |
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| 1902 | George Pardee Republican 146,332 |
Franklin K. Lane Democrat 143,783 |
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| 1906 | James Gillett Republican 125,887 |
Theodore A. Bell Democrat 117,645 |
William H. Langdon Independence League[1] 45,008 14.4% |
Austin Lewis Socialist 16,036 5.1% |
| 1910 | Hiram Johnson Republican 177,191 45.9% |
Theodore A. Bell Democrat 154,835 40.1% |
J. Stitt Wilson Socialist 47,819 12.4% |
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| 1914 | Hiram Johnson Progressive 460,495 |
John D. Fredericks Republican 271,990 29.4% |
John B. Curtin Democrat 116,121 12.5% |
Noble A. Richardson Socialist 50,716 5.5% |
| 1918 | William D. Stephens Republican 387,547 |
Theodore A. Bell Independent[2] 251,189 |
Henry H. Roser Socialist 29,003 |
James Rolph Jr. Write-in[3] 20,605 |
| 1922 | Friend Richardson Republican 576,445 |
Thomas L. Woolwine Democrat 347,530 |
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| 1926 | C. C. Young Republican 814,815 |
Justus S. Wardwell Democrat 282,451 |
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| 1930 | James Rolph, Jr. Republican 999,393 |
Milton M. Young Democrat 333,973 |
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| 1934 | Frank F. Merriam Republican 1,138,629 |
Upton Sinclair Democrat/EPIC 879,537 |
Raymond L. Haight Commonwealth ~300,000 |
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| 1938 | Culbert L. Olson Democrat 1,391,734 52.5% |
Frank F. Merriam Republican 1,171,019 44% |
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| 1942 | Earl Warren Republican 1,275,237 57% |
Culbert L. Olson Democrat 932,995 42% |
Fred Dyster Prohibition 10,640 |
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| 1946 | Earl Warren Republican Democrat Progressive 91.6% 2,344,542 |
Henry R. Schmidt Prohibition 180,579 7.1% |
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| 1950 | Earl Warren Republican 2,461,754 64.8% |
James Roosevelt Democrat 1,333,856 35.1% |
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| 1954 | Goodwin J. Knight Republican 2,290,519 56.8% |
Richard P. Graves Democrat 1,739,368 43.2% |
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| 1958 | Pat Brown Democrat 3,140,076 59.8% |
William F. Knowland Republican 2,110,911 40.2% |
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| 1962 | Pat Brown Democrat 3,037,109 51.9% |
Richard Nixon Republican 2,740,351 46.8% |
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| 1966 | Ronald Reagan Republican 3,742,913 57.6% |
Pat Brown Democrat 2,749,174 42.3% |
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| 1970 | Ronald Reagan Republican 3,439,174 52.8% |
Jesse M. Unruh Democrat 2,938,607 45.1% |
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| 1974 | Jerry Brown Democrat 3,131,648 50.1% |
Houston I. Flournoy Republican 2,952,954 47.3% |
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| 1978 | Jerry Brown Democrat 3,435,034 56% |
Evelle J. Younger Republican 2,274,772 37% |
Ed Clark Independent ~368,039 6% |
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| 1982 | George Deukmejian Republican 3,881,014 49.3% |
Tom Bradley Democrat 3,787,669 48.1% |
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| 1986 | George Deukmejian Republican 4,395,972 61% |
Tom Bradley Democrat 2,721,674 37% |
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| 1990 | Pete Wilson Republican 3,791,904 48.7% |
Dianne Feinstein Democrat 3,525,197 46.3% |
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| 1994 | Pete Wilson Republican 4,777,674 55.3% |
Kathleen Brown Democrat 3,517,777 40.4% |
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| 1998 | Gray Davis Democrat 4,860,702 58.0% |
Dan Lungren Republican 3,218,030 38.3% |
Dan Hamburg Green 104179 1.2% |
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| 2002 | Gray Davis Democrat 3,533,490 47.3% |
Bill Simon Jr. Republican 3,169,801 42.4% |
Peter Miguel Camejo Green 393,036 5.3% |
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| 2003 | Recall Gray Davis | |||
| Yes 4,976,274 55.4% |
No 4,007,783 44.6% |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger Republican 4,206,284 48.6% |
Cruz Bustamante Democrat 2,724,874 31.5% |
Tom McClintock Republican 1,161,287 13.5% |
Peter Miguel Camejo Green 242,247 2.8% |
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| 2006 | Arnold Schwarzenegger Republican 4,266,591 56.0% |
Phil Angelides Democrat 2,965,232 39.0% |
Peter Miguel Camejo Green ~200,000 2.3% |
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- Notes
- † – Working Men party candidate: W.F. White; Prohibitionists, A.G. Clark.
- Prohibitionist party results from [4]
[edit] See also
- Governor of California
- List of United States Governors
- List of California Governors by time in office
[edit] External links
- Governors of California - Official Site from the State of California with Portraits and Biographies
- Election results for all gubernatorial elections
- List of Governors of California when California Belonged to Mexico
- Election results for all gubernatorial elections
- List of Governors of California
- Election results 1990 to present
- California Elections Code
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