| California's 4th State Senate district | ||
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| Current senator | Doug LaMalfa (R–Richvale) | |
| Registration | 44.02% Republican
31.77% Democratic
18.70% Decline to State
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| Demographics | 77.1% White
1.5% Black
12.8% Hispanic
4.1% Asian
3.1% Native American
0.2% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
0.5% other
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| Population | 846,790 | |
| Voting-age population | 619,915 | |
| Registered voters | 504,904 | |
California's 4th State Senate District is one of 40 Senate Districts. It is currently represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa of Richvale.
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The 4th District covers a vast and predominantly rural region that includes 12 counties: Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, part of Nevada, part of Placer, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity and Yuba counties.
The places in Nevada County that are in the district include Grass Valley and Nevada City, and the CDPs of Alta Sierra, Lake of the Pines, Lake Wildwood, and Penn Valley; in Placer County, the cities of Lincoln, Loomis, and Rocklin.
The district includes the northern coast of the state, the region along the California-Oregon state line, the central portion of Northern California, and the region just north of the greater Sacramento area.
The district contains natural assets including agriculture, water, and forestry.
| California State Senate elections, 2006[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Samuel Aanestad (incumbent) | 161,516 | 61.0 | +2.9 | |
| Democratic | Paul R. Singh | 87,926 | 33.1 | -3.2 | |
| Libertarian | Tony Munroe | 8,246 | 3.1 | -2.5 | |
| Green | Robert Wells Vizzard | 7,456 | 2.8 | +2.8 | |
| Total votes | 265,144 | 100.0% | |||
| Majority | 73,590 | 27.9 | +6.1 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Republican hold | Swing | +6.1 | |||
| California State Senate elections, 2002[2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Samuel Aanestad | 148,023 | 58.1 | +1.4 | |
| Democratic | Marianne Smith | 92,786 | 36.3 | -7.0 | |
| Libertarian | Robert H. Underwood | 14,325 | 5.6 | +5.6 | |
| Total votes | 255,134 | 100.0% | |||
| Majority | 55,237 | 21.8 | +8.4 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Republican hold | Swing | +8.4 | |||
| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes |
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| W. A. Shippee | Republican | ||
| R. A. Redman | Democratic | ||
| Philip A. Roach | Democratic | ||
| Dr. Chester Rowell | Republican | ||
| Thomas Fowler | Democratic | ||
| Sherman Day | Democratic | ||
| Jacob Grewell | Whig | ||
| Selim E. Woodworth | Nonpartisan | ||
| Albert F. Jones | Democratic | ||
| Samuel B. Bell | Republican | ||
| Charles L. Pond | Republican | ||
| Augustus L. Rhodes | Republican | ||
| Wanton Allen Shippee | Republican | ||
| Patrick Reddy | Democratic | ||
| George E. Gardner | Democratic | ||
| John Bunyan Sanford | Democratic | 1902–1906 | |
| C. M. Hammond | Republican | 1906–1910 | |
| John Bunyan Sanford | Democratic | 1910–1914 | |
| Claude F. Purkitt | Democratic | 1914–1922 | |
| Fred C. Handy | Republican | 1922–1930 | |
| R. R. Ingels | Republican | 1930–1934 | |
| George Milton Biggar | Republican | 1934–1946 | |
| Burt W. Busch | Republican | 1946–1954 | |
| James E. Busch | Republican | 1954–1958 | |
| Waverly Jack Slattery | Democratic | 1958–1962 | |
| Frank S. Petersen | Democratic | 1962–1966 | |
| John F. McCarthy | Republican | 1966–1970 | |
| Peter H. Behr | Republican | 1970–1974 | |
| John F. Dunlap | Democratic | 1974–1978 | |
| Jim Nielsen | Republican | 1978–1990 | |
| Mike Thompson | Democratic | 1990–1993 | |
| K. Maurice Johannessen | Republican | 1993–2002 | |
| Sam Aanestad | Republican | 2002–present |
Official Profile of Senate District from California State Senate--[1]
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