California's 4th State Senate district

California's 4th State Senate district

Current senator		Jim Nielsen (R–Gerber)
Registration	39.26% Republican 32.81% Democratic 21.53% No party preference
Demographics	65.92% White 3.78% Black 19.73% Latino 6.98% Asian 2.18% Native American 0.46% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.24% other 0.70% remainder of multiracial
Population (2010) • Voting age • Citizen voting age	937,962 702,185 622,033
Registered voters	452,834

California's 4th State Senate district is one of 40 California State Senate districts. It is currently represented by Republican Jim Nielsen of Gerber.

District profile

The district encompasses the Sacramento Valley, reaching almost to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The district mainly comprises rural farmland, but most of the population is clustered in the Sacramento metropolitan area in the southern tip of the district.

All of Butte County

All of Colusa County

All of Glenn County

Placer County – 37.1%

Roseville

Sacramento County – 21.8%

All of Sutter County

All of Tehama County

All of Yuba County

Election results from statewide races

Year	Office	Results
2012	President	Romney 52.6 – 44.4%
2012	Senator	Emken 53.3 – 46.7%
2014	Governor	Kashkari 52.4 – 47.6%

Election results from statewide races
Year	Office	Results
2002	Governor	Simon 57.6 - 21.5%
2000	President	Bush 53.0 - 42.0%
2000	Senator	Feinstein 47.3 - 44.8%
1998	Governor	Davis 51.8 - 44.6%
1998	Senator	Fong 56.3 - 39.5%
1996	President	Dole 45.1 - 43.4%
1994	Governor	Wilson 60.6 - 33.8%
1994	Senator	Huffington 52.7 - 38.4%
1992	President	Clinton 40.1 - 35.9%
	Senator	Herschensohn 47.4 - 41.1%
	Senator	Feinstein 48.1 - 42.6%

List of senators

Due to redistricting, the 4th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2011 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

	Party	Dates
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	Independent
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
Maurice Johannessen	Republican	1993–2002
Sam Aanestad	Republican	2002–2010
Doug LaMalfa	Republican	2010–2012
Jim Nielsen	Republican	2013–present

Election results

1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006 • 2010 • 2013 (special) • 2014

2014

California State Senate election, 2014
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jim Nielsen (incumbent)	92,191	64.0
	Democratic	CJ Jawahar	51,781	36.0
Total votes			143,972	100.0
General election
	Republican	Jim Nielsen (incumbent)	139,199	63.7
	Democratic	CJ Jawahar	79,457	36.3
Total votes			218,656	100.0
	Republican hold

2013 (special)

California's 4th State Senate district special election, 2013 Vacancy resulting from the resignation of Doug LaMalfa
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jim Nielsen	188,207	49.8
	Democratic	Michael "Mickey" Harrington	104,572	27.7
	Republican	Dan Logue	43,303	11.5
	No party preference	Jann Reed	24,966	6.6
	No party preference	Dan Levine	9,882	2.6
	No party preference	Benjamin "Ben" Emery	7,146	1.9
Total votes			378,076	100.0
General election
	Republican	Jim Nielsen	97,849	66.6
	Democratic	Michael "Mickey" Harrington	49,004	33.4
Total votes			146,853	100.0
	Republican hold

2010

California State Senate election, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Doug LaMalfa	226,239	68.3
	Democratic	Lathe Gill	105,460	31.7
Total votes			331,699	100.0
	Republican hold

2006

California State Senate election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Sam Aanestad (incumbent)	161,516	61.0
	Democratic	Paul R. Singh	87,926	33.1
	Libertarian	Tony Munroe	8,246	3.1
	Green	Robert Wells Vizzard	7,456	2.8
Total votes			265,144	100.0
	Republican hold

2002

California State Senate election, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Sam Aanestad	148,023	58.1
	Democratic	Marianne Smith	92,786	36.3
	Libertarian	Robert H. Underwood	14,325	5.6
Total votes			255,134	100.0
	Republican hold

1998

California State Senate election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Maurice Johannessen (incumbent)	135,528	56.7
	Democratic	Mark Desio	103,620	43.3
Total votes			239,148	100.0
	Republican hold

1994

California State Senate election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Maurice Johannessen (incumbent)	133,101	54.4
	Democratic	Michael H. McGowan	111,667	45.6
Total votes			244,768	100.0
	Republican hold

External links

District map from the California Citizens Redistricting Commission

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