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| Population (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Calif. Secretary of State)
California has: 58 counties. Nine counties over 1 million: Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, Alameda, Sacramento, and Contra Costa. Five cities over 500,000: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Fresno. Government
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State
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California Secretary of State American
Indep. Party Los
Angeles Times Rough & Tumble
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| Voting Eligible Population*: 25,278,803. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 55.6%. CASOS VEP: 24,875,293 Registration: Dem. 8,720,417 (44.92%) Rep. 5,048,398 (26.01%) AIP 507,377 (2.61%) Grn 94,647 (0.49%) Lib. 139,805 (0.72%) P&F 75,640 (0.39%) Other 114,140 (0.59%) No Party Pref. 4,711,347 (24.27%) ...Total 19,411,771. > Voter Registration Deadline: Online or postmarked by Oct. 24, 2016. Vote by Mail Period: Oct. 10-Nov. 1, 2016. Vote by Mail: 8,443,594 [57.79% of Total Voters]. |
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Overview:
The last Republican
presidential candidate to carry California was George H.W. Bush in
1988. Democrats
headed into this election with a registration advantage
of over 3.6 million voters (+). Trump-Pence
did get the nomination of the American Independent Party (AIP), California's third largest
political party, at its
convention on Aug. 13. The Hispanic vote is very important in California. According to the Pew Research Center (>), the state has a Hispanic population of about 15 million, accounting for 39% of the total population, the second highest share of any state. 6.9 million of these people are eligible to vote, or 28% of the total eligible to vote. California had its share of fundraising visits, particularly on the Democratic side. With the state solidly in the Democratic column, activists focused their efforts on getting out the vote in battleground states (+). The outcome was most-lopsided result in decades as Clinton carried 33 counties to 25 for Trump, amassing a plurality of 4,269,978 votes (30.11 percentage points). General Election Visits Clinton | Trump BALLOT [PDF] |
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| Registration: Dem. 8,029,130
(44.82%)
Rep. 4,888,771 (27.29%) AIP 457,173 (2.55%)
Grn. 77,868 (0.43%) Lib. 115,189 (0.64%)
P&F 71,326 (0.40%) Other 97,948 (0.55%) No Pref.
4,177,648
(23.32%) Total 17,915,053. [Eligible: 24,783,789] Total Votes:: 8,548,301. Turnout (Registered): 47.72%. Turnout (Eligible) :34.49%. |
| Democrats
548 Delegates: 317 District, 105 At-Large, 53 PLEO, 73 Unpledged. details |
Republicans
172 Delegates: 3 RNC; 10 at-large; 159 by CD (3 x 53). details
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American Independent: Alan Spears 8,103 (19.2%), Arthur Harris 7,216 (17.1%), Robert Omelas 7,164 (17%), Wiley Drake 5,476 (13%), J.R. Myers 5,475 (13%), James Hedges 4,462 (10..6%) Thomas Hoefling 4,345 (10.3%) ...Total 42,241
Green: Jill Stein 11,207 (76.2%), Darryl Cherney 1,475 (10%), Sedinam Moyowasifsa-Curry 839 (5.7%), William Kreml 595 (4%), Kent Mesplay 584 (4%) ...Total 14,710
Libertarian: Gary Johnson 19,294 (61.9%), John McAfee 3,139 (10.1%), Austin Petersen 1,853 (5.9%), Rhett White Feather Smith 1,531 (4.9%), Joy Waymire 923, John Hale 873, Marc Feldman 867, Jack Robinson Jr. 739, Steve Kerbel 556, Darryl W. Perry 521, Derrick M. Reid 462, Carl Ince 417 ...Total 31,175
Peace and Freedom: Lynn S. Kahn 1,041 (20.8%), Gloria Estela La Riva 2,475 (49.5%), Monica Moorhead 1,487 (29.7%) ...Total 5,003 (+)
Note:
The American Independent Party (AIP) of Californa voted to nominate Trump at its convention in Sacramento on August 13, 2016. Markham Robinson, chair of the AIP executive committee, provided some background in response to an email query (slightly edited for clarity):
We
had
a
preference
Primary
on
June
7,
2016.
Only
30%
of
those
taking
AIP
ballots
voted for 1 of the 7 choices. About 60% wrote in Donald Trump.
Since the Secretary of State refused our request to put Donald Trump in
as one of our Primary candidates, we can only surmise what % would have
picked him... If a third, then he'd have gotten about 70% of the
vote. The write-ins while real, were not tallied because none of
those
written in were official wite-in candidates, but even if they were the
results were non-binding.
We took a straw vote of our State Central Committee and all those present on the telephonic/online conference voted for Trump. This, like the Preference Primary vote, was non-binding.
The National Party Convention voted to nominate Trump, but that is not binding on the CA AIP Convention.
We took a straw vote of our State Central Committee and all those present on the telephonic/online conference voted for Trump. This, like the Preference Primary vote, was non-binding.
The National Party Convention voted to nominate Trump, but that is not binding on the CA AIP Convention.
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| 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 |
| Clinton 46.01% |
Clinton 51.10% |
Gore 53.45% |
Kerry 54.41% |
Obama 61.01% |
Obama 60.24% |
and
the
details...
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| Voting Eligible Population*: 23,620,070. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 55.2%. Vote by Mail: 6,753,688 [51.16% of Total Voters]. Registration: Dem. 7,966,422 (43.66%) Rep. 5,356,608 (29.36%) AIP 477,129 (2.61%) Grn. 115,034 (0.63%) Lib. 108,736 (0.60%) P&F 61,987 (0.34%) AmElect 3,313 (0.02%) Other 336,196 (1.84%) Decline 3,820,545 (20.94%) ...Total 18,245,970. |
Total voters: 13,202,158. |
2012
Overview President Obama won the state's 55 electoral votes without difficulty and Democrats had success in congressional and state legislative races as well. Obama achieved a plurality of 3,014,327 votes (23.12 percentage points) and carried 31 counties to 27 for Romney. More than half of voters cast the ballots by mail. Half a million fewer votes were cast than in 2008. General Election Details Obama | (Romney) BALLOT [PDF] |
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| Voting Eligible Population*: 21,993,429. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 61.7%. Mail in voting began on Oct. 6, 2008. Last day to request a vote-by-mail ballot was Oct. 28, 2008. Vote by Mail: 5,722,465 [41.64% of Total Voters]. Registration: Dem. 7,683,495 (44.40%) Rep. 5,428,052 (31.37%) AIP 370,405 (2.14%) Grn. 118,416 (0.68%) Lib. 83,574 (0.48%) P&F 56,350 (0.33%) Misc. 118,876 (0.69%) Decline 3,444,923 (19.91%) ...Total 17,304,091. |
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2008
Overview The Obama-Biden ticket easily won California, gaining a plurality of 3,262,692 votes (24.06 percentage points), and carrying 34 counties to 24 for McCain. Both campaigns milked the state for money (visits) and "Tonight Show" appearances. In third party news the AIP disaffiliated from the Constitution Party and ran Alan Keyes as its nominee rather than Chuck Baldwin. Obama/Allies | McCain/Allies | Nader |
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| Voting Eligible Population*: 21,132,533. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 58.8%. Registration: Dem. 7,120,425 (43.00%) Rep. 5,745,518 (34.70%) AIP 326,763 (1.97%) Grn. 160,579 (0.97%) Lib. 89,617 (0.54%) NL 28,779 (0.17%) P&F 68,100 (0.41%) Misc. 91,581 (0.55%) Decline 2,925,901 (17.67%) ...Total 16,557,273 |
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2004
Overview Although Republicans had made some headway by electing Gov. Schwarzenegger and cutting the Democrats' registration edge, California remained a "safe Kerry" state. Kerry gained a plurality of 1,235,859 votes (9.98 percentage points); he won in 22 counties to Bush's 36. General Election Details Kerry/Democrats | Bush-Cheney '04 |
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Voting
Eligible Population*: 19,685,258. VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 55.7%. 2,739,155
of
the
11,142,843
total
votes
cast
were
by
absentee
ballot
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24.58%. Registration: Dem. 7,134,601 (45.4%) Rep. 5,485,492 (34.9%) AIP 321,838 (2.1%) Grn. 138,734 (0.9%) Lib. 94,900 (0.6%) Ref. 79,152 (0.5%) NL 58,275 (0.4%) Misc. 137,999 (0.9%) Decline 2,256,316 (14.4%) ...Total 15,707,307 |
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2000
Overview Brash talk and a significant investment of resources by the Bush campaign and the Republican party failed to pry California's 54 electors out of the Democratic column. As in other recent statewide elections, the Democrats' registration edge of about 10% held solid; Vice President Gore won with a plurality of 1,293,774 votes (11.80 percentage points). Los Angeles County weighed in heavily, producing a plurality of more than 800,000 votes for Gore. Overall, Gore won in 20 counties to Bush's 38. Early in the campaign it appeared Ralph Nader might be a factor. From Aug. 1 to Election Day he spent 13 days campaigning in Calif., but he ended up not having much impact on Gore's showing. Pat Buchanan failed to make a mark despite significant TV buys. General Election Activity |
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