List of Governors of California
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Seal of the Governor of California (without the Roman numerals designating the governor's sequence).
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.
List of Governors
Gubernatorial election
(winners are in bold)
Name
Party
Votes
(percentage of votes)
| Year | First | Second | Third (if notable) | Fourth (if notable) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1849 | Peter H. Burnett Nonpartisan 6,783 | Winfield S. Sherwood Unkown 3,220 | ||
| 1851 | John Bigler Democrat 22,613 | Pierson B. Reading Whig 21,531 | ||
| 1853 | John Bigler Democrat 38,940 | William Waldo Whig 37,454 | ||
| 1855 | John Neeley Johnson American 51,157 | John Bigler Democrat 46,225 | ||
| 1857 | John B. Weller Democrat 57,661 | Edward Stanly Republican | George W. Bowie American | |
| 1859 | Milton Slocum Latham Democrat 62,255 | John Currey A.L. Democrat 20,847 | Leland Stanford Republican 10,110 | |
| 1861 | Leland Stanford Republican 56,056 46.4% | John R. McConnell Democrat 33,750 28% | John Conness Union Democrat 30,944 25.6% | |
| 1863 | Frederick F. Low Unionist Republican 64,447 | John Gately Downey Lecompton Democrat 44,843 | ||
| 1867 | Henry Huntly Haight Democrat 49,895 | George Congdon Gorham Republican 40,359 | Caleb T. Fay Indep. Republican 2,088 | |
| 1871 Sept. 6th | Newton Booth Republican 62,581 | Henry Huntly Haight Democrat 57,520 | ||
| 1875 | William Irwin Democrat 61,509 | Timothy G. Phelps Republican 31,322 | John Bidwell Independent 29,752 | William E. Lovett Prohibitionist 356 |
| 1879† | George Clement Perkins Republican 67,965 | Hugh J. Glenn Democrat 47,667 | ||
| 1882 | George Stoneman Democrat 90,694 | Morris M. Estee Republican 67,175 | ||
| 1886 | Washington Montgomery Bartlett Democrat 84,965 | John F. Swift Republican 84,316 | ||
| 1890 | Henry Markham Republican 125,129 | Edward B. Pond Democrat 117,184 | ||
| 1894 | James H. Budd Democrat 111,944 | Morris M. Estee Republican 110,738 | ||
| 1898 | Henry T. Gage Republican 148,354 | James G. McGuire Democrat 129,261 | ||
| 1902 | George Pardee Republican 146,332 | Franklin K. Lane Democrat 143,783 | ||
| 1906 | James Gillett Republican 125,887 | Theodore A. Bell Democrat 117,645 | ||
| 1910 | Hiram Johnson Republican 177,191 | Theodore A. Bell Democrat 154,835 | ||
| 1914 | Hiram Johnson Republican 460,495 | John B. Curtin Democrat 271,990 | ||
| 1918 | William D. Stephens Republican 387,547 | Theodore A. Bell Democrat 251,189 | ||
| 1922 | Friend Richardson Republican 576,445 | Thomas L. Woolwine Democrat 347,530 | ||
| 1926 | C. C. Young Republican 814,815 | Justus S. Wardwell Democrat 282,451 | ||
| 1930 | James Rolph, Jr. Republican 999,393 | Milton M. Young Democrat 333,973 | ||
| 1934 | Frank F. Merriam Republican 1,138,629 | Upton Sinclair Democrat 879,537 | ||
| 1938 | Culbert L. Olson Democrat 1,391,734 52.5% | Frank F. Merriam Republican 1,171,019 44% | ||
| 1942 | Earl Warren Republican 1,275,237 57% | Culbert L. Olson Democrat 932,995 42% | Fred Dyster Prohibition 10,640 | |
| 1946 | Earl Warren Republican Democrat Progressive 91.6% 2,344,542 | Henry R. Schmidt Prohibition 180,579 7.1% | ||
| 1950 | Earl Warren Republican 2,461,754 64.8% | James Roosevelt Democrat 1,333,856 35.1% | ||
| 1954 | Goodwin J. Knight Republican 2,290,519 56.8% | Richard P. Graves Democrat 1,739,368 43.2% | ||
| 1958 | Pat Brown Democrat 3,140,076 59.8% | William F. Knowland Republican 2,110,911 40.2% | ||
| 1962 | Pat Brown Democrat 3,037,109 51.9% | Richard Nixon Republican 2,740,351 46.8% | ||
| 1966 | Ronald Reagan Republican 3,742,913 57.6% | Pat Brown Democrat 2,749,174 42.3% | ||
| 1970 | Ronald Reagan Republican 3,439,174 52.8% | Jesse M. Unruh Democrat 2,938,607 45.1% | ||
| 1974 | Jerry Brown Democrat 1,609,298 50.1% | Houston I. Flournoy Republican 2,055,586 47.3% | ||
| 1978 | Jerry Brown Democrat 3,435,034 56% | Evelle J. Younger Republican 2,274,772 37% | Ed Clark Independent ~368,039 6% | |
| 1982 | George Deukmejian Republican 3,881,014 | Tom Bradley Democrat 3,787,669 | ||
| 1986 | George Deukmejian Republican 4,395,972 61% | Tom Bradley Democrat 2,721,674 37% | ||
| 1990 | Pete Wilson Republican 3,791,904 48.7% | Dianne Feinstein Democrat 3,525,197 46.3% | ||
| 1994 | Pete Wilson Republican 4,777,674 55.3% | Kathleen Brown Democrat 3,517,777 40.4% | ||
| 1998 | Gray Davis Democrat 4,860,702 58.0% | Dan Lungren Republican 3,218,030 38.3% | ||
| 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% | |
| 2003 | Recall Gray Davis | |||
| Yes 4,976,274 55.4% | No 4,007,783 44.6% | |||
| 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% | |
- Notes
- † – Working Men party candidate
- Prohibitionist party results from [link]
See also
External links
- [Governors of California] - Official Site from the State of California with Portraits and Biographies
- 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]
- [Historical gubernatorial candidates]
- [California Elections Code]
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