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| California Lieutenant Governor |
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| Top-two primary General election |
| Election details |
| Filing deadline: March 11, 2022 |
| Primary: June 7, 2022 General: November 8, 2022 Pre-election incumbent(s): Eleni Kounalakis (Democratic) |
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| Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting in California |
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| Governor Lieutenant Governor |
California is holding an election for lieutenant governor on November 8, 2022. The primary was scheduled for June 7, 2022. The filing deadline was March 11, 2022.
Incumbent Eleni Kounalakis and Angela Underwood Jacobs are running in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of California on November 8, 2022.
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Eleni Kounalakis (D) | |
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Angela Underwood Jacobs (R) | |
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The following candidates ran in the primary for Lieutenant Governor of California on June 7, 2022.
Candidate |
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Votes |
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Eleni Kounalakis (D) |
52.7
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3,598,617 |
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Angela Underwood Jacobs (R) |
19.9
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1,356,608 |
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David Fennell (R)
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13.4
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915,310 | |
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Clint Saunders (R)
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4.5
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303,922 | |
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Jeffrey Highbear Morgan (D)
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3.3
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227,792 | |
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Mohammad Arif (Peace and Freedom Party) |
2.7
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182,330 | |
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William Saacke (D)
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2.5
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170,869 | |
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David Hillberg (Independent) |
1.1
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73,717 | |
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James Orlando Ogle III (No party preference) (Write-in) |
0.0
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25 | |
| Total votes: 6,829,190 (86.00% precincts reporting) |
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Eleni Kounalakis defeated Edward Hernandez in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of California on November 6, 2018.
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Eleni Kounalakis (D)
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56.6
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5,914,068 |
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Edward Hernandez (D) |
43.4
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4,543,863 | |
| Total votes: 10,457,931 (100.00% precincts reporting) |
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The following candidates ran in the primary for Lieutenant Governor of California on June 5, 2018.
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Votes |
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Eleni Kounalakis (D)
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24.2
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1,587,940 |
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Edward Hernandez (D) |
20.6
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1,347,442 |
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Cole Harris (R) |
17.5
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1,144,003 | |
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Jeff Bleich (D) |
9.9
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648,045 | |
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David Fennell (R)
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7.9
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515,956 | |
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Lydia Ortega (R) |
6.4
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419,512 | |
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David Hernandez (R) |
6.2
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404,982 | |
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Gayle McLaughlin (Independent)
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4.0
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263,364 | |
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Tim Ferreira (L) |
1.5
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99,949 | |
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Cameron Gharabiklou (D) |
1.2
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78,267 | |
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Danny Thomas (Independent) |
0.7
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44,121 | |
| Total votes: 6,553,581 | ||||
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| Lieutenant Governor of California, 2014 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | 57.2% | 4,107,051 | ||
| Republican | Ron Nehring | 42.8% | 3,078,039 | |
| Total Votes | 7,185,090 | |||
| Election results via California Secretary of State | ||||
Click the tabs below to view information about demographics, past elections, and partisan control of the state.
| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for California, 2022 | |||
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| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| California's 1st | Doug LaMalfa | R+12 | |
| California's 2nd | Jared Huffman | D+23 | |
| California's 3rd | Open | R+4 | |
| California's 4th | Mike Thompson | D+17 | |
| California's 5th | Tom McClintock | R+9 | |
| California's 6th | Ami Bera | D+7 | |
| California's 7th | Doris Matsui | D+17 | |
| California's 8th | John Garamendi | D+26 | |
| California's 9th | Josh Harder | D+5 | |
| California's 10th | Mark DeSaulnier | D+18 | |
| California's 11th | Nancy Pelosi | D+37 | |
| California's 12th | Barbara Lee | D+40 | |
| California's 13th | Open | D+4 | |
| California's 14th | Eric Swalwell | D+22 | |
| California's 15th | Open | D+28 | |
| California's 16th | Anna Eshoo | D+26 | |
| California's 17th | Ro Khanna | D+23 | |
| California's 18th | Zoe Lofgren | D+21 | |
| California's 19th | Jimmy Panetta | D+18 | |
| California's 20th | Kevin McCarthy | R+16 | |
| California's 21st | Jim Costa | D+9 | |
| California's 22nd | David Valadao | D+5 | |
| California's 23rd | Jay Obernolte | R+8 | |
| California's 24th | Salud Carbajal | D+13 | |
| California's 25th | Raul Ruiz | D+6 | |
| California's 26th | Julia Brownley | D+8 | |
| California's 27th | Mike Garcia | D+4 | |
| California's 28th | Judy Chu | D+16 | |
| California's 29th | Tony Cardenas | D+26 | |
| California's 30th | Adam Schiff | D+23 | |
| California's 31st | Grace Napolitano | D+15 | |
| California's 32nd | Brad Sherman | D+20 | |
| California's 33rd | Pete Aguilar | D+12 | |
| California's 34th | Jimmy Gomez | D+32 | |
| California's 35th | Norma Torres | D+13 | |
| California's 36th | Ted Lieu | D+21 | |
| California's 37th | Open | D+37 | |
| California's 38th | Linda Sanchez | D+14 | |
| California's 39th | Mark Takano | D+12 | |
| California's 40th | Young Kim | R+2 | |
| California's 41st | Ken Calvert | R+3 | |
| California's 42nd | Open | D+22 | |
| California's 43rd | Maxine Waters | D+32 | |
| California's 44th | Nanette Barragan | D+24 | |
| California's 45th | Michelle Steel | D+2 | |
| California's 46th | Lou Correa | D+15 | |
| California's 47th | Katie Porter | D+3 | |
| California's 48th | Darrell Issa | R+9 | |
| California's 49th | Mike Levin | D+3 | |
| California's 50th | Scott Peters | D+14 | |
| California's 51st | Sara Jacobs | D+12 | |
| California's 52nd | Juan Vargas | D+18 | |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2022 district lines, California[1] | ||||
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| District | Joe Biden |
Donald Trump | ||
| California's 1st | 39.2% | 58.3% | ||
| California's 2nd | 73.5% | 24.0% | ||
| California's 3rd | 47.9% | 49.7% | ||
| California's 4th | 67.1% | 30.5% | ||
| California's 5th | 42.7% | 55.0% | ||
| California's 6th | 57.9% | 39.4% | ||
| California's 7th | 67.4% | 30.3% | ||
| California's 8th | 76.0% | 22.0% | ||
| California's 9th | 55.2% | 42.6% | ||
| California's 10th | 68.6% | 29.3% | ||
| California's 11th | 86.3% | 11.7% | ||
| California's 12th | 89.3% | 8.6% | ||
| California's 13th | 54.3% | 43.4% | ||
| California's 14th | 71.7% | 26.2% | ||
| California's 15th | 77.7% | 20.4% | ||
| California's 16th | 75.4% | 22.4% | ||
| California's 17th | 72.7% | 25.3% | ||
| California's 18th | 71.0% | 26.9% | ||
| California's 19th | 68.7% | 29.1% | ||
| California's 20th | 36.4% | 61.3% | ||
| California's 21st | 59.1% | 38.8% | ||
| California's 22nd | 55.3% | 42.3% | ||
| California's 23rd | 43.9% | 53.7% | ||
| California's 24th | 63.3% | 34.3% | ||
| California's 25th | 56.7% | 41.4% | ||
| California's 26th | 58.9% | 39.0% | ||
| California's 27th | 55.1% | 42.7% | ||
| California's 28th | 66.1% | 31.9% | ||
| California's 29th | 74.5% | 23.2% | ||
| California's 30th | 72.2% | 26.0% | ||
| California's 31st | 64.5% | 33.4% | ||
| California's 32nd | 69.5% | 28.7% | ||
| California's 33rd | 61.5% | 36.2% | ||
| California's 34th | 81.0% | 16.7% | ||
| California's 35th | 62.7% | 35.1% | ||
| California's 36th | 71.0% | 26.9% | ||
| California's 37th | 85.7% | 12.4% | ||
| California's 38th | 64.1% | 33.9% | ||
| California's 39th | 62.0% | 35.8% | ||
| California's 40th | 49.9% | 48.0% | ||
| California's 41st | 48.6% | 49.7% | ||
| California's 42nd | 71.7% | 25.9% | ||
| California's 43rd | 80.8% | 17.0% | ||
| California's 44th | 72.9% | 24.7% | ||
| California's 45th | 52.1% | 46.0% | ||
| California's 46th | 64.1% | 33.7% | ||
| California's 47th | 54.5% | 43.4% | ||
| California's 48th | 42.7% | 55.0% | ||
| California's 49th | 54.6% | 43.2% | ||
| California's 50th | 65.4% | 32.2% | ||
| California's 51st | 62.5% | 35.2% | ||
| California's 52nd | 67.4% | 30.5% | ||
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
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| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 83.3% of Californians lived in one of the state's 31 Solid Democratic counties, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 8.3% lived in one of two Trending Democratic counties: Nevada and Orange. Overall, California was Solid Democratic, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, and Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in California following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| California county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
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| Solid Democratic | 31 | 83.3% | |||||
| Trending Democratic | 2 | 8.3% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 23 | 7.8% | |||||
| New Democratic | 2 | 0.6% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 35 | 92.2% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 23 | 7.8% | |||||
California presidential election results (1900-2020)
| Year | 1900 | 1904 | 1908 | 1912 | 1916 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1940 | 1944 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 |
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| Winning Party | R | R | R | P[2] | D | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
This section details the results of the five most recent U.S. Senate and gubernatorial elections held in the state.
The table below details the vote in the five most recent U.S. Senate races in California.
| U.S. Senate election results in California | ||
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| Race | Winner | Runner up |
| 2018 | 54.2% |
45.8% |
| 2016 | 61.8% |
38.2% |
| 2012 | 62.5% |
37.5% |
| 2010 | 52.1% |
42.5% |
| 2006 | 59.4% |
35.2% |
| Average | 58.0 | 39.8 |
The table below details the vote in the five most recent gubernatorial elections in California.
| Gubernatorial election results in California | ||
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| Race | Winner | Runner up |
| 2018 | 61.9% |
38.1% |
| 2014 | 60.0% |
40.0% |
| 2010 | 53.8% |
40.9% |
| 2006 | 55.9% |
38.9% |
| 2003 | 48.6% |
31.5% |
| Average | 56.0 | 37.9 |
The table below displays the partisan composition of California's congressional delegation as of September 2022.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from California, September 2022 | |||
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| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 42 | 44 |
| Republican | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 53 | 55 |
The table below displays the officeholders in California's top four state executive offices as of August 2022.
| State executive officials in California, August 2022 | |
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| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | |
| Lieutenant Governor | |
| Secretary of State | |
| Attorney General | |
The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the California State Legislature as of August 2022.
| Party | As of August 2022 | |
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| Democratic Party | 31 | |
| Republican Party | 9 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | |
| Party | As of August 2022 | |
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| Democratic Party | 60 | |
| Republican Party | 19 | |
| Independent | 1 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 80 | |
As of August 2022, California was a Democratic trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.
California Party Control: 1992-2022
Seventeen years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
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| Governor | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Assembly | D | D | D | S | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
The table below details demographic data in California and compares it to the broader United States as of 2019.
| Demographic Data for California (2019) | ||
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| California | United States | |
| Population | 39,283,497 | 324,697,795 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 155,857 | 3,531,905 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White | 59.7% | 72.5% |
| Black/African American | 5.8% | 12.7% |
| Asian | 14.5% | 5.5% |
| Native American | 0.8% | 0.8% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.4% | 0.2% |
| Two or more | 4.9% | 3.3% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 39% | 18% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate | 83.3% | 88% |
| College graduation rate | 33.9% | 32.1% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income | $75,235 | $62,843 |
| Persons below poverty level | 13.4% | 13.4% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2014-2019) | ||
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | ||
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