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The 1946 California gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1946.
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County results Warren: 80–90% >90% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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It is notable for the incumbent Governor, Earl Warren, being nominated by both the Republican and Democratic parties.[1] Subsequently, Warren won re-election effectively unopposed, receiving more than 90% of the vote. He was the first Governor of the state to win two elections since Hiram Johnson in 1914.
The Republican primary occurred on June 5, 1946. Incumbent Governor Earl Warren won 91.10% of the vote.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Earl Warren (incumbent) | 774,502 | 91.10% | |
Republican | Robert W. Kenny | 70,331 | 8.27% | |
Republican | William E. Riker | 5,359 | 0.63% | |
Total votes | 850,192 | 100.00% |
The Democratic primary occurred on June 5, 1946. Despite being a Republican, Earl Warren won 51.93% of the vote and the Democratic nomination.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Earl Warren | 593,180 | 51.93% | |
Democratic | Robert W. Kenny | 530,968 | 46.49% | |
Democratic | A. Beldon Gilbert | 9,865 | 0.86% | |
Democratic | William E. Riker | 8,175 | 0.72% | |
Total votes | 1,142,188 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Prohibition | Henry R. Schmidt | 1,786 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 1,786 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Earl Warren (incumbent) | 2,344,542 | 91.64% | +34.57% | |
Prohibition | Henry R. Schmidt | 180,579 | 7.06% | +6.58% | |
Independent | Archie Brown (write-in)[lower-alpha 1] | 22,606 | 0.88% | ||
Independent | James Roosevelt (write-in)[lower-alpha 2] | 3,210 | 0.13% | ||
Independent | Robert W. Kenny (write-in) | 1,636 | 0.06% | ||
Independent | Albert Clark (write-in) | 835 | 0.03% | ||
Independent | Robert W. Long (write-in) | 679 | 0.02% | ||
Scattering | 4,312 | 0.17% | |||
Majority | 2,163,963 | 84.58% | |||
Total votes | 2,558,399 | 100.00% | |||
Republican hold | Swing | +76.20% |
County | Earl Warren Republican |
Henry R. Schmidt Prohibition |
Archie Brown Communist |
All Others[lower-alpha 3] Write-in |
Margin | Total votes cast[3] | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Alameda | 179,864 | 88.32% | 19,457 | 9.55% | 3,776 | 1.85% | 543[lower-alpha 4] | 0.27% | 160,407 | 78.77% | 203,640 |
Alpine | 106 | 98.15% | 2 | 1.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 104 | 96.30% | 108 |
Amador | 2,416 | 92.39% | 190 | 7.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 9 | 0.34% | 2,226 | 85.12% | 2,615 |
Butte | 12,534 | 94.13% | 782 | 5.87% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 11,752 | 88.25% | 13,316 |
Calaveras | 2,507 | 94.78% | 135 | 5.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 0.11% | 2,372 | 89.68% | 2,645 |
Colusa | 2,750 | 95.52% | 129 | 4.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,621 | 91.04% | 2,879 |
Contra Costa | 44,668 | 89.92% | 3,921 | 7.89% | 1,010 | 2.03% | 77 | 0.16% | 40,747 | 82.03% | 49,676 |
Del Norte | 2,138 | 95.02% | 112 | 4.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,026 | 90.04% | 2,250 |
El Dorado | 3,886 | 92.52% | 314 | 7.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,572 | 85.05% | 4,200 |
Fresno | 48,151 | 92.05% | 4,051 | 7.74% | 90 | 0.17% | 20[lower-alpha 5] | 0.04% | 44,100 | 84.30% | 52,312 |
Glenn | 3,293 | 95.23% | 155 | 4.48% | 7 | 0.20% | 3[lower-alpha 6] | 0.09% | 3,138 | 90.75% | 3,458 |
Humboldt | 14,446 | 95.03% | 677 | 4.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 79 | 0.52% | 13,769 | 90.57% | 15,202 |
Imperial | 7,167 | 93.91% | 446 | 5.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 19 | 0.25% | 6,721 | 88.06% | 7,632 |
Inyo | 2,337 | 94.42% | 125 | 5.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 0.53% | 2,212 | 89.37% | 2,475 |
Kern | 32,497 | 92.37% | 2,608 | 7.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 78 | 0.22% | 29,889 | 84.95% | 35,183 |
Kings | 7,512 | 93.88% | 472 | 5.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 18 | 0.22% | 7,040 | 87.98% | 8,002 |
Lake | 3,016 | 94.55% | 164 | 5.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 10 | 0.31% | 2,852 | 89.40% | 3,190 |
Lassen | 3,565 | 93.94% | 223 | 5.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 7[lower-alpha 7] | 0.18% | 3,342 | 88.06% | 3,795 |
Los Angeles | 988,710 | 90.57% | 81,301 | 7.45% | 13,949 | 1.28% | 7,670[lower-alpha 8] | 0.70% | 907,409 | 83.12% | 1,091,630 |
Madera | 5,575 | 92.22% | 457 | 7.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 0.22% | 5,118 | 84.67% | 6,045 |
Marin | 19,912 | 95.15% | 762 | 3.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 252 | 1.20% | 19,150 | 91.51% | 20,926 |
Mariposa | 1,492 | 94.85% | 75 | 4.77% | 6 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,417 | 90.08% | 1,573 |
Mendocino | 7,048 | 93.92% | 373 | 4.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 83 | 1.11% | 6,675 | 88.95% | 7,504 |
Merced | 11,263 | 94.48% | 658 | 5.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 10.605 | 88.96% | 11,921 |
Modoc | 1,846 | 94.86% | 100 | 5.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,746 | 89.72% | 1,946 |
Mono | 502 | 94.36% | 30 | 5.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 472 | 88.72% | 532 |
Monterey | 20,674 | 95.67% | 834 | 3.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 101 | 0.47% | 19,840 | 91.81% | 21,609 |
Napa | 10,786 | 95.30% | 522 | 4.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 10 | 0.09% | 10,264 | 90.69% | 11,318 |
Nevada | 6,483 | 93.75% | 432 | 6.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,051 | 87.51% | 6,915 |
Orange | 51,058 | 93.13% | 3,616 | 6.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 151 | 0.28% | 47,442 | 86.53% | 54,825 |
Placer | 9,209 | 92.33% | 765 | 7.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 8,444 | 84.66% | 9,974 |
Plumas | 3,652 | 93.28% | 260 | 6.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 3[lower-alpha 9] | 0.08% | 3,392 | 86.64% | 3,915 |
Riverside | 33,193 | 92.44% | 2,552 | 7.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 162 | 0.45% | 30,641 | 85.33% | 35,907 |
Sacramento | 54,145 | 91.64% | 4,464 | 7.56% | 385 | 0.65% | 89 | 0.15% | 49,681 | 84.09% | 59,083 |
San Benito | 3,807 | 96.80% | 126 | 3.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,681 | 93.59% | 3,933 |
San Bernardino | 55,874 | 92.07% | 4,500 | 7.41% | 227 | 0.37% | 88 | 0.15% | 51,374 | 84.65% | 60,689 |
San Diego | 115,666 | 93.48% | 8,074 | 6.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 107,592 | 86.95% | 123,740 |
San Francisco | 220,344 | 92.15% | 16,716 | 6.99% | 2,056 | 0.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 203,628 | 85.16% | 239,116 |
San Joaquin | 37,291 | 93.90% | 2,290 | 5.77% | 103 | 0.26% | 30 | 0.08% | 35,001 | 88.13% | 39,714 |
San Luis Obispo | 12,277 | 94.16% | 698 | 5.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 64 | 0.49% | 11,579 | 88.80% | 13,039 |
San Mateo | 47,672 | 94.80% | 2,183 | 4.34% | 331 | 0.66% | 99 | 0.20% | 45,489 | 90.46% | 50,285 |
Santa Barbara | 22,306 | 95.11% | 1,020 | 4.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 128 | 0.55% | 21,286 | 90.76% | 23,454 |
Santa Clara | 62,641 | 94.28% | 3,393 | 5.11% | 410 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 59,248 | 89.17% | 66,444 |
Santa Cruz | 17,224 | 94.22% | 965 | 5.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 92 | 0.50% | 16,259 | 88.94% | 18,281 |
Shasta | 7,862 | 94.45% | 447 | 5.37% | 15 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,415 | 89.08% | 8,324 |
Sierra | 836 | 95.65% | 37 | 4.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.11% | 799 | 91.42% | 874 |
Siskiyou | 7,504 | 94.31% | 453 | 5.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,051 | 88.61% | 7,957 |
Solano | 21,609 | 94.93% | 1,155 | 5.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 20,454 | 89.85% | 22,764 |
Sonoma | 22,692 | 94.15% | 1,219 | 5.06% | 172 | 0.71% | 20 | 0.08% | 21,473 | 89.09% | 24,103 |
Stanislaus | 21,608 | 92.67% | 1,628 | 6.98% | 57 | 0.24% | 24[lower-alpha 10] | 0.10% | 19,980 | 85.69% | 23,317 |
Sutter | 4,486 | 94.66% | 253 | 5.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,233 | 89.32% | 4,739 |
Tehama | 3,836 | 92.66% | 304 | 7.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,532 | 85.31% | 4,140 |
Trinity | 1,799 | 93.80% | 109 | 5.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 10 | 0.52% | 1,690 | 88.11% | 1,918 |
Tulare | 23,361 | 93.50% | 1,587 | 6.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 36 | 0.14% | 21,774 | 87.15% | 24,984 |
Tuolumne | 4,301 | 95.24% | 203 | 4.50% | 12 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,098 | 90.74% | 4,516 |
Ventura | 19,012 | 90.74% | 1,340 | 6.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 601 | 2.87% | 17,672 | 84.34% | 20,953 |
Yolo | 7,719 | 94.28% | 420 | 5.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 48 | 0.59% | 7,299 | 89.15% | 8,187 |
Yuba | 4,414 | 93.38% | 295 | 6.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 18 | 0.38% | 4,119 | 87.14% | 4,727 |
Total | 2,344,542 | 91.64% | 180,579 | 7.06% | 22,606 | 0.88% | 10,672 | 0.42% | 2,163,963 | 84.58% | 2,558,399 |
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