So though this color-coded version of California may look overwhelmingly Republican, the blue bits are where the vast majority of the state’s voters live.ĭraftKings, FanDuel and other supporters of Proposition 27, a measure that would have legalized online sports gambling in California, poured $169 million into the campaign. Lassen’s bluest counterpart is, perhaps not surprisingly, San Francisco, where the electorate favored the Democrats by 47 percentage points more than the average California voter.Īnd the county that most closely reflected the California average, with only the slightest 0.34% periwinkle blue hue: The roughly 1,000 registered voters of Alpine County.Ī note about these kinds of maps: Counties don’t vote, people do. That means Lassen’s electorate leaned about 75 percentage points more Republican than the state as a whole. That’s compared to the statewide average, where voters across California are picking Democrats by a roughly 19-point margin. senator are beating their Democratic opponents by an average of 56 percentage points. There, the Republican candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, secretary of state, attorney general, controller, superintendent of public instruction and U.S. On one end of the spectrum sits Lassen County in rural northeast California. Though California is often thought of as a solidly blue bulwark, it’s actually a patchwork of cobalt, blood crimson and purple.
These outliers are most likely to flex their bipartisan muscles and skew centrist in an effort to appeal to their purple electorates - though Garcia himself has been a bit of an exception to that rule.Īnd for any luckless readers who are already obsessing about the next general election in 2024, these outliers are likely to be top electoral targets.Īt least, that seemed to be the case this midterm election. This is all more than just political trivia. That’s largely the result of an electoral fluke in the June primary, thanks to the state’s “top two” election system. Marie Alvarado-Gil, a charter school administrator and self-described centrist, defeated fellow Democrat Tim Robertson in a state Senate district spread across the rural central Sierra where Republicans exceed registered Democrats by roughly 3 percentage points. So far, there’s only one example of the opposite - a Democrat representing a Republican district. Valadao’s race has yet to be called, but Steel in Orange County and Calvert in Riverside County also joined the club this election.Īt last count, there are as many as a dozen Republican congressional and legislative candidates across the state who were elected in districts where Democrats outnumber Republicans. That places Garcia in what might be called the “David Valadao Club of Republicans.” Valadao has long represented the south Central Valley, despite his district’s overwhelmingly Democratic registration. In fact, the Associated Press called the race on Wednesday, making it the 218th Republican seat and the one that secured the GOP majority in the U.S. One reason why incumbent Republican Garcia was considered to be especially vulnerable this year is because his congressional district, which encompasses the northeast suburban corner of Los Angeles County, is mostly Democratic, at least by registration.īased on the most recent numbers, registered Democrats in the district outnumber registered Republicans by almost 13 percentage points.Īnd yet, Garcia was reelected this year.
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