November 6, 1934
General Election
A total of 2,360,916 Californians voted in this election.
Governor | |||
Sam D'Arcy | Communist | 0.3% | Loss |
Milen C. Dempster | Socialist | 0.1% | Loss |
Raymond L. Haight | Commonwealth | 13% | Loss |
Frank F. Merriam | Republican | 48.9% | Win |
Upton Sinclair | Democratic | 37.8% | Loss |
Lieutenant Governor | |||
Sheridan Downey | Democratic | 44.6% | Loss |
George J. Hatfield | Republican | 54.3% | Win |
Pettis Perry | Communist | 0.5% | Loss |
Jesse W. Southwick | Socialist | 0.7% | Loss |
Secretary of State | |||
Harold J. Ashe | Communist | 2.3% | Loss |
Frank C. Jordan | Republican | 89.4% | Win |
Frank G. H. Stevens | Prohibition | 8.3% | Loss |
Controller | |||
William H. Kindig | Write-in | 0.7% | Loss |
Ray L. Riley | Republican | 94.4% | Win |
Anita Whitney | Communist | 4.9% | Loss |
Treasurer | |||
Archie Brown | Communist | 1.2% | Loss |
Charles G. Johnson | Republican | 57.1% | Win |
William A. Ward | Democratic | 41.7% | Loss |
Attorney General | |||
Errol O. Shour | Prohibition | 19.3% | Loss |
U. S. Webb | Republican | 80.7% | Win |
Superintendent of Public Instruction | |||
Vierling Kersey | Nonpartisan | Win | |
SBOE1 | |||
John C. Corbett | Republican | 73.8% | Win |
Fred R. Drinkhouse | Progressive | 26.2% | Loss |
SBOE2 | |||
Pete Garcia | Communist | 4.7% | Loss |
Fred E. Stewart | Republican | 95.3% | Win |
SBOE3 | |||
Richard E. Collins | Republican | 100% | Win |
SBOE4 | |||
Alfred James Barnes | Progressive | 4.6% | Loss |
Harvey G. Cattell | Republican | 47% | Loss |
Orfa Jean Shontz | Democratic | 48.3% | Win |
Senate1 | |||
Pat Chambers | Write-in | Loss | |
Hiram Johnson | Republican | 94.7% | Win |
George R. Kirkpatrick | Socialist | 5.3% | Loss |
CD-01 | |||
Allen K. Gifford | Socialist | 6.4% | Loss |
Clarence F. Lea | Democratic | 93.6% | Win |
CD-02 | |||
Harry L. Englebright | Republican | 100% | Win |
CD-03 | |||
Frank H. Buck | Democratic | 53.3% | Win |
Albert Hougardy | Communist | 0.9% | Loss |
J. M. Inman | Republican | 45.7% | Loss |
CD-04 | |||
Raymond A. Burr | Progressive | 3.5% | Loss |
Minnie Carson | Communist | 1.7% | Loss |
Florence P. Kahn | Republican | 48% | Win |
Chauncey Tramutolo | Democratic | 44.5% | Loss |
Samuel S. White | Socialist | 2.3% | Loss |
CD-05 | |||
Alexander Noral | Communist | 6.2% | Loss |
Richard J. Welch | Republican | 93.8% | Win |
CD-06 | |||
Albert E. Carter | Republican | 100% | Win |
CD-07 | |||
Ralph R. Eltse | Republican | 47.7% | Loss |
John H. Tolan | Democratic | 52.3% | Win |
CD-08 | |||
John J. McGrath | Democratic | 100% | Win |
CD-09 | |||
Bertrand W. Gearhart | Republican | 100% | Win |
CD-10 | |||
George R. Bliss | Republican | 35.6% | Loss |
Henry E. Stubbs | Democratic | 64.4% | Win |
CD-11 | |||
William E. Evans | Republican | 45% | Loss |
John Steven McGroarty | Democratic | 53.5% | Win |
William E. Stephenson | Socialist | 1.4% | Loss |
CD-12 | |||
John Henry Hoeppel | Democratic | 50.7% | Win |
Fred N. Howser | Republican | 49.3% | Loss |
CD-13 | |||
Thomas K. Case | Republican | 21% | Loss |
John J. Graham | Communist | 0.9% | Loss |
Michael S. Kerrigan | Socialist | 1.6% | Loss |
Charles Kramer | Democratic | 62.5% | Win |
Charles H. Randall (I) | Progressive | 14.1% | Loss |
CD-14 | |||
William D. Campbell | Republican | 37.1% | Loss |
Thomas F. Ford | Democratic | 57.7% | Win |
Lyndon R. Foster | Progressive | 2.7% | Loss |
Harry Sherr Perry | Socialist | 1.2% | Loss |
Lawrence Ross | Communist | 1.2% | Loss |
CD-15 | |||
John M. Costello | Democratic | 50.5% | Win |
William I. Traeger | Republican | 49.5% | Loss |
CD-16 | |||
John F. Dockweiler | Democratic | 100% | Win |
CD-17 | |||
Charles J. Colden | Democratic | 70.4% | Loss |
Richard Pomeroy | Socialist | 5.5% | Loss |
C. P. "Cap" Wright | Republican | 24% | Loss |
CD-18 | |||
William Brayton | Republican | 43.2% | Loss |
Clyde Champion | Communist | 0.5% | Loss |
Byron N. Scott | Democratic | 56.3% | Win |
CD-19 | |||
Sam L. Collins | Republican | 88.8% | Win |
A. B. Hillabold | Write-in | 11.2% | Loss |
CD-20 | |||
George Burnham | Republican | 52.4% | Win |
Ed Izac | Progressive | 47.6% | Loss |
SD-02 | |||
Henry M. McGuinness | Democratic | 100% | Win |
SD-04 | |||
George Milton Biggar | Republican | 100% | Win |
SD-06 | |||
Charles H. Deuel | Democratic | 100% | Win |
SD-08 | |||
D. Jack Metzger | Republican | 100% | Win |
SD-10 | |||
William P. Rich | Republican | 100% | Win |
SD-12 | |||
Vernon Dennis Healy | Communist | 4.6% | Loss |
Herbert W. Slater | Democratic | 95.4% | Win |
SD-14 | |||
Walter McGovern | Republican | 89.7% | Win |
Jack Olsen | Communist | 4.4% | Loss |
Reed K. Pond | Socialist | 5.9% | Loss |
SD-16 | |||
William F. Knowland | Republican | 51.7% | Win |
Rudie C. Lambert | Communist | 0.8% | Loss |
Kenneth Morle | Democratic | 46.3% | Loss |
Clarence E. Rust | Socialist | 1.2% | Loss |
SD-18 | |||
Burton W. Lyon | Democratic | 43.9% | Loss |
Sanborn Young | Republican | 56.1% | Win |
SD-20 | |||
Bradford S. Crittenden | Republican | 90.8% | Win |
Joseph A. Plecarpo | Socialist | 9.2% | Loss |
SD-22 | |||
J. C. Garrison | Democratic | 100% | Win |
SD-24 | |||
Andrew R. Schottky | Republican | 100% | Win |
SD-26 | |||
Dan E. Williams | Republican | 100% | Win |
SD-28 | |||
Karl P. Keough | Democratic | 50.5% | Win |
Joe Riley | Republican | 49.5% | Loss |
SD-30 | |||
Ray W. Hays | Republican | 95.2% | Win |
Carl B. Patterson | Communist | 4.8% | Loss |
SD-32 | |||
Frank W. Mixter | Republican | 100% | Win |
SD-34 | |||
James I. Wagy | Republican | 100% | Win |
SD-36 | |||
Ebenezer R. T. Blomquist | Write-in | 14% | Loss |
Ralph E. Swing | Republican | 86% | Win |
SD-38 | |||
Percy Fenton Adams | Prohibition | 2.8% | Loss |
Lawrence Cobb | Republican | 44.8% | Loss |
Ralph Walter Musson | Socialist | 0.7% | Loss |
Culbert L. Olson | Democratic | 47.9% | Win |
Joseph L. Pedrotti | Progressive | 3.8% | Loss |
SD-40 | |||
Edward Fletcher | Republican | 55.6% | Win |
Stanley B. Hancock | Communist | 0.9% | Loss |
Ebon B. McGregor | Democratic | 43.5% | Loss |
AD-01 | |||
Michael J. Burns | Republican | 100% | Win |
AD-02 | |||
Clinton J. Fulcher | Democratic | 100% | Win |
AD-03 | |||
John H. O'Donnell | Democratic | 100% | Win |
AD-04 | |||
John E. Frazier | Republican | 57.5% | Win |
Artie Nugent | Democratic | 42.5% | Loss |
AD-05 | |||
Ernest C. Crowley | Democratic | 100% | Win |
AD-06 | |||
Jesse M. Mayo | Republican | 95.3% | Win |
Lucile E. Pyle | Communist | 4.7% | Loss |
AD-07 | |||
Louis Lagomarsino | Communist | 5.3% | Loss |
Hubert B. Scudder | Republican | 94.7% | Win |
AD-08 | |||
William A. Miller | Communist | 3.6% | Loss |
Roy J. Nielsen | Republican | 96.4% | Win |
AD-09 | |||
C. H. S. Bidwell | Republican | 42.3% | Loss |
Earl D. Desmond | Democratic | 57.7% | Win |
AD-10 | |||
Truman H. DeLap | Republican | 95.1% | Win |
Violet M. Orr | Communist | 4.9% | Loss |
AD-11 | |||
Dana P. Eicke | Democratic | 92.6% | Win |
Howard C. White | Socialist | 7.4% | Loss |
AD-12 | |||
Addie M. Benedict | Socialist | 9.7% | Loss |
James E. Thorp | Republican | 90.3% | Win |
AD-13 | |||
Hinaro Bega | Communist | 1% | Loss |
James M. Cassidy | Democratic | 56.7% | Win |
Don M. Leidig | Republican | 42.3% | Loss |
AD-14 | |||
Roy Bishop | Republican | 47.3% | Loss |
Charles J. Wagner | Democratic | 52.7% | Win |
AD-15 | |||
Ronald R. Cooley | Communist | 0.9% | Loss |
Leon M. Donihue | Democratic | 52.4% | Win |
William W. Hoffman | Republican | 46.7% | Loss |
AD-16 | |||
Arthur H. Breed Jr. | Republican | 100% | Win |
AD-17 | |||
Henry P. Meehan | Democratic | 96.3% | Win |
Leon Vannier | Communist | 3.7% | Loss |
AD-18 | |||
Charles W. Fisher | Republican | 91% | Win |
George W. Graydon | Socialist | 7.6% | Loss |
Turner Wilson | Communist | 1.4% | Loss |
AD-19 | |||
Oarn Stanley Bolton | Democratic | 43.7% | Loss |
Gardiner Johnson | Republican | 56.3% | Win |
AD-20 | |||
Carmelo Bonaccoeso | Communist | 6.9% | Loss |
Thomas A. Maloney | Republican | 81.1% | Win |
E. E. Porter | Socialist | 12% | Loss |
AD-21 | |||
Gustav Adolf Dahlin | Communist | 5.1% | Loss |
Joseph P. Gilmore | Republican | 87.8% | Win |
Elmer A. Taake | Socialist | 7.1% | Loss |
AD-22 | |||
Blanche Becker | Socialist | 6.5% | Loss |
Kennett B. Dawson | Republican | 88.4% | Win |
Karl Hanna | Communist | 3.6% | Loss |
L. Raymond Holmes | Write-in | 1.5% | Loss |
AD-23 | |||
Edward Harris | Communist | 5.1% | Loss |
William B. Hornblower | Republican | 87.3% | Win |
C. A. Peterson | Socialist | 7.6% | Loss |
AD-24 | |||
Leo E. Laramee | Communist | 8% | Loss |
Patrick J. McMurray | Democratic | 92% | Win |
AD-25 | |||
Melvyn I. Cronin | Democratic | 100% | Win |
AD-26 | |||
Ray Williamson | Republican | 100% | Win |
AD-27 | |||
Jefferson E. Peyser | Republican | 100% | Win |
AD-28 | |||
James F. Brennan | Democratic | 100% | Win |
AD-29 | |||
Frederick Peterson | Republican | 100% | Win |
AD-30 | |||
H. Dewey Anderson | Republican | 54.4% | Win |
Will S. Griscom | Democratic | 45.6% | Loss |
AD-31 | |||
C. C. Cottrell | Republican | 100% | Win |
AD-32 | |||
Hugh P. Donnelly | Democratic | 60.8% | Win |
W. T. Kerr | Republican | 39.2% | Loss |
AD-33 | |||
James D. Garibaldi | Democratic | 59.6% | Win |
Don C. Mayes | Progressive | 40.4% | Loss |
AD-34 | |||
Frank R. Brentlinger | Write-in | 8% | Loss |
Clifford R. Kallam | Democratic | 92% | Win |
AD-35 | |||
Ellis E. Patterson | Republican | 100% | Win |
AD-36 | |||
Claud Minard | Republican | 82% | Win |
Francis T. Smith | Socialist | 18% | Loss |
AD-37 | |||
S. L. Heisinger | Democratic | 100% | Win |
AD-38 | |||
Ford A. Chatters | Republican | 100% | Win |
AD-39 | |||
Ira E. Kramer | Republican | 47.4% | Loss |
Alfred W. Robertson | Democratic | 52.6% | Win |
AD-40 | |||
James J. McBride | Democratic | 100% | Win |
AD-41 | |||
Rodney L. Turner | Democratic | 100% | Win |
AD-42 | |||
Paul B. Hubbard | Republican | 44.8% | Loss |
Elmer E. Lore | Democratic | 55.2% | Win |
AD-43 | |||
John T. Aydelotte | Democratic | 43.1% | Loss |
C. Don Field | Republican | 56.2% | Win |
Logan Sherwood | Socialist | 0.7% | Loss |
AD-44 | |||
John Murray | Socialist | 2.5% | Loss |
John B. Pelletier | Democratic | 60% | Win |
Clare Woolwine | Republican | 37.5% | Loss |
AD-45 | |||
Morris M. Ferguson | Republican | 28.9% | Loss |
Charles A. Hunt | Democratic | 71.1% | Win |
AD-46 | |||
Ralph W. Evans | Democratic | 56.9% | Win |
Sam M. Greene | Republican | 42.3% | Loss |
Frank A. Martin | Communist | 0.8% | Loss |
AD-47 | |||
Fred Bull | Democratic | 32.8% | Loss |
Eleanor Miller | Republican | 66.1% | Win |
Christian Sorensen | Socialist | 1.1% | Loss |
AD-48 | |||
Frank G. Martin | Republican | 66.4% | Win |
Marion Foster Wotherspoon | Democratic | 33.6% | Loss |
AD-49 | |||
Herbert Johnston Evans | Republican | 54.7% | Win |
Jerry Voorhis | Democratic | 45.3% | Loss |
AD-50 | |||
William Earl Emick | Democratic | 44.4% | Loss |
Frank W. Wright | Republican | 55.6% | Win |
AD-51 | |||
William Moseley Jones | Democratic | 97.3% | Win |
Florencio Moisa | Communist | 2.7% | Loss |
AD-52 | |||
Herbert Spencer Elstein | Socialist | 1.2% | Loss |
Olin H. Price | Republican | 34.2% | Loss |
Ben Rosenthal | Democratic | 63.5% | Win |
Joseph Turchinsky | Communist | 1.1% | Loss |
AD-53 | |||
E. V. Latham | Republican | 61% | Win |
William J. Purcell | Democratic | 39% | Loss |
AD-54 | |||
Wilbur F. Gilbert | Democratic | 53.6% | Win |
Don F. Tyler | Republican | 46.4% | Loss |
AD-55 | |||
Emory J. Arnold | Republican | 41.2% | Loss |
Frank D. Laughlin | Democratic | 53.9% | Win |
Otto J. Zahn | Progressive | 4.9% | Loss |
AD-56 | |||
Thomas J. Cunningham | Republican | 49.1% | Win |
Harold J. Hibbard | Socialist | 1.3% | Loss |
Norris Poulson | Progressive | 4% | Loss |
Guy W. Vandegrift | Democratic | 45.6% | Loss |
AD-57 | |||
Loren B. Curtis | Democratic | 44.8% | Loss |
Kent H. Redwine | Republican | 54.4% | Win |
Robin Serrurier | Socialist | 0.8% | Loss |
AD-58 | |||
Samuel M. Bernard | Democratic | 37.2% | Loss |
Frank J. Waters Sr. | Republican | 62.8% | Win |
AD-59 | |||
Charles W. Lyon | Republican | 93.3% | Win |
Edward McLarty Sr. | Write-in | 6.7% | Loss |
AD-60 | |||
Geoffrey F. Morgan | Republican | 56% | Win |
J. Landor Scott | Democratic | 44% | Loss |
AD-61 | |||
Grover L. Bossert | Progressive | 6.4% | Loss |
John F. Miller | Republican | 39.9% | Loss |
Jack Osborn | Communist | 0.8% | Loss |
Ernest O. Voigt | Democratic | 52.9% | Win |
AD-62 | |||
Augustus F. "Gus" Hawkins | Democratic | 52.8% | Win |
Samuel W. Jones | Communist | 1.6% | Loss |
Frederick M. Roberts | Republican | 45.6% | Loss |
AD-63 | |||
Willard E. Badham | Republican | 47.9% | Loss |
Ralph Lewis Welsh | Democratic | 52.1% | Win |
AD-64 | |||
Harry Lyons | Republican | 40.4% | Loss |
John D. McCarthy | Democratic | 59.6% | Win |
AD-65 | |||
Frank L. Borden | Republican | 46.1% | Loss |
Gene Flint | Democratic | 53.9% | Win |
AD-66 | |||
James J. Boyle | Democratic | 78.6% | Win |
Adam Kowalski | Socialist | 1.5% | Loss |
Harry A. Schenck | Progressive | 19.9% | Loss |
AD-67 | |||
Lee E. Geyer | Democratic | 72.3% | Win |
Christopher A. Johnson | Republican | 26.6% | Loss |
John L. Leech | Communist | 1.1% | Loss |
AD-68 | |||
Henry E. Carter | Republican | 38.6% | Loss |
Fred Reaves | Democratic | 61.4% | Win |
AD-69 | |||
Roy L. O. Adams | Republican | 35.4% | Loss |
A. Franklin Glover | Democratic | 63.8% | Win |
Thomas W. Patterson | Communist | 0.8% | Loss |
AD-70 | |||
John Gee Clark | Democratic | 50.9% | Win |
Ira S. Hatch | Republican | 48.6% | Loss |
Harry F. Kane | Communist | 0.5% | Loss |
AD-71 | |||
Hortense Allison | Communist | 0.5% | Loss |
John G. Becker | Democratic | 47.4% | Loss |
Harry B. Riley | Republican | 52.1% | Win |
AD-72 | |||
Hobart R. Alter | Republican | 45.4% | Loss |
Godfrey A. Andreas | Democratic | 54.6% | Win |
AD-73 | |||
Gordon W. Corwin | Republican | 52.2% | Win |
Walter H. Evans | Democratic | 47.8% | Loss |
AD-74 | |||
Herbert Franklin Kenny | Democratic | 42.3% | Loss |
James B. Utt | Republican | 57.7% | Win |
AD-75 | |||
C. R. Allen | Democratic | 43.1% | Loss |
Edward Craig | Republican | 56.9% | Win |
AD-76 | |||
Albert A. James | Democratic | 37.5% | Loss |
John R. Phillips | Republican | 62.5% | Win |
AD-77 | |||
John Scarborough | Democratic | 48.7% | Loss |
Clarence B. Walker | Republican | 51.3% | Win |
AD-78 | |||
Nathanael Griffin | Communist | 1.3% | Loss |
Ralph W. Wallace | Republican | 57.6% | Win |
Eleanor A. Weymiller | Democratic | 41.1% | Loss |
AD-79 | |||
Edwin L. Head | Republican | 46.9% | Loss |
Bessie A. Keckler | Communist | 0.9% | Loss |
Paul A. Richie | Democratic | 52.2% | Win |
AD-80 | |||
Oswald C. Ludwig | Democratic | 46% | Loss |
Charles W. Stream | Republican | 54% | Win |