1942 United States House of Representatives elections in California
Elections in California |
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The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1942 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 3, 1942. California gained three districts as a result of the 1940 census, two of which were won by Democrats and one by Republicans. Of California's existing seats, Democrats and Republicans each swapped one district.
Overview
[edit]United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1942 | |||||
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Party | Votes | Percentage | Seats | +/– | |
Republican | 937,392 | 49.4% | 11 | +1 | |
Democratic | 906,614 | 47.7% | 12 | +2 | |
Communist | 28,026 | 1.5% | 0 | 0 | |
Prohibition | 17,049 | 0.9% | 0 | 0 | |
Townsend | 9,843 | 0.5% | 0 | 0 | |
Write-ins | 185 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 1,899,109 | 100.0% | 23 | +3 |
Delegation composition
[edit]Pre-election | Seats | |
Democratic-Held | 10 | |
Republican-Held | 10 |
Post-election | Seats | |
Democratic-Held | 12 | |
Republican-Held | 11 |
Results
[edit]Final results from the Clerk of the House of Representatives: [1]
District 1 • District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 7 • District 8 • District 9 • District 10 • District 11 • District 12 • District 13 • District 14 |
District 1
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Clarence F. Lea (incumbent) | 78,281 | 93.2 | |
Communist | Albert J. Lima | 5,703 | 6.8 | |
Total votes | 83,984 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
District 2
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Harry Lane Englebright (incumbent) | 50,094 | 100.0 | |
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 3
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Justin L. Johnson (incumbent) | 63,982 | 54.5 | |
Democratic | Joseph B. O'Neil | 53,521 | 45.5 | |
Total votes | 117,503 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 4
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Thomas Rolph (incumbent) | 62,735 | 98.3 | |
Communist | Archie Brown (write-in) | 1,116 | 1.7 | |
Total votes | 63,851 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 5
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Richard J. Welch (incumbent) | 85,747 | 92.7 | |
Communist | Walter R. Lambert | 6,749 | 7.3 | |
Total votes | 92,496 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 6
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Albert E. Carter (incumbent) | 108,585 | 92.6 | |
Communist | Clarence Paton | 8,532 | 7.3 | |
No party | William H. Hollander (write-in) | 185 | 0.1 | |
Total votes | 117,302 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 7
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John H. Tolan (incumbent) | 77,292 | 100.0 | |
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
District 8
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Jack Z. Anderson (incumbent) | 91,536 | 99.9 | |
Communist | Elizabeth Nicholas (write-in) | 102 | 0.1 | |
Total votes | 91,638 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 9
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bertrand W. Gearhart (incumbent) | 65,791 | 100.0 | |
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 10
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Alfred J. Elliott (incumbent) | 43,864 | 100.0 | |
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
District 11
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | George E. Outland | 31,611 | 50.7 | ||
Republican | A. J. Dingeman | 30,781 | 49.3 | ||
Total votes | 62,392 | 100.0 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Democratic win (new seat) |
District 12
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jerry Voorhis (incumbent) | 53,705 | 56.8 | |
Republican | Roy P. McLaughlin | 40,780 | 43.2 | |
Total votes | 94,485 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
District 13
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Norris Poulson | 38,577 | 49.5 | |||
Democratic | Charles Kramer (incumbent) | 33,060 | 42.4 | |||
Townsend | Calvert S. Wilson | 6,306 | 8.1 | |||
Total votes | 77,943 | 100.0 | ||||
Turnout | ||||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
District 14
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Thomas F. Ford (incumbent) | 49,326 | 67 | |
Republican | Herbert L. Herberts | 24,349 | 33 | |
Total votes | 73,675 | 100 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
District 15
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John M. Costello (incumbent) | 88,798 | 86.2 | |
Prohibition | B. Tarkington Dowden | 10,185 | 9.9 | |
Communist | Philip Gardner | 3,989 | 3.9 | |
Total votes | 102,972 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
District 16
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Will Rogers, Jr. | 61,437 | 53.7 | |||
Republican | Leland M. Ford (incumbent) | 52,023 | 45.4 | |||
Communist | Allen L. Ryan | 1,043 | 0.9 | |||
Total votes | 114,503 | 100.0 | ||||
Turnout | ||||||
Democratic gain from Republican |
District 17
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Cecil R. King (incumbent) | 92,260 | 100.0 | |
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
District 18
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | William Ward Johnson (incumbent) | 53,136 | 56.8 | |
Democratic | Francis H. Gentry | 40,339 | 43.2 | |
Total votes | 93,475 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 19
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Chet Holifield | 34,918 | 63.1 | ||
Republican | Carlton H. Casjens | 20,446 | 36.9 | ||
Total votes | 55,374 | 100.0 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Democratic win (new seat) |
District 20
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | John Carl Hinshaw (incumbent) | 62,628 | 48.4 | |
Democratic | Joseph O. Donovan | 55,479 | 42.9 | |
Prohibition | Virgil G. Hinshaw | 6,864 | 5.3 | |
Townsend | Janie Bele McCarty | 3,537 | 2.7 | |
Communist | Orla E. Lair | 792 | 0.6 | |
Total votes | 129,300 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Republican hold |
District 21
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Harry R. Sheppard (incumbent) | 38,419 | 96.6 | |
Republican | Arthur E. Isham (write-in) | 1,350 | 3.4 | |
Total votes | 39,769 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
District 22
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Republican | John J. Phillips | 42,765 | 57.6 | ||
Democratic | N. E. West | 31,440 | 42.4 | ||
Total votes | 74,205 | 100.0 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Republican win (new seat) |
District 23
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Edouard Izac (incumbent) | 42,864 | 50.5 | |
Republican | James B. Abbey | 42,087 | 49.5 | |
Total votes | 84,951 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | ||||
Democratic hold |
See also
[edit]- 78th United States Congress
- Political party strength in California
- Political party strength in U.S. states
- 1942 United States House of Representatives elections