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.
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 |
Pre-election | Seats | |
Democratic-Held | 10 | |
Republican-Held | 10 |
Post-election | Seats | |
Democratic-Held | 12 | |
Republican-Held | 11 |
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 |
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 | ||
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Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Harry Lane Englebright ( incumbent) | 50,094 | 100.0 | |
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Republican hold |
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 | ||
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Republican hold |
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 | ||
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Republican hold |
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 | ||
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Republican hold |
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 | ||
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Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | John H. Tolan ( incumbent) | 77,292 | 100.0 | |
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Democratic hold |
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 | ||
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Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bertrand W. Gearhart ( incumbent) | 65,791 | 100.0 | |
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Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Alfred J. Elliott ( incumbent) | 43,864 | 100.0 | |
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Democratic hold |
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 | |||
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Democratic win (new seat) |
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 | ||
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Democratic hold |
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 | ||||
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Republican gain from Democratic |
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 | ||
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Democratic hold |
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 | ||
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Democratic hold |
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 | ||||
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Democratic gain from Republican |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Cecil R. King ( incumbent) | 92,260 | 100.0 | |
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Democratic hold |
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 | ||
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Republican hold |
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 | |||
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Democratic win (new seat) |
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 | ||
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Republican hold |
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 | ||
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Democratic hold |
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 | |||
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Republican win (new seat) |
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 | ||
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Democratic hold |