November 5, 1940

General Election

Note: A total of 3,300,410 Californians voted in this election.

President
Roger W. Babson	Prohibition	0.3%	Loss
Earl Browder	Communist	0.4%	Loss
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Democratic	57.4%	Win
Norman Thomas	Progressive	0.5%	Loss
Wendell L. Willkie	Republican	41.3%	Loss

Senate1
Fred Dyster	Prohibition	13.5%	Loss
John Anson Ford	Write-in	0.3%	Loss
Hiram Johnson	Republican	82.6%	Win
Anita Whitney	Communist	3.6%	Loss

CD-01
Clarence F. Lea	Democratic	93.3%	Win
Albert Jason Lima	Communist	5.1%	Loss
Ernest S. Mitchell	Write-in	1.6%	Loss

CD-02
Harry L. Englebright	Republican	100%	Win

CD-03
Frank H. Buck	Democratic	91%	Win
C. H. Farman	Progressive	7.1%	Loss
Charles Gricus	Communist	1.8%	Loss
George C. Kimber	Write-in	0.1%	Loss

CD-04
Archie Brown	Communist	1%	Loss
Franck R. Havenner	Democratic	44.4%	Loss
Thomas Rolph	Republican	54.6%	Win

CD-05
Walter Raymond Lambert	Communist	4.2%	Loss
Richard J. Welch	Republican	95.8%	Win

CD-06
Albert E. Carter	Republican	96%	Win
Clarence Patton	Communist	4%	Loss

CD-07
Ralph R. Eltse	Republican	43.2%	Loss
Alfred Newell Johnson	Communist	1.3%	Loss
John H. Tolan	Democratic	55.5%	Win

CD-08
John Z. "Jack" Anderson	Republican	96.6%	Win
John J. McGrath	Write-in		Loss
Elizabeth Nicholas	Communist	3.4%	Loss

CD-09
Bertrand W. Gearhart	Republican	100%	Win

CD-10
Louretta Adams	Communist	3%	Loss
Alfred J. Elliott	Democratic	97%	Win

CD-11
Carl Hinshaw	Republican	96.6%	Win
Orla E. Lair	Communist	3.4%	Loss

CD-12
Albert Lewis	Communist	0.7%	Loss
Irwin W. Minger	Republican	35.2%	Loss
Jerry Voorhis	Democratic	64%	Win

CD-13
Charles Kramer	Democratic	75.7%	Win
Charles H. Randall (I)	Prohibition	21.7%	Loss
Celeste Strack	Communist	2.6%	Loss

CD-14
Thomas F. Ford	Democratic	64.3%	Win
Herbert L. Herberts	Republican	33.3%	Loss
Pettis Perry	Communist	2.4%	Loss

CD-15
John M. Costello	Democratic	56.2%	Win
Emil Freed	Communist	1.2%	Loss
Norris J. Nelson	Republican	42.6%	Loss

CD-16
Leland Merritt Ford	Republican	96.4%	Win
George C. Sandy	Communist	3.6%	Loss

CD-17
Samuel C. Converse	Progressive	4.9%	Loss
Lee E. Geyer	Democratic	65.5%	Win
Harry L. Gray	Communist	1%	Loss
Clifton A. Hix	Republican	28.6%	Loss

CD-18
George R. Ashby	Communist	1%	Loss
Ward Johnson	Republican	54.3%	Win
Byron N. Scott	Democratic	44.7%	Loss

CD-19
Lotus H. Loudon	Republican	47.1%	Loss
Harry R. Sheppard	Democratic	52.9%	Win

CD-20
Edward Fletcher	Republican	48.3%	Loss
Ed Izac	Democratic	51.1%	Win
Esco L. Richardson	Communist	0.6%	Loss

SD-01
Harold J. Powers	Republican	100%	Win

SD-03
Irwin T. Quinn	Democratic	100%	Win

SD-05
Oliver J. Carter	Democratic	58.6%	Win
William B. Menzel	Republican	41.4%	Loss

SD-07
L. S. Schroder	Write-in	11.4%	Loss
Jerrold L. Seawell	Republican	88.6%	Win

SD-09
H. E. Dillinger	Democratic	100%	Win

SD-11
Frank L. Gordon	Republican	89.5%	Win
Willard F. Smith	Progressive	10.5%	Loss

SD-13
Thomas F. Keating	Democratic	100%	Win

SD-15
Thomas McCormack	Republican	100%	Win

SD-17
Harold Allinger	Communist	4.1%	Loss
Truman H. DeLap	Republican	95.9%	Win

SD-19
Roy J. Nielsen	Republican	48%	Loss
John Harold Swan	Democratic	51.4%	Win
Robert Wood	Communist	0.6%	Loss

SD-21
Harry L. Parkman	Republican	100%	Win

SD-23
H. R. Judah	Republican	50%	Win
Roy M. Sayre	Democratic	50%	Loss

SD-25
J. P. Mandl	Write-in	0.4%	Loss
Edward H. Tickle	Republican	99.6%	Win

SD-27
Robert Roy Cunningham	Democratic	100%	Win

SD-29
Chris N. Jespersen	Republican	100%	Win

SD-31
John James "Jim" Hollister Sr.	Write-in	28.9%	Loss
Clarence C. Ward	Republican	71.1%	Win

SD-33
Dan W. Emmett	Republican	42%	Loss
James J. McBride	Democratic	58%	Win

SD-35
Levi C. Carlisle	Townsend	19.3%	Loss
Thomas H. Kuchel	Republican	80.7%	Win

SD-37
John R. Phillips	Republican	100%	Win

SD-39
E. George Luckey	Democratic	55.2%	Win
Charles L. Wieman	Republican	44.8%	Loss

AD-01
Michael J. Burns	Republican	100%	Win

AD-02
William I. Gunlock	Democratic	52.8%	Win
Fred McMurphy	Republican	47.2%	Loss

AD-03
Lloyd W. Lowrey	Democratic	52.1%	Win
Charles D. Thomas	Republican	47.9%	Loss

AD-04
Seth Millington Jr.	Democratic	100%	Win

AD-05
Ernest C. Crowley	Democratic	89.3%	Win
Henry E. McGuckin	Progressive	10.7%	Loss

AD-06
Allen G. Thurman	Republican	100%	Win

AD-07
Richard H. McCollister	Republican	100%	Win

AD-08
John Edward Cain	Democratic	62.5%	Win
Charlie Holtz	Republican	37.5%	Loss

AD-09
Earl D. Desmond	Democratic	100%	Win

AD-10
John E. Hughes	Communist	4%	Loss
Harold F. Sawallisch	Democratic	96%	Win

AD-11
John McClinic	Communist	3.3%	Loss
Charles M. Weber III	Republican	96.7%	Win

AD-12
James E. Thorp	Republican	100%	Win

AD-13
James M. Cassidy	Democratic	96.7%	Win
Joseph Studevant	Communist	3.3%	Loss

AD-14
Paul W. Anderson	Communist	2%	Loss
Randal F. Dickey	Republican	50.6%	Win
Gordon F. "George" Irvine	Democratic	47.4%	Loss

AD-15
Thomas R. Farrell	Communist	4%	Loss
Bernard A. Sheridan	Republican	96%	Win

AD-16
Anga M. Bjornson	Democratic	36.5%	Loss
Frank H. "Bimbo" Brown	Communist	0.4%	Loss
Arthur W. Carlson	Republican	63.1%	Win

AD-17
Lorine Kinz	Communist	4.6%	Loss
Henry P. Meehan	Democratic	95.4%	Win

AD-18
Eddie Marie Cobb	Communist	3.1%	Loss
James H. Phillips	Republican	96.9%	Win

AD-19
Gardiner Johnson	Republican	95.4%	Win
Frank Parsons	Communist	4.6%	Loss

AD-20
Edmund C. Burk	Communist	9.5%	Loss
Thomas A. Maloney	Republican	90.5%	Win

AD-21
Joseph P. Gilmore	Write-in	13.7%	Loss
John D. Welch	Democratic	86.3%	Win

AD-22
George D. Collins Jr.	Democratic	95.2%	Win
Henry Andrews Harris	Communist	4.8%	Loss

AD-23
Dan Gallagher	Democratic	95.2%	Win
Ada L. Smolan	Communist	4.8%	Loss

AD-24
Edward F. O'Day	Democratic	100%	Win

AD-25
Melvyn I. Cronin	Democratic	100%	Win

AD-26
Edward M. Gaffney	Democratic	50%	Win
Emile Rabin	Communist	1.5%	Loss
Ray Williamson	Republican	48.5%	Loss

AD-27
Harry Albert Mereness Jr.	Communist	3.8%	Loss
Albert C. Wollenberg	Republican	96.2%	Win

AD-28
Joseph P. Byrne	Democratic	47.9%	Loss
Robert Miller Green	Republican	52.1%	Win

AD-29
Harrison W. Call	Republican	100%	Win

AD-30
Malby Roberts	Communist	3.5%	Loss
Byrl R. Salsman	Republican	96.5%	Win

AD-31
M. G. Del Mutolo	Democratic	57%	Win
Elmer Weymouth	Republican	43%	Loss

AD-32
Stewart W. Conover	Republican	48.5%	Loss
Hugh P. Donnelly	Democratic	51.5%	Win

AD-33
George A. Clarke	Republican	100%	Win

AD-34
Jacob M. Leonard	Republican	100%	Win

AD-35
David Kingman	Write-in	0.3%	Loss
Frederick Weybret	Republican	99.7%	Win

AD-36
Hugh M. Burns	Democratic	100%	Win

AD-37
S. L. Heisinger	Democratic	100%	Win

AD-38
Gordon H. Garland	Democratic	77.9%	Win
L. Sidney Hunn	Progressive	22.1%	Loss

AD-39
Alfred W. Robertson	Democratic	100%	Win

AD-40
Roscoe W. Burson	Republican	47.1%	Loss
John B. Cooke	Democratic	52.9%	Win

AD-41
Kenneth J. Gatewood	Communist	3.9%	Loss
Rodney L. Turner	Democratic	96.1%	Win

AD-42
Everett G. Burkhalter	Democratic	63.5%	Win
Claude H. Hallock	Republican	36.5%	Loss

AD-43
John T. Aydelotte	Progressive	17.6%	Loss
C. Don Field	Republican	82.4%	Win

AD-44
Clare L. Atkinson	Progressive	3.5%	Loss
James C. McLean	Communist	4.4%	Loss
G. Harvey Mydland	Republican	25.6%	Loss
John B. Pelletier	Democratic	66.6%	Win

AD-45
Thomas J. Doyle	Democratic	79.2%	Win
Clay H. Womack	Independent	20.8%	Loss

AD-46
Jack B. Tenney	Democratic	100%	Win

AD-47
Zachary T. Malaby	Democratic	38.8%	Loss
Eleanor Miller	Republican	61.2%	Win

AD-48
T. Fenton Knight	Republican	67.4%	Win
Leslie H. Preston	Democratic	32.6%	Loss

AD-49
Lee T. Bashore	Republican	100%	Win

AD-50
Edwin Jobe	Democratic	44.5%	Loss
Gerald C. Kepple	Republican	55.5%	Win

AD-51
F. Ray Bennett	Democratic	79.4%	Win
Eulia Finn Branin	Republican	20.6%	Loss

AD-52
Robert E. Dunn	Republican	28.3%	Loss
William H. Poole	Democratic	68.5%	Win
Henry Steinberg	Communist	3.1%	Loss

AD-53
Frank O. Dunbar	Democratic	35.9%	Loss
Frederick F. Houser	Republican	64.1%	Win

AD-54
Adelade Humphries	Write-in	1.4%	Loss
John B. Knight	Republican	86.1%	Win
Lillian B. MacKay	Progressive	12.6%	Loss

AD-55
Emory J. Arnold	Republican	38.6%	Loss
Vernon Kilpatrick	Democratic	61.4%	Win

AD-56
Norris Poulson	Republican	100%	Win

AD-57
Howard C. Duling	Progressive	3.8%	Loss
Franklin J. Potter	Republican	51.4%	Win
Frank Scully	Democratic	44.7%	Loss

AD-58
Allan Darby	Progressive	8.6%	Loss
Frank J. Waters Jr.	Republican	91.4%	Win

AD-59
Charles W. Lyon	Republican	100%	Win

AD-60
Jesse Randolph "John" Kellems	Republican	100%	Win

AD-61
Emil E. Fredeen	Progressive	8.5%	Loss
Ernest O. Voigt	Democratic	91.5%	Win

AD-62
Augustus F. "Gus" Hawkins	Democratic	94.6%	Win
Walter A. Martin	Communist	5.4%	Loss

AD-63
Don A. Allen Sr.	Democratic	76.8%	Win
Malcolm J. Caldwell	Progressive	23.2%	Loss

AD-64
Jack J. Moore	Communist	5.8%	Loss
Roger Alton Pfaff	Republican	92.6%	Win
Allen T. Richardson	Write-in	1.6%	Loss

AD-65
Robert W. Breidenbach	Progressive	11.8%	Loss
John W. Evans	Democratic	88.2%	Win

AD-66
H. Enright de Villiers	Republican	29.8%	Loss
Paul R. Jarman	Prohibition	2.6%	Loss
Jack Massion	Democratic	67.6%	Win

AD-67
Charles E. Campbell	Republican	23.9%	Loss
Cecil R. King	Democratic	74.1%	Win
Myra Rhetta	Communist	2%	Loss

AD-68
John Polkki	Communist	3.2%	Loss
Charles M. Smith	Republican	27.2%	Loss
Vincent Thomas	Democratic	69.5%	Win

AD-69
Thomas J. Cooney	Communist	3.7%	Loss
Ralph C. Dills	Democratic	96.3%	Win

AD-70
Philip L. Bixby	Republican	45%	Loss
Lorne D. Middough	Democratic	55%	Win

AD-71
Fred N. Howser	Republican	84.1%	Win
Henry S. Utrecht	Progressive	15.9%	Loss

AD-72
Godfrey A. Andreas	Democratic	53.2%	Win
A. B. Hornibrook	Republican	46.8%	Loss

AD-73
Frank C. Russell	Democratic	50.4%	Win
Waldo Willhoft	Republican	49.6%	Loss

AD-74
Louis K. Ashbaugh	Townsend	6.1%	Loss
James E. Walker	Democratic	40.8%	Loss
Clyde A. Watson	Republican	53.2%	Win

AD-75
Sam L. Collins	Republican	55.5%	Win
Timothy F. Shea	Democratic	36.9%	Loss
George Varnum	Townsend	7.6%	Loss

AD-76
Nelson S. Dilworth	Republican	100%	Win

AD-77
Harvey E. Hastain	Republican	100%	Win

AD-78
Jeanette E. Daley	Democratic	81.6%	Win
Ed Hollingshead	Progressive	17.5%	Loss
La Verne Lym	Communist	0.9%	Loss

AD-79
Paul A. Richie	Democratic	50.4%	Win
Harry Warburton	Republican	49.6%	Loss

AD-80
Charles W. Stream	Republican	100%	Win

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November 5, 1940

General Election