September 3, 1879
General Election
Note: A total of 160,233 Californians voted in this election.
| Governor | |||
| A. C. Clark | Prohibition | 0.1% | Loss |
| Hugh J. Glenn | Democratic | 29.7% | Loss |
| George C. Perkins | Republican | 42.4% | Win |
| William F. White | Workingmen | 27.8% | Loss |
| Lieutenant Governor | |||
| Washburne R. Andrus | Workingmen | 26.4% | Loss |
| George Bramall | Prohibition | Loss | |
| Levi Chase | Democratic | 19.4% | Loss |
| John L. Mansfield | Republican | 41.8% | Win |
| David C. Reed | New Constitution | 12.4% | Loss |
| Secretary of State | |||
| Daniel M. Burns | Republican | 42.1% | Win |
| Lauren E. Crane | New Constitution | 12.4% | Loss |
| A. A. Smith | Workingmen | 25.5% | Loss |
| Wiley J. Tinnin | Democratic | 20% | Loss |
| Controller | |||
| William B. C. Brown | Democratic | 19.9% | Loss |
| Hugh L. Jones | Workingmen | 25.3% | Loss |
| D. M. Kenfield | Republican | 41.7% | Win |
| Hugh M. La Rue | New Constitution | 13% | Loss |
| Marcus C. Winchester | Prohibition | 0.1% | Loss |
| Treasurer | |||
| W. O. Clark | Prohibition | Loss | |
| L. B. Clarke | Workingmen | 25.6% | Loss |
| A. G. Escandon | Democratic | 18.9% | Loss |
| Cyrus Jones | New Constitution | 12.5% | Loss |
| G. T. Pauli | Independent | 0.6% | Loss |
| John Weil | Republican | 42.4% | Win |
| Attorney General | |||
| Charles W. Cross | Workingmen | 25.5% | Loss |
| Joseph Hamilton | Democratic | 18.1% | Loss |
| Augustus L. Hart | Republican | 42% | Win |
| David S. Terry | New Constitution | 14.5% | Loss |
| Surveyor General | |||
| F. J. Clark | New Constitution | 12.5% | Loss |
| William Minis | Democratic | 20.1% | Loss |
| James W. Shanklin | Republican | 41.8% | Win |
| H. J. Stevenson | Workingmen | 25.6% | Loss |
| Clerk of the Supreme Court | |||
| Frank W. Gross | Republican | 40.2% | Win |
| Edwin F. Smith | New Constitution | 12.7% | Loss |
| O. F. Thornton | Workingmen | 25.3% | Loss |
| D. B. Woolf | Democratic | 21.9% | Loss |
| Superintendent of Public Instruction | |||
| S. N. Burch | Workingmen | 25.4% | Loss |
| Frederick M. Campbell | Republican | 41.9% | Win |
| Henry C. Gesford | Democratic | 19.7% | Loss |
| A. L. Mann | New Constitution | 13.1% | Loss |
| RC-01 | |||
| G. J. Carpenter | Democratic | 24.3% | Loss |
| Joseph S. Cone | Republican | 38.2% | Win |
| Henry Larkin | New Constitution | 37.5% | Loss |
| RC-02 | |||
| Charles J. Beerstecher | Workingmen | 45.6% | Win |
| Timothy G. Phelps | Republican | 40.7% | Loss |
| Samuel Soule | New Constitution | 7.9% | Loss |
| George W. Thomas | Democratic | 5.7% | Loss |
| RC-03 | |||
| C. H. Phillips | Republican | 35.3% | Loss |
| George Stoneman | Workingmen | 64.7% | Win |
| SBOE1 | |||
| A. C. Bradford | New Constitution | 9.5% | Loss |
| William C. Hoagland | Workingmen | 44.6% | Loss |
| James L. King | Republican | 45.9% | Win |
| SBOE2 | |||
| Moses M. Drew | Republican | 47.7% | Win |
| W. B. G. Keller | New Constitution | 36% | Loss |
| Charles H. Randall (II) | Democratic | 16.3% | Loss |
| SBOE3 | |||
| J. P. Cavanaugh | Workingmen | 13.1% | Loss |
| Warren Dutton | Republican | 39% | Win |
| John M. Kelly | New Constitution | 17.9% | Loss |
| C. E. Wilcoxon | Democratic | 30% | Loss |
| SBOE4 | |||
| O. T. Chubb | Workingmen | 21.9% | Loss |
| James A. Clayton | Republican | 34.9% | Loss |
| Tyler D. Heiskell | New Constitution | 43.2% | Win |
| CD-01 | |||
| Clitus Barbour | Workingmen | 44.5% | Loss |
| Horace Davis | Republican | 48.4% | Win |
| Charles A. Sumner | Democratic | 7.1% | Loss |
| CD-02 | |||
| Thomas J. Clunie | Democratic | 34.4% | Loss |
| Horace F. Page | Republican | 51.9% | Win |
| H. B. Williams | Workingmen | 13.8% | Loss |
| CD-03 | |||
| Campbell P. Berry | Democratic | 50.1% | Win |
| G. T. Elliott | Workingmen | 0.3% | Loss |
| Joseph McKenna | Republican | 49.6% | Loss |
| CD-04 | |||
| James J. Ayers | Workingmen | 27.7% | Loss |
| Wallace Leach | Democratic | 31.8% | Loss |
| Romualdo Pacheco | Republican | 40.5% | Win |
| SD-01 | |||
| John W. Satterwhite | Democratic | Win | |
| SD-02 | |||
| John P. West | Workingmen | Win | |
| SD-03 | |||
| Warren Chase | Workingmen | Win | |
| SD-04 | |||
| Dr. Chester Rowell | Republican | Win | |
| SD-05 | |||
| David M. Pool | Democratic | Win | |
| SD-06 | |||
| William J. Hill | Workingmen | Win | |
| SD-07 | |||
| George F. Baker | Republican | Win | |
| James C. Zuck | Republican | Win | |
| SD-08 | |||
| James D. Byrnes | Republican | Loss | |
| Robert Desty | Workingmen | Win | |
| SD-09 | |||
| Charles C. Conger | Workingmen | Win | |
| William W. Traylor | Republican | Win | |
| SD-10 | |||
| John Henry Dickinson | Republican | Win | |
| Paul Neumann | Republican | Win | |
| SD-11 | |||
| Thomas Kane | Workingmen | Win | |
| Thorwald K. Nelson | Workingmen | Win | |
| SD-12 | |||
| Joseph C. Gorman | Workingmen | Win | |
| Martin Kelly | Workingmen | Win | |
| SD-13 | |||
| John S. Enos | Workingmen | Win | |
| Theodore H. Hittell | Republican | Win | |
| SD-14 | |||
| Stephen G. Nye | Republican | Win | |
| Enoch H. Pardee | Republican | Win | |
| SD-15 | |||
| William H. Sears | Republican | Win | |
| SD-16 | |||
| A. T. Hudson | Republican | Win | |
| SD-17 | |||
| Royal M. Lampson | Republican | Win | |
| SD-18 | |||
| Grove L. Johnson | Republican | Win | |
| William Johnston | Republican | Win | |
| SD-19 | |||
| Joseph H. Harlan | Democratic | Win | |
| Joseph F. Wendell | Republican | Win | |
| SD-20 | |||
| William L. Anderson | Democratic | Win | |
| SD-21 | |||
| W. W. Moreland | Democratic | Win | |
| SD-22 | |||
| William H. Brown | Republican | Win | |
| Samuel B. Burt | Republican | Win | |
| SD-24 | |||
| William George | Republican | Win | |
| B. J. Watson | Republican | Win | |
| SD-25 | |||
| Edwin A. Davis | Republican | Win | |
| SD-26 | |||
| William A. Cheney | Republican | Win | |
| SD-28 | |||
| A. B. Carlock | Republican | Win | |
| SD-29 | |||
| Benjamin B. Glascock | Democratic | Win | |
| AD-01 | |||
| Henry M. Streeter | Republican | Win | |
| Charles C. Wattson | Republican | Win | |
| AD-02 | |||
| R. F. Del Valle | Democratic | Win | |
| Perry M. Green | Republican | Win | |
| AD-03 | |||
| H. Y. Stanley | Republican | Win | |
| Milton Wason | Republican | Win | |
| AD-04 | |||
| A. B. Du Brutz | Democratic | Win | |
| Claudius G. Sayle | Democratic | Win | |
| Joseph Wasson | Republican | Win | |
| AD-05 | |||
| William F. Coffman | Democratic | Win | |
| John D. Spencer | Democratic | Win | |
| AD-06 | |||
| Elihu Anthony | Workingmen | Win | |
| J. J. Harris | Democratic | Win | |
| Edward S. Josselyn | Republican | Win | |
| AD-07 | |||
| Daniel Frink | Republican | Win | |
| Rush McComas | Republican | Win | |
| James L. York | Republican | Win | |
| AD-08 | |||
| Charles N. Felton | Republican | Win | |
| AD-09 | |||
| William W. Cuthbert | Workingmen | Win | |
| James R. Finlayson | Republican | Win | |
| Stephen J. Garibaldi | Workingmen | Win | |
| William J. Sinon | Workingmen | Win | |
| AD-10 | |||
| Hugh A. Gorley | Republican | Win | |
| William B. May | Republican | Win | |
| T. H. Merry | Republican | Win | |
| George B. Ward | Republican | Win | |
| AD-11 | |||
| Samuel Braunhart | Workingmen | Win | |
| John J. McCallion | Workingmen | Win | |
| Jeremiah J. McCarthy | Workingmen | Win | |
| Garrett Pickett | Workingmen | Win | |
| AD-12 | |||
| John Burns | Workingmen | Win | |
| Patrick T. Gaffey | Workingmen | Win | |
| Michael Lane | Workingmen | Win | |
| A. P. McCarty | Democratic | Win | |
| John J. McDade | Workingmen | Win | |
| AD-13 | |||
| Jabez F. Cowdery | Republican | Win | |
| Lowell J. Hardy | Republican | Win | |
| Augustus B. Maguire | Workingmen | Win | |
| Stephen Maybell | Workingmen | Win | |
| AD-14 | |||
| William W. Camron | Republican | Win | |
| Charles N. Fox | Republican | Win | |
| George W. Tyler | Republican | Win | |
| AD-15 | |||
| Charles L. Estey | Republican | Win | |
| D. N. Sherburne | Republican | Win | |
| AD-16 | |||
| Luther Brusie | Republican | Win | |
| Hugh J. Corcoran | Democratic | Win | |
| Robert C. Downs | Republican | Win | |
| Wallace R. Leadbetter | Republican | Win | |
| Edwin J. McIntosh | Republican | Win | |
| AD-17 | |||
| Daniel Dimond | Republican | Win | |
| Hiram A. Messenger | Democratic | Win | |
| AD-18 | |||
| Elwood Bruner | Republican | Win | |
| Seymour Carr | Republican | Win | |
| John N. Young | Republican | Win | |
| AD-19 | |||
| Albert Bennett | Republican | Win | |
| David N. Hershey | Democratic | Win | |
| Frank A. Leach | Republican | Win | |
| AD-20 | |||
| W. J. Maclay | Republican | Win | |
| AD-21 | |||
| James Adams | Republican | Win | |
| Henry K. Brown | Democratic | Win | |
| James Hynes | Democratic | Win | |
| AD-22 | |||
| Thomas L. Chamberlain | Republican | Win | |
| AD-23 | |||
| Cyrus Coleman | Republican | Win | |
| Thomas Fraser | Republican | Win | |
| AD-24 | |||
| Jeremiah Levee | Workingmen | Win | |
| James Nelson | Republican | Win | |
| James O. Sweetland | Democratic | Win | |
| Anderson N. Walker | Workingmen | Win | |
| AD-25 | |||
| Josiah P. Brown | Republican | Win | |
| T. H. Carr | Democratic | Win | |
| Augustus L. Chandler | Republican | Win | |
| AD-26 | |||
| Max Brooks | Republican | Win | |
| W. W. Durham | Republican | Win | |
| Charles Mulholland | Republican | Win | |
| AD-27 | |||
| L. F. Cooper | Democratic | Win | |
| LeGrand D. Morse | Republican | Win | |
| C. L. Stoddard | Republican | Win | |
| AD-28 | |||
| John S. P. Bass | Democratic | Win | |
| John R. Cook | Democratic | Win | |
| AD-29 | |||
| William P. Mathews | Democratic | Win | |
Special Election
| SD-16 | |||
| Benjamin F. Langford | Democratic | Win | |