November 5, 1912

General Election

A total of 707,776 Californians voted in this election.

President
Eugene W. Chafin	Prohibition	3.5%	Loss
Eugene V. Debs	Socialist	11.8%	Loss
Theodore Roosevelt	Progressive (Bull Moose)	42.1%	Win
William H. Taft	Republican	0.6%	Loss
Woodrow Wilson	Democratic	42.1%	Loss

CD-01
Joseph Bredsteen	Socialist	9%	Loss
Edward H. Hart	Republican	19.4%	Loss
William Kent	Progressive (Bull Moose)	37.3%	Win
I. G. Zumwalt	Democratic	34.4%	Loss

CD-02
John E. Raker	Democratic	69.7%	Win
Frank M. Rutherford	Republican	30.3%	Loss

CD-03
C. F. Curry	Republican	58.8%	Win
Gilbert McMillan Ross	Democratic	28.8%	Loss
William L. Wilson	Socialist	12.4%	Loss

CD-04
Julius Kahn	Republican	56.1%	Win
Norman W. Pendleton	Socialist	11.2%	Loss
Bert Schlesinger	Democratic	32.7%	Loss

CD-05
Stephen V. Costello	Democratic	34.7%	Loss
John I. Nolan	Republican	52.3%	Win
E. L. Reguin	Socialist	13%	Loss

CD-06
Joseph R. Knowland	Republican	53.7%	Win
Hiram A. Luttrell	Democratic	6.3%	Loss
J. Stitt Wilson	Socialist	40%	Loss

CD-07
J. S. Cato	Socialist	13.3%	Loss
Denver S. Church	Democratic	44.1%	Win
James Carson Needham	Republican	42.6%	Loss

CD-08
E. A. Hayes	Republican	51%	Win
James B. Holohan	Democratic	35.2%	Loss
Robert T. Whitaker	Socialist	13.9%	Loss

CD-09
Charles W. Bell	Republican	47.2%	Win
Ralph L. Criswell	Socialist	18.2%	Loss
Thomas H. Kirk	Democratic	23.9%	Loss
George S. Yarnall	Prohibition	10.7%	Loss

CD-10
Emory D. Martindale	Prohibition	3.7%	Loss
George Ringo	Democratic	21.9%	Loss
William D. Stephens	Republican	53.4%	Win
Fred C. Wheeler	Socialist	21%	Loss

CD-11
S. C. Evans	Republican	36.8%	Loss
William Kettner	Democratic	42.7%	Win
Noble A. Richardson	Socialist	12.1%	Loss
Helen M. Stoddard	Prohibition	8.3%	Loss

SD-01
H. P. Andrews	Democratic	39.9%	Loss
William Kehoe	Republican	41.2%	Win
E. W. Welden	Socialist	18.9%	Loss

SD-03
C. W. Anderson	Democratic	36.7%	Loss
E. S. Birdsall	Republican	52.8%	Win
A. M. Clark	Socialist	10.6%	Loss

SD-05
Alonzo Smith Knight	Socialist	10.2%	Loss
Benjamin F. Rush	Republican	50.5%	Win
Joseph Walsh	Democratic	39.3%	Loss

SD-07
Philip Charles Cohn	Democratic	56.8%	Win
O. G. Hopkins	Republican	43.2%	Loss

SD-09
Sumner Crosby	Republican	38.1%	Loss
Rudolph Leonhart	Socialist	13.5%	Loss
James Curtis Owens	Democratic	48.4%	Win

SD-11
William R. Flint	Republican	53.3%	Win
John H. Leonard	Democratic	32.5%	Loss
Ralph H. Smith	Socialist	14.2%	Loss

SD-12
John Barry Curtin	Democratic		Win

SD-13
Benjamin F. Mason	Democratic	21.6%	Loss
Edward Keating Strobridge	Republican	58.7%	Win
C. Alward Tobey	Socialist	19.7%	Loss

SD-14
George J. Hans	Republican		Win

SD-15
Richard B. Bell	Democratic	22.8%	Loss
Arthur H. Breed Sr.	Republican	61%	Win
Harold French	Socialist	16.2%	Loss

SD-17
Alonzo E. Bunker	Republican	33.5%	Loss
Archibald E. "Archie" Campbell	Democratic	57.7%	Win
A. M. Rayl	Socialist	8.7%	Loss

SD-19
Edwin E. Grant	Democratic	47.9%	Win
W. S. Vanderburge	Socialist	4.9%	Loss
Edward I. "Ed" Wolfe	Republican	47.1%	Loss

SD-21
Frederick Carsten Gerdes	Republican	50.7%	Win
Emil Liess	Socialist	15.7%	Loss
Joseph J. McShane	Democratic	33.6%	Loss

SD-23
Rollar Allen	Socialist	19.8%	Loss
James H. Ferren	Democratic	22.2%	Loss
Thomas F. Finn	Republican	58%	Win

SD-25
Mina Dominguez	Socialist	10.2%	Loss
David Wallace Mott	Republican	46.7%	Win
B. F. Thomas	Democratic	43.1%	Loss

SD-27
Frank Henry Benson	Republican	56.3%	Win
W. W. Dunham	Socialist	10.9%	Loss
William Edgar	Democratic	32.9%	Loss

SD-29
Carl K. Broneer	Socialist	36.9%	Loss
Henry H. Lyon	Republican	41.6%	Win
Stephen Monteleone	Democratic	21.5%	Loss

SD-31
Edwin M. Butler	Republican	48.3%	Win
William Francis Ireland	Socialist	22.3%	Loss
Daniel B. Koenig	Prohibition	4.7%	Loss
Joseph K. Tuttle	Democratic	24.8%	Loss

SD-33
Prescott F. Cogswell	Republican	46.5%	Win
Frank D. Firey	Democratic	28.8%	Loss
Loring A. Pickering	Prohibition	15.2%	Loss
J. B. Rutherford	Socialist	9.5%	Loss

SD-35
Harry J. L. Atwood	Socialist	28.1%	Loss
Philip F. Dodson	Democratic	29.1%	Loss
Newton Warner Thompson	Republican	42.8%	Win

SD-37
William E. Brown	Republican	52.6%	Win
Herbert T. Muzzy	Democratic	29.3%	Loss
James R. Townsend	Socialist	18.1%	Loss

SD-39
John Nelson Anderson	Republican	50%	Win
F. D. Ashleigh	Prohibition	9.3%	Loss
George Bauer	Socialist	10.7%	Loss
Louis Paul Hart	Democratic	30%	Loss

AD-01
L. F. Coburn	Republican	34.8%	Loss
Otto L. Haese	Socialist	17.4%	Loss
William B. Shearer	Democratic	47.8%	Win

AD-02
W. F. Harris	Democratic	17.8%	Loss
George Keeling	Socialist	33.5%	Loss
H. C. Nelson	Republican	48.7%	Win

AD-03
D. N. Cunningham	Socialist	19.8%	Loss
Timothy D. Goodman	Democratic	36.6%	Loss
C. William White	Republican	43.6%	Win

AD-04
C. M. Goodhue	Socialist	12%	Loss
H. D. Semans	Democratic	42.8%	Loss
A. F. Shartel	Republican	45.2%	Win

AD-05
F. A. Hersey	Socialist	7.9%	Loss
James King Kendrick	Republican	34.5%	Loss
Harry Polsley	Democratic	57.6%	Win

AD-06
Horace Fremont Miliken	Republican	34.1%	Loss
E. S. Scott	Socialist	21.4%	Loss
T. J. Weldon	Democratic	44.6%	Win

AD-07
John H. Guill Jr.	Democratic	46.6%	Win
A. C. Mastellar	Socialist	11.6%	Loss
G. O. Miller	Republican	33%	Loss
William J. Van Orsdel	Prohibition	8.8%	Loss

AD-08
August Dahler	Socialist	8.8%	Loss
J. A. Murray	Republican	47.1%	Win
Lawrence H. Wilson	Democratic	44.2%	Loss

AD-09
George B. Finnegan	Democratic	47.9%	Win
Edwin C. Gaylord	Republican	39.7%	Loss
George Heffner	Socialist	12.4%	Loss

AD-10
W. S. Killingsworth Sr.	Democratic	39.8%	Win
Conrad Rump	Socialist	9.5%	Loss
Walter S. Thompson	Republican	28%	Loss
C. J. Uhl	Independent	22.7%	Loss

AD-11
James Mason	Socialist	8.2%	Loss
James M. Palmer	Democratic	52.5%	Win
Wallace Rutherford	Republican	39.3%	Loss

AD-12
Richard Corbett	Socialist	11.4%	Loss
James W. Hamilton	Republican	37.1%	Loss
G. W. Libby	Democratic	51.5%	Win

AD-13
Herbert W. Slater	Democratic	86.9%	Win
Niles F. Spencer	Socialist	13.1%	Loss

AD-14
J. M. Inman	Republican	52.7%	Win
Howard Nealy Mitchell	Socialist	10.5%	Loss
D. E. Wiley	Democratic	36.8%	Loss

AD-15
Hugh B. Bradford	Democratic	49.2%	Win
J. Fontaine Johnson	Republican	42.8%	Loss
Herman Schoech	Socialist	8%	Loss

AD-16
Will A. Dower	Democratic	55.8%	Win
Ferdinand G. Stevenot	Republican	35.8%	Loss
D. W. Thorne	Socialist	8.3%	Loss

AD-17
Charles W. Byrnes	Republican	55.6%	Win
C. C. Edwards	Socialist	27.6%	Loss
Tupper S. Malone	Democratic	16.9%	Loss

AD-18
John Dahlstrom	Socialist	18.5%	Loss
Edward M. Hasey	Democratic	30.4%	Loss
Thomas D. Johnston	Republican	51.1%	Win

AD-19
Elisha R. Lawrence	Republican	25%	Loss
M. H. Steeley	Socialist	8.6%	Loss
J. W. Stuckenbruck	Democratic	66.4%	Win

AD-20
Richard Augustine Hawley	Socialist	6.9%	Loss
E. H. McGowen	Republican	41.5%	Loss
W. C. Wall	Democratic	51.7%	Win

AD-21
James W. Farrell	Democratic	27.5%	Loss
Walter A. McDonald	Republican	53.5%	Win
Isaac Sturza	Socialist	19%	Loss

AD-22
John J. Ford Jr.	Democratic	44.4%	Win
William P. Kennedy	Republican	39.5%	Loss
Carl F. Loschenkohl	Socialist	16.1%	Loss

AD-23
John Joseph Bogue	Democratic	34.7%	Loss
Herman E. Doyal	Socialist	28.4%	Loss
James J. Ryan	Republican	36.9%	Win

AD-24
William M. Collins	Republican	72.9%	Win
Louis I. Fortin	Socialist	27.1%	Loss

AD-25
Michael F. Heaney	Socialist	13.1%	Loss
George M. Hench	Republican	38.9%	Loss
William C. McCarthy	Democratic	48%	Win

AD-26
Ray Elric Brouillet	Democratic	30.4%	Loss
William B. Bush	Republican	53.7%	Win
Mads Peter Christensen	Socialist	15.8%	Loss

AD-27
Helen Willsey Hall	Socialist	7.3%	Loss
Edward P. Walsh	Democratic	54.2%	Win
J. E. White	Republican	38.5%	Loss

AD-28
Walter T. Lyon	Democratic	35.4%	Loss
Lizzie Robe	Socialist	9.5%	Loss
William Stoddard "Wild Bill" Scott	Republican	55%	Win

AD-29
K. J. Doyle	Socialist	17.7%	Loss
Ignatius A. Richardson	Democratic	42.2%	Win
George A. Wentworth	Republican	40.1%	Loss

AD-30
Thomas P. D. Gray	Socialist	14.3%	Loss
Edward J. D. Nolan	Republican	56.4%	Win
T. E. Strong	Democratic	29.3%	Loss

AD-31
Adelheid Oswald	Socialist	7.3%	Loss
Milton L. Schmitt	Republican	60.5%	Win
George Douglas Wise	Democratic	32.2%	Loss

AD-32
Allen K. Gifford	Socialist	8.5%	Loss
John Gillson	Republican	45.2%	Loss
Arthur L. Shannon	Democratic	46.2%	Win

AD-33
Victor J. Canepa	Republican	51.7%	Win
John Angus Macaulay	Democratic	39.5%	Loss
Salvatore Schiro	Socialist	8.8%	Loss

AD-34
George Beck	Democratic	45.5%	Win
A. A. Rogers	Republican	41.9%	Loss
O. A. Shaw	Socialist	12.6%	Loss

AD-35
E. A. Larkin	Socialist	26.2%	Loss
Alfred L. Morgenstern	Republican	53.7%	Win
E. D. Rue	Democratic	20.2%	Loss

AD-36
J. E. Cofer	Socialist	22.6%	Loss
Henry H. McPike	Democratic	33.8%	Loss
Frank M. Smith	Republican	43.6%	Win

AD-37
William C. Clark	Republican	61.6%	Win
P. B. Cowdery	Socialist	13.2%	Loss
James K. Moffitt	Democratic	25.2%	Loss

AD-38
Daniel Ferguson	Republican	48.9%	Win
John R. Kelly	Democratic	23.2%	Loss
H. C. Tuck	Socialist	27.9%	Loss

AD-39
George Fitzgerald	Republican	50.5%	Win
J. W. McMannis	Democratic	13.1%	Loss
H. G. Strowenjans	Socialist	36.3%	Loss

AD-40
W. M. Bartlett	Socialist	29.4%	Loss
C. F. Fraser	Democratic	23.8%	Loss
George Gelder	Republican	46.8%	Win

AD-41
Elvina S. Beals	Socialist	4.7%	Loss
William A. Powell	Democratic	9.8%	Loss
C. C. Young	Republican	85.6%	Win

AD-42
Henry Ward Brown	Republican	54.2%	Win
E. J. Crane	Democratic	31.4%	Loss
Hy. Meyer	Socialist	14.4%	Loss

AD-43
David D. Bowman	Republican	41.5%	Win
John B. Maher	Democratic	40%	Loss
Cora Pattleton Wilson	Socialist	18.5%	Loss

AD-44
Lewis Dan Bohnett	Republican	53.2%	Win
William M. Hines	Democratic	36.3%	Loss
Paul Lambert	Socialist	10.5%	Loss

AD-45
Jennie Arnott	Socialist	11.4%	Loss
Daniel R. Hayes	Republican	47.3%	Win
Elijah Miller	Democratic	41.3%	Loss

AD-46
S. C. Gibson	Prohibition	20.6%	Loss
W. B. Harvey	Socialist	9%	Loss
Walter H. Killam	Republican	27.3%	Loss
David W. Tulloch	Democratic	43.1%	Win

AD-47
George A. Clarke	Republican	49.6%	Win
Mary M. McNeill	Socialist	12.3%	Loss
J. A. Van Harlingen	Democratic	38.1%	Loss

AD-48
John K. Alexander	Democratic	53.7%	Win
S. G. Button	Socialist	10.7%	Loss
William Sandholdt Jr.	Republican	35.6%	Loss

AD-49
O. H. Cole	Socialist	12.5%	Loss
J. J. Griffin	Democratic	49.8%	Win
George Marchbank	Republican	37.8%	Loss

AD-50
W. F. Chandler	Republican	57.4%	Win
Christian Christensen	Socialist	7.3%	Loss
W. H. Kerr	Democratic	35.4%	Loss

AD-51
Walter Clifton	Socialist	3.4%	Loss
Henry Hawson	Democratic	43.5%	Loss
W. A. Sutherland	Republican	53.1%	Win

AD-52
L. B. Cary	Republican	54.9%	Win
George Hodge	Socialist	0.3%	Loss
F. E. Jones	Democratic	44.8%	Loss

AD-53
J. M. Emmert	Socialist	15.3%	Loss
A. B. Green	Republican	54.8%	Win
Mary Ella Ridle	Democratic	29.9%	Loss

AD-54
J. W. Guiberson	Democratic	45.9%	Win
R. A. Moore	Republican	45.2%	Loss
C. J. Snyder	Socialist	9%	Loss

AD-55
Aubrey M. Lumley	Democratic	42.2%	Loss
Peter Schulp	Socialist	14.2%	Loss
George Washington Wyllie	Republican	43.6%	Win

AD-56
Fred J. Crease	Republican	35.4%	Loss
I. T. Sharp	Socialist	11.2%	Loss
William E. Simpson	Democratic	53.3%	Win

AD-57
Luther William Gurr	Socialist	16.4%	Loss
J. M. Hartley	Prohibition	10%	Loss
George H. Johnson	Republican	41.6%	Win
J. L. McMinn	Democratic	32.1%	Loss

AD-58
James E. Cram	Republican	47%	Win
Evan G. Evans	Democratic	31.7%	Loss
S. T. Martin	Prohibition	9.1%	Loss
Edward J. Roher	Socialist	12.2%	Loss

AD-59
Henry C. Bagby	Democratic	47.2%	Win
J. H. Hoback	Socialist	7.7%	Loss
C. L. Preisker	Republican	45%	Loss

AD-60
Thomas G. Gabbert	Republican	49.6%	Win
J. M. Mathews	Socialist	9.4%	Loss
W. E. Shepherd	Democratic	41%	Loss

AD-61
Daniel S. Hammack	Democratic	21.2%	Loss
Enoch A. Holtwick	Prohibition	6.2%	Loss
P. D. Noel	Socialist	14.8%	Loss
Charles H. Randall (I)	Independent	24.9%	Loss
W. A. Roberts	Republican	32.9%	Win

AD-62
Freeman H. Bloodgood	Republican	53.7%	Win
Herman H. Holtkamp	Socialist	13.8%	Loss
Force Parker	Democratic	27%	Loss
Etta B. Taft	Prohibition	5.5%	Loss

AD-63
Henry Stanley Benedict	Republican	57.8%	Win
Sallie E. Bowman	Socialist	10.9%	Loss
Wiley J. Phillips	Prohibition	5.2%	Loss
John W. Satterwhite	Democratic	26%	Loss

AD-64
Troy Edward Burns	Democratic	29.7%	Loss
L. Gilbert Wilhite	Socialist	18%	Loss
Frank E. Woodley	Republican	52.4%	Win

AD-65
J. Scott Allen	Democratic	28.2%	Loss
J. Henry Baetz	Republican	31.2%	Loss
Charles W. Kingsley	Socialist	40.5%	Win

AD-66
Thomas L. Ambrose	Republican	40.5%	Win
William J. Coady	Socialist	34.3%	Loss
Benjamin F. Groves	Democratic	25.2%	Loss

AD-67
Howard J. Fish	Republican	49.1%	Win
Clark McLain	Democratic	17%	Loss
Samuel C. Ramage	Socialist	10.9%	Loss
Gabrella T. Stickney	Prohibition	23%	Loss

AD-68
Bernard Hartley	Democratic	20.1%	Loss
E. B. Johnson	Socialist	8.4%	Loss
William A. Johnstone	Republican	48.2%	Win
Henry L. Kuhns	Prohibition	23.3%	Loss

AD-69
B. R. Brainard	Socialist	17.9%	Loss
Egbert J. Gates	Republican	43.3%	Win
Alice P. Woertendyke	Prohibition	17.5%	Loss
Fred A. Young	Democratic	21.2%	Loss

AD-70
Charles H. Dodd	Socialist	10.5%	Loss
Jesse W. Robinson	Prohibition	14.3%	Loss
Charles L. Soyster	Democratic	31.7%	Loss
John H. Strine	Republican	43.6%	Win

AD-71
Ed O. Bailey	Democratic	21.5%	Loss
Elijah A. Emmons	Republican	36.9%	Win
Alexander Kane	Socialist	36.1%	Loss
Lucy D. Wilhoite	Prohibition	5.4%	Loss

AD-72
T. B. Crane	Democratic	28.4%	Loss
Newton Hogan	Prohibition	7.8%	Loss
Arthur G. Kuck	Republican	51%	Win
A. M. Salyer	Socialist	12.8%	Loss

AD-73
George W. Downing	Socialist	34.4%	Loss
Howard A. Peairs	Republican	37.5%	Win
S. M. Smyser	Democratic	21.3%	Loss
Horace J. Winslow	Prohibition	6.7%	Loss

AD-74
L. C. Haller	Socialist Labor	12.3%	Loss
Frank H. Mouser	Republican	46.9%	Win
Claud E. Sheckels	Socialist	40.9%	Loss

AD-75
Lyman Farwell	Republican	56.5%	Win
Albert J. Peterson	Socialist	12.1%	Loss
Emmet H. Wilson	Democratic	31.5%	Loss

AD-76
I. D. Mills	Democratic	35.2%	Loss
W. T. Mitchell	Prohibition	10%	Loss
J. H. Stewart	Socialist	9%	Loss
Hans V. Weisel	Republican	45.8%	Win

AD-77
William H. Ellis	Republican	51.8%	Win
Robert M. Irving	Democratic	25.8%	Loss
Joseph Jarvis	Prohibition	10.2%	Loss
S. S. Samuels	Socialist	12.1%	Loss

AD-78
James W. Glassford	Democratic	40.4%	Loss
J. W. Kramer	Prohibition	7%	Loss
H. W. Moorhouse	Republican	52.5%	Win

AD-79
Kasper Bauer	Socialist	16.2%	Loss
Edward Cunningham Hinkle	Republican	53.3%	Win
Edward T. Lannon	Democratic	25.7%	Loss
Irving H. Skinner	Prohibition	4.8%	Loss

AD-80
Fred E. Judson	Republican	59.9%	Win
E. E. Lowe	Prohibition	18.7%	Loss
George C. Tyler	Socialist	21.3%	Loss

Special Election

Special Election to fill the anticipated vacancy created by the expected resignation of State Senator Charles W. Bell (SD-36). Bell was elected to Congress in the 1912 election, and his seat became vacant.

SD-36
William J. Carr	Independent	75%	Win
Patrick H. Quinn	Independent	25%	Loss

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