November 8, 1938
General Election
A total of 2,695,904 Californians voted in this election.
| Governor | |||
| Raymond L. Haight | Progressive | 2.4% | Loss |
| Frank F. Merriam | Republican | 44.2% | Loss |
| Robert Noble | Commonwealth | 0.9% | Loss |
| Culbert L. Olson | Democratic | 52.5% | Win |
| Lieutenant Governor | |||
| Walter Scott Fitzgerald | Republican | 44.6% | Loss |
| Ellis E. Patterson | Democratic | 50.8% | Win |
| Geneve L. A. Shaffer | Townsend | 4.6% | Loss |
| Secretary of State | |||
| Leo Gallagher | Communist | 6.4% | Loss |
| Nellie S. Harriss | Prohibition | 3.3% | Loss |
| Frank C. Jordan | Republican | 90.4% | Win |
| Controller | |||
| Ellen G. Pritchard | Prohibition | 3.5% | Loss |
| Harry B. Riley | Republican | 92.3% | Win |
| Anita Whitney | Communist | 4.2% | Loss |
| Treasurer | |||
| Charles G. Johnson | Republican | 100% | Win |
| Attorney General | |||
| Walter Emmett Barry | Townsend | 9.9% | Loss |
| Carl Kegley | Write-in | 19.9% | Loss |
| Earl Warren | Republican | 66.2% | Win |
| Claude A. Watson | Prohibition | 4% | Loss |
| Superintendent of Public Instruction | |||
| G. Vernon Bennett | Nonpartisan | 24% | Loss |
| Walter F. Dexter | Nonpartisan | 59.2% | Win |
| Russell H. Ewing | Nonpartisan | 16.8% | Loss |
| SBOE1 | |||
| Andrew J. Gallagher | Republican | 41.4% | Loss |
| George R. Reilly | Democratic | 58.6% | Win |
| SBOE2 | |||
| Leon M. Donihue | Write-in | 1.5% | Loss |
| Fred E. Stewart | Republican | 98.5% | Win |
| SBOE3 | |||
| Richard E. Collins | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SBOE4 | |||
| William G. Bonelli | Republican | 94.5% | Win |
| Pettis Perry | Communist | 5.5% | Loss |
| Edward L. Thrasher | Democratic | Loss | |
| Senate3 | |||
| Philip Bancroft | Republican | 44.7% | Loss |
| Lillian Symes Clements | Socialist | 0.9% | Loss |
| Sheridan Downey | Democratic | 54.4% | Win |
| CD-01 | |||
| Clarence F. Lea | Democratic | 63% | Win |
| Ernest S. Mitchell | Townsend | 37% | Loss |
| CD-02 | |||
| Harry L. Englebright | Republican | 100% | Win |
| CD-03 | |||
| Frank H. Buck | Democratic | 93.3% | Win |
| Nora Conklin | Communist | 6.5% | Loss |
| George C. Kimber | Write-in | 0.3% | Loss |
| CD-04 | |||
| Kennett B. Dawson | Republican | 38.8% | Loss |
| Franck R. Havenner | Democratic | 61.2% | Win |
| CD-05 | |||
| Richard J. Welch | Republican | 100% | Win |
| CD-06 | |||
| Albert E. Carter | Republican | 94.4% | Win |
| Dave L. Saunders | Communist | 5.6% | Loss |
| CD-07 | |||
| Charles Wade Snook | Republican | 44.7% | Loss |
| John H. Tolan | Democratic | 55.3% | Win |
| CD-08 | |||
| John Z. "Jack" Anderson | Republican | 55% | Win |
| John J. McGrath | Democratic | 45% | Loss |
| CD-09 | |||
| Bertrand W. Gearhart | Republican | 96.3% | Win |
| George H. Sciaroni | Write-in | 3.7% | Loss |
| CD-10 | |||
| Alfred J. Elliott | Democratic | 67.3% | Win |
| F. Fred Hoelscher | Republican | 32.7% | Loss |
| CD-11 | |||
| John R. Grey | Progressive | 2.6% | Loss |
| Stuart Hamblen | Democratic | 41.1% | Loss |
| Carl Hinshaw | Republican | 47% | Win |
| Ralph D. Horton | Townsend | 8.7% | Loss |
| Orla E. Lair | Communist | 0.6% | Loss |
| CD-12 | |||
| Russell R. Hand | Townsend | 6.4% | Loss |
| Eugene W. Nixon | Republican | 32.8% | Loss |
| Jerry Voorhis | Democratic | 60.8% | Win |
| CD-13 | |||
| Louis Baron | Communist | 3.5% | Loss |
| Charles Kramer | Democratic | 65.9% | Win |
| K. L. Stockton | Republican | 30.7% | Loss |
| CD-14 | |||
| William D. Campbell | Republican | 31.7% | Loss |
| Thomas F. Ford | Democratic | 68.3% | Win |
| CD-15 | |||
| John M. Costello | Democratic | 60.4% | Win |
| Emil Freed | Communist | 2.1% | Loss |
| O. D. Thomas | Republican | 37.4% | Loss |
| CD-16 | |||
| John F. Dockweiler | Write-in | 21.2% | Loss |
| Ted E. Felt | Townsend | 10.3% | Loss |
| Leland Merritt Ford | Republican | 62.8% | Win |
| J. Barton Hutchins | Progressive | 4.3% | Loss |
| La Rue McCormick | Communist | 1.3% | Loss |
| CD-17 | |||
| Robert O. Bates | Progressive | 3.9% | Loss |
| Lee E. Geyer | Democratic | 58.8% | Win |
| Clifton A. Hix | Republican | 28% | Loss |
| Fred C. Wagner | Townsend | 9.2% | Loss |
| CD-18 | |||
| Solomon Carr | Progressive | 3.1% | Loss |
| Thomas M. Eaton | Republican | 48.6% | Win |
| Byron N. Scott | Democratic | 48.3% | Loss |
| CD-19 | |||
| C. T. Johnson | Republican | 46.7% | Loss |
| Harry R. Sheppard | Democratic | 53.3% | Win |
| CD-20 | |||
| John L. Bacon | Republican | 39.6% | Loss |
| Ed Izac | Democratic | 60.4% | Win |
| SD-02 | |||
| Randolph Collier | Republican | 55.2% | Win |
| Edward H. Kaupp | Democratic | 44.8% | Loss |
| SD-04 | |||
| George Milton Biggar | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-06 | |||
| Charles H. Deuel | Democratic | 66.1% | Win |
| Edwin R. Nieland | Progressive | 33.9% | Loss |
| SD-08 | |||
| D. Jack Metzger | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-10 | |||
| William P. Rich | Republican | 55.8% | Win |
| Ivan C. Sperbeck | Democratic | 44.2% | Loss |
| SD-12 | |||
| Herbert W. Slater | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| SD-14 | |||
| Edgar C. Levey | Republican | 40.9% | Loss |
| John F. Shelley | Democratic | 59.1% | Win |
| SD-16 | |||
| Arthur H. Breed Jr. | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-18 | |||
| Adron A. Beene | Republican | 45.8% | Loss |
| John D. Foley | Democratic | 51.6% | Win |
| Rolf B. Vinmont | Progressive | 2.6% | Loss |
| SD-20 | |||
| Bradford S. Crittenden | Republican | 100% | Win |
| SD-22 | |||
| J. C. Garrison | Democratic | 57.7% | Win |
| Fred L. Hogue | Republican | 42.3% | Loss |
| SD-24 | |||
| Peter P. Myhand | Democratic | 54.5% | Win |
| David C. Williams | Republican | 45.5% | Loss |
| SD-26 | |||
| Jesse M. Mayo | Republican | 98.5% | Win |
| Claude Weddle | Write-in | 1.5% | Loss |
| SD-28 | |||
| Charles Brown | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| SD-30 | |||
| Percy C. Church | Write-in | 5.4% | Loss |
| Elwin Cross | Write-in | 0.7% | Loss |
| Ray W. Hays | Republican | 47.8% | Win |
| N. Lindsay South | Democratic | 46.1% | Loss |
| SD-32 | |||
| E. Rufus Connelly | Write-in | 7.3% | Loss |
| Frank W. Mixter | Republican | 92.7% | Win |
| SD-34 | |||
| Charles C. Conners | Progressive | 24.6% | Loss |
| James I. Wagy | Republican | 75.4% | Win |
| SD-36 | |||
| George C. Sandy | Communist | 5.1% | Loss |
| Ralph E. Swing | Republican | 94.9% | Win |
| SD-38 | |||
| Harry W. Francis | Progressive | 14.8% | Loss |
| Robert W. Kenny | Democratic | 85.2% | Win |
| SD-40 | |||
| Edward Fletcher | Republican | 92.9% | Win |
| Bessie A. Keckler | Communist | 7.1% | Loss |
| AD-01 | |||
| Michael J. Burns | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-02 | |||
| Clinton J. Fulcher | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-03 | |||
| John H. O'Donnell | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-04 | |||
| George A. Critchett | Write-in | 1.7% | Loss |
| Seth Millington Jr. | Democratic | 98.3% | Win |
| AD-05 | |||
| Ernest C. Crowley | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-06 | |||
| Allen G. Thurman | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-07 | |||
| Hubert B. Scudder | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-08 | |||
| Chester M. Gannon | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-09 | |||
| Earl D. Desmond | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-10 | |||
| Francis W. Collins | Republican | 38.2% | Loss |
| John E. Hughes | Communist | 0.8% | Loss |
| Harold F. Sawallisch | Democratic | 60.9% | Win |
| AD-11 | |||
| Charles M. Weber III | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-12 | |||
| James E. Thorp | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-13 | |||
| Calvert L. Bowles | Republican | 30.5% | Loss |
| James M. Cassidy | Democratic | 59.4% | Win |
| William G. Dapper | Townsend | 10.1% | Loss |
| AD-14 | |||
| George Paul Miller | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-15 | |||
| Walter A. Pullen | Progressive | 32.5% | Loss |
| Bernard A. Sheridan | Republican | 67.5% | Win |
| AD-16 | |||
| Anga W. Bjornson | Democratic | 36.7% | Loss |
| Arthur W. Carlson | Republican | 63.3% | Win |
| AD-17 | |||
| Henry P. Meehan | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-18 | |||
| Eddie Marie Cobb | Communist | 1.3% | Loss |
| Henry A. Dannenbrink | Democratic | 46.7% | Loss |
| James H. Phillips | Republican | 52% | Win |
| AD-19 | |||
| Gardiner Johnson | Republican | 92.3% | Win |
| Frank Walter Sullivan | Communist | 7.7% | Loss |
| AD-20 | |||
| Thomas A. Maloney | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-21 | |||
| Joseph P. Gilmore | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-22 | |||
| Russell A. Bergemann | Republican | 36.9% | Loss |
| George D. Collins Jr. | Democratic | 55.5% | Win |
| L. Raymond Holmes | Progressive | 5.4% | Loss |
| Oleta O'Connor Yates | Communist | 2.3% | Loss |
| AD-23 | |||
| Dan Gallagher | Democratic | 55% | Win |
| Vernon Dennis Healy | Communist | 2.3% | Loss |
| William B. Hornblower | Republican | 42.7% | Loss |
| AD-24 | |||
| Leo E. Laramee | Communist | 5.1% | Loss |
| Edward F. O'Day | Democratic | 94.9% | Win |
| AD-25 | |||
| Melvyn I. Cronin | Democratic | 94.1% | Win |
| Emile Rabin | Communist | 5.9% | Loss |
| AD-26 | |||
| Herbert Nugent | Communist | 10.5% | Loss |
| Ray Williamson | Republican | 89.5% | Win |
| AD-27 | |||
| George B. Harris | Democratic | 42.6% | Loss |
| Albert C. Wollenberg | Republican | 57.4% | Win |
| AD-28 | |||
| Robert Miller Green | Republican | 51.5% | Win |
| Leland J. Lazarus | Democratic | 48.5% | Loss |
| AD-29 | |||
| Harrison W. Call | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-30 | |||
| Clarence Brooks | Democratic | 48% | Loss |
| Byrl R. Salsman | Republican | 52% | Win |
| AD-31 | |||
| M. G. Del Mutolo | Democratic | 53.1% | Win |
| Marshall S. Hall | Republican | 46.9% | Loss |
| AD-32 | |||
| Hugh P. Donnelly | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-33 | |||
| George A. Clarke | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-34 | |||
| Tom H. Deane | Write-in | 1.8% | Loss |
| Jacob M. Leonard | Republican | 98.2% | Win |
| AD-35 | |||
| John A. Morrill | Democratic | 48.2% | Loss |
| Frederick Weybret | Republican | 51.8% | Win |
| AD-36 | |||
| Hugh M. Burns | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-37 | |||
| S. L. Heisinger | Democratic | 62.2% | Win |
| Karl W. Shattuck | Republican | 37.8% | Loss |
| AD-38 | |||
| Gordon H. Garland | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-39 | |||
| Alfred W. Robertson | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-40 | |||
| Caroline H. Bridge | Progressive | 8.7% | Loss |
| Roscoe W. Burson | Republican | 50.1% | Win |
| Duncan E. Clark | Democratic | 41.2% | Loss |
| AD-41 | |||
| Paul C. Newell | Republican | 42.9% | Loss |
| Rodney L. Turner | Democratic | 57.1% | Win |
| AD-42 | |||
| Roy C. Gore | Republican | 39.4% | Loss |
| Elmer E. Lore | Democratic | 60.6% | Win |
| AD-43 | |||
| C. Don Field | Republican | 52.6% | Win |
| William Ingham | Communist | 0.6% | Loss |
| Claude L. Welch | Democratic | 46.8% | Loss |
| AD-44 | |||
| James Bond | Write-in | 1.3% | Loss |
| Ernest Q. Norman | Republican | 23.9% | Loss |
| John B. Pelletier | Democratic | 74.8% | Win |
| AD-45 | |||
| J. Russell Blodgett | Republican | 26.9% | Loss |
| Thomas J. Doyle | Democratic | 65.8% | Win |
| Michael Motta | Progressive | 7.3% | Loss |
| AD-46 | |||
| Fred R. Pardee | Republican | 35.3% | Loss |
| Jack B. Tenney | Democratic | 64.7% | Win |
| AD-47 | |||
| Eleanor Miller | Republican | 61.2% | Win |
| Carrie H. Paulson | Democratic | 38.8% | Loss |
| AD-48 | |||
| T. Fenton Knight | Republican | 60.8% | Win |
| Leslie H. Preston | Democratic | 39.2% | Loss |
| AD-49 | |||
| Lee T. Bashore | Republican | 50.6% | Win |
| Frank L. Baynham | Democratic | 48.3% | Loss |
| William Brunton | Write-in | 1% | Loss |
| AD-50 | |||
| Edwin Jobe | Write-in | 10.8% | Loss |
| Gerald C. Kepple | Republican | 81.1% | Win |
| Eugene H. Troskey | Progressive | 8% | Loss |
| AD-51 | |||
| F. Ray Bennett | Democratic | 80.5% | Win |
| Monte C. Fiscus | Republican | 19.5% | Loss |
| AD-52 | |||
| Ben Rosenthal | Democratic | 100% | Win |
| AD-53 | |||
| Frederick F. Houser | Republican | 59.7% | Win |
| Frank G. Pellett | Democratic | 40.3% | Loss |
| AD-54 | |||
| Wilbur F. Gilbert | Democratic | 58.3% | Win |
| John B. Knight | Republican | 41.7% | Loss |
| AD-55 | |||
| Emory J. Arnold | Republican | 34.3% | Loss |
| Vernon Kilpatrick | Democratic | 53.2% | Win |
| Walter W. Scott | Townsend | 12.5% | Loss |
| AD-56 | |||
| Joseph W. Aidlin | Democratic | 46.4% | Loss |
| Norris Poulson | Republican | 48.1% | Win |
| Robert A. White | Progressive | 5.5% | Loss |
| AD-57 | |||
| Kent H. Redwine | Republican | 54.1% | Win |
| Frank Scully | Democratic | 45.9% | Loss |
| AD-58 | |||
| John R. Royer | Communist | 4% | Loss |
| Frank J. Waters Jr. | Republican | 96% | Win |
| AD-59 | |||
| Charles W. Lyon | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-60 | |||
| Carl R. Henderson | Progressive | 9.2% | Loss |
| Jesse Randolph "John" Kellems | Republican | 50.8% | Win |
| William Bosworth Mason | Republican | 39.2% | Loss |
| Andrew J. Woomer | Communist | 0.8% | Loss |
| AD-61 | |||
| Henry S. Johnson | Progressive | 9.7% | Loss |
| M. Tellefson | Republican | 35.2% | Loss |
| Ernest O. Voigt | Democratic | 55.1% | Win |
| AD-62 | |||
| Sidney P. Dones | Progressive | 18.8% | Loss |
| Augustus F. "Gus" Hawkins | Democratic | 81.2% | Win |
| AD-63 | |||
| Don A. Allen Sr. | Democratic | 57.1% | Win |
| Leroy A. Broun | Republican | 41.7% | Loss |
| George J. Watkins | Write-in | 1.2% | Loss |
| AD-64 | |||
| Roger Alton Pfaff | Republican | 40.2% | Loss |
| Sam Yorty | Democratic | 59.8% | Win |
| AD-65 | |||
| John W. Evans | Democratic | 61.3% | Win |
| Frank H. Scolinos | Republican | 38.7% | Loss |
| AD-66 | |||
| Samuel C. Converse | Progressive | 14.6% | Loss |
| Tom Howard | Write-in | 1.5% | Loss |
| Jack Massion | Democratic | 55.4% | Win |
| Warren Penn | Republican | 28.6% | Loss |
| AD-67 | |||
| Adele Arbo | Republican | 17.4% | Loss |
| Cecil R. King | Democratic | 79.5% | Win |
| John T. Westerfield | Communist | 3.1% | Loss |
| AD-68 | |||
| Fred Reaves | Democratic | 71.9% | Win |
| Charles M. Smith | Republican | 28.1% | Loss |
| AD-69 | |||
| Edward B. Collinge | Republican | 34.1% | Loss |
| Ralph C. Dills | Democratic | 65.9% | Win |
| AD-70 | |||
| Maurice E. Atkinson | Democratic | 54% | Win |
| Joseph M. Maltby | Republican | 46% | Loss |
| AD-71 | |||
| Howard G. Cleaveland | Republican | 43% | Loss |
| Paul Peek | Democratic | 57% | Win |
| AD-72 | |||
| Godfrey A. Andreas | Democratic | 56.2% | Win |
| Floyde L. Atwood | Republican | 43.8% | Loss |
| AD-73 | |||
| Maurice Clapp | Democratic | 48.3% | Loss |
| Gordon W. Corwin | Republican | 51.7% | Win |
| AD-74 | |||
| Levi C. Carlisle | Townsend | 14.8% | Loss |
| Adrian Marks | Republican | 35.4% | Loss |
| Clyde A. Watson | Democratic | 49.8% | Win |
| AD-75 | |||
| Burr A. Brown | Democratic | 36.8% | Loss |
| Thomas H. Kuchel | Republican | 63.2% | Win |
| AD-76 | |||
| Nelson S. Dilworth | Republican | 56.9% | Win |
| J. Clark Kirkpatrick | Democratic | 43.1% | Loss |
| AD-77 | |||
| Clarence B. Walker | Republican | 100% | Win |
| AD-78 | |||
| Jeanette E. Daley | Democratic | 53.3% | Win |
| George W. Fisher | Republican | 44.3% | Loss |
| Esco L. Richardson | Communist | 2.4% | Loss |
| AD-79 | |||
| Lester J. Penry | Republican | 35.8% | Loss |
| Paul A. Richie | Democratic | 64.2% | Win |
| AD-80 | |||
| Charles W. Stream | Republican | 99.3% | Win |
| Vincent Whelan | Write-in | 0.7% | Loss |