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California uses a nonpartisan blanket primary election, in which all candidates regardless of party affiliation appear on the same primary ballot and the two highest-placing candidates advance to the general election; however, primary special election winners can win outright if they win more than 50% of the vote in the first round. [5]
Voters will choose Schiff or Garvey to serve out the remainder of Feinstein's term, which ends in early January, and, separately, to serve a subsequent six-year Senate term. This is California's ...
The race for California's first open Senate seat in eight years unofficially started when Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Democrat and former EMILY's List President Laphonza Butler to the seat shortly ...
Her departure set in motion California's first Senate election without an incumbent since 2016, and several high-profile Democratic members of Congress quickly jumped into the fray.
The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon California's admission to the Union in 1850, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1849.
The Times voter guide. Your guide to the California U.S. Senate election: The race to succeed Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Your guide to the California Senate candidates’ views of housing and homelessness
Garvey aimed a final advertising push at Latinos, who make up about a quarter of likely voters in California. Feinstein, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992, died at 90 in ...
Padilla won both elections with more than 60% of the vote. [4] He became the first Latino elected to the U.S. Senate from California, and the first male elected to the Senate from California since Pete Wilson was re-elected in 1988 and the first male elected to the Class 3 Senate seat from California since Alan Cranston was re-elected in 1986. [5]