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The 2026 California gubernatorial election will take place on November 3, 2026, to elect the next governor of California. The statewide top-two primary election will take place on June 2, 2026. Incumbent Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom will be term-limited and ineligible to seek reelection.
On October 1, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein's term until a special election could be held in November 2024 to fill the last month of Feinstein's term. On October 19, 2023, Butler announced that she would not seek election to finish the final month of Feinstein's term, nor for a full Senate ...
California is considered a strong blue state, voting for each Democratic Party candidate since 1992; in 2020, Joe Biden carried the state with 63.5% of the vote, the highest vote share of any candidate since 1936. [4] Presidential primaries were held in California on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024.
The governor issued a proclamation ordering a special primary Feb. 25, 2025 election to elect successors for Senate District 36 and Assembly District 32.
Two rumored hopefuls for California governor continued to punt Thursday on whether they would run for higher office in 2026, when Gov. Gavin Newsom terms out.
All said they were awaiting a January 2025 report required by Senate Bill 770, a measure Newsom signed into law last fall that requires the state's health secretary to begin talking to the federal ...
Gavin Christopher Newsom (/ ˈ n uː s ə m / NEW-səm; born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 40th governor of California since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2011 to 2019 as the 49th lieutenant governor of California and from 2004 to 2011 as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco.
In 2014, as Speaker of the Assembly, Atkins served as acting governor for 10 hours when then-Gov. Jerry Brown and then-Lt. Gov Newsom were both out of the state, as well as then-Senate Pro Tempore ...