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The 1930 California gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1930. For the third consecutive election, the incumbent governor was defeated in the Republican primary. After ousting incumbent C. C. Young in the primary, Mayor of San Francisco James Rolph proceeded to win a landslide over Democratic nominee Milton K. Young. Upton Sinclair was the Socialist nominee for the second consecutive election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | James Rolph Jr. | 377,390 | 36.15% | |
| Republican | C. C. Young (incumbent) | 356,765 | 34.17% | |
| Republican | Buron Fitts | 292,743 | 28.04% | |
| Republican | Milton K. Young | 15,583 | 1.30% | |
| Republican | Clara Shortridge Foltz | 3,570 | 0.34% | |
| Total votes | 1,044,051 | 100.00% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Milton K. Young | 93,499 | 81.35% | |
| Democratic | James Rolph Jr. (write-in) | 9,271 | 8.07% | |
| Democratic | C. C. Young (write-in) | 6,809 | 5.92% | |
| Democratic | Buron Fitts (write-in) | 5,357 | 4.66% | |
| Total votes | 114,936 | 100.00% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist | Upton Sinclair | 3,367 | 100.00% | |
| Total votes | 3,367 | 100.00% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prohibition | Buron Fitts (write-in) [lower-alpha 1] | 1,967 | 67.62% | |
| Prohibition | C. C. Young (write-in) | 942 | 32.38% | |
| Total votes | 2,909 | 100.00% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | James Rolph Jr. | 999,393 | 72.15% | +0.93% | |
| Democratic | Milton K. Young | 333,973 | 24.11% | −0.58% | |
| Socialist | Upton Sinclair | 50,480 | 3.64% | −0.37% | |
| Scattering | 1,283 | 0.09% | |||
| Majority | 665,420 | 48.04% | |||
| Total votes | 1,385,129 | 100.00% | |||
| Republican hold | Swing | +1.51% | |||
| County | James Rolph Republican | Milton K. Young Democratic | Upton Sinclair Socialist | Scattering Write-in | Margin | Total votes cast [2] | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Alameda | 108,258 | 81.08% | 18,797 | 14.08% | 6,139 | 4.60% | 334 | 0.25% | 89,461 | 67.00% | 133,528 |
| Alpine | 56 | 96.55% | 1 | 1.72% | 1 | 1.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 55 | 94.83% | 58 |
| Amador | 1,278 | 82.29% | 245 | 15.78% | 30 | 1.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,033 | 66.52% | 1,553 |
| Butte | 6,991 | 72.78% | 2,236 | 23.28% | 379 | 3.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,755 | 49.50% | 9,606 |
| Calaveras | 1,696 | 79.51% | 359 | 16.83% | 70 | 3.28% | 8 | 0.38% | 1,337 | 62.68% | 2,133 |
| Colusa | 2,214 | 73.46% | 745 | 24.72% | 55 | 1.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,469 | 48.74% | 3,014 |
| Contra Costa | 15,673 | 80.24% | 3,134 | 16.04% | 726 | 3.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 12,539 | 64.19% | 19,533 |
| Del Norte | 1,600 | 86.02% | 203 | 10.91% | 57 | 3.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,397 | 75.11% | 1,860 |
| El Dorado | 2,299 | 80.81% | 463 | 16.27% | 83 | 2.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,836 | 64.53% | 2,845 |
| Fresno | 25,211 | 69.60% | 9,925 | 27.40% | 1,068 | 2.95% | 18 | 0.05% | 15,286 | 42.20% | 36,222 |
| Glenn | 2,326 | 68.84% | 961 | 28.44% | 86 | 2.55% | 6 | 0.18% | 1,365 | 40.40% | 3,379 |
| Humboldt | 11,594 | 86.24% | 1,452 | 10.80% | 398 | 2.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 10,142 | 75.44% | 13,444 |
| Imperial | 6,509 | 70.44% | 2,475 | 26.78% | 257 | 2.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,034 | 43.65% | 9,241 |
| Inyo | 1,800 | 76.01% | 474 | 20.02% | 94 | 3.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,326 | 56.00% | 2,368 |
| Kern | 13,388 | 75.08% | 3,890 | 21.81% | 554 | 3.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 9,498 | 53.26% | 17,832 |
| Kings | 4,563 | 69.20% | 1,831 | 27.77% | 198 | 3.00% | 2 | 0.03% | 2,732 | 41.43% | 6,594 |
| Lake | 2,266 | 73.00% | 736 | 23.71% | 99 | 3.19% | 3 | 0.10% | 1,530 | 49.29% | 3,104 |
| Lassen | 2,223 | 77.40% | 542 | 18.87% | 107 | 3.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,681 | 58.53% | 2,872 |
| Los Angeles | 299,417 | 61.77% | 164,656 | 33.97% | 20,075 | 4.14% | 565 | 0.12% | 134,761 | 27.80% | 484,713 |
| Madera | 3,060 | 66.74% | 1,375 | 29.99% | 146 | 3.18% | 4 | 0.09% | 1,685 | 36.75% | 4,585 |
| Marin | 11,775 | 86.01% | 1,447 | 10.57% | 468 | 3.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 10,328 | 75.44% | 13,690 |
| Mariposa | 747 | 79.64% | 165 | 17.59% | 26 | 2.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 582 | 62.05% | 938 |
| Mendocino | 6,833 | 79.69% | 1,496 | 17.45% | 224 | 2.61% | 21 | 0.24% | 5,337 | 62.25% | 8,574 |
| Merced | 4,987 | 65.84% | 2,325 | 30.70% | 262 | 3.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,662 | 35.15% | 7,574 |
| Modoc | 1,181 | 76.14% | 322 | 20.76% | 48 | 3.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 859 | 55.38% | 1,551 |
| Mono | 394 | 82.95% | 58 | 12.21% | 23 | 4.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 336 | 70.74% | 475 |
| Monterey | 8,368 | 79.22% | 1,870 | 17.70% | 325 | 3.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,498 | 61.52% | 10,563 |
| Napa | 5,658 | 77.53% | 1,498 | 20.53% | 135 | 1.85% | 7 | 0.10% | 4,160 | 57.00% | 7,298 |
| Nevada | 3,482 | 82.20% | 614 | 14.49% | 140 | 3.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,868 | 67.71% | 4,236 |
| Orange | 18,039 | 55.22% | 14,019 | 42.91% | 601 | 1.84% | 8 | 0.02% | 4,020 | 12.31% | 32,667 |
| Placer | 4,847 | 76.81% | 1,194 | 18.92% | 269 | 4.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,653 | 57.89% | 6,310 |
| Plumas | 1,659 | 84.56% | 252 | 12.84% | 51 | 2.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,407 | 71.71% | 1,962 |
| Riverside | 10,789 | 72.42% | 3,612 | 24.24% | 497 | 3.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,177 | 48.17% | 14,898 |
| Sacramento | 30,685 | 86.13% | 4,082 | 11.46% | 858 | 2.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 26,603 | 74.68% | 35,625 |
| San Benito | 1,816 | 74.92% | 556 | 22.94% | 45 | 1.86% | 7 | 0.29% | 1,260 | 51.98% | 2,424 |
| San Bernardino | 19,457 | 67.99% | 8,242 | 28.80% | 919 | 3.21% | 0 | 0.00% | 11,215 | 39.19% | 28,618 |
| San Diego | 41,835 | 72.49% | 13,985 | 24.23% | 1,887 | 3.27% | 2 | 0.00% | 27,850 | 48.26% | 57,709 |
| San Francisco | 130,547 | 86.11% | 15,189 | 10.02% | 5,845 | 3.86% | 17 | 0.01% | 115,358 | 76.09% | 151,598 |
| San Joaquin | 24,704 | 81.30% | 4,891 | 16.10% | 760 | 2.50% | 33 | 0.11% | 19,813 | 65.20% | 30,388 |
| San Luis Obispo | 7,192 | 74.88% | 2,027 | 21.10% | 386 | 4.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,165 | 53.77% | 9,605 |
| San Mateo | 18,556 | 85.44% | 2,361 | 10.87% | 781 | 3.60% | 21 | 0.10% | 16,195 | 74.57% | 21,719 |
| Santa Barbara | 10,611 | 80.80% | 2,156 | 16.42% | 350 | 2.67% | 15 | 0.11% | 8,455 | 64.38% | 13,132 |
| Santa Clara | 35,991 | 79.21% | 8,088 | 17.80% | 1,277 | 2.81% | 83 | 0.18% | 27,903 | 61.41% | 45,439 |
| Santa Cruz | 8,222 | 73.86% | 2,598 | 23.34% | 296 | 2.66% | 16 | 0.14% | 5,624 | 50.52% | 11,132 |
| Shasta | 4,033 | 79.34% | 854 | 16.80% | 196 | 3.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,179 | 62.54% | 5,083 |
| Sierra | 827 | 81.88% | 157 | 15.54% | 26 | 2.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 670 | 66.34% | 1,010 |
| Siskiyou | 5.511 | 78.74% | 1,223 | 17.47% | 265 | 3.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,288 | 61.27% | 6,999 |
| Solano | 9,658 | 82.22% | 1,745 | 14.86% | 343 | 2.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,913 | 67.37% | 11,746 |
| Sonoma | 16,788 | 79.56% | 3,855 | 18.27% | 458 | 2.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 12,933 | 61.29% | 21,101 |
| Stanislaus | 7,860 | 54.89% | 5,866 | 40.97% | 546 | 3.81% | 47 | 0.33% | 1,994 | 13.93% | 14,319 |
| Sutter | 3,284 | 76.98% | 848 | 19.88% | 134 | 3.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,436 | 57.10% | 4,266 |
| Tehama | 2,488 | 60.34% | 1,444 | 35.02% | 183 | 4.44% | 8 | 0.19% | 1,044 | 25.32% | 4,123 |
| Trinity | 928 | 79.32% | 182 | 15.56% | 60 | 5.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 746 | 63.76% | 1,170 |
| Tulare | 10,286 | 62.76% | 5,517 | 33.66% | 557 | 3.40% | 30 | 0.18% | 4,769 | 29.10% | 16,390 |
| Tuolumne | 2,234 | 75.35% | 618 | 20.84% | 113 | 3.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,616 | 54.50% | 2,965 |
| Ventura | 8,130 | 73.24% | 2,610 | 23.51% | 345 | 3.11% | 16 | 0.14% | 5,520 | 49.73% | 11,101 |
| Yolo | 4,206 | 77.06% | 1,147 | 21.02% | 97 | 1.78% | 8 | 0.15% | 3,059 | 56.05% | 5,458 |
| Yuba | 2,363 | 84.73% | 360 | 12.91% | 62 | 2.22% | 4 | 0.14% | 2,003 | 71.82% | 2,789 |
| Total | 999,393 | 72.15% | 333,973 | 24.11% | 50,480 | 3.64% | 1,283 | 0.09% | 665,420 | 48.04% | 1,385,129 |
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