2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election

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2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election
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  2018 June 7, 2022 (first round)
November 8, 2022 (runoff)
2026 
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Candidate Tony Thurmond Lance ChristensenAinye E. Long
First round2,881,684
45.9%
745,003
11.9%
699,331
11.1%
Runoff 5,681,318
63.7%
3,237,785
36.3%
Eliminated

 
CandidateGeorge YangMarco AmaralJim Gibson
First round694,073
11.1%
547,389
8.7%
468,078
7.5%
Runoff EliminatedEliminatedEliminated

2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction primary election results map by county.svg
2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction general election results map by county.svg
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Thurmond     20–30%     30–40%     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
Christensen:     50–60%

SPI before election

Tony Thurmond

Elected SPI

Tony Thurmond

The 2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election was held on June 7, 2022, to elect the Superintendent of Public Instruction of California. Unlike most other elections in the state, the office is not elected under the state's nonpartisan blanket primary system. Instead, the officially nonpartisan position is elected via a general election, with a runoff scheduled for November 8, 2022 as no candidate received a majority of the vote.

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Incumbent Superintendent Tony Thurmond, who was endorsed by the California Democratic Party, easily won re-election to a second term, defeating Lance Christensen, who was endorsed by the California Republican Party, by 26 points. He was first elected in 2018 with 50.9% of the vote, narrowly defeating Marshall Tuck in a runoff election. [1] Thurmond's result was by far the best for a Democrat in the 2022 elections, although the race itself was nonpartisan.

Candidates

Advanced to runoff

Eliminated in primary

Endorsements

Marco Amaral
Lance Christensen
Tony Thurmond

General election

Results

2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election [2] [11]
CandidateVotes %
Tony Thurmond (incumbent)2,881,68445.90%
Lance Christensen745,00311.87%
Ainye E. Long699,33111.14%
George Yang694,07311.06%
Marco Amaral547,3898.72%
Jim Gibson468,0787.46%
Joseph Guy Campbell241,9843.85%
Total votes6,277,542 100.00%

Runoff

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [a]
Margin
of error
Tony
Thurmond
Lance
Christensen
Undecided
USC [12] October 30 – November 2, 2022802 (RV)± 3.5%64%36%

Results

2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction runoff election [13]
CandidateVotes %±
Tony Thurmond (incumbent)5,681,318 63.70% +12.82%
Lance Christensen3,237,78536.30%N/A
Total votes8,919,103100.00%

By congressional district

Thurmond won 49 of 52 congressional districts, including nine that elected Republicans. [14] He performed the best in the 11th and 12th districts in the Bay Area, as well as the 30th, 34th and 37th districts in Greater Los Angeles. Conversely, Christensen won the 1st, 20th and 48th districts, performing the best in the 20th one, where Kevin McCarthy gave the Republicans their best performance in the 2022 House election.

DistrictThurmondChristensenRepresentative
1st 49%51% Doug LaMalfa
2nd 75%25% Jared Huffman
3rd 53%47% Kevin Kiley
4th 69%31% Mike Thompson
5th 52%48% Tom McClintock
6th 60%40% Ami Bera
7th 68%32% Doris Matsui
8th 73%27% John Garamendi
9th 57%43% Josh Harder
10th 67%33% Mark DeSaulnier
11th 82%18% Nancy Pelosi
12th 87%13% Barbara Lee
13th 55%45% John Duarte
14th 69%31% Eric Swalwell
15th 72%28% Jackie Speier (117th Congress)
Kevin Mullin (118th Congress)
16th 71%29% Anna Eshoo
17th 71%29% Ro Khanna
18th 64%36% Zoe Lofgren
19th 68%32% Jimmy Panetta
20th 47%53% Kevin McCarthy
21st 56%44% Jim Costa
22nd 54%46% David Valadao
23rd 52%48% Jay Obernolte
24th 64%36% Salud Carbajal
25th 56%44% Raul Ruiz
26th 61%39% Julia Brownley
27th 57%43% Mike Garcia
28th 66%34% Judy Chu
29th 72%28% Tony Cárdenas
30th 77%23% Adam Schiff
31st 62%38% Grace Napolitano
32nd 71%29% Brad Sherman
33rd 58%42% Pete Aguilar
34th 78%22% Jimmy Gomez
35th 57%43% Norma Torres
36th 71%29% Ted Lieu
37th 79%21% Karen Bass (117th Congress)
Sydney Kamlager-Dove (118th Congress)
38th 62%38% Linda Sánchez
39th 60%40% Mark Takano
40th 53%47% Young Kim
41st 53%47% Ken Calvert
42nd 68%32% Lucille Roybal-Allard (117th Congress)
Robert Garcia (118th Congress)
43rd 73%27% Maxine Waters
44th 69%31% Nanette Barragán
45th 58%42% Michelle Steel
46th 62%38% Lou Correa
47th 57%43% Katie Porter
48th 47%53% Darrell Issa
49th 57%43% Mike Levin
50th 65%35% Scott Peters
51st 64%36% Sara Jacobs
52nd 63%37% Juan Vargas

Notes

  1. Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear

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