California gubernatorial recall election may refer to:
The governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California. The governor is the commander-in-chief of the California National Guard and the California State Guard.
Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis Jr. is an American attorney and former politician who served as the 37th governor of California from 1999 to 2003. In 2003, only a few months into his second term, Davis was recalled and removed from office. A Democrat, he is the second state governor in U.S. history to have been recalled.
A recall election is a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended. Recalls, which are initiated when sufficient voters sign a petition, have a history dating back to the constitution in ancient Athenian democracy and feature in several current constitutions. In indirect or representative democracy, people's representatives are elected and these representatives serve for a specific period of time. However, where the facility to recall exists, if any representative comes to be perceived as not properly discharging their responsibilities, they can be called back with the written request of a specific number or proportion of voters. Even where they are legally available, recall elections are only commonly held in a small number of countries including the United States, Peru, Ecuador, and Japan. They are considered by groups such as ACE Electoral Knowledge Network the most rarely used form of direct democracy.
The 2003 California gubernatorial recall election was a special election permitted under California state law. It resulted in voters replacing incumbent Democratic Governor Gray Davis with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. The recall effort spanned the latter half of 2003. Seven of the nine previous governors, including Davis, had faced unsuccessful recall attempts.
Laurence Allen Elder is an American conservative talk radio host, author, politician, and attorney who hosts The Larry Elder Show. The show began as a local program on Los Angeles radio station KABC in 1993 and ran until 2008, followed by a second run on KABC from 2010 to 2014. The show is nationally syndicated, first through ABC Radio Networks from 2002 to 2007 and then Salem Media Group since 2015.
The 1921 North Dakota gubernatorial recall election was a recall election of North Dakota Governor Lynn Frazier in 1921. Frazier was the first U.S. governor ever successfully recalled from office; there would not be another successful recall of a governor until California Governor Gray Davis was recalled in 2003.
Abel O. Maldonado Jr. is an American politician who served as the 48th lieutenant governor of California from April 27, 2010 to January 10, 2011. As of 2021, he is the last Republican to serve as lieutenant governor of California.
John Herman Cox is an American businessman, housing developer, political activist, and perennial candidate.
The 2002 California gubernatorial election was an election that occurred on November 5, 2002. Democrat Gray Davis defeated Republican Bill Simon by 5% and was re-elected to a second four-year term as Governor of California. Davis would be recalled less than a year into his next term.
The 1998 California gubernatorial election was an election that occurred on November 3, 1998, resulting in the election of Gray Davis, the state's first Democratic governor in 16 years. Davis won the general election by an almost 20% margin over his closest opponent, Republican Dan Lungren. Davis succeeded Pete Wilson who was term limited.
The 2003 United States gubernatorial elections were held in four states. Kentucky and Mississippi held their general elections on November 4. Louisiana held the first round of its jungle primary on October 4 and the runoff on November 15. In addition, California held a recall election on October 7.
The 2003 United States elections, most of which were held on Tuesday, November 4, were off-year elections in which no members of the Congress were standing for election. However, there were three gubernatorial races, state legislative elections in four states, numerous citizen initiatives, mayoral races in several major cities, and a variety of local offices on the ballot.
Kevin Patrick Kiley is an American politician, attorney, and former educator serving in the California State Assembly since 2016. He is a Republican who represents the 6th district, which is a northeast area outside Sacramento, composed of Sacramento suburbs and rural areas. Kiley was a candidate to replace California governor Gavin Newsom in a voter-initiated special recall election which was held on September 14, 2021.
The 2021 United States gubernatorial elections will be held on November 2, 2021, in two states, New Jersey and Virginia and a recall election in California, on September 14. These elections form part of the 2021 United States elections. The last gubernatorial elections for New Jersey and Virginia were in 2017, the last regular gubernatorial election for California was in 2018. All three seats are currently held by Democrats. Incumbent Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is term-limited, while New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is running for re-election. Additionally, an unsuccessful special election for whether to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom was held on September 14, 2021. More states may hold elections due to a gubernatorial vacancy or recall of a governor.
The 2022 California gubernatorial election will take place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Governor of California.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1921, in two states.
California Senate Bill 27, alternatively known as the Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act, is a California law that requires candidates running for either President of the United States or Governor of California to publicly release their tax return of the previous five years in order to be listed on the primary ballot. The bill, authored by State Senators Mike McGuire and Scott Wiener, passed the two chambers of the state legislature with no Republican support and was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on July 30, 2019.
On November 2, 2010, Illinois voters approved the Illinois Governor Recall Amendment, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Constitution of Illinois. The amendment changed the state constitution to allow recall elections of Illinois governors.
The 2021 California gubernatorial recall election was a special recall election that concluded on September 14, 2021, in which California voters chose not to recall incumbent Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, elected for the term January 2019 to January 2023. The process began in February 20, 2020, and the extended deadline for signatures, owing to pandemic complications, was March 17, 2021. Had the recall been successful, the replacement candidate with the most votes on the second part of the ballot would have assumed the office. The election followed the same pandemic-era format used in the November 2020 general election: in August, county election offices sent an official ballot to the mailing address of every registered voter, giving them the option to vote by mail on or before election day, or, when polling places opened statewide, to vote in-person.
Kevin Paffrath, is an American YouTuber, financial analyst, landlord and real estate broker. In 2019, he was described by Curbed as a "landlord influencer". Paffrath was a Democratic candidate to replace Gavin Newsom in the unsuccessful 2021 California gubernatorial recall election.