Electoral history of Gavin Newsom

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Gavin Newsom in 2011.

This is the electoral history for Gavin Newsom, who has served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and as Mayor of San Francisco and Lieutenant Governor of California. He is the current governor of California.

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Electoral history

San Francisco Board of Supervisors

San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections, 1998
CandidateVotes %
Tom Ammiano (incumbent)120,291
Gavin Newsom (incumbent)109,015
Mabel Teng (incumbent)95,093
Mark Leno (incumbent)82,449
Amos Brown (incumbent)67,554
Victor Marquez58,935
Rose Tsai58,571
Donna Casey57,788
Denise D'Anne35,244
Lucrecia Bermudez23,115
Shawn O'Hearn17,664
Jim Reid16,902
Carlos Petroni16,293
Len Pettigrew15,049
Tahnee Stair11,621
Frederick Hobson8,048
Sam Lucas7,858
Voter turnout55.8%
District 2 supervisorial election, 2000 [1]
CandidateVotes %
Gavin Newsom (incumbent)26,43397.65
Write-in 6372.35
Invalid or blank votes11,13629.15%
Voter turnout69.8%
District 2 supervisorial election, 2002 [1]
CandidateVotes %
Gavin Newsom (incumbent)15,67478.77
Lynne Newhouse Segal3,24715.81
Len Pettigrew8214.13
H. Brown2091.05
Write-in 480.24
Valid votes19,89982.14%
Invalid or blank votes4,32617.86%
Total votes24,225 100.00
Voter turnout52.69%

Mayor of San Francisco

San Francisco mayoral election, 2003 [2] [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gavin Newsom 87,19641.92
Green Matt Gonzalez 40,71419.57
Democratic Angela Alioto 33,44616.08
Democratic Tom Ammiano 21,45210.31
Democratic Susan Leal 17,6418.48
Republican Tony Ribera 5,0152.41
Libertarian Michael F. Denny9250.44
Independent Roger E. Schulke7350.36
Independent Jim Reid7330.35
Write-in 1310.06
Total votes208,028 100.00
Runoff election
Democratic Gavin Newsom 133,546 52.81
Green Matt Gonzalez 119,32947.19
Total votes252,875 100.00
San Francisco mayoral election, 2007 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gavin Newsom (incumbent) 105,596 73.66
Democratic Quintin Mecke9,0766.33
Republican Harold Hoogasian8,4005.86
Peace and Freedom Wilma Pang7,2745.07
Independent Ahimsa Sumchai3,3982.37
Green Chicken John2,5081.75
Marijuana Lonnie Holmes1,8071.26
Green Josh Wolf 1,7721.24
Workers World Grasshopper Kaplan1,4230.99
Independent Harold Brown9150.64
Libertarian George Davis 6440.45
American Independent Michael Powers5190.36
Independent Lea Sherman (write-in)90.01
Independent Rodney Hauge (write-in)60.00
Independent Patrick Monette-Shaw (write-in)60.00
Independent Kenneth Kahn (write-in)30.00
Independent Robert Kully (write-in)20.00
Independent Robert McCullough (write-in)10.00
Total votes143,359 100.00
Democratic hold

Lieutenant Governor of California

California Democratic lieutenant governor primary, 2010
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gavin Newsom 1,308,860 55.5
Democratic Janice Hahn 780,11533.3
Democratic Eric Korevaar257,34910.9
Total votes2,346,324 100.00
Voter turnout31.0%

[5]

California lieutenant governor election, 2010
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gavin Newsom 4,917,880 50.2
Republican Abel Maldonado (incumbent)3,820,97139.0
Libertarian Pamela Brown574,6405.9
American Independent Jim King184,8991.9
Green James Castillo163,9871.6
Peace and Freedom C. T. Weber112,2431.1
Independent Karen England (write-in)34,1190.3
Invalid or blank votes
Total votes9,808,739 100.00
Turnout  
Democratic gain from Republican
California lieutenant gubernatorial primary election, 2014 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gavin Newsom (Incumbent) 2,082,902 49.87
Republican Ron Nehring 976,128 23.37
Republican David Fennell357,2428.55
Republican George Yang333,8577.99
Democratic Eric Korevaar232,5965.57
Green Jena F. Goodman98,3382.35
Americans Elect Alan Reynolds56,0271.34
Peace and Freedom Amos Johnson39,6750.95
Total votes4,176,765 100
Turnout  14.14
California lieutenant gubernatorial general election, 2014 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gavin Newsom (Incumbent) 4,107,051 57.2
Republican Ron Nehring3,078,03942.8
Total votes7,185,090 100
2018 California gubernatorial election map by county 2018 California gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
2018 California gubernatorial election map by county

Governor of California

California Governor primary election, 2018 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gavin Newsom 2,343,792 33.7%
Republican John H. Cox 1,766,488 25.4%
Democratic Antonio Villaraigosa 926,39413.3%
Republican Travis Allen 658,7989.5%
Democratic John Chiang 655,9209.4%
Democratic Delaine Eastin 234,8693.4%
Democratic Amanda Renteria 93,4461.3%
Republican Robert C. Newman II44,6740.6%
Democratic Michael Shellenberger 31,6920.5%
Republican Peter Y. Liu27,3360.4%
Republican Yvonne Girard21,8400.3%
Peace and Freedom Gloria La Riva 19,0750.3%
Democratic J. Bribiesca18,5860.3%
Green Josh Jones16,1310.2%
Libertarian Zoltan Istvan 14,4620.2%
Democratic Albert Caesar Mezzetti12,0260.2%
Libertarian Nickolas Wildstar11,5660.2%
Democratic Robert Davidson Griffis11,1030.2%
Democratic Akinyemi Agbede9,3800.1%
Democratic Thomas Jefferson Cares8,9370.1%
Green Christopher N. Carlson7,3020.1%
Democratic Klement Tinaj5,3680.1%
No party preference Hakan "Hawk" Mikado5,3460.1%
No party preference Johnny Wattenburg4,9730.1%
No party preference Desmond Silveira 4,6330.1%
No party preference Shubham Goel4,0200.1%
No party preference Jeffrey Edward Taylor3,9730.1%
Green Veronika Fimbres (write-in)620.0%
No party preference Arman Soltani (write-in)320.0%
No party preference Peter Crawford Valentino (write-in)210.0%
Republican K. Pearce (write-in)80.0%
No party preference Armando M. Arreola (write-in)10.0%
Total votes6,862,254 100.0%
California gubernatorial election, 2018 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Gavin Newsom 7,721,410 61.95% +1.98%
Republican John H. Cox 4,742,82538.05%−1.98%
Total votes12,464,235 100.0% N/A
Democratic hold
2021 California gubernatorial recall election (question 1) [10] [11]
ChoiceVotes %
No on recall7,944,09261.88
Yes on recall4,894,47338.12
Blank and invalid votes54,013–
Total votes12,892,578100
Registered voters and turnout22,057,15458.45%
California Governor primary election, 2022 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Gavin Newsom (incumbent) 3,945,728 55.9
Republican Brian Dahle 1,252,800 17.7
No party preference Michael Shellenberger 290,2864.1
Republican Jenny Rae Le Roux246,6653.5
Republican Anthony Trimino246,3223.5
Republican Shawn Collins173,0832.5
Green Luis J. Rodriguez 124,6721.8
Republican Leo S. Zacky94,5211.3
Republican Major Williams92,5801.3
Republican Robert C. Newman II82,8491.2
Democratic Joel Ventresca66,8850.9
Republican David Lozano66,5420.9
Republican Ronald A. Anderson53,5540.8
No party preference Reinette Senum53,0150.8
Democratic Armando Perez-Serrato45,4740.6
Republican Ron Jones38,3370.5
Republican Daniel R. Mercuri36,3960.5
Green Heather Collins29,6900.4
Democratic Anthony Fanara25,0860.4
Republican Cristian Raul Morales22,3040.3
Republican Lonnie Sortor21,0440.3
No party preference Frederic C. Schultz17,5020.2
No party preference Woodrow Sanders III16,2040.2
No party preference James G. Hanink10,1100.1
No party preference Serge Fiankan6,2010.1
No party preference Bradley Zink5,9970.1
American Independent Jeff Scott (write-in)130.0
Republican Gurinder Bhangoo (write-in)80.0
Total votes7,063,868 100.0
California Governor general election, 2022 [13] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Gavin Newsom (incumbent) 6,470,104 59.18% −2.77
Republican Brian Dahle 4,462,91440.82%+2.77
Total votes10,933,018 100.00% N/A
Turnout 10,933,01850.80%−12.48
Registered electors 21,940,274
Democratic hold

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