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1926 California gubernatorial election

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Field	Value
election_name	1926 California gubernatorial election
country	California
flag_image	Flag of California (1911–1953).svgborder
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1922 California gubernatorial election
previous_year	1922
next_election	1930 California gubernatorial election
next_year	1930
election_date	November 2, 1926
<!-- C. C. Young -->	image1	C. C. Young (cropped) (cropped).jpg
image_size	150x150px
nominee1	C. C. Young
party1	Republican Party (United States)
popular_vote1	814,815
percentage1	71.22%
<!-- Justus S. Wardell -->	image2	File:Justus Wardell, 1933.jpg
nominee2	Justus S. Wardell
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote2	282,451
percentage2	24.69%
map_image	1926 California gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
map_size	300px
map_caption	County results

title	Governor
before_election	Friend Richardson
before_party	Republican Party (United States)
after_election	C. C. Young
after_party	Republican Party (United States)

Young:

The 1926 California gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1926. Republican lieutenant governor C. C. Young defeated Justus S. Wardell in a landslide.

In the Republican primary, incumbent governor Friend Richardson was challenged by C. C. Young and Rex B. Goodell. Young, a progressive ally of U.S. senator and former governor Hiram Johnson, narrowly defeated Richardson by just over 15,000 votes. Although Richardson won the Prohibition Party primary, he was unable to accept the nomination under the Hawson amendment because he had lost his own party's primary. This was the second of three consecutive elections in which the incumbent lost the Republican primary. In the Democratic primary, Justus S. Wardell narrowly defeated Carl A. Johnson.

In the general election, Young won a record landslide with over 71 percent of the vote and a majority of more than 630,000 votes over Wardell, the largest percentage of the vote and margin in California history. He was the first candidate in California history to sweep every county in the state in a gubernatorial election.

Primary election results

Lieutenant Governor C. C. Young challenged incumbent governor Friend William Richardson for the Republican nomination. Young was aligned with former governor and sitting United States Senator Hiram Johnson and the latter's Progressive wing of the Republican party in California. Young narrowly defeated Richardson in the Republican primary. Richardson won the Prohibition Party primary but state law prevented him from running on the Prohibition ticket due to his losing his own party's primary.

General election results

Results by county

County	C. C. Young
Republican	Justus S. Wardell
Democratic	Upton Sinclair
Socialist	Scattering
Write-in	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total	814,815	71.22%	282,451	24.69%	45,972	4.02%	874	0.08%	532,364	46.53%	1,144,112
	Alameda		85,412		69.26%		32,686		26.51%		5,221		4.23%		0		0.00%		52,726		42.76%		123,319
	Alpine		52		85.25%		9		14.75%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		43		70.49%		61
	Amador		991		54.81%		771		42.64%		45		2.49%		1		0.06%		220		12.17%		1,808
	Butte		7,129		68.02%		2,925		27.91%		426		4.06%		0		0.00%		4,204		40.11%		10,480
	Calaveras		1,528		73.11%		471		22.54%		91		4.35%		0		0.00%		1,057		50.57%		2,090
	Colusa		1,681		54.74%		1,336		43.50%		54		1.76%		0		0.00%		345		11.23%		3,071
	Contra Costa		11,257		67.56%		4,668		28.02%		736		4.42%		0		0.00%		6,589		39.55%		16,661
	Del Norte		941		74.33%		293		23.14%		32		2.53%		0		0.00%		648		51.18%		1,266
	El Dorado		1,660		53.22%		1,355		43.44%		104		3.33%		0		0.00%		305		9.78%		3,119
	Fresno		24,469		72.43%		8,181		24.22%		1,132		3.35%		0		0.00%		16,288		48.22%		33,782
	Glenn		2,326		66.63%		1,057		30.28%		96		2.75%		12		0.34%		1,269		36.35%		3,491
	Humboldt		9,566		72.09%		3,170		23.89%		533		4.02%		0		0.00%		6,396		48.20%		13,269
	Imperial		6,303		82.51%		1,116		14.61%		220		2.88%		0		0.00%		5,187		67.90%		7,639
	Inyo		1,651		71.60%		487		21.12%		168		7.29%		0		0.00%		1,164		50.48%		2,306
	Kern		9,724		52.42%		8,026		43.26%		776		4.18%		25		0.13%		1,698		9.15%		18,551
	Kings		3,456		64.26%		1,755		32.63%		162		3.01%		5		0.09%		1,701		31.63%		5,378
	Lake		1,572		61.60%		864		33.86%		112		4.39%		4		0.16%		708		27.74%		2,552
	Lassen		2,198		73.81%		687		23.07%		93		3.12%		0		0.00%		1,511		50.74%		2,978
	Los Angeles		291,368		77.89%		64,281		17.18%		17,924		4.79%		483		0.13%		227,087		60.71%		374,056
	Madera		2,876		69.49%		1,083		26.17%		180		4.35%		0		0.00%		1,793		43.32%		4,139
	Marin		6,370		63.31%		3,369		33.48%		323		3.21%		0		0.00%		3,001		29.83%		10,062
	Mariposa		587		61.66%		326		34.24%		39		4.10%		0		0.00%		261		27.42%		952
	Mendocino		4,339		65.39%		2,065		31.12%		232		3.50%		0		0.00%		2,274		34.27%		6,636
	Merced		4,952		69.60%		1,876		26.37%		287		4.03%		0		0.00%		3,076		43.23%		7,115
	Modoc		1,022		64.56%		517		32.66%		44		2.78%		0		0.00%		505		31.90%		1,583
	Mono		236		81.66%		38		13.15%		15		5.19%		0		0.00%		198		68.51%		289
	Monterey		6,121		71.85%		2,140		25.12%		258		3.03%		0		0.00%		3,981		46.73%		8,519
	Napa		4,105		54.40%		3,279		43.45%		156		2.07%		6		0.08%		826		10.95%		7,546
	Nevada		2,515		67.08%		1,044		27.85%		190		5.07%		0		0.00%		1,471		39.24%		3,749
	Orange		19,110		78.29%		4,466		18.30%		794		3.25%		40		0.16%		14,644		59.99%		24,410
	Placer		4,263		71.42%		1,501		25.15%		198		3.32%		7		0.12%		2,762		46.27%		5,969
	Plumas		1,297		75.10%		334		19.34%		96		5.56%		0		0.00%		963		55.76%		1,727
	Riverside		10,306		79.61%		2,235		17.27%		404		3.12%		0		0.00%		8,071		62.35%		12,945
	Sacramento		20,679		66.39%		9,675		31.06%		756		2.43%		37		0.12%		11,004		35.33%		31,147
	San Benito		1,828		68.67%		780		29.30%		54		2.03%		0		0.00%		1,048		39.37%		2,662
	San Bernardino		17,561		75.82%		4,666		20.15%		902		3.89%		32		0.14%		12,895		55.68%		23,161
	San Diego		29,994		78.53%		6,441		16.86%		1,759		4.61%		0		0.00%		23,553		61.67%		38,194
	San Francisco		73,012		58.27%		47,757		38.11%		4,532		3.62%		0		0.00%		25,255		20.16%		125,301
	San Joaquin		16,586		70.22%		6,349		26.88%		670		2.84%		15		0.06%		10,237		43.34%		23,620
	San Luis Obispo		5,432		67.37%		2,221		27.55%		410		5.08%		0		0.00%		3,211		39.82%		8,063
	San Mateo		11,679		71.82%		3,964		24.38%		607		3.73%		12		0.07%		7,715		47.44%		16,262
	Santa Barbara		6,762		71.85%		2,274		24.16%		344		3.66%		31		0.33%		4,488		47.69%		9,411
	Santa Clara		25,837		77.45%		6,592		19.76%		905		2.71%		24		0.07%		19,245		57.69%		33,358
	Santa Cruz		6,986		69.40%		2,658		26.40%		396		3.93%		27		0.27%		4,328		42.99%		10,067
	Shasta		2,811		64.25%		1,373		31.38%		189		4.32%		2		0.05%		1,438		32.87%		4,375
	Sierra		668		72.14%		217		23.43%		38		4.10%		3		0.32%		451		48.70%		926
	Siskiyou		4,394		69.04%		1,708		26.84%		262		4.12%		0		0.00%		2,686		42.21%		6,364
	Solano		7,144		64.44%		3,565		32.16%		377		3.40%		0		0.00%		3,579		32.28%		11,086
	Sonoma		11,639		58.71%		7,577		38.22%		590		2.98%		18		0.09%		4,062		20.49%		19,824
	Stanislaus		9,133		69.08%		3,489		26.39%		547		4.14%		52		0.39%		5,644		42.69%		13,221
	Sutter		2,678		69.92%		1,067		27.86%		85		2.22%		0		0.00%		1,611		42.06%		3,830
	Tehama		2,974		64.43%		1,406		30.46%		236		5.11%		0		0.00%		1,568		33.97%		4,616
	Trinity		749		70.39%		253		23.78%		62		5.83%		0		0.00%		496		46.62%		1,064
	Tulare		10,754		65.28%		5,101		30.96%		589		3.58%		30		0.18%		5,653		34.31%		16,474
	Tuolumne		1,818		67.31%		732		27.10%		151		5.59%		0		0.00%		1,086		40.21%		2,701
	Ventura		6,125		80.07%		1,336		17.46%		185		2.42%		4		0.05%		4,789		62.60%		7,650
	Yolo		3,509		64.90%		1,797		33.23%		97		1.79%		4		0.07%		1,712		31.66%		5,407
	Yuba		2,680		70.34%		1,042		27.35%		88		2.31%		0		0.00%		1,638		42.99%		3,810

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

El Dorado
Mariposa
San Francisco
Solano

References

California Secretary of State. "Statement of Vote at Primary Election held on August 31, 1926 in the State of California". State Printing Office.
California Secretary of State. "Statement of Vote at General Election held on November 2, 1926 in the State of California". State Printing Office.

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