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1938 Los Angeles mayoral recall election

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Field	Value
election_name	1938 Los Angeles mayoral recall election
country	Los Angeles
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1937 Los Angeles mayoral election
previous_year	1937
next_election	1941 Los Angeles mayoral election
next_year	1941
election_date
module	{{Infobox referendum
embed	yes
name	Vote on recall
no	128,727
yes	235,395
total	364,122
embed	yes
election_name	Mayoral election
type	by-election
image1	Fletcher Bowron, 1930s.jpg
color1	c0c0c0
candidate1	Fletcher Bowron
popular_vote1	233,427
percentage1	64.33%
image2	Frank L. Shaw at the Los Angeles County Grand Jury (cropped).jpg
color2	c0c0c0
candidate2	Frank L. Shaw
popular_vote2	122,692
percentage2	33.81%
title	Mayor
before_election	Frank L. Shaw
after_election	Fletcher Bowron

The 1938 Los Angeles mayoral recall election took place on September 16, 1938, following the recall of incumbent Frank L. Shaw. Shaw was defeated by Fletcher Bowron in the election, making him the first recalled mayor in American history.

Municipal elections in California, including Mayor of Los Angeles, are officially nonpartisan; candidates' party affiliations do not appear on the ballot.

Election

Shaw had been accosted with corruption in City Hall which led to a recall movement against him and his close associates. Reformers who opposed Shaw and the Los Angeles Times both agreed that Shaw was "building the largest machine in the city's history," choosing Fletcher Bowron, a Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, to run against Shaw. The reformers campaigned for Shaw's recall saying that he did not do enough to stop crime and that he had supposedly committed various crimes during his tenure. The recall was approved by voters by a large margin, and Bowron defeated Shaw by a landslide.

Results

References and footnotes

References

[http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/16/523864.pdf John R. Babcock, "When Los Angeles Was a World-Class City of Corruption," ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner,'' May 12, 1989, page A-19]
"LOS ANGELES: STRUCTURE OF A CITY GOVERNMENT".
Viehe, Fred W.. (1980). "The Recall of Mayor Frank L. Shaw: A Revision". [[University of California Press]].
(August 9, 1938). "Judge Named on Reform Ticket".
Sitton, Tom. (1987). "Another Generation of Urban Reformers: Los Angeles in the 1930s". [[Oxford University Press]].
(October 13, 1938). "Formidable Ofensiva del Japón La Primera Autoridad".
"Los Angeles Mayor". Our Campaigns.

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