Political party strength in California
California is largely a Democratic stronghold and one of the three largest Democratic states in presidential elections alongside New York and Illinois.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of California:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Attorney General
- Secretary of State
- Treasurer
- Controller
- Insurance Commissioner
- California Superintendent of Public Instruction
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- Board of Equalization
- State Senate
- State Assembly
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
Note that ties on the Board of Equalization are broken by the vote of the State Controller.
The parties are as follows: American (A), Anti-Monopolist (AM), Constitutional Union (CU), Democratic (D), Independent (I), Nonpartisan (NP), National Union (NU), Progressive (P), Republican (R), Whig (W), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
Year | Executive offices | Board of Equalization | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||||
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Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Attorney General | Secretary of State | Treasurer | Controller | Insurance Comm. | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State Assem. | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | |||
1849 | Peter Hardeman Burnett (D) | John McDougal (D) | Edward J. C. Kewen (D) | William Van Voohies (D) | Richard Roman (D) | John S. Houston (D) | no such office | no such office | 16NP | 36NP | |||||
1850 | John C. Frémont (D) | William M. Gwin (D) | 1D, 1I | ||||||||||||
1851 | John McDougal (D) | David C. Broderick (D) | James A. McDougall (D) | John Gage Marvin (D) | 10D, 4W, 2I | 18W, 17D, 1I[1] | Vacant | ||||||||
1852 | John Bigler (D) | Samuel Purdy (D) | Serranus Clinton Hastings (D) | Winslow S. Pierce (D) | 26D, 2W | 41D, 21W, 1I | John B. Weller (D) | 2D | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) | ||||||
1853 | James W. Denver (D) | 20D, 7W | 41D, 22W | ||||||||||||
1854 | John R. McConnell (D) | Selden A. McMeans (D) | Samuel Bell (D) | Paul K. Hubbs (D) | 26D, 8W | 68D, 12W | |||||||||
1855 | Charles R. Hempstead (D) | 26D, 7W | 42D, 36W, 2I | Vacant | |||||||||||
1856 | J. Neely Johnson (A) | Robert M. Anderson (A) | William T. Wallace (A) | David F. Douglass (A) | Henry Bates (A) | George W. Whitman (A) | 16A, 16D, 1W[2] | 56A, 23D, 1I | James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D) | ||||||
1857 | James L. English (A) | Edward F. Burton (A) | Andrew J. Moulder (D) | 19D, 11A, 3R | 61D, 11R, 8A | David C. Broderick (D)[3] | William M. Gwin (D) | ||||||||
1858 | John B. Weller (D) | Joseph Walkup (D) | Thomas H. Williams (D) | Ferris Foreman (D) | Thomas Findley (D) | Aaron R. Melony (D) | 27D, 5R, 3A | 66D, 9R, 4A, 1I | |||||||
1859 | 30D, 4R, 1I | 72D, 8R | |||||||||||||
1860 | Milton Latham (D) | John G. Downey (D) | Johnson Price (D) | Samuel H. Brooks (D) | 33D, 2R | 78D, 2R | Henry P. Haun (D) | Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (R) | |||||||
John G. Downey (D) | Isaac N. Quinn (D) | Milton Latham (D) | |||||||||||||
1861 | Pablo de la Guerra (D) | James S. Gillan (D) | 30D, 6R | 60D, 19, 1CU | James A. McDougall (D) | 3R | |||||||||
1862 | Leland Stanford (R) | John F. Chellis (R) | Frank M. Pixley (R) | William H. Weeks (R) | Delos R. Ashley (R) | Gilbert R. Warren (R) | 23D, 17R | 41D, 39R | |||||||
1863 | John L. McCullogh (R) | Benjamin B. Redding (R) | Romualdo Pacheco (NU) | George R. Oultan (R) | John Swett (NU) | 31R, 9D | 63R, 17D | John Conness (R) | |||||||
1864 | Frederick Low (R) | Tim M. Machin (R) | 35R, 5D | 70R, 10D | Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (NU) | ||||||||||
1865 | |||||||||||||||
1866 | 31R, 9D | 61R, 19D | |||||||||||||
1867 | Jo Hamilton (D) | Henry L. Nichols (D) | Antonio F. Coronel (D) | Robert Watt (D) | Oscar Penn Fitzgerald (D) | Cornelius Cole (R) | 2D, 1R | ||||||||
1868 | Henry Huntly Haight (D) | William Holden (D) | 21R, 19D | 52D, 28R | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) | ||||||||||
1869 | Eugene Casserly (D) | ||||||||||||||
1870 | 26D, 12R, 2I | 67D, 10R, 3I | |||||||||||||
1871 | John Lord Love (R) | Drury Melone (R) | Ferdinand Baehr (R) | James J. Green (R) | Henry N. Bolander (R) | 3R | |||||||||
1872 | Newton Booth (R) | Romualdo Pacheco (R) | 22D, 17R, 1I | 54R, 25D, 1I | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | ||||||||||
1873 | Aaron A. Sargent (R) | 3R, 1D | |||||||||||||
1874 | 18R, 14D, 8PI[4] | 34PI, 27R, 19D[5] | John S. Hager (D) | ||||||||||||
1875 | Romualdo Pacheco (R) | William Irwin (D) | Jo Hamilton (D) | Thomas Bock (D) | José G. Estudillo (D) | James W. Mandeville (D) | Ezra S. Carr (R) | Newton Booth (AM) | 3D, 1R | ||||||
1876 | William Irwin (D) | James A. Johnson (D) | William B. C. Brown (D) | 20D, 11I, 6R, 3ID | 64D, 12R, 4I | Rutherford B. Hayes and William Almon Wheeler (R) | |||||||||
1877 | Daniel M. Kenfield (R) | 3R, 1D | |||||||||||||
1878 | 27D, 10R, 2I, 1 Work. | 55D, 24R, 1 Work. | 2D, 2R | ||||||||||||
1879 | 3R, 1D | James T. Farley (D) | 3R, 1D | ||||||||||||
1880 | George Clement Perkins (R) | John Mansfield (R) | Augustus L. Hart (R) | Daniel M. Burns (R) | John Weil (R) | Frederick M. Campbell (R) | 23R, 10 Work., 7D | 46R, 18D, 16 Work. | Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English (D) | ||||||
1881 | 42R, 33D, 4 Work., 1G | John Franklin Miller (R)[3] | 2D, 2R | ||||||||||||
1882 | |||||||||||||||
1883 | George Stoneman (D) | John Daggett (D) | Edward C. Marshall (D) | Thomas Larkin Thompson (D) | William A. January (D) | John P. Dunn (D) | William T. Weckler (D) | 3D, 1R | 32D, 8R | 61D, 19R | 6D | ||||
1884 | Denis J. Oullahan (D) | James G. Blaine and John A. Logan (R) | |||||||||||||
1885 | 20D, 20R[6] | 60R, 20D | Leland Stanford (R) | 5R, 1D | |||||||||||
1886 | George Hearst (D)[7] | ||||||||||||||
Abram P. Williams (R) | |||||||||||||||
1887 | Washington Bartlett (D)[3] | Robert Waterman (R) | George A. Johnson (D) | William C. Hendricks (D) | Adam Herald (D) | Ira G. Haitt (R) | 22D, 18R | 41R, 39D | George Hearst (D)[3] | 4R, 2D | |||||
1888 | Robert Waterman (R) | Stephen M. White (D) | Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) | ||||||||||||
1889 | 22D, 18R | 42D, 38R | |||||||||||||
1890 | |||||||||||||||
1891 | Henry Markham (R) | John B. Reddick (R) | William H. Hart (R) | Edwin G. Waite (R) | J.R. McDonald (R) | Edward P. Colgan (R) | J.W. Anderson (R) | 3R, 1D | 28R, 12D | 60R 19D, 1A | Charles N. Felton (R) | ||||
1892 | Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson I (8) /Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R) (1) | ||||||||||||||
1893 | 22R, 18D | 45D, 31R, 2I, 2 People's | Stephen M. White (D) | ||||||||||||
1894 | Albert Hart (R) | George Clement Perkins (R) | |||||||||||||
1895 | James Budd (D) | Spencer G. Millard (R)[3] | William F. Fitzgerald (R) | Lewis H. Brown (R) | Levi Ratcliffe (R) | Samuel T. Black (R) | 25R, 15D | 64R, 14D, 2 People's | |||||||
1896 | William T. Jeter (D)[7] | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | |||||||||||||
1897 | 28R, 12D | 47R, 16 Fus., 9P, 8D | 3R, 2D, 2P | ||||||||||||
1898 | Will S. Green (D) | Charles T. Meredith (D) | |||||||||||||
1899 | Henry Gage (R) | Jacob H. Neff (R) | Tirey L. Ford (R) | Charles F. Curry (R) | Truman Reeves (R) | Thomas J. Kirk (R) | 2R, 2D[8] | 26R, 14D | 59R, 20D, 2I | Vacant | 6R, 1D | ||||
1900 | Thomas R. Bard (R) | 7R | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | ||||||||||||
1901 | 34R, 6D | 60R, 20D | |||||||||||||
1902 | |||||||||||||||
1903 | George Pardee (R) | Alden Anderson (R) | Ulysses S. Webb (R) | 33R, 7D | 60R, 19D, 1 Un. Lab. | 5R, 3D | |||||||||
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | ||||||||||||||
1905 | 33R, 4 Un. Lab., 3D | 72R, 4D, 4 Un. Lab. | Frank Putnam Flint (R) | 8R | |||||||||||
1906 | A.B. Nye (R) | ||||||||||||||
1907 | James N. Gillett (R) | Warren R. Porter (R) | William R. Williams (R) | Edward Hyatt (R) | 4R | 33R, 6D, 1I | 73R, 6D, 1I | ||||||||
1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | ||||||||||||||
1909 | 30R, 9D, 1I | 60R, 20D | |||||||||||||
1910 | |||||||||||||||
1911 | Hiram Johnson (R) | Albert Joseph Wallace (R) | Frank C. Jordan (R)[3] | Edward D. Roberts (R) | 32R, 18D | 69R, 11D | John D. Works (R) | 7R, 1D | |||||||
1912 | Hiram Johnson (P) | Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson (P) | |||||||||||||
1913 | John S. Chambers (R) | 30R, 10D | 54R, 25D, 1S | 7R, 3D, 1I | |||||||||||
1914 | |||||||||||||||
1915 | John Morton Eshleman (P)[3] | Friend Richardson (P) | 3R, 1D | 21R, 10D, 9P | 33R, 28 P, 15D, 3S, 1 Proh.[9] | James D. Phelan (D) | 4R, 3D, 2P, 1I, 1 Proh. | ||||||||
1916 | William Stephens (R) | 5R, 3D, 1P, 1I, 1 Proh. | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | ||||||||||||
1917 | William Stephens (R) | C. C. Young (R) | 20R, 11D, 8P, 1I | 69R, 9D, 1P, 1 Proh. | Hiram Johnson (R)[3] | 5R, 4D, 1P, 1 Proh. | |||||||||
1918 | |||||||||||||||
1919 | Will C. Wood (NP) | 32R, 7D, 1I | 70R, 10D | 9R, 2D | |||||||||||
1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | ||||||||||||||
1921 | Roy C. Riley (R) | 33R, 7D | 73R, 7D | Samuel M. Shortridge (R) | |||||||||||
1922 | |||||||||||||||
1923 | Friend Richardson (R) | Charles G. Johnson (R) | 36R, 3D, 1I | 76R, 4D | |||||||||||
1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | ||||||||||||||
1925 | 37R, 3D | 75R, 5D | |||||||||||||
1926 | |||||||||||||||
1927 | C. C. Young (R) | Buron Fitts (R) | William John Cooper (NP) | 4R | 35R, 5D | 74R, 6D | 10R, 1D | ||||||||
1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | ||||||||||||||
1929 | H. L. Carnahan (R) | Vierling C. Kersey (R) | 71R, 7D, 2I | ||||||||||||
1930 | |||||||||||||||
1931 | James Rolph (R)[3] | Frank Merriam (R) | 36R, 4D | 73R, 7D | |||||||||||
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | ||||||||||||||
1933 | 35R, 5D | 55R, 25D | William Gibbs McAdoo (D)[10] | 11D, 9R | |||||||||||
1934 | Frank Merriam (R) | Vacant | |||||||||||||
1935 | George J. Hatfield (R) | 31R, 8D, 1I | 42R, 37D, 1I | 13D, 7R | |||||||||||
1936 | |||||||||||||||
1937 | Harry B. Riley (R) | Walter F. Dexter (NP) | 25R, 15D | 47D, 33R | 15D, 4R, 1P | ||||||||||
1938 | |||||||||||||||
1939 | Culbert Olson (D) | Ellis E. Patterson (D) | Earl Warren (R) | 3R, 1D | 21R, 19D | 44D, 36R | Sheridan Downey (D) | 11D, 8R, 1P | |||||||
1940 | Paul Peek (D) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) | |||||||||||||
1941 | 24R, 16D | 42D, 38R | 10D, 10R | ||||||||||||
1942 | |||||||||||||||
1943 | Earl Warren (R) | Frederick F. Houser (R) | Robert W. Kenny (D) | Frank M. Jordan (R) | 44R, 36D | 13D, 10R | |||||||||
1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) | ||||||||||||||
1945 | Roy E. Simpson (NP) | 24R, 20D | 42R, 37D, 1I | 16D, 7R | |||||||||||
1946 | William Knowland (R)[7] | ||||||||||||||
1947 | Goodwin Knight (R) | Frederick N. Houser (R) | Thomas Kuchel (R) | 48R, 32D | 14R, 9D | ||||||||||
1948 | Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley (D) | ||||||||||||||
1949 | 26R, 14D | 45R, 35D | 12R, 11D | ||||||||||||
1950 | |||||||||||||||
1951 | Pat Brown (D) | 28R, 12D | 47R, 33D | Richard Nixon (R) | |||||||||||
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | ||||||||||||||
1953 | Robert C. Kirkwood (R)[7] | 29R, 11D | 53R, 27D | Thomas Kuchel (R)[7] | 19R, 11D | ||||||||||
1954 | Goodwin Knight (R) | Harold J. Powers (R) | 2R, 2D[8] | ||||||||||||
1955 | 22R, 18D | 47R, 23D | |||||||||||||
1956 | |||||||||||||||
1957 | A. Ronald Burton (R) | 20D, 20R[11] | 42R, 38D | 17R, 13D | |||||||||||
1958 | |||||||||||||||
1959 | Pat Brown (D) | Glenn M. Anderson (D) | Stanley Mosk (D) | Bert A. Betts (D) | Alan Cranston (D) | 4D | 26D, 14R | 47D, 33R | Clair Engle (D)[3] | 16D, 14R | |||||
1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) | ||||||||||||||
1961 | 30D, 10R | 24D, 14R | |||||||||||||
1962 | |||||||||||||||
1963 | Max Rafferty (NP) | 27D, 13R | 52D, 28R | 23D, 15R | |||||||||||
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | ||||||||||||||
Thomas C. Lynch (D)[7] | Pierre Salinger (D)[7] | ||||||||||||||
1965 | 49D, 31R | George Murphy (R) | |||||||||||||
1966 | |||||||||||||||
1967 | Ronald Reagan (R) | Robert Finch (R) | Ivy Baker Priest (R) | Houston I. Flournoy (R) | 21D, 19R[12] | 42D, 38R | 21D, 17R | ||||||||
1968 | 20D, 20R | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | |||||||||||||
1969 | Edwin Reinecke (R) | 21R, 19D | 41R, 39D | Alan Cranston (D) | |||||||||||
1970 | H. P. Sullivan (R) | ||||||||||||||
1971 | Evelle J. Younger (R) | Jerry Brown (D) | Wilson Riles (NP) | 21D, 19R | 43D, 37R | John V. Tunney (D) | 20D, 18R | ||||||||
1972 | |||||||||||||||
1973 | 20D, 20R[13] | 51D, 29R | 23D, 20R | ||||||||||||
1974 | John L. Harmer (R) | ||||||||||||||
1975 | Jerry Brown (D) | Mervyn M. Dymally (D) | March Fong Eu (D) | Jesse Unruh (D)[3] | Kenneth Cory (D) | 25D, 15R | 55D, 25R | 28D, 15R | |||||||
1976 | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) | ||||||||||||||
1977 | 28D, 12R | 57D, 23R | S. I. Hayakawa (R) | 29D, 14R | |||||||||||
1978 | |||||||||||||||
1979 | Michael Curb (R) | George Deukmejian (R) | 3D, 1R | 26D, 14R | 50D, 30R | 28D, 15R | |||||||||
1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | ||||||||||||||
1981 | 47D, 33R | 22D, 21R | |||||||||||||
1982 | |||||||||||||||
1983 | George Deukmejian (R) | Leo T. McCarthy (D) | John Van de Kamp (D) | Bill Honig (NP) | 25D, 15R | 48D, 32R | Pete Wilson (R) | 28D, 17R | |||||||
1984 | |||||||||||||||
1985 | 47D, 33R | ||||||||||||||
1986 | |||||||||||||||
1987 | Gray Davis (D) | 2D, 2R[14] | 24D, 14R, 1I | 44D, 36R | |||||||||||
1988 | Elizabeth Whitney (D)[15] | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | |||||||||||||
1989 | Thomas W. Hayes (R)[7] | 47D, 33R | |||||||||||||
1990 | |||||||||||||||
1991 | Pete Wilson (R) | Dan Lungren (R) | Kathleen Brown (D) | John Garamendi (D) | 25D, 14R, 1I | 46D, 34R | John Seymour (R)[7] | 26D, 19R | |||||||
1992 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | ||||||||||||||
1993 | David Dawson (NP)[15] | 23D, 15R, 2I | 48D, 32R | Dianne Feinstein (D) | Barbara Boxer (D) | 30D, 22R | |||||||||
1994 | Tony Miller (D)[15] | ||||||||||||||
1995 | Gray Davis (D) | Bill Jones (R) | Matt Fong (R) | Kathleen Connell (D) | Chuck Quackenbush (R) | Delaine Eastin (NP) | 21D, 17R, 2I | 41R, 39D[16] | 27D, 25R | ||||||
1996 | 26D, 26R | ||||||||||||||
1997 | 23D, 16R, 1I | 43D, 37R | 29D, 23R | ||||||||||||
1998 | |||||||||||||||
1999 | Gray Davis (D)[17] | Cruz Bustamante (D) | Bill Lockyer (D) | Phil Angelides (D) | 25D, 15R | 47D, 32R, 1G | 28D, 24R | ||||||||
2000 | J. Clark Kelso[15] | 27D, 25R | Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) | ||||||||||||
2001 | Harry W. Low (D)[7] | 26D, 14R | 50D, 30R | 32D, 20R | |||||||||||
2002 | |||||||||||||||
2003 | Kevin Shelley (D)[18] | Steve Westly (D) | John Garamendi (D) | Jack O'Connell (NP) | 25D, 15R | 48D, 32R | 33D, 20R | ||||||||
2004 | Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) | John Kerry and John Edwards (D) | |||||||||||||
2005 | Bruce McPherson (R)[7] | ||||||||||||||
2006 | |||||||||||||||
2007 | John Garamendi (D) | Jerry Brown (D) | Debra Bowen (D) | Bill Lockyer (D) | John Chiang (D) | Steve Poizner (R) | 34D, 19R | ||||||||
2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) | ||||||||||||||
2009 | 50D, 29R, 1I | ||||||||||||||
2010 | Abel Maldonado (R)[7] | ||||||||||||||
2011 | Jerry Brown (D) | Gavin Newsom (D) | Kamala Harris (D) | Dave Jones (D) | Tom Torlakson (NP) | 52D, 28R | |||||||||
2012 | 52D, 27R, 1I | ||||||||||||||
2013 | 29D, 11R | 55D, 25R | |||||||||||||
2014 | |||||||||||||||
2015 | Alex Padilla (D) | John Chiang (D) | Betty Yee (D) | 26D, 14R | 52D, 28R | 38D, 15R | |||||||||
2016 | Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (D) | ||||||||||||||
2017 | Xavier Becerra (D)[7] | 27D, 13R | 55D, 25R | Kamala Harris (D) | 39D, 14R | ||||||||||
2018 | 26D, 14R[19] | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Gavin Newsom (D) | Eleni Kounalakis (D) | Fiona Ma (D) | Ricardo Lara (D) | Tony Thurmond (NP) | 3D, 1R | 29D, 11R | 60D, 20R | 46D, 7R | ||||||
61D, 19R[20] | |||||||||||||||
61D, 18R, 1I [21] | |||||||||||||||
2020 | 45D, 7R[22] | Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (D) | |||||||||||||
2021 | TBD (D)[23] | Shirley Weber (D)[7] | 31D, 9R | 59D, 19R, 1I | Alex Padilla (D)[7] | 42D, 11R | |||||||||
Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Attorney General | Secretary of State | Treas. | Cont. | Ins. Comm. | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | Board of Equalization | State Senate | State Assem. | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress |
See also
References
- A Democrat, John Bigler, was re-elected Speaker, continuing in his service from when it was a non-partisan body.
- The Whig sided with the Know-Nothings to elect a Know-Nothing President Pro Tempore, Delos R. Ashley.
- Died in office
- A Democrat, William Irwin, was elected President Pro Tempore with the help of the People's Independent Party.
- A representative of the People's Independent Party, Morris M. Estee, was elected Speaker with the help of Democrats.
- Elected a Democratic President Pro Tempore.
- Appointed to fill vacancy.
- Republicans held the State Controller's office for the duration of this tie and cast the tie-breaking vote here, giving control of the Board to the Republicans.
- A Progressive Speaker was elected with Democratic support.
- Resigned November 8, 1938. Thomas M. Storke (D) was appointed to replace McAdoo on November 9, but as Congress was not in session Storke never took any legislative action or cast any votes in his time as Senator.
- A Democrat, Hugh M. Burns was elected Senate President Pro Tempore.
- A Democrat, J. Eugene McAteer died in office in May 1967 and was succeeded by a Republican Milton Marks in August 1967 shifting the Senate to 20D, 20R
- Democrat James Mills continued as Senate President Pro Tempore.
- Democratic State Controllers have held office for the entire duration of this tie, giving Democrats control of the Board.
- Deputy officer who served in an acting capacity after a vacancy.
- Democrat Willie Brown continued as Speaker for the first half of 1995 with the support of an Republican-turned-Independent, Paul Horcher, and two Republicans, and those two Republicans, Doris Allen and Brian Setencich, each served as Speaker for three months the second half of 1995. Republican Curt Pringle was then selected as Speaker in 1996 after the Independent and two Republicans were recalled and/or removed from office.
- Recalled in 2003.
- Resigned March 4, 2005. Deputy Insurance Commissioner Cathy Mitchell served in an acting capacity from March 4 until March 29.
- Democratic Senator Josh Newman was recalled and replaced with Republican Ling Ling Chang.
- Republican Assemblyman Brian Maienschein switched to the Democratic Party.
- Republican Assemblyman Chad Mayes left the Republican party and registered as an independent.
- Democrat Katie Hill resigned and was succeeded by Republican Mike Garcia. Republican Duncan D. Hunter resigned and has not yet been replaced.
- Joe Biden plans to nominate Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Gov. Newsom will appoint a replacement.