1922 California gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1922 California gubernatorial election California presidential Flag of California (1911–1924).pngborder no 1918 California gubernatorial election 1918 1926 California gubernatorial election 1926 November 7, 1922 Friend Richardson (cropped).jpg Friend William Richardson Republican Party (United States) 576,445 59.69% Thomas L. Woolwine, 1920.jpg Thomas Lee Woolwine Democratic Party (United States) 347,530 35.98% 1922 California gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 300px County results Richardson: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80%Woolwine: #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% Governor William Stephens Republican Party (United States) Friend Richardson Republican Party (United States) The 1922 California gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1922. Republican state treasurer Friend Richardson easily defeated Los Angeles County district attorney Thomas L. Woolwine. This was the first of three consecutive elections in which the incumbent lost in the Republican primary. In the Republican primary, incumbent governor William Stephens faced a challenge from Richardson, who ran on a conservative platform opposed to the prior decade of progressive Republican rule in the state. Richardson won by nearly 25,000 votes. Although Stephens won the Prohibition Party primary, he was unable to accept the nomination under the Hawson amendment, having lost his own party's primary. In the Democratic primary, Woolwine defeated Mattison B. Jones by a large margin of over 30,000 votes.https://www.proquest.com/docview/161175068 JOHNSON AND RICHARDSON LEADING IN COUNT: CONTESTS FOR SENATOR AND FOR GOVERNOR ARE CLOSE Lineberger Decisively Defeats Randall for Congress; Young Ahead for Lieutenant-Governor; Lawlor Beats Wilbur; Traeger is Victor RACE IS CLOSE FOR SENATOR August 30, 1922 Los Angeles Times 161175068 Richardson would defeat Woolwine in the general election by over 200,000 votes. His 59.69% vote share was the largest yet achieved by a gubernatorial candidate in California, though that record would be broken in the next election. As governor, Richardson would roll back many of the progressive reforms of Stephens and his predecessor, Hiram Johnson.December 16, 1922 FINAL VOTE COUNT SHOWSLARGELEAD GIVEN RICHARDSON https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU19221216.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- The Sacramento Union Primaries Republican primary Incumbent Republican governor William Stephens, who had succeeded Hiram Johnson upon his resignation in 1917 and then was elected to a term of his own in 1918, sought a second term as governor. By that time, Republicans had grown more conservative than the years prior, pushing against Progressives like Stephens.https://www.proquest.com/docview/161172604 ELECTION RESULTS Los Angeles Times August 31, 1922 161172604 California State Treasurer Friend Richardson, previously a Progressive in 1914, campaigned on a conservative platform and utilizing a fatigue on Progressive politics in the state. In the Republican primary, Stephens lost to Richardson by 25,000 votes.https://www.proquest.com/docview/161169670 RICHARDSON IS NOMINATED!: Stephens Loses Race by 15,000; Johnson is Safe RICHARDSON'S LEAD 15,000 Meet Our Next Governor August 31, 1922 Los Angeles Times 161169670 Republican primary resultsStatement of Vote at Primary Election held on August 29, 1922 in the State of California California Secretary of State State Printing Office Sacramento, California 4 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0068276146&seq=6 19 July 2024 Friend William Richardson Republican Party (United States) 286,442 52.27% William D. Stephens (incumbent) Republican Party (United States) 261,521 47.73% 547,963 100.00% Democratic primary Los Angeles County District Attorney Thomas L. Woolwine and attorney Mattison B. Jones ran in the Democratic ticket.https://www.proquest.com/docview/161135376 ANGELENO WILL SEEK HIGH POST: Mattison B. Jones Named by Democrats as Candidate for Governorship July 6, 1922 Los Angeles Times 161135376 Woolwine defeated Jones in the primary.https://www.jstor.org/stable/41172284 District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine: Stormy Petrel of Politics Winter 2005–2006 87 4 377–396 University of California Press 41172284 Apostol Jane Southern California Quarterly 10.2307/41172284 subscription Democratic primary results Thomas Lee Woolwine Democratic Party (United States) 75,868 60.40% Mattison B. Jones Democratic Party (United States) 45,631 36.11% Friend William Richardson (write-in) Democratic Party (United States) 2,313 1.84% William D. Stephens (write-in) Democratic Party (United States) 2,061 1.64% 125,603 100.00% Prohibition primary Governor Stephens and Jones cross-filed in the Prohibition primary, but due to Stephens not winning the Republican primary, the Prohibition Party was unable to run a candidate in the race. Prohibition primary results William D. Stephens Prohibition Party 5,632 66.38% Mattison B. Jones Prohibition Party 2,289 26.98% Friend William Richardson (write-in) Prohibition Party 563 6.64% 8,484 100.00% Socialist primary Socialist primary results Alexander Horr Socialist Party of America 6,719 100.00% 6,719 100.00% General election results 1922 California gubernatorial electionStatement of Vote at General Election held on November 7, 1922 in the State of California California Secretary of State State Printing Office Sacramento, California 12 https://archive.org/details/statementofvo19081922cali/page/12/mode/2up?view=theater 19 July 2024 Republican Party (United States) Friend William Richardson 576,445 59.69% +3.41% Democratic Party (United States) Thomas Lee Woolwine 347,530 35.98% +35.98% Socialist Party of America Alexander Horr 41,418 4.29% +0.08% Scattering 394 0.04% 228,915 23.70% 965,787 100.00% Republican Party (United States) +3.90% Results by county County Friend William RichardsonRepublican Thomas Lee WoolwineDemocratic Alexander HorrSocialist ScatteringWrite-in Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # %Alameda60,13061.38%33,25033.94%4,5844.68%00.00%26,88027.44%97,964Alpine4577.59%1220.69%00.00%11.72%3356.90%58Amador1,11149.80%1,08248.50%371.66%10.04%291.30%2,231Butte5,49356.52%3,92240.36%3033.12%00.00%1,57116.17%9,718Calaveras1,32556.89%90838.99%944.04%20.09%41717.90%2,329Colusa1,72353.29%1,46945.44%411.27%00.00%2547.86%3,233Contra Costa8,86054.22%6,62040.51%8625.27%00.00%2,24013.71%16,342Del Norte65365.63%29129.25%515.13%00.00%36236.38%995El Dorado1,30846.01%1,43850.58%973.41%00.00%-130-4.57%2,843Fresno19,35460.37%11,16434.82%1,5404.80%00.00%8,19025.55%32,058Glenn2,65966.88%1,25731.61%591.48%10.03%1,40235.26%3,976Humboldt7,98473.91%2,34521.71%4744.39%00.00%5,63952.20%10,803Imperial4,37663.17%2,32833.61%2233.22%00.00%2,04829.57%6,927Inyo1,67866.27%69227.33%1606.32%20.08%98638.94%2,532Kern9,70653.90%6,97038.71%1,3257.36%70.04%2,73615.19%18,008Kings3,55058.65%2,30438.06%1993.29%00.00%1,24620.58%6,053Lake95157.29%66940.30%402.41%00.00%28216.99%1,660Lassen1,13850.87%1,02645.86%733.26%00.00%1125.01%2,237Los Angeles169,56366.06%74,89229.18%12,0724.70%1460.06%94,67136.88%256,673Madera2,03153.62%1,57541.58%1814.78%10.03%45612.04%3,788Marin5,21156.49%3,73840.52%2762.99%00.00%1,47315.97%9,225Mariposa45645.92%49649.95%414.13%00.00%-40-4.03%993Mendocino3,53157.59%2,38038.82%2203.59%00.00%1,15118.77%6,131Merced3,55057.89%2,31137.69%2684.37%30.05%1,23920.21%6,132Modoc1,11059.90%69637.56%472.54%00.00%41422.34%1,853Mono22167.38%8626.22%216.40%00.00%13541.16%328Monterey4,14557.90%2,82639.47%1882.63%00.00%1,31918.42%7,159Napa3,54149.64%3,40147.67%1822.55%100.14%1401.96%7,134Nevada1,95954.33%1,47840.99%1694.69%00.00%48113.34%3,606Orange15,13775.01%4,35121.56%6843.39%80.04%10,78653.45%20,180Placer2,81749.01%2,70247.01%2293.98%00.00%1152.00%5,748Plumas58046.14%55944.47%1189.39%00.00%211.67%1,257Riverside10,35175.86%2,92121.41%3712.72%20.01%7,43054.45%13,645Sacramento14,53049.98%13,47446.35%1,0333.55%350.12%1,0563.63%29,072San Benito1,78258.99%1,16538.56%742.45%00.00%61720.42%3,021San Bernardino13,69966.14%5,56626.87%1,4486.99%00.00%8,13339.27%20,713San Diego22,79269.29%8,27125.14%1,8235.54%80.02%14,52144.14%32,894San Francisco56,30242.58%70,46453.29%5,3364.04%1230.09%-14,162-10.71%132,225San Joaquin12,56760.23%7,53936.13%7583.63%00.00%5,02824.10%20,864San Luis Obispo4,34462.60%2,18531.49%4005.76%100.14%2,15931.11%6,939San Mateo6,22750.20%5,65845.61%5084.10%110.09%5694.59%12,404Santa Barbara6,75468.06%2,87328.95%2952.97%10.01%3,88139.11%9,923Santa Clara17,97763.64%9,48433.57%7872.79%00.00%8,49330.07%28,248Santa Cruz5,78966.56%2,59129.79%3183.66%00.00%3,19836.77%8,698Shasta2,65951.77%2,27244.24%2053.99%00.00%3877.54%5,136Sierra32054.05%25142.40%203.38%10.17%6911.66%592Siskiyou2,92250.84%2,48743.27%3385.88%00.00%4357.57%5,747Solano5,16847.51%5,34349.12%3663.36%00.00%-175-1.61%10,877Sonoma9,00455.45%6,74841.55%4873.00%00.00%2,25613.89%16,239Stanislaus8,99767.18%3,83128.61%5474.08%170.13%5,16638.58%13,392Sutter1,72859.88%1,10738.36%511.77%00.00%62121.52%2,886Tehama2,52864.08%1,26432.04%1533.88%00.00%1,26432.04%3,945Trinity59756.80%37735.87%777.33%00.00%22020.93%1,051Tulare11,97869.62%4,64026.97%5863.41%00.00%7,33842.65%17,204Tuolumne1,70951.06%1,44543.17%1915.71%20.06%2647.89%3,347Ventura5,14566.24%2,37730.60%2433.13%20.03%2,76835.64%7,767Yolo2,96454.59%2,37543.74%911.68%00.00%58910.85%5,430Yuba1,71651.16%1,58447.23%541.61%00.00%1323.94%3,354Total576,44559.69%347,53035.98%41,4184.29%3940.04%228,91523.70%965,787 Counties that flipped from Independent to Republican Marin Napa Sonoma Counties that flipped from Independent to Democratic San Francisco Solano Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic El Dorado Mariposa References External links Our Campaigns California Politics Gubernatorial California 1922 Category:November 1922 in the United States