California's 1st congressional district

California's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California. The district is represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa since 2013. Before LaMalfa has taken office, the district had not had a Republican congressman since 1998. The district is made up of the counties: Butte County, Lassen County, Modoc County, Plumas County, Shasta County, Sierra County, Siskiyou County, Tehama County, most of Nevada County, part of Glenn County and part of Placer County.[5]

California's 1st congressional district
California US Congressional District 1 (since 2013).tif
California's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2013
Representative
  Doug LaMalfa
ROroville
Population (2019)711,905[1]
Median income$61,433[2]
Ethnicity
Cook PVIR+11[3]

Election history

2004 United States House of Representatives elections[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Mike Thompson (Incumbent) 189,336 67.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Lawrence R. Wiesner 79,970 28.2
Green Pamela Elizondo 13,635 4.8
Total votes 282,941 100.0
Turnout  
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold
2006 United States House of Representatives elections[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Mike Thompson (Incumbent) 144,409 66.3
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican John W. Jones 63,194 29.0
Green Pamela Elizondo 6,899 3.1
[[Peace and Freedom Party|Template:Peace and Freedom Party/meta/shortname]] Timothy J. Stock 3,503 1.6
Total votes 218,044 100.0
Turnout  
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold
2008 United States House of Representatives elections[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Mike Thompson (Incumbent) 154,006 68.2
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Zane Starkewolf 53,561 23.7
Green Carol Wolman 18,492 8.1
Total votes 226,059 100.00
Turnout  
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold
2010 United States House of Representatives elections[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Mike Thompson (Incumbent) 136,605 62.8
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Loren Hanks 67,217 31.1
Green Carol Wolman 7,576 3.6
Libertarian Mike Rodrigues 5,484 2.5
Total votes 216,882 100.0
Turnout  
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] hold
2012 United States House of Representatives elections[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Doug LaMalfa 168,827 57.4
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Jim Reed 131,548 42.6
Total votes 294,213 100.0
Turnout  
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2014 United States House of Representatives elections[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Doug LaMalfa (Incumbent) 132,052 61.0
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Heidi Hall 84,320 39.0
Total votes 216,372 100.0
Turnout  
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2016 United States House of Representatives elections[12]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Doug LaMalfa (Incumbent) 185,338 59.1
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Jim Reed 128,588 40.9
Total votes 314,036 100.0
Turnout  
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
2018 United States House of Representatives elections[13]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Doug LaMalfa (Incumbent) 160,046 54.9
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Audrey Denney 131,548 45.1
Total votes 291,594 100.0
Turnout  
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color" | Republican hold
California's 1st district primary election, 2020[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Doug LaMalfa (Incumbent) 128,613 54.6
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Audrey Denney 92,655 39.4
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] Rob Lydon 8,745 3.7
[[Independent (politician)|Template:Independent (politician)/meta/shortname]] Joseph LeTourneau IV 2,769 1.2
[[Independent (politician)|Template:Independent (politician)/meta/shortname]] Gregory Edward Cheadle 2,596 1.1
style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | Republican Kenneth E Swanson (write-in) 13 0.0
Total votes 235,391 100.0
California's 1st district general election, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug LaMalfa (incumbent) 204,190 57.0
Democrat Audrey Denney 154,073 43.0
Total votes 358,263 100.0
Republican hold

References

  1. US Census
  2. Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-15.
  3. "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  4. "Citizens Redistricting Commission Final Report, 2011" (PDF).
  5. "Maps: Final Congressional Districts". Citizens Redistricting Commission. Archived from the original on 2013-03-10. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  6. 2004 election results
  7. 2006 election results
  8. 2008 election results
  9. 2010 election results
  10. 2012 election results
  11. 2014 election results
  12. 2016 election results
  13. 2018 election results
  14. 2020 primary results