California's 1st State Senate district

California's 1st State Senate district
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Current senator		Ted Gaines (R–El Dorado Hills)
Registration	43.50% Republican 28.25% Democratic 21.93% No party preference
Demographics	79.41% White 1.84% Black 10.73% Latino 4.59% Asian 2.52% Native American 0.27% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.27% other 0.37% remainder of multiracial
Population (2010)  • Voting age  • Citizen voting age	935,336 728,887 672,832
Registered voters	526,515

California's 1st State Senate district is one of 40 California State Senate districts. It is currently represented by Republican Ted Gaines of El Dorado Hills.

District profile

The district stretches along the eastern edge of the state from the Oregon border to the Lake Tahoe area. It wraps around the Sacramento Valley along the northern Sierra Nevada to the eastern Sacramento suburbs. Most of the population is concentrated in the suburban southern parts, while the rest of the district is primarily rural.

All of Alpine County

All of El Dorado County

• Placerville
• South Lake Tahoe

All of Lassen County

• Susanville

All of Modoc County

• Alturas

All of Nevada County

• Grass Valley
• Nevada City
• Truckee

Placer County – 62.9%

• Auburn
• Colfax
• Lincoln
• Loomis
• Rocklin

All of Plumas County

• Portola

Sacramento County – 10.2%

• Folsom

All of Shasta County

• Anderson
• Redding
• Shasta Lake

All of Sierra County

• Loyalton

All of Siskiyou County

• Dorris
• Dunsmuir
• Etna
• Fort Jones
• Montague
• Mount Shasta
• Tulelake
• Weed
• Yreka

Election results from statewide races

Year	Office	Results
2012	President	Romney 57.3 – 39.9%
	Senator	Emken 57.9 – 42.1%
2010	Governor	Whitman 52.4 – 42.5%
	Senator	Fiorina 57.4 – 36.2%
2008	President	McCain 52.1 – 45.8%
2006	Governor	Schwarzenegger 71.0 – 24.0%
	Senator	Mountjoy 48.8 – 46.0%
2004	President	Bush 60.2 – 38.6%
	Senator	Jones 54.2 – 42.2%
2003	Recall	Yes 69.0 – 31.0%
		Schwarzenegger 59.9 – 18.5%
2002	Governor	Simon 57.2 – 31.8%
2000	President	Bush 57.6 – 36.3%
	Senator	Campbell 50.5 – 41.0%
1998	Governor	Lungren 51.5 – 44.9%
	Senator	Fong 51.1 – 44.0%
1996	President	Dole 50.8 – 37.1%
1994	Governor	Wilson 65.3 – 28.7%
	Senator	Huffington 55.1 – 35.8%
1992	President	Bush 39.2 – 34.9%
	Senator	Herschensohn 50.5 – 36.9%
	Senator	Seymour 45.3 – 45.2%

List of senators

Due to redistricting, the 1st district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2011 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Senator		Party	Dates
	Jonathan J. Warner	Democratic	1850-1852
	David B. Kurtz	Whig	1852-1855
	Benjamin Davis Wilson	Democratic	1855-1858
	Cameron E. Thom	Democratic	1858-1859
	Andres Pico	Democratic	1859-1861
	John C. Bogart	Democratic	1861-1863
	M. C. Tuttle	National Union	1863-1867
	William Alexander Conn	Democratic	1867-1871
	James McCoy	Democratic	1871-1875
	John W. Satterwhite	Democratic	1875-1882
	John Wolfskill	Democratic	1882-1884
	A. P. Johnson	Republican	1884-1886
	John P. Haynes	Democratic	1886-1888
	Frank McGowan	Republican	1888-1896
	James N. Gillett	Republican	1896-1900
	Thomas H. Selvage	Republican	1900-1906
	George T. Rolley	Republican	1906-1908
	Charles P. Cutten	Republican	1908-1912
	William Kehoe	Republican	1912-1920
	H. C. Nelson	Republican	1920-1932
	Harold J. Powers	Republican	1932-1953
	Dale C. Williams	Democratic	1953-1955
	Stanley Arnold	Democratic	1955-1966
	Randolph Collier	Democratic	1966-1976
	Ray E. Johnson	Republican	1976-1984
	John T. Doolittle	Republican	1984-1991
	Tim Leslie	Republican	1991-2000
	Rico Oller	Republican	2000-2004
	Dave Cox	Republican	2004-2010
	Ted Gaines	Republican	2011–present

Election results

2012

California State Senate election, 2012
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ted Gaines (incumbent)	110,168	48.2
	Democratic	Julie Griffith-Flatter	68,947	30.2
	Republican	Les Baugh	37,442	16.4
	No party preference	"Bo" Bogdan I. Ambrozewicz	11,923	5.2
Total votes			228,480	100.0
General election
	Republican	Ted Gaines (incumbent)	263,256	63.7
	Democratic	Julie Griffith-Flatter	150,111	36.3
Total votes			413,367	100.0
	Republican hold

2011 (special)

California's 1st State Senate district special election, 2011 Vacancy resulting from the death of Dave Cox
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ted Gaines	91,083	62.9
	Democratic	Ken Cooley	53,747	37.1
	Republican	Joseph McCray, Sr. (write-in)	28	0.0
Total votes			144,858	100.0
	Republican hold

2008

California State Senate election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dave Cox (incumbent)	267,426	62.3
	Democratic	Anselmo Chavez	162,044	37.7
Total votes			429,470	100.0
	Republican hold

2004

California State Senate election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dave Cox	261,607	62.8
	Democratic	Kristine Lang McDonald	141,462	34.1
	Libertarian	Roberto Leibman	13,292	3.1
Total votes			416,361	100.0
	Republican hold

2000

California State Senate election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Rico Oller	220,427	57.8
	Democratic	Thomas A. Romero	144,997	38.0
	Libertarian	John Petersen	16,075	4.2
Total votes			381,499	100.0
	Republican hold

1996

California State Senate election, 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Tim Leslie (incumbent)	215,931	63.2
	Democratic	Thomas "Tom" Romero	125,894	36.8
	No party	Lamar Norton Latimer (write-in)	55	0.0%
Total votes			341,880	100.0
	Republican hold

1992

California State Senate election, 1992
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Tim Leslie (incumbent)	189,095	54.8
	Democratic	Thomas A. Romero	123,563	35.8
	Green	Kent Warner Smith	32,717	9.5
Total votes			345,375	100.0
	Republican hold

See also

• California State Senate
• California State Senate districts
• Districts in California

External links

• District map from the California Citizens Redistricting Commission