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The 2008 California State Senate elections took place on November 4, 2008. Voters in California 's odd-numbered State Senate districts , a total of 20, voted for their state senators. No seats changed parties and the Democratic Party maintained its 25-seat majority, while the Republican Party held 15 seats.
The California State Senate is the upper house of California's bicameral State Legislature. There are a total of 40 seats and only the 20 odd-numbered ones were up for election. The Democratic Party maintained a majority of 25, with the remaining 15 seats under the control of the Republican Party. Neither party lost or gained any seats.
The California state elections, June 2008 were held on June 3, 2008, throughout California. The elections included two ballot propositions and one recall election for a State Senate seat. All primary elections for Californian seats to the House of Representatives , all of the seats of the State Assembly , and all odd-numbered seats of the State ...
2008 San Diego mayoral election; February 2008 San Francisco general election; June 2008 San Francisco general election; November 2008 San Francisco general election; 2008 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election; 2008 California State Assembly election; 2008 California State Senate election; 2008 Stockton, California, mayoral election
Gloria J. Romero (born July 10, 1955) is a former California State Senator from 2001 until 2010 and was the Democratic majority leader of the California State Senate from 2005 until 2008. She was the first woman to hold that leadership position. In 2024, she joined the Republican Party. [1]
Seven Democrats and one Republican are vying in the top-two primary March 5 to replace termed-out Democrat Steven Bradford in state Senate District 35 in South L.A. County.
The California State Senate has never been expanded since the enactment of the 1879 constitution. In 1962, voters were asked via initiative California Proposition 23 whether to expand the state senate by 10 seats, thereby increasing the size of the body to 50 seats, and to abandon the little federal model. [8]
Schiff campaigns in Florida with U.S. Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, left, and Rep. Lois Frankel in Delray Beach, Fla., in October. (Mike Stocker/ South Florida Sun Sentinel / TNS)