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Padilla won both elections with more than 60% of the vote. [4] He became the first Latino elected to the U.S. Senate from California, and the first male elected to the Senate from California since Pete Wilson was re-elected in 1988 and the first male elected to the Class 3 Senate seat from California since Alan Cranston was re-elected in 1986. [5]
The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon California's admission to the Union in 1850, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1849 .
California Democrat Adam Schiff won a U.S. Senate seat long held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The Los Angeles-area congressman defeated Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey.
The 2024 election is only the second California Senate race without an incumbent since 1992, the other being the 2016 election following Barbara Boxer's retirement. However, Politico pointed out that the 2016 election had an "early and prohibitive frontrunner" in Kamala Harris while the 2024 election has no clear frontrunner, and thus considers ...
See live updates of California election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ballot initiatives.
Schiff led in both races in early returns Tuesday. California's election results will need to be certified before Schiff can be sworn in, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer ...
For the first time since direct elections to the Senate were mandated after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, no Republican appeared on the general election ballot for the U.S. Senate in California. The highest Republican finisher in the primary won only 7.8 percent of the vote, and the 10 Republicans only won 27.9 percent of ...
Schiff, a California representative who rose to national prominence for leading the first impeachment trial in 2020, was heavily favored to win the race for most of the campaign, according to ...