Electoral history of John Garamendi

Official portrait, 118th Congress

John Garamendi is an American politician serving in the United States House of Representatives since 2009. He is currently representing California's 8th congressional district. Garamendi previously served in the California State Legislature in the 1970's and 80's, as well as two non-consecutive terms as the California Insurance Commissioner and a partial term as Lieutenant Governor of California. Garamendi twice ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for the Governor of California, and unsuccessfully ran for California State Controller.

California State Assembly

1974 California State Assembly 7th district election[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi 60,380 64.08
Republican Douglas F. Carter 33,842 35.92
Total votes 94,222 100.00
Democratic gain from Republican

California State Senate

1976 California State Senate 13th district election[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi 103,953 52.81
Republican Bob Whitten 92,872 47.19
Total votes 196,825 100.00
Democratic hold
1980 California State Senate 13th district election[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 160,490 65.77
Republican William V.D. "Bill" Johnson 83,520 34.23
Total votes 244,010 100.00
Democratic hold
1984 California State Senate 5th district election[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 176,910 69.11
Republican John W. Saunders, III 70,919 27.70
Peace and Freedom Nancy Warner 8,174 3.19
Total votes 256,003 100.00
Democratic gain from Republican
1988 California State Senate 5th district election[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 184,171 69.11
Republican Sam L. Lawrence 82,310 30.89
Total votes 266,481 100.00
Democratic hold

California State Controller

1986 California State Controller Democratic primary[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Gray Davis 1,087,895 50.04
Democratic John Garamendi 821,415 37.79
Democratic Alister McAlister 264,599 12.17
Total votes 2,173,909 100.00

California Insurance Commissioner

1990 California Insurance Commissioner election[7][8]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi 849,678 35.52
Democratic Bill Press 675,273 28.22
Democratic Conway Collis 398,503 16.66
Democratic Walter A. Zelman 199,565 8.34
Democratic Ray Bourhis 118,490 4.95
Democratic Larry Murphy 79,763 3.33
Democratic Michael Blanco 71,291 2.98
Total votes 2,392,563 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi 3,770,717 52.22
Republican Wes Bannister 2,736,577 37.90
Libertarian Ted Brown 431,317 5.97
Peace and Freedom Tom Condit 281,276 3.90
No party John J. "Jack" Harden (write-in) 553 0.01
No party Eli Green (write-in) 68 0.00
Total votes 7,220,508 100.00
Democratic win (new seat)
2002 California Insurance Commissioner election[9][10]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi 800,146 38.55
Democratic Tom Umberg 586,112 28.24
Democratic Tom Calderon 476,234 22.94
Democratic Bill Winslow 213,239 10.27
Total votes 2,075,731 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi 3,346,937 46.48
Republican Gary Mendoza 2,998,243 41.64
Green David I. Sheidlower 277,667 3.86
Libertarian Dale F. Ogden 236,688 3.29
Natural Law Raul Calderon Jr. 192,001 2.67
American Independent Steve Klein 148,893 2.07
Total votes 7,200,429 100.00
Democratic hold

Governor of California

1982 California gubernatorial Democratic primary[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Tom Bradley 1,726,985 61.08
Democratic John Garamendi 712,161 25.19
Democratic Mario G. Obledo 132,402 4.68
Democratic Frank L. Thomas 51,158 1.81
Democratic Linda Irene Parnell 45,607 1.61
Democratic Hugh G. Bagley 40,335 1.43
Democratic John Hancock Abbott 26,989 0.95
Democratic Ben Trevino 19,220 0.68
Democratic Genevieve Grafe Marcus 16,124 0.57
Democratic Raymond V. Liebenberg 15,267 0.54
Democratic Jules Kimmett 15,182 0.54
Democratic Josephum S. Ramos 12,948 0.46
Democratic Allen Lee Seaman 12,942 0.46
Write-in 28 0.00
Total votes 2,827,348 100.00
1994 California gubernatorial Democratic primary[12]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kathleen Brown 1,110,372 48.38
Democratic John Garamendi 755,876 32.93
Democratic Tom Hayden 318,777 13.89
Democratic Charles Pineda Jr. 57,314 2.50
Democratic Jonathan Trip 31,716 1.38
Democratic Mark Calney 21,121 0.92
Total votes 2,295,176 100.00

Lieutenant Governor of California

2006 California Lieutenant Governor election[13][14]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi 1,045,130 42.53
Democratic Jackie Speier 975,547 39.70
Democratic Liz Figueroa 436,868 17.78
Total votes 2,457,545 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi 4,189,584 49.12
Republican Tom McClintock 3,845,858 45.09
Green Donna Warren 239,107 2.80
Libertarian Lynnette Shaw 142,851 1.67
American Independent Jim King 68,446 0.80
Peace and Freedom Stewart Alexander 43,319 0.51
Total votes 8,529,165 100.00
Democratic hold

U.S. House of Representatives

California's 10th congressional district

2009 California's 10th congressional district special election[15][16]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi 27,580 25.70
Republican David Harmer 22,582 21.05
Democratic Mark DeSaulnier 18,888 17.60
Democratic Joan Buchanan 12,896 12.02
Democratic Anthony Woods 9,388 8.75
Republican Chris Bunch 4,871 4.54
Republican Gary Clift 4,158 3.88
Republican John Toth 3,340 3.11
Republican David Peterson 1,671 1.56
Green Jeremy Cloward 552 0.51
Republican Mark Loos 418 0.39
Democratic Adriel Hampton 376 0.35
American Independent Jerome Denham 309 0.29
Peace and Freedom Mary McIlroy 272 0.25
Democratic Tiffany Attwood (write-in) 2 0.00
Total votes 107,303 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi 72,817 52.85
Republican David Harmer 59,017 42.83
Green Jeremy Cloward 2,515 1.83
Peace and Freedom Mary McIlroy 1,846 1.34
American Independent Jerome Denham 1,591 1.15
Total votes 137,786 100.00
Democratic hold
2010 California's 10th congressional district election[17][18]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 62,138 100.00
Total votes 62,138 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 137,578 58.84
Republican Gary Clift 88,512 37.86
Green Jeremy Cloward 7,716 3.30
Total votes 233,806 100.00
Democratic hold

California's 3rd congressional district

2012 California's 3rd congressional district election[19][20]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 59,546 51.30
Republican Kim Vann 30,254 20.71
Republican Rick Tubbs 17,902 15.42
Republican Tony Carlos 5,541 4.77
Republican Eugene Ray 2,438 2.10
Total votes 116,081 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 126,882 54.23
Republican Kim Vann 107,086 45.77
Total votes 233,968 100.00
Democratic gain from Republican
2014 California's 3rd congressional district election[21][22]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 54,672 53.48
Republican Dan Logue 47,560 46.52
Total votes 102,232 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 79,224 52.72
Republican Dan Logue 71,036 47.28
Total votes 150,260 100.00
Democratic hold
2016 California's 3rd congressional district election[23][24]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 98,430 63.11
Republican N. Eugene Cleek 37,843 24.26
Republican Ryan Detert 19,699 12.63
Total votes 155,972 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 152,513 59.35
Republican N. Eugene Cleek 104,453 40.65
Total votes 256,966 100.00
Democratic hold
2018 California's 3rd congressional district election[25][26]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 74,552 53.59
Republican Charlie Schaupp 58,598 42.12
Democratic Kevin Puett 5,971 4.29
Total votes 139,121 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 134,875 58.07
Republican Charlie Schaupp 97,376 41.93
Total votes 232,251 100.00
Democratic hold
2020 California's 3rd congressional district election[27][28]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 110,504 59.20
Republican Tamika Hamilton 50,925 27.28
Republican Sean Feucht 25,243 13.52
Total votes 186,672 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 176,043 54.67
Republican Tamika Hamilton 145,945 45.33
Total votes 321,988 100.00
Democratic hold

California's 8th congressional district

2022 California's 8th congressional district election[29][30]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 72,333 63.09
Republican Rudy Recile 23,518 20.51
Democratic Cheryl Sudduth 11,378 9.92
Democratic Christopher Riley 3,926 3.42
Democratic Edwin Rutsch 3,268 2.85
Democratic Demnlus Johnson (write-in) 234 0.20
Total votes 114,657 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 145,501 75.73
Republican Rudy Recile 46,634 24.27
Total votes 192,135 100.00
Democratic gain from Republican
2024 California's 8th congressional district election[31][32]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 100,193 76.99
Republican Rudy Recile 29,944 23.01
Total votes 130,137 100.00
General election
Democratic John Garamendi (incumbent) 201,962 73.97
Republican Rudy Recile 71,068 26.03
Total votes 273,030 100.00
Democratic hold

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