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💜 A write-up from Escondido Indivisible, a grassroots group for liberty, justice and compassion for all. Our preliminary write-up of the Midterm Election 2018 is also available on our website. Please let us know of any errors in the data.
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Summary
- The voter turnout for this 2020 Presidential Primary in San Diego County almost reached 50% based on 907,602 ballots out of 1,825,237 registered voters.
- For U.S. House of Representatives' California District 50, candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar (Democrat, El Cajon) won with 36.5% (74,121) of the votes and will face former Representative Darrell Issa (Republican, Vista), who had 23.1% (47,036) of the votes, in November. But the party breakdown shows that Republicans won 55.7% (113,154) of the votes while Democrats 42.2% (85,678). The differential between the two parties is 13.5% (27,476).
- For California State Assembly District 75, Assemblymember Marie Waldron (Republican, Escondido) won 56% (71,217) of the votes and will face candidate Kate Schwartz (Democrat, Fallbrook), who won 38% (47,988) of the votes, in November. The differential between the two is 18% (23,229).
- For San Diego Board of Supervisors District 3, Supervisor Kristin Gaspar won 45% (50,781) of the votes and will face candidate Terra Lawson-Remer (Democrat), who won 30% (33,561) of the votes, in November. But the party breakdown shows that the Democratic Party won 54.68% (61,270) of the votes while the Republican Party won 45.32% (50,781). The differential between the two parties is 9.36% (10,489).
Data collected from San Diego County of Registrar and California Secretary of State. Please let us know of any errors in the data.
Voter Turnout in San Diego County
The voter turnout for this Presidential Primary Election 2020 in San Diego County reached almost 50% based on 907,602 ballots. This is 1% less turnout than in 2016, which had 51% turnout, and 11% less turnout than in 2008, which had 61% turnout (the highest turnout for a Presidential Primary of the last 20 years).
Hopefully, the turnout for upcoming General Presidential Election will be better: 2016 had 81% turnout which was 4% higher than in 2012 with 77% turnout, but 3% worse than in 2008 with 84% turnout (the highest turnout for a General Presidential Election of the past 20 years).
As a comparison, in General Midterm Election 2018, we had 66% turnout which was the highest turnout for a Midterm General Election of the past 18 years and 2% higher turnout than in 2010 (the next highest Midterm General Election of the past 18 years).
Midterm Election Turnout
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Presidential Election Turnout
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US House of Representatives: California 50th District
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🗳️ US House of Representatives are elected to 2-years terms. US Congressional District 50 of California includes Escondido.
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