Senate Vote Counts

Just taking a quick look at the vote totals for the 40 current State Senators. Some things to note;

1) Nine of the top ten highest vote counts are from odd-numbered districts. Senators odd-numbered districts tend to win with a higher numbers of votes than those from even-numbered districts. This is due to the higher turn-out in Presidential elections than Gubernatorial elections.

2) Five of the current 40 State Senators were elected in Special Elections (noted with asterix) Four of those five Senate terms will end this year.

3) Just the massive variation in the vote totals; Loni Hancock received 8.5 times as many votes as Ted Lieu. In fact, the 272,225 votes that Hancock received was more votes than any other State Senator since the 1966 “Reynolds v. Sims” court decision required equally-populated districts.