The California Statement of Votes for November 2016 is here. On page three, one sees that 14,610,509 ballots were cast. A few pages later, one sees the returns for U.S. Senate. Only 12,244,170 votes were cast for that office. This means that 2,366,339 voters cast a ballot, but did not vote for U.S. Senate. They represent 16.2% of all ballots.
There is always some drop-off between votes cast for President and votes cast for U.S. Senate, but 16.2% is very large and probably unprecedented in California. U.S. Senate is immediately below President on the ballot. The cause of this drop-off is surely that only two Democrats were on the ballot for U.S. Senate, with no write-in space.
The last time California had a U.S. Senate election and a presidential election in the same year, in which the top-two system did not exist, was 2004. In 2004, the drop-off was only 4.3%. In 2004 the number of ballots was 12,589,683, and the number of votes for U.S. Senate was 12,053,293. In 2004 voters had a choice of five candidates, and write-in space.
How soon before there are ONLY Donkeys in the CA People’s soviet socialist republic ???
— perhaps a part of New Age Russia or China ???
— i.e. less nonvotes or more likely NO votes — after the blatant commies take over the regime and stop having any elections.
There was not a 16% drop off between President and Senator.
We don’t know that. We don’t know how many people cast a write-in for president for someone who wasn’t a declared write-in candidate.
It is available for some counties. Why do many counties in California report write-ins separately from real votes?
The base should be the TOTAL VOTERS.
Some folks do not vote even for Prez/VP.
CA Nov 2016 from SOV stats
Votes PCT TV
14,610,509 100.00 Total Voters
14,181,595 97.06 Prez/VP votes — Who are those 2.94 percent folks ???
12,244,170 83.80 US Senator votes — around 94 percent if 1 D and 1 R — i.e. about 10 percent worse in CA in 2016.
The two candidates were minorities.So white voters will not vote for a minority.
The CA SOS will be having a supplement to the SOV regarding Prez votes in the various districts which will show some better idea of the NONVOTES math — esp. in the gerrymander districts NOT having 1 D and 1 R.
I was one of those voters that SKIPPED the U.S. Senate race. When your “choice” is between two pathetically liberal, illegal alien loving Democrats, that is NOT a choice, and skipping the U.S. Senate race was a necessity!
I also skipped the 2 leftists (d) for senate. They r only interested union donations, illegal invasion rights, bathrooms and their own well being.