Filing has closed for candidates to run in the California June 7 primary. For the state legislature, there are fourteen districts in which only one person filed to be on the primary ballot. In each case, the incumbent is that one candidate. Under California’s top-two system, write-ins are permitted in the primary (but not the general), and the write-in candidate, if any, who places second in June in each of these districts will appear on the November ballot.
The districts are State Senate 33, and Assembly districts 1, 2, 32, 46, 49, 51, 56, 58, 59, 62, 70, 73, and 76. Declared write-in candidates need 40 valid signatures, due in May. Any registered voter can sign.
The Secretary of State’s web page is expected to have the candidate list by March 31. This information was obtained from county election web sites. Thanks to Ted Brown and Joe Dehn for the information.
13 Assembly Districts with only the incumbent declared! It wasn’t this bad before “Top Two.” But then, Top Two is doubtless a disguised, creeping movement toward “Top One.” Democratic and Republican Parties are actually just different sides of one coin – the “Control the Gov’t Party.”
Ah… Top One. The system enjoyed by the Soviet Union. Great system. The winner ALWAYS received a majority of the votes!
What do you think is the reason for the decline in such districts from 2014, when there were 17?
In 2010, the last primary under the old system of segregated partisan primaries, about 2/3 of assembly districts had a single Democratic candidate, and about 2/3 of assembly districts had a single. Over half of Californians had NO choice at the June 2010 primary for assembly.