On October 19, California’s Secretary of State released a new registration tally, as of September 4, 2007. This is the first California tally since the February 10, 2007 tally.
The new figures show very little change. The first percentage below is the February 2007 tally; the second one is the September 2007 tally. The Republican and Reform Parties declined moderately. The Democratic and Green Parties declined slightly. The Constitution Party gained slightly, the Libertarian and Peace & Freedom Parties were stationary, and the independents gained moderately.
Feb. 2007 Sept. 2007
Democratic 42.52% 42.50%
Republican 34.19% 33.84%
Constitution (AIP) 2.00% 2.04%
Green .89% .88%
Libertarian .53% .53%
Peace & Freedom .37% .37%
Reform (not on ballot) .22% .19%
indp. & other 19.28% 19.65%
Even more interesting is, if we look at what the 7
parties registration was at this point 4 years ago
the American Independent(Constitution)Party is THE
only party to have increased its membership (+6%).
Of the other alternate parties only the Libertarian
Party lost less than 10% of their membership in the
past 4 years. Democratic registration was down 2% &
the Republicans were down over 3 1/2%. Decline to
State was up 20%. Total registration increased by
about 0.6% in a state were the total population has
increased by 6-7% in the same time period.