On April 11, voters in California’s 50th U.S. House district faced a blanket primary ballot with 18 candidates: 14 Republicans, 2 Democrats, one Libertarian and one independent. The various Republicans polled 53.3%; the two Democrats together polled 45.2%; the independent received .8%; the Libertarian, .6%. The highest vote-getting Democrat and the highest vote-getting Republican, along with the Independent and the Libertarian, will face off in a run-off in June.
In November 2004, this same district had voted for U.S. House as follows: Republican 58.4%; Democrat 36.5%; Green 2.3%; Constitution 1.6%; Libertarian 1.2%.
Given the result Gilchrist had in the special election a while back I was surprised the Constitution Party didn’t run a candidate in the race on the same platform that Gilchrist ran on.