Editing Calaveras County, California (section)

===Elections and politics===

==== Voter registration statistics ====

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
! colspan="3" | Population and registered voters
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | Total eligible population<ref name="2022reg">{{cite web |title=Statement of Vote, November 8, 2022, General Election |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2022-general/sov/complete.pdf |website=California Secretary of State |publisher=California Secretary of State |access-date=May 5, 2023}}</ref>
| colspan="2" | 36,563
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;Registered voters<ref name="2022reg"/><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note>Percentage of registered voters with respect to total population. Percentages of party members with respect to registered voters follow.</ref>
| 32,172
| 87.9%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 8,529
| 23.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 14,857
| 40.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic–Republican spread<ref name="2022reg"/>
| <span style="color:#d6002b;">'''-6,328'''</span>
| <span style="color:#d6002b;">'''-17.3%'''</span>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;American Independent<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 1,872
| 5.1%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Libertarian<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 610
| 1.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Green<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 159
| 0.4%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Peace and Freedom<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 129
| 0.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unknown<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 120
| 0.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 304
| 0.8%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No party preference<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 5,592
| 15.2%
|}

===== Cities by population and voter registration =====

{| class="wikitable collapsible sortable" style="width: 100%;"
|-
! colspan="8" | Cities by population and voter registration
|-
! City
! data-sort-type="number" | Population<ref name="US-CB-B02001"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS">California Secretary of State. [http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf February 10, 2013 – Report of Registration] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103114419/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf |date=November 3, 2013 }}. Retrieved October 31, 2013.</ref><br /><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | D–R spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
|-
| [[Angels, California|Angels]] || 3,820 || 61.9% || 31.5% || 42.9% || <span style="color: #d6002b;">'''-11.4%'''</span> || 11.2% || 18.1%
|}

==== Overview ====

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! colspan="3" | Election results from statewide races
|-
!Year
!Office
!Results
|-
|-
| rowspan=7|2010
| [[California gubernatorial election, 2010|Governor]]
| align="right" {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Meg Whitman|Whitman]] 53.8 – 39.1%
|-
| [[California lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2010|Lieutenant Governor]]
| align="right" {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Abel Maldonado|Maldonado]] 51.1 – 34.6%
|-
| [[California secretary of state election, 2010|Secretary of State]]
| align="right" {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Damon Dunn|Dunn]] 51.0 – 36.7%
|-
| [[California State Controller election, 2010|Controller]]
| align="right" {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[John Chiang (California politician)|Chiang]] 49.5 – 38.7%
|-
| [[California State Treasurer election, 2010|Treasurer]]
| align="right" {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Mimi Walters|Walters]] 46.1 – 43.5%
|-
| [[California attorney general election, 2010|Attorney General]]
| align="right" {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Steve Cooley|Cooley]] 56.7 – 28.5%
|-
| [[California insurance commissioner election, 2010|Insurance Commissioner]]
| align="right" {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Mike Villines|Villines]] 49.7 – 34.6%
|}

Calaveras County is in {{Representative|cacd|5|fmt=district}}.<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|5|access-date=March 1, 2023}}</ref>

In the [[California State Senate|State Senate]], Calaveras County is in {{Representative|casd|8|fmt=sdistrict}}.<ref>{{Cite web
 |url=http://senate.ca.gov/senators 
 |title=Senators 
 |access-date=March 20, 2013
|publisher=State of California}}</ref> In the [[California State Assembly|State Assembly]], it is in {{Representative|caad|5|fmt=adistrict}}.<ref>{{Cite web
 |url=http://assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers
 |title=Members Assembly
 |access-date=March 20, 2013
|publisher=State of California}}</ref>

Past presidential elections in Calaveras County have displayed preferences for Republican candidates; the last Democrat to win a majority in the county was [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] in [[United States presidential election in California, 1964|1964]], although Democrat [[Bill Clinton]] lost the county by only 17 votes in 1992. In 2020, Republicans won 60% of the vote for the first time since 2004.

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{{PresRow|2020|Republican|16,518|10,046|708|California}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|13,511|7,944|2,076|California}}  
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|12,365|8,670|827|California}}  
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|12,835|9,813|773|California}}  
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|13,601|8,286|456|California}}  
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|10,599|7,093|1,184|California}}  
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|8,279|6,646|2,281|California}}  
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|6,006|5,989|4,996|California}}  
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|7,640|5,674|260|California}}  
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|7,632|4,081|164|California}}  
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|6,054|3,076|1,145|California}}  
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|3,695|3,607|226|California}}  
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|4,119|2,268|392|California}}  
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|3,042|2,134|656|California}}  
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,244|3,145|8|California}}  
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|2,820|2,509|32|California}}  
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|2,843|2,049|17|California}}  
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|3,112|1,890|46|California}}  
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|1,888|1,995|154|California}}  
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,455|1,893|21|California}}  
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,649|2,405|29|California}}  
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|960|2,520|54|California}}  
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|754|1,744|101|California}}  
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,262|1,066|18|California}}  
{{PresRow|1924|Progressive|872|333|1,006|California}}  
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,480|641|193|California}}  
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,175|1,524|173|California}}  
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|5|1,869|1,215|California}}  
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,323|833|226|California}}  
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,571|844|259|California}}  
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,600|1,288|43|California}}  
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|1,541|1,518|28|California}}  
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|1,355|1,276|96|California}}