California's 46th congressional district
California's 46th congressional district | ||
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Current Representative | Loretta Sanchez (D–Santa Ana) | |
Ethnicity | 18.4% White, 1.7% Black, 11.7% Asian, 66.6% Hispanic, 1.5[1]% other | |
Cook PVI | D+9 |
California's 46th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California.
The district is currently represented by Democrat Loretta Sanchez. The district is based in Orange County and includes the communities of Anaheim and Santa Ana.
The Congressional district also contains the theme park Disneyland.
From 2003 to 2013 the district covered part of Los Angeles County and Orange County. The district included Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, and Rancho Palos Verdes.
Boundaries 2003-13
The district was commonly considered[2] to be typical of gerrymandering. It covered some or all of the following cities in Orange County: Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, and Westminster. In Los Angeles County, the district covered Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, Palos Verdes Estates part of Long Beach, and a very small portion of the San Pedro neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, and Santa Catalina Island, on which Avalon was the only city. The district also included the whole of the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Voting
Election results from statewide races | ||
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Year | Office | Results |
2012 | President | Obama 61.4 - 36.2% |
Senator | ||
2010 | Governor | Whitman 55.8 - 38.8% |
Senator | Fiorina 56.4 - 38.4% | |
2008 | President[3] | McCain 49.8 - 48.0% |
2006 | Governor[4] | Schwarzenegger 68.9 - 26.3% |
Senator[5] | Feinstein 47.9 - 47.1% | |
2004 | President[6] | Bush 56.9 - 41.6% |
Senator[7] | Jones 48.6 - 45.5% | |
2003 | Recall[8][9] | Yes 70.0 - 30.0% |
Schwarzenegger 62.2 - 17.8% | ||
2002 | Governor[10] | Simon 55.8 - 36.4% |
2000 | President[11] | Gore 54.1 - 42.3% |
Senator[12] | Feinstein 55.5 - 35.6% | |
1998 | Governor | |
Senator | ||
1996 | President | |
1994 | Governor | |
Senator | ||
1992 | President | Bush 39.9 - 37.1% |
Senator | Herschensohn 53.1 - 36.2% | |
Senator | Seymour 45.7 - 42.6% |
List of representatives
Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | Counties |
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District created | January 3, 1993 | |||
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Republican | January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1997 | Redistricted from the 38th district Lost re-election |
Orange (Garden Grove, Santa Ana) |
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Democratic | January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003 | Redistricted to the 47th district | |
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Republican | January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013 | Redistricted from the 45th district Redistricted to the 48th district |
Los Angeles (Long Beach, Palos Verdes), Orange (Huntington Beach) |
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Democratic | January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2017 | Redistricted from the 47th district | Orange County (Anaheim and Santa Ana) |
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Democratic | January 3, 2017 – |
Election results
1992
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bob Dornan (incumbent) | 55,659 | 50.2 | |
Democratic | Robert John Banuelos | 45,435 | 41.0 | |
Libertarian | Richard G. Newhouse | 9,712 | 8.8 | |
Total votes | 110,806 | 100.0 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
1994
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bob Dornan (incumbent) | 50,616 | 57.07 | |
Democratic | Michael P. "Mike" Farber | 33,004 | 37.21 | |
Libertarian | Richard G. Newhouse | 5,077 | 5.72 | |
Total votes | 88,697 | 100.0 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
1996
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Loretta Sanchez | 47,964 | 46.9 | |||
Republican | Bob Dornan (incumbent) | 46,980 | 45.9 | |||
Reform | Lawrence Stafford | 3,235 | 3.1 | |||
Libertarian | Thomas Reimer | 2,333 | 2.2 | |||
Natural Law | J. Aguirre | 1,972 | 1.9 | |||
Total votes | 102,484 | 100.0 | ||||
Voter turnout | % | |||||
Democratic gain from Republican | ||||||
1998
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Loretta Sanchez (incumbent) | 47,964 | 56.43 | |
Republican | Bob Dornan | 33,388 | 39.28 | |
Libertarian | Thomas E. Reimer | 2,316 | 2.72 | |
Natural Law | Larry G. Engwall | 1,334 | 1.57 | |
Total votes | 85,002 | 100.0 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
2000
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Loretta Sanchez (incumbent) | 70,381 | 60.3 | |
Republican | Gloria Matta Tuchman | 40,928 | 35.0 | |
Libertarian | Richard B. Boddie | 3,159 | 2.7 | |
Natural Law | Larry Engwall | 2,440 | 2.0 | |
Total votes | 116,908 | 100.0 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
2002
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dana Rohrabacher (inc.) | 108,807 | 61.8 | |
Democratic | Gerrie Schipske | 60,890 | 34.6 | |
Libertarian | Keith Gann | 6,488 | 3.6 | |
No party | Thomas Lash (write-in) | 80 | 0.0% | |
Total votes | 176,165 | 100.0 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dana Rohrabacher (inc.) | 171,318 | 62.0 | |
Democratic | Jim Brandt | 90,129 | 32.5 | |
Green | Tom Lash | 10,238 | 3.7 | |
Total votes | 271,685 | 100.0 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
2006
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dana Rohrabacher (inc.) | 116,176 | 59.6 | |
Democratic | Jim Brandt | 71,573 | 36.7 | |
Libertarian | Dennis Chang | 7,303 | 3.7 | |
Total votes | 195,052 | 100.0 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
2008
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dana Rohrabacher (inc.) | 149,818 | 52.52 | |
Democratic | Debbie Cook | 122,891 | 43.08 | |
Green | Thomas Lash | 8,257 | 2.89 | |
Libertarian | Ernst P. Gasteiger | 4,311 | 1.51 | |
Total votes | 285,277 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Republican hold | ||||
2010
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dana Rohrabacher (incumbent) | 139,822 | 62.21 | |
Democratic | Ken Arnold | 84,940 | 37.79 | |
Total votes | 224,762 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
2012
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Loretta Sanchez (incumbent) | 95,694 | 63.9 | |
Republican | Jerry Hayden | 54,121 | 36.1 | |
Total votes | 149,815 | 100.00 | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Loretta Sanchez (incumbent) | 49,738 | 60% | |
Republican | Adam Nick | 33,577 | 40% | |
Total votes | 83,315 | 100% | ||
Voter turnout | % | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
Living former Members
As of April 2015, there are two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 46th congressional district that are currently living.
Representative | Term in office | Date of birth (and age) |
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Bob Dornan | 1993 - 1997 | April 3, 1933 |
Dana Rohrabacher | 2003 - 2013 | June 21, 1947 |
Historical district boundaries
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See also
References
- ↑ "California's citizen commission final district maps: Find out what's changed where you live". Los Angeles Times. August 2, 2011.
- ↑ Patrick McGreevy (December 19, 2010). "New redistricting panel takes aim at bizarre political boundaries". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 23, 2010.
- ↑ (2008 President)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2006 Governor)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2006 Senator)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2004 President)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2004 Senator)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2003 Recall Question)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2003 Governor)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2002 Governor)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2000 President)
- ↑ Statement of Vote (2000 Senator)
- ↑ 1992 election results
- ↑ 1994 election results
- ↑ 1996 election results
- ↑ 1998 election results
- ↑ 2000 election results
- ↑ 2002 general election results Archived February 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ 2004 general election results
- ↑ 2006 general election results Archived November 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ 2008 general election results
- ↑ 2012 general election results Archived October 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ 2012 general election results Archived October 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- GovTrack.us: California's 46th congressional district
- RAND California Election Returns: District Definitions
- California Voter Foundation map - CD46
Coordinates: 33°43′N 118°02′W / 33.72°N 118.04°W