1886 Controller General Election Results

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Controller
Candidate

Political
Party

Popular Vote

John P. Dunn

Democratic

95,469

48.85%

J. E. Denny

Republican

94,833

48.52%

J. A. Fairbanks

Prohibition

4,921

2.52%

Other (+)

222

0.11%

Turnout

Maps

Election Notes:

The 1886 Statement of Vote has several misprints. Dunn's figure in Sacramento County has been corrected using the 11/10/1886 Sacramento Daily Record-Union. Furthermore, the figure given for Dunn in Stanislaus County is almost certainly wrong and the correct figure is 1,002 not 2,002; this is based off the total vote in the county in other statewide races and the votes received by other candidates on the Democratic ticket there. Additionally, the county figures for Fairbanks do not add up properly: Fairbanks' stated total is 4,921 but the county figures add up to 4,941. Finally, the scan of the Statement of Vote by the San Francisco Public Library folds over part of the Scattering figures. Per the 12/9/1886 San Jose Herald, the Scattering total is 169.

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Source for Popular Vote data: California Secretary of State. Statement of the Vote of the State of California at the General Election Held November 2, A.D. 1886, California Secretary of State (https://archive.org/details/statementofvoteo1886cali/page/n39/mode/2up?view=theater) (accessed 09 Jan 2024)

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