1886 Attorney General General Election Results

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Attorney General
Candidate

Political
Party

Popular Vote

George A. Johnson

Democratic

93,102

47.57%

William H. H. Hart

Republican

91,716

46.87%

Alfred Daggett

American

5,533

2.83%

George Babcock

Prohibition

5,146

2.63%

Scattering

200

0.10%

Turnout

Maps

Election Notes:

The stated total for Hart is 91,716 but the county figures add up to 91,816. The stated total for Daggett is 5,533 but the county figures add up to 3,533. The source of this discrepancy is probably a misprint in San Francisco County. The digital scan of the Statement of Vote has partially folded over the Scattering vote so those figures are incomplete and the exact total cannot be read.
Candidates' party affiliations obtained from the 11/3/1886 Sacramento Daily Record-Union. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014381/1886-11-03/ed-1/seq-3/

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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/n41/mode/2up?view=theater) (accessed 19 Dec 2023)

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