1879 State Treasurer General Election Results

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State Treasurer
Candidate

Political
Party

Popular Vote

John Weil

Republican

67,791

42.36%

L. B. Clarke

Workingmen's

40,905

25.56%

A. G. Escandon

Democratic

30,193

18.87%

Cyrus Jones

New Constitution

20,034

12.52%

G. T. Pauli

Independent Democrat

957

0.60%

Other (+)

141

0.09%

Turnout

Maps

$Per Vote Workingmen\'s Button$

Election Notes:

The microfilmed records at the State Archives in Sacramento do not contain a single statewide canvass for the election of 1879. The figures are drawn from the individual county returns, except for San Francisco, which is not included on the microfilm. The City and County of San Francisco took over a month to county its votes in 1879; the figures were ultimately reported in the 10/6/1879 Daily Alta California and that is the source for San Francisco's vote. Once San Francisco completed its count, the statewide canvass commenced and the totals were reported in various newspapers throughout the state; for instance, the 10/20/1879 Sacramento Daily Record-Union. The county figures for Weil and Escandon add up to the reported totals, but the rest do not. The sum of the county figures is instead 40,892 for Clarke, 20,008 for Jones, 1,002 for Pauli, 75 for Clark, and 65 Scattering.
Candidates' party affiliations sourced from 9/3/1879 Daily Morning Times (of San Jose) and 9/1/1879 Sacramento Daily Record-Union. Pauli declined the Democratic nomination and so the party instead nominated Escandon.

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Source for Popular Vote data: California State Archives, "State Treasurer," Abstract Statement of the Vote of California, polled at the General Election, held September 3d, A.D. 1879 (Sacramento, 1879)

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