Northern California Voter Guide

This is the list for CLORV-endorsed candidates for districts in Northern California. Districts in Bold are considered to be hot races. Empty cells are for races where CLORV has not endorsed a candidate.

The 2006 election is seeing the largest number of state legislative OPEN seats in California history; thirty-six in the Assembly and twelve in the Senate. Due to the fine are of gerrymandering, winning the June Primary election was tantamount to victory in November in the overwhelming majority of the open seats.
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United States House of Representatives

All House of Representative seats are voted on in each election held every two years.

Congressional District	Candidate Name	Party Affiliation	Counties Represented	Election Result
CD 1	John Jones	Republican	Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, Napa, & portions of Yolo & Sonoma	Lost
CD 2	Wally Herger*	Republican	Siskiyou, Trinity, Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, & portions of Yolo	Won
CD 3	Dan Lungren*	Republican	Sacramento, Amador, Calaveras, Alpine, & portions of Solano	Won
CD 4	John Doolittle*	Republican	Modoc, Lassen, Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, & portions of Sacramento and Butte	Won
CD 5	Claire Yan	Republican	Sacramento	Lost
CD 6	Todd Hooper	Republican	Sonoma, Marin	Lost
CD 7	No Endorsement		Solano, Contra Costa	N/A
CD 8	Mike DeNunzio	Republican	San Francisco	Lost
CD 9	John Den Dulk	Republican	Alameda	Lost
CD 10	Darcy Linn	Republican	Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda	Lost
CD 11	Richard Pombo*	Republican	San Joaquin, Alameda, Santa Clara, & portions of Contra Costa	Lost
CD 12	Michael Moloney	Republican	San Francisco, San Mateo	Lost
CD 13	George Bruno	Republican	Alameda	Lost
CD 14	Rob Smith	Republican	San Mateo, Santa Cruz, & a portion of Santa Clara	Lost
CD 15	Raymond Chukwu	Republican	Santa Clara	Lost
CD 16	Charel Winston	Republican	Santa Clara	Lost

California State Senate

The State Senate has 40 Senators. Each Senator serves a four-year term.
Elections are held every two years for 20 of the 40 districts, odd or even numbered.
The candidates in the 2006 election are running for districts with even numbers.

State Senate District	Candidate Name	Party Affiliation	Counties Represented	Election Result
SD 2	Patricia Wiggins	Democrat	Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Solano	Won
SD 4	Sam Aanestad*	Republican	Del Norte, Siskiyou, Trinity, Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Placer	Won
SD 6	Paul Green	Republican	Sacramento	Lost
SD 8	Leland Yee	Democrat	San Francisco, San Mateo	Won
SD 10	Lou Filipovich	Republican	Alameda, San Jose	Lost

California State Assembly

The State Assembly has 80 members. Each member serves a two-year term.
All seats are voted on in each election every two years.

State Assembly District	Candidate Name	Party Affiliation	Counties Represented	Election Result
AD 1	Ray Tyrone	Republican	Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma	Lost
AD 2	Doug La Malfa*	Republican	Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Colusa, Sutter, Yolo, & portions of Butte	Won
AD 3	Rick Keene*	Republican	Lassen, Plumas, Butte, Yuba, Sierra, Nevada, & portions of Placer	Won
AD 4	Ted Gaines	Republican	Placer, El Dorado, Alpine, & portions of Sacramento	Won
AD 5	Roger Niello*	Republican	Sacramento, Placer	Won
AD 6	Michael Hartnett	Republican	Sonoma, Marin	Lost
AD 7	No Endorsement		Napa, Sonoma, & portions of Solano	N/A
AD 8	John Gould	Republican	Solano, Yolo	Lost
AD 9	William Chan	Republican	Sacramento	Lost
AD 10	Alan Nakanishi*	Republican	Sacramento, Amador, & portions of El Dorado & San Joaquin	Won
AD 11	Arne Simonsen	Republican	Contra Costa	Lost
AD 12	Fiona Ma	Democrat	San Francisco, San Mateo	Won
AD 13	Ramiro Maldonado	Republican	San Francisco	Lost
AD 14	Leigh Wolf	Republican	Alameda, Contra Costa	Lost
AD 15	Guy Houston*	Republican	Sacramento, Contra Costa, San Joaquin & portions of Alameda	Won
AD 16	Sandre Swanson	Democrat	Alameda	Won
AD 17	Cathleen Galgiani	Democrat	San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced	Won
AD 18	Jill Buck	Republican	Alameda	Lost
AD 19	Gene Mullin*	Democrat	San Mateo	Won
AD 20	Alberto Torrico*	Democrat	Alameda, Santa Clara	Won
AD 21	Virginia Kiraly	Republican	San Mateo, Santa Clara	Lost
AD 22	Roger Riffenburgh	Republican	Santa Clara	Lost
AD 23	Joe Coto*	Democrat	Santa Clara	Won
AD 24	Lawrence Hileman	Republican	Santa Clara	Lost

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