Results of the 2003 California recall
The following are the results of the 2003 California recall election held on October 7, 2003. The voters of California decided to recall governor Gray Davis by a margin of 55.4% in favor to 44.6% against. Voters elected Arnold Schwarzenegger to become Davis's replacement by a plurality of 48.7% to runner-up Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante's 31.6%.Following the election, all 58 of California's counties have 28 days (until November 4, 2003) each to conduct a countywide canvass of their votes. Counties use this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconciliate the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write-in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1% of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.
Counties then have 7 days from the conclusion of canvassing (November 11, 2003, 35 days after the election) to submit their final vote totals to the California Secretary of State's office. The Secretary of State must certify the final statewide vote by 39 days (until November 15) after the election. Once the vote is certified, governor-elect Schwarzenegger must be sworn-in to office within 10 days.
For the latest election numbers, see the Secretary of State's website: http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/
Shall Gray Davis be recalled (removed) from the office of Governor?
Election results
(not yet certified, but with all precincts reporting)
| Yes | 4,716,458 votes | 55.4% |
| No | 3,806,828 votes | 44.6% |
Candidates to succeed Gray Davis as Governor if he is recalled:
| Candidate | Party | Number of votes | Percent of votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Republican | 3,999,111 | 48.7 |
| Cruz M. Bustamante | Democrat | 2,596,047 | 31.6 |
| Tom McClintock | Republican | 1,097,462 | 13.4 |
| Peter Miguel Camejo | Green | 228,532 | 2.8 |
| Arianna Huffington (had dropped out of race) | Independent | 45,640 | 0.6 |
| Peter V. Ueberroth (had dropped out of race) | Republican | 23,941 | 0.3 |
| Larry Flynt | Democrat | 16,512 | 0.3 |
| Gary Coleman | Independent | 13,500 | 0.2 |
| George B. Schwartzman | Independent | 11,687 | 0.2 |
| Mary Cook | Independent | 10,633 | 0.2 |
| Bruce Martin Margolin | Democrat | 8,427 | 0.2 |
| Bill Simon (had dropped out of race) | Republican | 8,386 | 0.2 |
| Van Vo | Republican | 6,940 | 0 |
| John Christopher Burton | Independent | 6,336 | 0 |
| David Laughing Horse Robinson | Democrat | 6,115 | 0 |
| Leo Gallagher | Independent | 5,146 | 0 |
| Cheryl Bly-Chester | Republican | 4,902 | 0 |
| Lawrence Steven Strauss | Democrat | 4,839 | 0 |
| Ronald Jason Palmieri | Democrat | 3,911 | 0 |
| Calvin Y. Louie | Democrat | 3,711 | 0 |
| Badi Badiozamani | Independent | 3,215 | 0 |
| Audie E. Bock | Democrat | 3,119 | 0 |
| Ralph A. Hernandez | Democrat | 2,957 | 0 |
| Edward Thomas Kennedy | Democrat | 2,747 | 0 |
| Dan Feinstein | Democrat | 2,725 | 0 |
| Bob McClain | Independent | 2,695 | 0 |
| James Henry Green | Democrat | 2,636 | 0 |
| Garrett Gruener | Democrat | 2,421 | 0 |
| Angelyne | Independent | 2,408 | 0 |
| Jerome Kunzman | Independent | 2,183 | 0 |
| Ivan Alexander Hall III | Green | 2,172 | 0 |
| Jim Weir | Democrat | 2,156 | 0 |
| Ned Fenton Roscoe | Libertarian | 2,118 | 0 |
| Georgina Russell | Democrat | 2,067 | 0 |
| Jack Loyd Grisham | Independent | 2,058 | 0 |
| Jonathan D. Miller | Democrat | 2,026 | 0 |
| Paul Mariano | Democrat | 1,982 | 0 |
| Brooke Adams | Independent | 1,911 | 0 |
| Daniel T. Watts | Green | 1,884 | 0 |
| Christopher Sproul | Democrat | 1,870 | 0 |
| Ken Hamidi | Libertarian | 1,833 | 0 |
| Randall D. Sprague | Republican | 1,652 | 0 |
| Nathan Whitecloud Walton | Independent | 1,644 | 0 |
| Mohammad Arif | Independent | 1,616 | 0 |
| Marc Valdez | Democrat | 1,604 | 0 |
| Frank A. Macaluso, Jr. | Democrat | 1,600 | 0 |
| John J. "Jack" Hickey | Libertarian | 1,596 | 0 |
| Daniel C. Ramirez | Democrat | 1,559 | 0 |
| C.T. Weber | Peace & Freedom | 1,555 | 0 |
| Mike Schmier | Democrat | 1,497 | 0 |
| Michael J. Wozniak | Democrat | 1,451 | 0 |
| B.E. Smith | Independent | 1,428 | 0 |
| Diana Foss | Democrat | 1,402 | 0 |
| Lingel H. Winters | Democrat | 1,375 | 0 |
| Richard J. Simmons | Independent | 1,329 | 0 |
| Joe Guzzardi | Democrat | 1,295 | 0 |
| Mike P. McCarthy | Independent | 1,242 | 0 |
| Leonard Padilla | Independent | 1,234 | 0 |
| Art Brown | Democrat | 1,218 | 0 |
| Iris Adam | Natural Law | 1,199 | 0 |
| Maurice J. Walker | Green | 1,148 | 0 |
| Trek Thunder Kelly | Independent | 1,145 | 0 |
| Darin Price | Natural Law | 1,076 | 0 |
| Vikramjit S. Bajwa | Democrat | 1,076 | 0 |
| David Ronald Sams | Republican | 1,062 | 0 |
| Sara Ann Hanlon | Independent | 1,010 | 0 |
| John "Jack" Mortensen | Democrat | 1,006 | 0 |
| Diane Beall Templin | American Independent | 1,000 | 0 |
| Jim Hoffmann | Republican | 977 | 0 |
| Charles "Chuck" Pineda Jr. | American Independent | 969 | 0 |
| Dick Lane | Democrat | 948 | 0 |
| William B. Vaughn | Democrat | 938 | 0 |
| C. Stephen Henderson | Independent | 919 | 0 |
| Robert C. Newman II | Republican | 906 | 0 |
| Jamie Rosemary Safford | Republican | 863 | 0 |
| Dorene Musilli | Republican | 834 | 0 |
| Scott A. Mednick | Democrat | 831 | 0 |
| Brian Tracy | Independent | 794 | 0 |
| Kurt E. Rightmyer | Independent | 791 | 0 |
| Sharon Rushford | Independent | 763 | 0 |
| Robert C. Mannheim | Democrat | 747 | 0 |
| Darryl L. Mobley | Independent | 744 | 0 |
| Christopher Ranken | Democrat | 740 | 0 |
| Darrin H. Scheidle | Democrat | 729 | 0 |
| Patricia G. Tilley | Independent | 727 | 0 |
| A. Lavar Taylor | Democrat | 720 | 0 |
| Douglas Anderson | Republican | 704 | 0 |
| Michael Jackson | Republican | 703 | 0 |
| Joel Britton | Independent | 699 | 0 |
| Alex-St. James | Republican | 698 | 0 |
| Bob Lynn Edwards | Democrat | 683 | 0 |
| Ed Beyer | Republican | 661 | 0 |
| John W. Beard | Republican | 655 | 0 |
| Paul "Chip" Mailander | Democrat | 644 | 0 |
| Paul James Nave | Democrat | 611 | 0 |
| Chuck Walker | Republican | 582 | 0 |
| Warren Farrell | Democrat | 572 | 0 |
| William S. Chambers | Republican | 566 | 0 |
| Vip Bhola | Republican | 563 | 0 |
| James M. Vandeventer, Jr. | Republican | 559 | 0 |
| Robert Cullenbine | Democrat | 557 | 0 |
| Dennis Duggan McMahon | Republican | 539 | 0 |
| Gerold Lee Gorman | Democrat | 534 | 0 |
| Eric Korevaar | Democrat | 529 | 0 |
| S. Issa | Republican | 527 | 0 |
| Mike McNeilly | Republican | 524 | 0 |
| Kelly P. Kimball | Democrat | 523 | 0 |
| Richard Andrew Gosse | Republican | 460 | 0 |
| Bryan Quinn | Republican | 457 | 0 |
| Gino Martorana | Republican | 444 | 0 |
| Tim Sylvester | Democrat | 444 | 0 |
| Paul W. Vann | Republican | 425 | 0 |
| Michael Cheli | Independent | 418 | 0 |
| Heather Peters | Republican | 413 | 0 |
| Jeff Rainforth | Independent | 405 | 0 |
| Ronald J. Friedman | Independent | 391 | 0 |
| Jeffrey L. Mock | Republican | 378 | 0 |
| Bill Prady | Democrat | 364 | 0 |
| Daniel W. Richards | Republican | 356 | 0 |
| Scott W. Davis | Independent | 352 | 0 |
| Todd Carson | Republican | 350 | 0 |
| Carl A. Mehr | Republican | 338 | 0 |
| Lorraine Fontanes | Democrat | 331 | 0 |
| Jon William Zellhoefer | Republican | 323 | 0 |
| Gary Leonard | Democrat | 310 | 0 |
| Reva Renee Renz | Republican | 302 | 0 |
| Gregory J. Pawlik | Republican | 300 | 0 |
| Stephen L. Knapp | Republican | 275 | 0 |
| Kevin Richter | Republican | 267 | 0 |
| D. (Logan Darrow) Clements | Republican | 262 | 0 |
| William James Tsangares | Republican | 260 | 0 |
| Robert A. Dole | Republican | 241 | 0 |
| David E. Kessinger | Democrat | 226 | 0 |
| Gene Forte | Republican | 206 | 0 |
| Todd Richard Lewis | Independent | 182 | 0 |
