1910 California gubernatorial election
November 8, 1910
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County results Johnson: 40–50% 50–60% 80–90% Bell: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1910 California gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1910. Incumbent Republican governor James Gillett opted not to seek re-election to a second term in office. Hiram Johnson defeated Theodore Arlington Bell and J. Stitt Wilson to win the open race.
Primary elections were held on August 16. Johnson won the Republican nomination over three conservative opponents. Bell won the Democratic nomination for a second consecutive race over Thomas J. Geary.
Johnson won the election with 45.9 percent of the popular vote. This was the first gubernatorial election in which Fresno, Modoc, San Benito, Stanislaus, and Tulare counties voted for a Republican candidate. These Republican gains foreshadowed the party's future dominance of California elections, which would persist through 1954 with only one interruption.