California gubernatorial election, 1914

← 1910

November 3, 1914

1918 →


Nominee	Hiram Johnson	John D. Fredericks
Party	Progressive	Republican
Popular vote	460,495	271,990
Percentage	49.6%	29.3%


Nominee	J.B. Curtin	Noble A. Richardson
Party	Democratic	Socialist
Popular vote	116,121	50,716
Percentage	12.5%	5.5%

Governor before election

Hiram Johnson
Progressive

Elected Governor

Hiram Johnson
Progressive

The California gubernatorial election, 1914 was held on November 3, 1914. Hiram Johnson was elected in 1910 as a member of the Republican Party. Dissatisfaction with the conservatism of the Taft administration led many Republicans to join former President Roosevelt's Progressive Party, with Johnson served as the Vice-Presidential candidate in the 1912 presidential election. Despite losing the general election, and winning California by less than 200 votes, Johnson was supremely popular in California. He was re-elected in 1914 as governor under the Progressive Party ticket, nearly tripling his vote from 1910 as a Republican, and was elected and reelected as Senator many times until his death in 1945.

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