California's 4th Senate district
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California's 4th State Senate District is one of 40 Senate Districts. It is currently represented by Republican Senator Sam Aanestad of Grass Valley.
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[edit] District Profile
The 4th District covers a vast and predominantly rural region that includes 12 counties – Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Nevada (partly), Placer (partly), Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehema, Trinity and Yuba Counties.
The places in Nevada County that are in the district include Grass Valley and Nevada City, and the CDPs of Alta Sierra, Lake of the Pines, Lake Wildwood, and Penn Valley, and in Placer County, the cities of Lincoln, Loomis, Rocklin.
The district includes the northern coast of the state, the region along the California-Oregon state line, the central portion of Northern California, and the region just north of the greater Sacramento area.
The district contains natural assets including agriculture, water, and forestry.
[edit] Politics
District 4 is a strongly Republican district. It consists of 846,790 people, 452,918 of whom are registered voters. Of the registered voters, 163,863 (36.2%) are Democratic and 204,571 (45.2%) are Republican.[1]
[edit] 2006 Results
| 2006 State Senate District 4 election[2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Samuel Aanestad (incumbent) | 161,516 | 61.0 | +2.9 | |
| Democratic | Paul R. Singh | 87,926 | 33.1 | -3.2 | |
| Libertarian | Tony Munroe | 8,246 | 3.1 | -2.5 | |
| Green | Robert Wells Vizzard | 7,456 | 2.8 | +2.8 | |
| Total votes | 265,144 | 100.0 | |||
| Majority | 73,590 | 27.9 | +6.1 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Republican hold | Swing | +6.1 | |||
[edit] 2002 Results
| 2002 State Senate District 4 election[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Samuel Aanestad | 148,023 | 58.1 | +1.4 | |
| Democratic | Marianne Smith | 92,786 | 36.3 | -7.0 | |
| Libertarian | Robert H. Underwood | 14,325 | 5.6 | +5.6 | |
| Total votes | 255,134 | 100.0 | |||
| Majority | 55,237 | 21.8 | +8.4 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Republican hold | Swing | +8.4 | |||
[edit] Former Senators
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ State Senate District 04
- ^ 2006 State Senate Results. California Secretary of State (2006-12-04). Retrieved on 2006-12-05.
- ^ 2002 State Senate Results. California Secretary of State (2008-03-18). Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
[edit] External links
Official Profile of Senate District from California State Senate--[1]
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