Election Results
2005 Special Election
All eight of the propositions on the ballot lost. Below are the statwide percentages, the percentage in Claremont and the total votes in Claremont.
#73: Parental Notification for Minor’s Abortion
Yes: 47.4% 37.02% (3024)
No: 52.6% 62.98% (5144)
#74: Teacher’s Tenure
Yes: 44.9% 40.74%` (3343)
No: 55.1% 59.26% (4862)
#75: Union Dues
Yes: 46.5% 40.86% (3346)
No: 53.5% 59.14% (4843)
#76: State Spending Limits
Yes: 37.9% 33.83% (2775)
No: 62.1% 66.17% (5427)
#77: Redistricting
Yes: 40.5% 41.19% (3367)
No: 59.5% 58.81% (4808)
#78: Prescription Drugs (Drug-makers)
Yes: 41.5% 32.20% (2612)
No: 58.5% 67.80% (5499)
#79: Prescription Drugs (Consumers)
Yes: 38.9% 42.65% (3416)
No: 61.1% 57.35% (4594)
#80: Electricity Providers
Yes: 34.3% 37.86% (2977)
No: 65.7% 62.14% (4886)
Comments: of the propositions on which the Democratic party advocated a No vote, the only one in which Claremont had less No votes (by percentage) than statewide was #77; i.e. Claremont had a (slightly) greater interest in accepting a redistricting plan than did the state as a whole. Of the final two propositions in which the Democratic Party advocated a Yes vote, the percentage of Yes votes in Claremont on each proposition was greater in Claremont than state-wide.
By the way, the voter turnout in Claremont was 8,441 – that is 40.56% of the 20,811 registered voters.
Numbers taken from the Claremont Courier, 11/12/05, and the Secretary of State.
2005 Claremont Unified School District Election
Assuming that each voter voted for three candidates – that is certainly not true but it is better than any other assumption - if you add up all the votes for the six candidates and divide by three, you get 7992 individual voters.
The percentage below is then the percentage of voters voting for each person (not the percentage of votes cast for that candidate.) The top three won.
Candidate /Votes/Percentage of Voters
Jeanne Hamilton 5,924 74%
Mary Caenepeel 4,980 62%
Steven Llanusa 4,977 62%
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Kevin Arnold 3,178 40%
Kris Meyer 2,847 36%
Niles Hirschi 2,068 26%
Comments: while such organizations as ours cannot participate in local elections, the results have some interest, not just to members as individuals but to the club as a whole. To see what that interest is consider what was said in the Claremont Courier account of the election (11/12/05).
“The losing candidates – Kevin Arnold, Kris Meyer and Niles Hirschi – all said they felt the special election that coincided with the school board election had a negative impact on their campaigns; all 3 unelected candidates are conservatives.” (Emphasis added.)
“’The propositions brought out a lot of people from the public sector, and a lot of (D)emocrats’, Mr. Meyer said on Wednesday. ‘I’m a (R)epublican, and felt like I was a victim because of the type of turnout. But it came down to the fact that the public simply didn’t want us.”
Note: One of the candidates referred to by the Courier as a conservative has denied, in a message to this web site, that that is a correct description of his political views.
Previous Election Results and Analysis
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