Republicans Poised to Flip 6 California Districts, Primary Results Indicate
By Petr Svab
March 5, 2020 Updated: March 5, 2020
Republicans are on a path to flip six congressional seats in California in November based on the primary results. Four additional seats are enough to make GOP candidates competitive. Democrats, on the other hand, don’t seem to have an easy path open to even one seat currently held by a Republican.
California as a whole leans left, with Democrats holding 45 of the 53 congressional districts (two are vacant). The March 3 primary results, however, suggest the GOP may heal its losses from the 2018 midterms, where Democrats flipped seven seats.
The state holds “jungle primaries,†which means both Democrats and Republicans show up on the same ballot, and the two candidates with the most votes face each other in the general election.
Voters who didn’t get their primary pick could still be generally expected to go for the winning candidate of their party. Thus, by adding up the votes for all Democrats and all Republicans on the ballot, one can get a rough idea how many voters may show up for the candidate of each party in the general election.
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