California's 3rd State Senate district

California's 3rd State Senate district
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Current senator		Lois Wolk (D–Davis)
Registration	47.78% Democratic 23.92% Republican 23.06% No party preference
Demographics	51.52% White 8.01% Black 24.98% Latino 12.48% Asian 1.00% Native American 0.64% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.32% other 1.04% remainder of multiracial
Population (2010)  • Voting age  • Citizen voting age	928,167 716,049 612,229
Registered voters	459,162

California's 3rd State Senate district is one of 40 California State Senate districts. It is currently represented by Democrat Lois Wolk of Davis.

District profile

The district stretches over the northern San Francisco Bay Area and the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta regions. It includes parts of the North Bay, Wine Country, and the Sacramento Valley.

Contra Costa County – 7.6%

• Martinez
• Pleasant Hill

All of Napa County

• American Canyon
• Calistoga
• Napa
• St. Helena
• Yountville

Sacramento County – 0.6%

• Isleton

All of Solano County

• Benicia
• Dixon
• Fairfield
• Rio Vista
• Suisun City
• Vacaville
• Vallejo

Sonoma County – 28.5%

• Cotati
• Petaluma
• Rohnert Park
• Sonoma

Yolo County – 75.7%

• Davis
• Winters
• Woodland

Election results from statewide races

Year	Office	Results
2012	President	Obama 65.4 – 32.0%
	Senator	Feinstein 68.0 – 32.0%

List of senators

Due to redistricting, the 3rd district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2011 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Senator		Party	Dates
	D. S. Gregory	Democratic
	Warren Chase	Workingmen
	Patrick W. Murphy	Democratic
	Delos Ashley	Know Nothing
	B. C. Whiting	Democratic
	John H. Watson	Democratic
	W. H. Patterson	Republican
	William Frederick Prisk	Democratic
	M. H. Mead	Democratic
	George Steele	Republican
	Tirey L. Ford	Republican	1892-1897
	John R. Tyrrell	Republican	1900–1904
	John B. Irish	Republican	1904–1908
	E. S. Birdsall	Republican	1908–1916
	Thomas Ingram	Republican	1916–1929
	Bert Alford Cassidy	Republican	1929–1932
	Harry A. Perry	Republican	1932–1936
	Irwin T. Quinn	Democratic	1936–1948
	Michael J. Burns	Republican	1948–1952
	Arthur W. Way	Republican	1952–1953
	Stephen P. Teale	Democratic	1953–1956
	Carl L. Christensen Jr.	Democratic	1956–1966
	Stephen P. Teale	Democratic	1966–1972
	Clare Berryhill	Republican	1972–1976
	Albert S. Rodda	Democratic	1976–1980
	John T. Doolittle	Republican	1980–1984
	Milton Marks	Democratic	1984–1996
	John L. Burton	Democratic	1996–2004
	Carole Migden	Democratic	2004–2008
	Mark Leno	Democratic	2008–2012
	Lois Wolk	Democratic	2012–present

Election results

2012

California State Senate election, 2012
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Lois Wolk (incumbent)	116,403	96.9
	Republican	Frank Miranda (write-in)	2,402	2.0
	Republican	Gary Clift (write-in)	1,341	1.1
Total votes			120,146	100.0
General election
	Democratic	Lois Wolk (incumbent)	233,406	66.2
	Republican	Frank Miranda	119,033	33.8
Total votes			352,439	100.0
	Democratic hold

See also

• California State Senate
• California State Senate districts
• Districts in California

External links

• District map from the California Citizens Redistricting Commission