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The 2003 California gubernatorial recall election was a special election permitted under California state law. It resulted in voters replacing incumbent Democratic Governor Gray Davis with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. The recall effort spanned the latter half of 2003.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 48.6%
- Republican
- 4,206,284
- Election Results
- Path to The Ballot
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A total of 135 candidates were on the October 2003 ballot as potential replacement candidates. Besides Schwarzenegger, other noteworthy candidates included Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante (D), state Sen. Tom McClintock(R), Arianna Huffington, former child actor Gary Coleman, and pornographer Larry Flynt. The result of the vote to recall Davis was: The top...
The signature-gathering drive to qualify the Davis recall petition was conducted by Bader & Associates, Inc., a petition management company owned by Tom Bader and Joy Bader. Ted Costa of People's Advocate asked the Baders to take on the Davis Recall signature-gathering effort when other petition management companies in California refused to work on...
On October 7, 2003, Davis was recalled. In the recall election, 55.4% of voters supported his removal. He was succeeded in office on November 17, 2003, by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who won the recall replacement election. After being recalled, Davis worked as a lecturer at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and as an attorney at Loeb & Loeb.
Sep 12, 2021 · The first was in 2003, when then Governor Gray Davis was successfully recalled only months after he was re-elected to a second term and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then, as now, critics...
Mar 12, 2021 · The only thing that bonded the guests was their role in California’s crazy election season of 2003, when voters booted out Gov. Gray Davis in a historic recall. You wouldn’t recognize the...
- gustavo.arellano@latimes.com
- Columnist
Sep 15, 2021 · Davis suggests doing away with the first question altogether and running the recall as an ordinary election — with all the candidates, including the incumbent, competing in a single race.
Apr 7, 2021 · Weaving together new, insider stories and archival video, several key players from the 2003 recall election of Governor Gray Davis look back at this one-of-a-kind political moment: Why it...
