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YOUR GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA POLICY AND POLITICS BY DAN MORAIN

Electorate turns more partisan
More voters are registering as Democrats or Republicans.

California voters appear to be turning more partisan, as the number of no-party preference voters declined in the past year, and registered Republican and Democratic voters increased.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla reports there are 20.4 million registered voters in California, almost 81% of the eligible voters.

Heading into the March 3 primary, here is the current breakdown:

• 9.1 million Democratic voters, 44.6% of the electorate. Democrats gained 497,571 voters in the past year.
• 5.3 million no-party preference voters, 25.9% of the electorate. Their numbers fell by 353,894 voters since 2019, when they made up 28.3% of all voters.
• 4.8 million Republican voters, a gain of 90,310 voters since 2019. They make up 23.7% of the electorate.

Republicans had been losing voters for years.
• In 2011, there were 5.3 million Republicans, representing almost 31% of the electorate, 7.5 million Democrats, 44%, and 3.5 million NPP voters, 20.4%.

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