Talk:2018 California gubernatorial election

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Removed parties from infobox

California has a nonpartisan blanket primary for governor, meaning that the two candidates that run in the general election could be of any party affiliations. As such, I removed the Party row from the infobox. Zeldafanjtl (talk) 20:54, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Campaign websites in external links?

What's common Wikipedia policy on this? I see that United States Senate election in California, 2016 links to the general election candidates' websites, but from my experience when it comes to election articles we tend to have different rules for upcoming elections versus past elections.

If we're going to do this, we have to establish some sort of standard for notability; linking to the website for every candidate listed in this article would be unwieldy. For now, I'm removing Jacob Morris and Grant Handzlik's websites since they don't work. Zeldafanjtl (talk) 21:53, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Klement Tinaj

Is he independently notable enough to be listed alongside Newsom, Chiang, Eastin, and Vilaraigosa? I can't see him being and more serious than the four perennial candidates above the big box.

Ueutyi (talk) 06:02, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reference: Can my name be added under the Republican Candidate for Governor (Declared) for California Governor race 2018?

I am also running for California Governor 2018.

Can you please add my name (Robert Patton Kleinberger) and a link to my website information on your page at https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,_2018

I am also announced and registered with the Sec of State of Ca as well as with the FPPC. My website is www.kleinbergerforgovernor.com

I would like to also upload my photo but the page seems to freeze when I upload a photo to

File:Robert P Kleinberger photo

this page.

Current and Previous Positions are:

SG1 SOC (2016 - Current) Aerospace & Rocket Engineering 1987 - 2016 US Army ( 1981 - 1987 Active) Reserves 1987 - Jan 7th 1999 Member US Army Ranger Association

Thank you.

Robert P Kleinberger — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kleinberger.us (talk • contribs)

Are there any secondary references (newspapers, etc.) that describe your candidacy? Or an official statement from the Secretary of State that's available online? I don't know how to do the images, but I can do the rest with one of those links. power~enwiki (π, ν) 16:02, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ed Lee

Should now deceased Ed Lee be removed from the endorsements section? Prcc27 (talk) 01:00, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see why. His endorsement still carries weight, even posthumously. Zeldafanjtl (talk) 23:27, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Zeldafantjl. For example, dead Montana governor Judy Martz is still listed as an endorsement for Russ Fagg in at United States Senate election in Montana, 2018. MB298 (talk) 00:18, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Presentation/position of candidates on page

The most relevant candidates should be closer to the top of the page. I think everyone can agree on this. But there seems to be disagreement over who are the more relevant candidates. I believe that actual minor party and independent candidates should be higher on the page than major party members that withdrew or potential candidates declined to run and were never actually connected to the race. There was a table that listed all the actual candidates at the top of the page, but this got removed by this commit.

This moves minor party and independent candidates to the bottom of the page, while people like George Clooney move to the top. This doesn't seem in the best interest of readers trying to find out about the election. Dhalsim2 (talk) 00:30, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update the results by county section table

Please update the primary results by county table with the numbers from the official statement of vote. Kart2401real (talk) 01:28, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

County results map gives an inaccurate impression

In the primary election map, the saturation levels for Cox's red counties does not match the saturation levels for the corresponding percentages for Newsom's blue counties giving an incorrect impression of the amount of Cox's support relative to Newsom. Few counties voted over 50% for either too. Color staturation should scale to percentage, with 100% being fully saturated and 0% being white.

Can someone recreate that image? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OriEri (talk • contribs) 00:25, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the county map in the top section doesn't match the county chart. The bad numbers/colors are misleading but apparently on both sides. For example, both Orange & San Diego counties voted for Cox & are red in the chart but both show as blue (Newsom) in the map. This is important because many people will only look up the information on the map & not bother to look at the detailed chart & they will be given wrong information. In fact, I already used the map to tell someone the incorrect information (OC voted for Newsom) before I discovered the mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.196.83.202 (talk) 20:09, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand the ± column in the table

What do the 1.98% numbers refer to in the table at the beginning of the election results section (copied here)?

California gubernatorial election, 2018[315] Party Candidate Votes % ± Democratic Gavin Newsom 7,721,410 61.95% +1.98% Republican John H. Cox 4,742,825 38.05% -1.98% Total votes 12,464,235 100.0% N/A Democratic hold

Morris (talk) 14:53, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]