Local Election History: Berkeley, CA

Steven Finacom’s article in the Berkeley Daily Planet entitled “Berkeley in the 1932 Election” contains some interesting local election history from the days when Berkeley professors voted Republican—favoring Hoover over Roosevelt. Also during the 1932 election, however, “California, which had only one Democrat in Congress before the election, sent 11 Democrats out of 20 in the State’s reapportionment-enlarged House delegation…”