California Election Results 2010

The California primary elections for governor and Senate went largely as expected on Tuesday night, but now all eyes turn to what are likely to be highly contentious -- and unpredictable -- November contests in the Golden State. Still, the results were historic. For the first time, the California Republican Party nominated women to the top of the ticket in both the governor's race and the race for the a U.S. Senate seat.

Meg Whitman, the billionaire former eBay chief executive who poured tens of millions of her own fortune into her first-time bid for political office, easily won the Republican primary for California governor Tuesday, advancing to face a Democratic icon, former two-term Gov. Jerry Brown. Another wealthy businesswoman, former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina, won the right to challenge Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in the fall.

Those wins will kick off an election season of big-money campaigns and high drama in the nation's most populous state, pitting two deep-pocketed Silicon Valley business stars against stalwarts of the Democratic Party establishment.

See the final vote tallies below and let us know which results you were most surprised by.

Democratic

Richard William Aguirre 44,803 4.0%
Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown 939,873 84.0%
Lowell Darling 18,817 1.6%
Vibert Greene 26,874 2.4%
Charles "Chuck" Pineda, Jr. 47,268 4.3%
Peter Schurman 16,853 1.5%
Joe Symmon 25,641 2.2%

Republican

Bill Chambers 17,253 1.5%
Douglas R. Hughes 13,652 1.2%
Ken Miller 15,585 1.4%
Lawrence "Larry" Naritelli 24,033 2.3%
Robert C. Newman II 18,485 1.6%
Steve Poizner 287,455 26.5%
David Tully-Smith 13,084 1.2%
Meg Whitman 699,043 64.3%

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