What is 1966 California gubernatorial election?
[[File:CA1966Gov.svg|thumb|right|200px|Election results:<br> {{legend|#FF3333|'''[[Ronald Reagan]]''' ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])|border=0}} {{legend|#3333FF|'''[[Pat Brown]]''' ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])|border=0}} ]] The '''California gubernatorial election, 1966''' was held on November 8, 1966. The election was a race between incumbent [[Governor of California|Governor]] [[Pat Brown]], the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate, and actor [[Ronald Reagan]], the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate. ==Background== After his re-election victory over former [[Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]] in 1962, Brown was strongly considered for [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s 1964 ticket, a spot that eventually went to [[Hubert Humphrey]]. However, Brown's popularity began to sag amidst the civil disorders of the [[Watts riots]] and the early anti-Vietnam War demonstrations at U.C. Berkeley. The Republicans seized upon Brown's sudden unpopularity by nominating a well known and charismatic political outsider – actor [[Ronald Reagan]]. With [[Richard Nixon]] working tirelessly behind the scenes and Reagan trumpeting his law and order campaign message, Reagan received almost 2/3 of the primary vote over [[George Christopher]], the moderate Republican former mayor of [[San Francisco]]. ==Results== Reagan won the election in a [[landslide victory]] with 3,742,913 (57.55%) of the vote to Brown's 2,479,174 (42.27%).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=Totton J. |last2=Lee |first2=Eugene C. |date=June 1967 |title=The 1966 Election in California |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/446081 |journal=[[The Western Political Quarterly]] |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=535–554 |doi=10.2307/446081 |jstor=446081 |access-date=February 6, 2017 }}</ref><ref>http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=6&year=1966&f=0&off=5&elect=0</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK8_cqCxh8w Autumn and Cardboard: The 1966