Population (2013) 730,427 Cook PVI R+14 | Median income 61,533 | |
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Current Representative Duncan D. Hunter (R–Lakeside) Ethnicity 58.6% White
2.3% Black
5.1% Asian
29.9% Hispanic
4.0% other | ||
The body politic california s 50th congressional district
California's 50th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California. It is currently represented by Republican Duncan D. Hunter. Duncan D. Hunter Jr. or Duncan D. Hunter, is the son of Duncan L. Hunter who was an American politician. His father Duncan L. Hunter was a Republican member of the House of Representatives from California's 52nd, 45th and 42nd districts from 1981 to 2009.
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- The body politic california s 50th congressional district
- 44th District
- 41st District
- 2000s
- Living former representatives
- 2006 Special
- In popular culture
- References
Duncan L. Hunter was succeeded as Representative for the 52nd district by his son, Duncan D. Hunter.
From 2003 through 2013, California's 52nd consisted of many of San Diego's northern and eastern suburbs, including Lakeside, Poway, Ramona, La Mesa, and Spring Valley. Due to redistricting after the 2010 United States Census, much of this area is now the 50th District.
The 50th district is currently based in San Diego County. It includes Fallbrook, San Marcos, Valley Center, Ramona, Escondido, Santee, Lakeside, parts of El Cajon and mountain and desert areas stretching east to the Imperial County line. It extends slightly into southwestern Riverside County in the Temecula area.
California 's 50th Congressional District Election 2016
The 50th Congressional District of California will hold an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 8, 2016. , with the primary election being held on June 7, 2016. The winners of this election will serve in the 115th United States Congress, with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2010 United States Census. Other Congressional Districts will be eligible for election. The 2016 Presidential election, 2016 Senate elections, 2016 gubernatorial elections, and many state and local elections will also be held on this date.
California utilizes a top-two primary system, which allows all candidates to run and all voters to vote but only moves the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, to the general election.
44th District
In the 1980s, California's 44th Congressional District was one of four that divided San Diego. The district had been held for eight years by Democrat Jim Bates and was considered the most Democratic district in the San Diego area. However, Bates became bogged down in a scandal involving charges of sexual harassment. Randy "Duke" Cunningham won the Republican nomination and hammered Bates about the scandal. Cunningham won by just a point, meaning that the San Diego area was represented entirely by Republicans for only the second time since the city was split into three districts after the 1960 U.S. Census. Upon his victory, Cunningham changed his official residence from his Del Mar home to a condominium in the Mission Valley neighborhood in San Diego, as he was required to reside in the district that he represented in Congress.
41st District
In the 1980s, California's 41st congressional district was another of four that divided San Diego. The northern San Diego County district had been held for 12 years by Republican Bill Lowery and was considered the most Republican district in the San Diego area. Most of the district became the California's 51st congressional district after the 1990 U.S. Census. In 1992, Cunningham campaigned against Lowery in Lowery's district in the Republican primary. The new 51st District was much more conservative than Cunningham's more urban, old 41st District farther south. Lowery, who was tainted by the House check kiting scandal, lost the primary to Cunningham, who billed himself as honest, with his campaign theme of "A Congressman We Can Be Proud Of." Cunningham changed his official residence back to his Del Mar home in the old 41st/new 51st District after winning.
2000s
In the 2000 U.S. Census, most of the 51st District became California's 50th congressional district. The district was gerrymandered to exclude the relatively liberal, coastal areas of La Jolla, Bird Rock, downtown La Jolla, and the University of California, San Diego areas. Those areas were moved to the more liberal California's 53rd congressional district, and Clairemont was added to the current 50th district. The more conservative, inland portions of La Jolla were kept within the 50th district.
From 2003 to 2013, the 50th district consisted of the northern coastal region of San Diego County and included the suburbs of San Marcos, Carlsbad, Encinitas, Solana Beach, and Escondido.
Living former representatives
As of April 2015, three former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 50th congressional district were currently living.
2006 (Special)
Representative Cunningham resigned on November 28, 2005, as a result of a bribery scandal. An open special election was held on April 11, 2006. The top vote getter was Democrat Francine Busby, who won 44% of the vote. The second-place finisher was Republican Brian Bilbray, who won 15% of the vote. Paul King was the top Libertarian party vote getter, with 0.6% of the vote. Since no candidate received a simple majority, the top vote-getters in each party competed in a runoff or special general election on June 6, 2006 (the same day as the statewide California primary). Bilbray was sworn in on June 13, based on unofficial counts, two weeks before the election was certified. As a consequence of this action, a court challenge to the election results filed by voters was denied on jurisdictional grounds. This decision is being appealed.
In popular culture
On November 29, 2005, Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report declared on his show that the 50th Congressional District was "dead" to him after its insufficient support for his "friend" Duke Cunningham. Colbert placed the district on the show's ever-changing "Dead to Me" board, saying that he now considered the number of congressional districts in the United States to be 434. The number became 433 when he retired the 22nd District of Texas and sent it up to the rafters. However, on June 8, 2006, the eve of Tom DeLay's leaving Congress, Colbert returned the district to the board with a satirical "tribute" to DeLay, followed by a fake interview segment made from spliced-together clips of three interviews DeLay had done in the past. Colbert put the district back into retirement at the end of the segment. On March 1, 2006, he "downgraded" the 50th District's status from "dead to me" to "never existed to me."