June 2012 California elections
Elections were held in California on June 5, 2012. Two propositions, primary elections for each party's nominee for President of [the United States|President], primary elections to determine the top-two candidates for California's Class I seat to the United States Senate, all of California's seats to the United States [House of Representatives|House of Representatives], all of the seats of the State Assembly, and all odd-numbered seats of the State Senate, who went on to compete against each other in a run-off on November 6, 2012, were on the ballot.
This was the first election with California's newly implemented nonpartisan blanket primary in effect, pursuant to Proposition 14, which passed with 53% voter approval in June 2010. Additionally, in November 2010, voters approved Proposition 20, which authorized a California Citizens [Redistricting Commission] to re-draw congressional district lines, in addition to its current job of drawing Senate districts|state senate district lines] and Assembly districts|state assembly district lines], taking away that job from the California state legislature. This was the first election which used the Citizens Redistricting Commission's maps.