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Upton Sinclair received 879,537 votes, or 37% of the vote in the 1934 election. His Republican opponent, Frank Merriam, won the election with 1,138,620 votes, or 48%. Raymond L. Haight took 13% of the vote (302,000 votes), making Merriam a minority governor.
The Sinclair campaign did inspire many young idealists who would become future leaders of the California Democratic Party - like Jerry Voorhis, who was to serve 10 years in Congress before being defeated by Republican Richard Nixon - and set the stage for the 1938 election of Democrat Culbert Olson as Governor. Later State Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk, who began his political career as Olson's secretary, remembered that EPIC was “the acorn from which evolved the tree of whatever liberalism we have in California.”
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