What was the turnout in California?

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11. with the exception of 2008, turnout appears to be only slightly down from prior years

Using information found on the California Secretary of State's website, and ignoring 2012 and 1996, when there was an essentially unopposed incumbent President on the ballot (and thus turnout was very low), turnout has ranged from around 43 percent to 48 percent. This year, it appears to have been slightly above 42 percent. Low, but not outrageously so.

(The odd year was 2012 when, as was the case nationwide, turnout in the Democratic primary was crazy high -- over 74 percent). Given that this year's primary was at the end of the process when it was essentially known who was going to have a majority of the pledged delegates and, even without the announcement on Monday, it had been widely reported over the preceding weekend that Clinton was on the verge of hitting 2383 with pledged delegates and SD commitments and would exceed that number based on the results in NJ before CA was even counted), I would think that expectations for turnout had already begun dropping before the Monday announcement. Thus, it's hard to say if it was lower than "expected."