Democratic nominees for governor of california

• 1849 Peter Hardeman Burnett
• 1851 John Bigler
• 1853 John Bigler
• 1855 John Bigler
• 1857 John B. Weller
• 1859 Milton Latham
• 1861 John Conness
• 1863 John G. Downey ^,
• 1867 H. H. Haight
• 1871 H. H. Haight
• 1875 William Irwin
• 1879 Hugh J. Glenn
• 1882 George Stoneman
• 1886 Washington Bartlett''
• 1890 Edward B. Pond
• 1894 James Budd
• 1898 James G. Maguire
• 1902 Franklin K. Lane
• 1906 Theodore A. Bell
• 1910 Theodore A. Bell
• 1914 J. B. Curtin
• 1918
• 1922 Thomas Lee Woolwine
• 1926 Justus S. Wardell
• 1930 Milton K. Young
• 1934 Upton Sinclair
• 1938 Culbert Olson
• 1942 Culbert Olson
• 1946 Earl Warren ^,
• 1950 James Roosevelt
• 1954 Richard P. Graves
• 1958 Edmund G. "Pat" Brown
• 1962 Edmund G. "Pat" Brown
• 1966 Edmund G. "Pat" Brown
• 1970 Jess Unruh
• 1974 Jerry Brown
• 1978 Jerry Brown
• 1982 Tom Bradley
• 1986 Tom Bradley
• 1990 Dianne Feinstein
• 1994 Kathleen Brown
• 1998 Gray Davis
• 2002 Gray Davis
• 2006 Phil Angelides

All except those in italics won the general election and were elected Governor of California.