The California governor’s race and all its key House races will feature a Democrat against a Republican in the fall campaign. On Tuesday, the state selected fall candidates for all its statewide offices, one of its two U.S. Senate seats, all its U.S. House seats and most state legislative seats. California’s ‘top-two’ primary system, explainedThe “top two” is a radically open primary system that turns the normal approach to primaries on its head. In a traditional primary, voters decide which party’s primary they will vote in. The top vote-getter in each party primary goes on to represent that party in the fall election.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2018 17:37 UTC