Election returns courtesy of Richard Winger. Biographical data (links) from cited references and from other sources which appear to the Editor to be trustworthy.
Office
Candidate Name
Vote Total

% Vote

1915  

Charles Hiram Randall, born in Auburn, Nemaha County, Nebraska 23 July 1865, attended public schools, published newspapers at Kimball and at Harrisburg, Nebraska 1885-1992.  From 1992-1904, Randall worked as a railway mail clerk.  He moved to California in 1904, there working as a newspaper editor and publisher.  He was a member of the Municipal Park Commission of Los Angeles in 1909-10, a member of the State Assembly 1911-1912, and was elected to Congress on the Prohibition ticket in 1915 through 1921.  He was defeated for re-election in 1920.

     In the 1918 election Randall was listed as "Prohibition/Democratic."  He received 38,782 votes (52.99%).  In the 1920 election, he was again listed as "Prohibition/Democratic" and received 36,675 votes (34.78%).

     Randall was a member of the City Council of Los Angeles in 1925-1933.  He was again defeated for Congress in 1934.  He died in Los Angeles on 18 February 1951 and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, at Glendale.  (Adapted from "United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997," by Michael J. Dubin.)
1932 & 1934  

Errol Shour was a highly successsful Prohibition Party candidate in 1932 and again in 1934. Shour ran as a write-in candidate for Congress in District 15, in 1932. He received 2,721 votes (2.57%). In 1934, he was on the ballot for Attorney General of California. He received 396,852 votes (19.3%). For a biography of Errol Shour, follow the link.
1940

Senator

 Fred Dyster 366,044 13.51
*

Congress 3
  (Sacramento)

 C.H. Farman
10,539
 7.08
*

Congress 13
  (Los Angeles)

 Charles H. Randall
36,406
 21.67
*

Assembly 61

 Emil E. Fredeen
4,183
 8.53
*

Assembly 66

 Paul R. Jarman
975
 2.64

Los Angeles County

  Supervisor 2

 Percy Fenton Adams 7,384 6.21  

  Supervisor 5
    (Pasadena)

 Virgil G. Hinshaw 17,134 12.29  
1942    

Senator

 Fred Dyster 366,044 13.51 *

Governor

 Fred Dyster
10,640
 0.48

Attorney General

 Claude A. Watson
81,988
 3.99

Congress 12

 Robert P. Shuler
40,780
 43.16

Congress 15

 B. Tarkington Dowden
10,185
 9.93

Congress 20

 Virgil G. Hinshaw
6,864
 5.31

Bd. Equalization 4

 Henry R. Schmidt
176,472
 17.12

S. Sen. 38

Elmer E. Freedeen
68,753
 8.76

Assembly 47

 Hawley N. Bidwell
2,065
 7.72

Assembly 52

 Earl R.Chalfant
804
 3.53

Assembly 79

 Royal B. Churchill
1,377
 5.00
1944      

Cong. Dist. 15

 Johannes Nielsen-Lange 2,694 1.53

Cong. Dist.  20
  (Pasadena) 

 Charles H. Randall  3,615 1.66

Assembly 74
  (W. Orange County)

 Wesley G. Edwards 4,221 13.69
*

Assembly 79
  (San Diego)

 Royal B. Churchill 4,347 10.59
*
1946      

Governor

 Henry R. Schmidt
180,579
7.15
*

Controller

 Virgil G. Hinshaw
207,690
8.93
*

Attorney General 

 Claude A. Watson 
85,688
3.33

Senate

 Douglas Corrigan   
42,683
1.61
 
 (Corrigan received an additional 2,464 as write-ins) 

Congress 12 (Whittier)

 John Henry Hoeppel
1,476
1.26
1950      

Congress

 Virgil G. Hinshaw 172,458 5.2
*

Attorney General

 Claude A. Watson 96,732 2.69

Cong. Dist. 20
  (Pasadena-Glendale)

 Frank Nelson 10,339 4.17
*

State Senate 38
  (Los Angeles Co.)

 Harry R. Schmidt  193,259 14.65
*
"Henry R. Schmidt" in 1946 and "Harry R. Schmidt" in 1950 probably are the same person -- names are as shown on the respective ballots.

Assembly 45
  (Pasadena)

 Charles H. Randall   3,045 15.58
*

Assembly 60
  (Santa Monica)

 Charles G. Doehrer    952 1.51
1952

Cong. Dist. 21
  (Pasadena)

 Frank Nelson
(write-in, no tally)
    

Assembly 25
  (San Mateo Co.)

 Roland P. Young
 5,251
 9.28
* 

Los Angeles County -
  District Attorney

 Claude A. Watson 332,173 30.35
1954

Secretary of State

 Frank G.H. Stevens 70,318 1.79

Controller

 Fred H. Ross 46,760 1.20

Attorney General

 Edwin M. Cooper 204,171 5.46
*

State Senate 38
  (L.A. County)

 Frank Nelson 46,665 2.91
1956

Senator

 Ray Gourley 22,410 0.42

Assembly 48
  (Pasadena)

 Frank Nelson 844 1.19
1958

Secretary of State

 Mel J. Miller 129,140 2.52

Assembly 54
  (Los Angeles)

 Leslie E. Rice 1,297 2.45
1979  
 

Long Beach School Board

 William C. Bledsoe
4,346
8.98
  
1980  
 

San Diego County
     Director, Palomar
     Resource Cons. Dist.

 Eugene Armistead 46,353 44.12