Locked out of jungle primary?

[Epaminondas]

How often has the "minority" first round party snatched the Top2 spots?

I can think of the 2016 Washington State treasurer race, but has it happened anywhere else?
(There were huge fears in California 2018, but it only happened in crimson CA-8)


On a side note, why wasn't this law passed concurrently with ranked ballot voting? Did legislators not predict the potential risk?

[Epaminondas]

Has it never happened outside of Washington in 2016?

[Epaminondas]

In CA-31 in 2012, there was a R-R duel despite Democrats getting 48.5% in the primary. (seat was gained in 2014 and voted for Obama by 16 points and Clinton by 21)

Good find!

And TBH there was a good reason why it ended up as RvR - both R's were former incumbents

Only in the sense that it reduced the GOP field to exactly 2 candidates. Otherwise the fault lies in vote splitting.
Had there been 3 Dems instead of 4, Pete Aguilar would have won his seat 2 years earlier.