2024 CA Superintendent of Public Instruction: How did Tony Thurmond win many GOP counties?

[I’m not Stu]

He won Siskiyou, Butte, Plumas, El Dorado, Inyo, Plumas, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, and Trinity against Republican Lance Christensen. How did that happen?

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

It's a nonpartisan election on the ballot, I believe

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

It's a nonpartisan election on the ballot, I believe

Yes, it’s the only non-partisan row office in CA.

[I’m not Stu]

I thought that even though it’s officially nonpartisan, most the counties would still have voted the same way they would when party affiliation is listed on the ballot.