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The California Libertarian Party subdivides the state into regions, typically one county per region. Does anyone know the origin and history of these regions?
For much of its history, the [[Libertarian Party of California]] was divided into numbered '''Regions''' for organizational purposes.


==Numbered Regions==
In the early years, the state was subdivided into 20 regions.  The geographic areas and their numbers were defined by the state party.
 
Later, a system was used in which most counties were their own region, and the region number was simply the position of the county name in alphabetical order.  However, the bylaws allowed for two or more counties to voluntarily join together into a single region. In such cases, typically the county number of one of the constituent counties was used as the region number. The bylaws also allowed counties to divide themselves into multiple regions. In those cases, region numbers higher than 60 were used. (California has 58 counties.) Under this system, the largest regions elected their own representatives to the state Executive Committee, while the remaining regions participated in a joint election for additional representatives.
 
Since the early 2000s, counties have been the primary organizational unit, and region numbers are no longer used.  (Some county organizations may still have internal subdivisions for their own purposes, but these don't have any separate status for state party purposes.) Counties are no longer represented directly on the state Executive Committee.
 
California is also divided into two large geographical areas, North and South, for certain purposes. The LPC has a Northern Vice Chair and a Southern Vice Chair based on this partition. ''(Note: A bylaws change adopted at the 2018 convention replaces this arrangement with one dividing the state into three such areas, each represented on the Executive Committee by an "Area Coordinator", along with a single Vice Chair for the whole state. This configuration will take effect with the Executive Committee elections at the 2019 convention.)'' Because the term "region" is no longer used to refer to smaller units, these larger parts of the state are now sometimes referred to as "regions", even though they are entirely different in scale and don't have the same organizational features as the regions discussed here.
 
==Region Numbers==
 
===Circa 1974===
 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''1'''
|Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Mendocino, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Lake, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Sierra, Nevada, Placer counties
|-
|'''2'''
|Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Marin counties
|-
|'''3'''
|Yolo, Sacramento, El Dorado, Amador, San Joaquin, Calaveras counties
|-
|'''4'''
|San Francisco, San Mateo counties
|-
|'''5'''
|Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito counties
|-
|'''6'''
|Contra Costa, Alameda counties
|-
|'''7'''
|Santa Clara county
|-
|'''8'''
|Alpine, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Mono, Merced, Mariposa, Madera, Fresno, Inyo, Kings, Tulare counties
|-
|'''9'''
|San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura counties
|-
|'''10'''
|Kern, San Bernardino counties
|-
|'''11'''
|(Los Angeles County) San Fernando Valley, Assembly Districts 41, 42, 57, 62, 64
|-
|'''12'''
|(Los Angeles County) West Los Angeles, Assembly Districts 59, 60, 61, 63
|-
|'''13'''
|(Los Angeles County) San Gabriel Valley, Assembly Districts 45, 47, 49, 54, 58
|-
|'''14'''
|(Los Angeles County) Los Angeles, Assembly Districts 40, 43, 48, 53, 56
|-
|'''15'''
|(Los Angeles County) East Los Angeles, Assembly Districts 50, 51, 52, 66
|-
|'''16'''
|(Los Angeles County) South Bay, Assembly Districts 46, 65, 67, 68
|-
|'''17'''
|(Los Angeles County) Southeast Los Angeles, Assembly Districts 38, 39, 44, 55
|-
|'''18'''
|Orange county
|-
|'''19'''
|Riverside county
|-
|'''20'''
|San Diego, Imperial counties
|}
 
===Circa 1999===


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| '''68''' || Antelope Valley   
| '''68''' || Antelope Valley   
|-
|-
| {{Fade|69}} || ?
| {{Fade|69}} || Mojave (split off from region 36 and reunited circa 1997)
|-
|-
| '''70''' || West Riverside County
| '''70''' || West Riverside County
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|}


==Possibly Unnumbered Regions==
==Additional Notes Regarding Earlier Regions==


These regions appear to have been far larger and existed as early as 1973.  When was the transition to the current system?  Is there a listing of these anywhere?  County parties appear to have existed separately at this time, which may complicate handling of 1970s information in the current article structure that's based on numbered regions.
These regions appear to have been far larger and existed as early as 1973.  When was the transition to the current system?  Is there a listing of these anywhere?  County parties appear to have existed separately at this time, which may complicate handling of 1970s information in the current article structure that's based on numbered regions.
Was there a previous numbering system?  Was there more than one?  Did they simply evolve over time to the current region structure?


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| ''Name'' || ''Known to include''
| ''Name'' || ''Known to include'' || ''Known to exist''
|-
|-
| '''Coastal Counties Region''' || Aptos, Monterrey, Santa Cruz, Watsonville
| '''Region 5: Coastal Counties Region''' aka  <BR/> '''Central Coast Counties Region''' || Aptos, Monterrey Bay, Santa Cruz, Watsonville || 1973-1977
|-
|-
| '''Region 10''' || San Bernardino || 1980 <ref>The San Bernardino County Sun 26 October 1980 page B-6</ref>
|-
| '''Region 11''' || Mendocino, Ukiah || 1979 <ref>Ukiah Daily Journal 04 October 1979 opinion page letter from region vice chair Nancy Slano</ref>
|}
|}


==References==
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[[Category:California]][[Category:California County and Regional Parties]]
[[Category:Local Libertarian Parties in California]]
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