2026 state races
The candidates the Secretary of State certified, with their Form 700 and campaign money.
Statewide
| Office | Candidates |
|---|---|
| Attorney General | Rob Bonta, Michael E. Gates, Marjorie Mikels |
| Controller | Malia M. Cohen, Herb W Morgan, Meghann Adams |
| Governor | Akinyemi Agbede, Mohammad Arif, Larry Azevedo, Xavier Becerra, Carolina Buhler, Louis A. De Barraicua, Sophia Edum-a-Sam, Derek Grasty, Joel E. Jacob, Gary Howard Kidgell, Matthew Chase Levy, Matt Mahan, Barack D. Obama Shaw, Thunder Parley, Katie Porter, Raji Rab, Satish Rao, Scott P Shields, Tom Steyer, Eric Swalwell, Tony K. Thurmond, Antonio Villaraigosa, Betty T. Yee, Erin "Zez" Zezulak, James Athans Jr., Chad Bianco, Patricia De Luca Basualdo, Randeep S. Dhillon, Rafael M. Hernandez, Steve Hilton, Alicia Olivia Lapp, Leo Naranjo IV, Tim Nelson, Gretha Solórzano, Leo Samuel Zacky, David Zickefoose, Tom Woodard, Ramsey Robinson, Naomi Bar-Lev, Joseph Cabrera, Elaine Culotti, LivingForGod AndCountry DeMott, Serge Fiankan, Lukasz Adam Filinski, Max Fomin, Don J. Grundmann, Jon Henderson, Lewis Herms, Dawit Kellel, Anne Komarovsk, Duane Terrence Loynes Jr., Amanda Martin, Brent Maupin, Daniel Mercuri, Mauro Alberto Orozco, Reza Safarnejad, Sam Sandak, Christine R. Sarmiento, Frederic C. Schultz, Margaret Trowe, Nancy D. Young |
| Insurance Commissioner | Ben Allen, Steven Craig Bradford, Jane Kim, Patrick Wolff, Eric Thor Aarnio, Merritt Farren, Robert P Howell, Stacy A. Korsgaden, Sean Lee, Keith W. Davis, Eduardo "Lalo" Vargas |
| Lieutenant Governor | Josh Fryday, Janelle Kellman, Jeyson Lopez, Fiona Ma, Oliver Ma, Tim Myers, Abdur Rahman Sikder, Michael Tubbs, Ebie Lynch, David Collenberg, David Fennell, Gloria Romero, Skip Shelton, Alice Stek, Rakesh Christian, Sean Collinson |
| Secretary of State | Shirley N. Weber, Donald P. (Don) Wagner, Gary N. Blenner, Michael Feinstein |
| Superintendent of Public Instruction | Richard Barrera, Wendy Castaneda Leal, Nichelle M. Henderson, Frank Lara, Ainye Long, Gus Mattammal, Al Muratsuchi, Josh Newman, Anthony Rendon, Sonja Shaw |
| Treasurer | Anna M. Caballero, Eleni Kounalakis, Tony Vazquez, Jennifer Hawks, David Serpa, Glenn Turner |
Board of Equalization
| Office | Candidates |
|---|---|
| Board of Equalization Member District 1 | Nelson Esparza, Donald E. Williamson, Dusty Beach, Shannon Grove, Nader F Shahatit |
| Board of Equalization Member District 2 | Sally J. Lieber, John Pimentel, J Brett Marymee, Mark McComas, Bill Shireman, John W. Zaruka |
| Board of Equalization Member District 3 | Rudy Bermudez, Mike Gipson, Zhijing Liu, Baru Alejandro Sanchez, Samuel P. Sukaton, Yvonne Yiu, Carlo Basail, Stephan Hohil, Rey Portela, Marie Manvel |
| Board of Equalization Member District 4 | Martín Arias, Cody Petterson, Tom Umberg, Denis Bilodeau, Gardner C. Osborne |
State Senate
| Office | Candidates |
|---|---|
| State Senate District 2 | Damon Connolly, Tief Gibbs, Aaron Smith |
| State Senate District 4 | Jaron Brandon, Marie Alvarado-Gil, Alexandra Duarte |
| State Senate District 6 | Sean Frame, Sara Velasco, Roger Niello |
| State Senate District 8 | Angelique Ashby, Susan A Mason, Linda "LR" Roberts |
| State Senate District 10 | David Cohen, Anne Kepner, Raymond Liu, Carmen Montano, Scott Sakakihara, Linda R. Price |
| State Senate District 12 | Nathan Magsig, Louis Anthony Miramontes, William Brown Jr. |
| State Senate District 14 | Esmeralda Hurtado, Esmeralda Soria, Darin S. DuPont |
| State Senate District 16 | Melissa Hurtado, Manpreet Kaur, Guillermo Asuncion Gonzalez |
| State Senate District 18 | Steve Padilla, Art Hodges |
| State Senate District 20 | Roberto David LaCarra, Caroline Menjivar, Tony Rodriguez |
| State Senate District 22 | Susan Rubio, Mike Netter, R. R. Jimenez |
| State Senate District 24 | Eric Alegria, Amaris Samara Dordar, John M. Erickson, Ellen Evans, Brian Goldsmith, Mike Newhouse, Sion Roy, Zennon Ulyate-Crow, Kristina Irwin, G. Rick Marshall |
| State Senate District 26 | Paul A. Bowers, Juan Camacho, Wendy Carrillo, Sara Hernandez, Maebe Pudlo, Sarah Rascón, Claudia Agraz, Sang "Sam Shin" Masog |
| State Senate District 28 | Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, Joe Lisuzzo, Daphne D. Bradford |
| State Senate District 30 | Bob J. Archuleta, Araceli Martinez |
| State Senate District 32 | Tiffanie Tate, Kelly Seyarto |
| State Senate District 34 | Avelino Valencia, Rhonda Shader |
| State Senate District 36 | Chris Duncan, Tony Strickland |
| State Senate District 38 | Catherine S. Blakespear, Laura Bassett |
| State Senate District 40 | Mara Elliott, Kristie Bruce-Lane, Ed Musgrove |
State Assembly
| Office | Candidates |
|---|---|
| State Assembly Member District 1 | Dianna Margaret James, Heather Hadwick, Darin Hale |
| State Assembly Member District 2 | Chris Rogers, Michael Greer |
| State Assembly Member District 3 | Dom Belza, Andrew Coolidge, James "Jamie" Johansson |
| State Assembly Member District 4 | Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry |
| State Assembly Member District 5 | Neva Parker, Joe Patterson |
| State Assembly Member District 6 | Maggy Krell, Jagtar Singh |
| State Assembly Member District 7 | Amy L. Slavensky, Josh Hoover, Sanaz Motamedi |
| State Assembly Member District 8 | David Jariustokaeutulelei Tangipa |
| State Assembly Member District 9 | Matthew Adams, Michael Perez, Heath Flora, Tami Nobriga, Brandon Owen, Jim Shoemaker |
| State Assembly Member District 10 | Stephanie Nguyen, Vinaya Singh |
| State Assembly Member District 11 | Lori D Wilson, Jenny Leilani Callison, Rochelle Conner |
| State Assembly Member District 12 | Eli Beckman, Jackie Elward, Eric Lucan, Steve Schwartz, Holli Thier, Eryn Cervantes |
| State Assembly Member District 13 | Rhodesia Ransom, Ali Jafri, Tom Patti, Eliza Dy |
| State Assembly Member District 14 | Buffy Wicks, Borgar Solnordal, Mark Rendon |
| State Assembly Member District 15 | Anamarie Avila Farias, Arthur Webb |
| State Assembly Member District 16 | Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Joseph A. Rubay, Chirag Kathrani |
| State Assembly Member District 17 | Matt Haney |
| State Assembly Member District 18 | Mia Bonta, Andre Sandford, Ned Nuerge, Michael Goldstein |
| State Assembly Member District 19 | Catherine Stefani, Philip Louis Wing |
| State Assembly Member District 20 | Liz Ortega, Patricia Muga |
| State Assembly Member District 21 | Diane Papan, Jabra J Muhawieh |
| State Assembly Member District 22 | Juan Alanis |
| State Assembly Member District 23 | Marc Berman, Rick Giorgetti, David G. Johnson |
| State Assembly Member District 24 | Alex Lee, Max Hsia, Yang Shao |
| State Assembly Member District 25 | Ash Kalra, Himat Singh Bainiwal |
| State Assembly Member District 26 | Patrick Ahrens, Tim Gorsulowsky |
| State Assembly Member District 27 | Brian Pacheco, Japjeet Singh Uppal, Mike Murphy |
| State Assembly Member District 28 | Gail Pellerin, Carol Pefley |
| State Assembly Member District 29 | Robert Rivas, J.W. Paine, Dennis P. Sanchez |
| State Assembly Member District 30 | Dawn Addis, Susannah Brown, Shannon Kessler |
| State Assembly Member District 31 | Sandra Celedon, Annalisa Perea, Jim Polsgrove |
| State Assembly Member District 32 | David Couch |
| State Assembly Member District 33 | Hipolito Angel Cerros, Alexandra (Ali) Macedo |
| State Assembly Member District 34 | Randall Putz, Steve Fox, Charles Frederick Hughes, Manny Lin |
| State Assembly Member District 35 | Andrae Gonzales, Ana Palacio, Saul Ayon |
| State Assembly Member District 36 | Ida S. Obeso-Martinez, Tomás Oliva, Oscar Ortiz, Jeff Gonzalez |
| State Assembly Member District 37 | Gregg Hart, Sari Domingues |
| State Assembly Member District 38 | Steve Bennett, Michael MacDonald |
| State Assembly Member District 39 | Juan Carrillo, Paul Andre Marsh |
| State Assembly Member District 40 | Pilar Schiavo, Elizabeth Wong Ahlers, Andreas Farmakalidis, Rickey Tracy Hayes II |
| State Assembly Member District 41 | John Harabedian, Adam Christopher Vena |
| State Assembly Member District 42 | Deborah Klein Lopez, Ted Nordblum, Rocky Rhodes |
| State Assembly Member District 43 | Celeste Rodriguez, Ricardo Benitez |
| State Assembly Member District 44 | Nicholas "Nick" Schultz, Carolyn Daniels, Charlotte Gerry |
| State Assembly Member District 45 | James C. Ramos, Greg Abdouch |
| State Assembly Member District 46 | Jesse Gabriel, Tracey Schroeder |
| State Assembly Member District 47 | Jason Byors, Leila Namvar, Greg Wallis |
| State Assembly Member District 48 | Blanca Rubio, Dan T. Tran |
| State Assembly Member District 49 | Mike Fong, Long David Liu |
| State Assembly Member District 50 | Robert Garcia, Victoria Viveros Mageno, Roberto Jesus Moreno, Jr. |
| State Assembly Member District 51 | Colin D. Hernandez, Rick Chavez Zbur, Michael Geraghty, Jake Head, Dick Lucas |
| State Assembly Member District 52 | Jessica Caloza, Andrea Lee Anderson |
| State Assembly Member District 53 | Michelle Rodriguez, Rafaela Romero |
| State Assembly Member District 54 | Mark Gonzalez |
| State Assembly Member District 55 | Ashley M. Brown, Isaac G. Bryan, Keith G. Cascio, William "Billion" Campbell |
| State Assembly Member District 56 | Lisa Calderon, Jessica Martinez |
| State Assembly Member District 57 | Sade Elhawary, Constance Jewel Menzies |
| State Assembly Member District 58 | Clarissa Cervantes, Leticia Castillo |
| State Assembly Member District 59 | Phillip Chen, Victor Hernandez |
| State Assembly Member District 60 | Corey A Jackson, Ed Delgado, Ron Edwards |
| State Assembly Member District 61 | Tina Simone McKinnor |
| State Assembly Member District 62 | José Luis Solache, Paul Irving Jones |
| State Assembly Member District 63 | Natasha Johnson |
| State Assembly Member District 64 | Blanca Pacheco, Raul Ortiz Jr. |
| State Assembly Member District 65 | Vinson Eugene Allen, Ayanna Davis, Fatima Iqbal-Zubair, Lamar Lyons, Magali Sanchez-Hall, Lydia A. Gutiérrez |
| State Assembly Member District 66 | Sara Deen, Scott Houston, Shannon Ruiz-Ross, Paul Seo, George Barks, Jessica Zonia Maldonado |
| State Assembly Member District 67 | Ada Briceño, Paul Gonzales, Mark Pulido, Ali Taj, Adrian Oscar Ayub, Paulo Morales |
| State Assembly Member District 68 | Jessie Lopez, David Penaloza, Shannon Wingfield, Mayra Ruiz |
| State Assembly Member District 69 | Carolyn J. Essex, Josh Lowenthal |
| State Assembly Member District 70 | Paula Swift, Tri Ta |
| State Assembly Member District 71 | JJ Galvez, Kate Sanchez |
| State Assembly Member District 72 | Chris Kluwe, Matthew Harper, Gracey Van Der Mark, Frank Wagoner |
| State Assembly Member District 73 | Cottie Petrie-Norris, Urson Russell |
| State Assembly Member District 74 | Sergio Farias, Laurie Davies |
| State Assembly Member District 75 | Gerald C. Boursiquot, Carl DeMaio |
| State Assembly Member District 76 | Darshana Patel, Carrie S. Espinoza Villanueva |
| State Assembly Member District 77 | Tasha Boerner, Trinity Hannaway |
| State Assembly Member District 78 | Chris Ward, Payton Galvez, Antonio Salguero |
| State Assembly Member District 79 | LaShae Sharp-Collins, Andrew Lawson |
| State Assembly Member District 80 | David A. Alvarez, Zenith Khan, Alejandro Galicia |
Congress
| Office | Candidates |
|---|---|
| United States Representative District 1 | Audrey Denney, Janice Karrman, Mike McGuire, James Gallagher, Timothy Sean Kelly, Richard T. Minner |
| United States Representative District 2 | Jared Huffman, Rose Penelope Yee, Tim Geist, Robin Littau, Paul Saulsbury, Angelita Valles, Gregory Burgess, Nicolette Hahn Niman |
| United States Representative District 3 | Chris Bennett, Ami Bera, Lyndon "Pacey" Cervantes, Heidi Hall, Christine Bish, Laura Koscki, Robb Tucker, Chris Richardson |
| United States Representative District 4 | Eric Jones, Mike Thompson, Sharon Brown, Mandy Ghusar, Jimih Jones, John Mackenzie, Ray Riehle, Chuck Uribe, Thomas M Roach |
| United States Representative District 5 | Michael J. "Mike" Barkley, Michael Masuda, Dan Stroud, Tom McClintock |
| United States Representative District 6 | Lauren Babb Tomlinson, Martha Guerrero, Thien Ho, Richard Pan, Tyler Vandenberg, Michael Stansfield, Kevin Kiley |
| United States Representative District 7 | Doris Matsui, Robby Morin, Enayat Nazhat, Mai Vang, Ralph Nwobi, Zachariah Wooden |
| United States Representative District 8 | Nicolas Carjuzaa, John Garamendi, Aaron Rowden, Rudy Recile |
| United States Representative District 9 | Josh Harder, Khalid Jeffrey Jafri, John McBride, Parminder "Happy" Singh, Martin "Vmann" Veprauskas |
| United States Representative District 10 | Mark DeSaulnier, Joshua Hamilton, Mitchell Maisler, Bob Rowland, Jeff Frese, Angela Griffiths, Katherine Piccinini |
| United States Representative District 11 | John "Gus" Buffler, Saikat Chakrabarti, Connie Chan, Keith Freedman, Omed Hamid, Gregory M Haynes, Marie Hurabiell, Scott Wiener, David Ganezer, Jingchao Xiong, Nathan Deer |
| United States Representative District 12 | Jamie Joyce, Lateefah Simon |
| United States Representative District 13 | Daniel Garibay Rodriguez, Adam Gray, Vin Kruttiventi, Kevin Lincoln |
| United States Representative District 14 | Victor Aguilar, Jr., Carin Elam, Melissa Hernandez, Matt Ortega, Rakhi Israni Singh, Aisha Wahab, Wendy Huang, Dena Maldonado, Suzanne Chenault |
| United States Representative District 15 | Anthony Van Dang, Mantosh Kumar, Kevin Mullin, Charles Hoelter, Jim Garrity |
| United States Representative District 16 | Sam Liccardo, Kevin Johnson, Peter Sundin Soulé, Jotham Stein |
| United States Representative District 17 | Ethan Agarwal, Mike Katz, Ro Khanna, Jennie Ha Phan, Ritesh Tandon, Joe Dehn |
| United States Representative District 18 | Luis Arreguín, Zoe Lofgren, Shane Lewis, Chris Demers |
| United States Representative District 19 | Sean Dougherty, Jimmy Panetta, Tuka Gafari, Peter Coe Verbica, Lars Mapstead, Ana Luz Acevedo-Cabrera, Thomas Coxe |
| United States Representative District 20 | Sandra Van Scotter, Vince Fong, Ben Dewell, Jeremy Fox |
| United States Representative District 21 | Jim Costa, Eric Garcia, Lourin Hubbard, Kyle Kirkland, Lorenzo Rios, Lance Kruse |
| United States Representative District 22 | Jasmeet Bains, Randy Villegas, David G. Valadao |
| United States Representative District 23 | Tessa Lynn Hodge, Karsten Scott Nicholson, Pat Wallis, Jay Obernolte, Karen Leigh Matthews, Eli C. Owens |
| United States Representative District 24 | Sarah Bacon, Salud Carbajal, Bob Smith, Helena Pasquarella |
| United States Representative District 25 | Raul Ruiz, Ceci Andrade Truman, Ronald Huffman, Joe Males |
| United States Representative District 26 | Chris Espinosa, Liam Andres O'Neill Hernandez, Jacqui Irwin, Sonia Kacker, Sasan Samadzadeh, Sam Gallucci, Michael S. Koslow, Daniel Miller, William "Bill" Scott |
| United States Representative District 27 | Caleb Norwood, Roberto Ramos, George Whitesides, Jason Gibbs |
| United States Representative District 28 | Judy Chu, Peter Roybal, April A. Verlato |
| United States Representative District 29 | Angélica María Dueñas, Luz Maria Rivas, Rudy Melendez |
| United States Representative District 30 | Laura Friedman, Pini Herman, Joel Lava, Cameron Tennyson, Dennis Feitosa, Scott Alan Meyers, John Armenian |
| United States Representative District 31 | Gil Cisneros, Eric Ching, Erskine Levi |
| United States Representative District 32 | Chris Ahuja, Dory Benami, Jake Levine, Marena Lin, Josh Sautter, Brad Sherman, Anna Wilding, Larry Thompson, Doug Smith |
| United States Representative District 33 | Pete Aguilar, Antonis P. Christodoulou, Tom Herman, Ernest "Ernie" Richter, Stephanie M. Vargas, Eugene Weems, Ling Ling Shi |
| United States Representative District 34 | Arthur Dixon, Jimmy Gomez, Angela Gonzales-Torres, Robert George Lucero Jr., Calvin Lee, Loren Colin |
| United States Representative District 35 | Norma J. Torres, Mike Cargile |
| United States Representative District 36 | Rustin Knudtson, Ted W. Lieu, Frederick Reardon, Marianne Shamma, Houston Brignano, Melissa Toomim, Claire Ragge Anderson |
| United States Representative District 37 | Ryan Duckett, Elizabeth Fenner, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Todd Lombardo, Samantha Mota, Baltazar Fedalizo, John Thompson Parker, Steve Hill, Juan Rey |
| United States Representative District 38 | Erik Lutz, Monica M. Sanchez, Hilda Solis, Pedro Antonio Casas |
| United States Representative District 39 | Mark Takano, Steve Manos |
| United States Representative District 40 | Francis Xavier Hoffman, Claude M Keissieh, Joe Kerr, Esther Kim-Varet, Lisa Ramirez, Ken Calvert, Young Kim, Nina Linh |
| United States Representative District 41 | Hector De La Torre, Linda Sánchez, Shonique Williams, Mitch Clemmons |
| United States Representative District 42 | Robert Garcia, Brian Burley, Long Pham, Noah Von Blom, Larisa Vermeulen |
| United States Representative District 43 | Myla Rahman, David Sedlik, Maxine Waters, Cristian Morales |
| United States Representative District 44 | Nanette Diaz Barragan, Genevieve Angel |
| United States Representative District 45 | Derek Tran, Mark Leonard, Chi "Charlie" Nguyen, Chuong V. Vo, Tom Vo, Amy Phan West |
| United States Representative District 46 | Frank Bahena, Lou Correa, Christian Mendez, Armando "Mando" Perez-Serrato, David Pan |
| United States Representative District 47 | Dave Min, Hunter Garcia Miranda, Bill Brough, Christopher J. Gonzales, Jenny Rae Le Roux, Michael Maxsenti, Derrick Michael Reid, Jesus Patino, Eric Troutman |
| United States Representative District 48 | Ammar Campa-Najjar, Abel Chavez, Stephen Clemons, Corinna Contreras, Ferguson Porter, Brandon Riker, Mike Schaefer, Eric Shaw, Marni von Wilpert, Jim Desmond, Kevin Patrick O'Neil, Luis F. Reyna |
| United States Representative District 49 | Mike Levin, Armen Kurdian, Star Parker |
| United States Representative District 50 | Tim Arnous, Aishwarya "Sparky" Mitra, Scott Peters, Steve Cohen, Joseph "Joe" Shea, Lucinda KWH Jahn |
| United States Representative District 51 | Stan Caplan, David W Engel, Sara Jacobs, Ricardo Cabrera |
| United States Representative District 52 | Deborah Calhoun Rhodes, Juan Vargas, Jeff Belle |