2024 California March Primary Preview: Update on Open-Seat Elections

With ballots arriving California voters’ mailboxes, this alert provides a snapshot analysis of the open seats in the California Legislature for the 2024 primary. It’s worth noting that in the secretary of state’s pre-primary voter registration report, there was an uptick in Republican registration with the GOP gaining 46,000 registered voters statewide between October 2023 and January 2024. Democrats lost 30,000 voters statewide in the same timeframe and saw decreased registration advantage in just about every Assembly district in the state. “No Party Preference” voters saw a drop of about 70,000 voters. However, Democratic voters still outnumber Republican voters by over 22% statewide (approximately 9.1 million registered voters to 4.8 million).

Below is a list of open seats in each chamber in the upcoming election with the current incumbents’ and their party affiliation noted in red for Republicans and blue for Democrats, followed by a snapshot of each race. This list reflects district maps updated after the 2020 redistricting cycle.

Click here for a snapshot analysis of each race. 

 

OPEN ASSEMBLY SEATS

AD 1: Megan Dahle (Bieber/Rural Northern CA)
AD 2: Jim Wood (Healdsburg)

AD 6: Kevin McCarty (Sacramento)

AD 8: Jim Patterson (Mariposa)

AD 13: Carlos Villapudua (Stockton)

AD 15: Timothy Grayson (Concord)

AD 19: Philip Ting (San Francisco)

AD 26: Evan Low (Silicon Valley)

AD 32: Vince Fong (Bakersfield)

AD 33: Devon Mathis (Tulare)

AD 36: Eduardo Garcia (Imperial/Riverside/San Bernadino)

AD 41: Chris Holden (Los Angeles/Pasadena)

AD 44: Laura Friedman (Los Angeles/Glendale)

AD 50: Eloise Gómez Reyes (San Bernardino)

AD 52: Wendy Carrillo (Los Angeles/East LA)

AD 53: Freddie Rodriguez (Chino Hills/Pomona)

AD 54: Miguel Santiago (Downtown Los Angeles)

AD 57: Reggie Jones-Sawyer (South Los Angeles)

AD 58: Sabrina Cervantes (Riverside)

AD 62: Anthony Rendon (Southgate/Paramount/Unincorporated LA County)

AD 75: Marie Waldron (Santee/Poway)

AD 76: Brian Maienschein (Rancho Santa Fe)

AD 79: Akilah Weber (San Diego/La Mesa)

 

OPEN SENATE SEATS

SD 1: Brian Dahle (Bieber/Rural Northern CA)

SD 3: Bill Dodd (Napa)

SD 5: Susan Talmantes Eggman (Stockton/San Joaquin County)

SD 7: Nancy Skinner (Berkeley/Alameda County)

SD 9: Steve Glazer (Orinda/Lafayette)

SD 23: Scott Wilk (Santa Clarita)

SD 25: Anthony Portantino (La Canada Flintridge)

SD 29: New Seat (San Bernardino)

SD 31: Richard Roth (Riverside)

SD 35: Steven Bradford (Gardena/Carson)

SD 37: Dave Min (Irvine/Costa Mesa)

SD 39: Toni Atkins (San Diego)

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