Incumbent Ken Calvert (R) and Will Rollins (D) are running in the general election for California’s 41st Congressional District on November 5, 2024. This is a rematch of the 2022 election. Calvert was first elected to the U.S. House in 1992, and he has represented various districts due to redistricting. He was first elected to…
Incumbent David G. Valadao (R) and Rudy Salas (D) are running in the general election for California’s 22nd Congressional District on November 5, 2024. The election is a rematch from 2022, when Valadao defeated Salas 51.5% to 48.5%, becoming one of 14 Republicans to win in a district that President Joe Biden (D) won in 2020. Valadao said he is running because the district…
Incumbent John Duarte (R) and Adam Gray (D) are running in the general election for California’s 13th Congressional District on November 5, 2024. The race is a rematch from 2022, when Duarte defeated Gray by 564 votes. The 2022 race was the second-closest House race in the country that year. Duarte’s 2022 victory was the first for a Republican in the district…
Incumbent Mike Garcia (R) and George Whitesides (D) are running in the general election in California’s 27th Congressional District on Nov. 5, 2024. The 27th district is one of 19 nationwide—including five in California—in which a Republican represents a district Joe Biden (D) won in 2020. Biden won the 27th over Donald Trump 54.0% to…
Incumbent Michelle Steel (R) and Derek Tran (D) are running in the general election on Nov. 5, 2024, in California’s 45th Congressional District. California’s 45th is one of 19 U.S. House districts that Joe Biden (D) won in 2020 and has a Republican incumbent today. That year, Biden defeated Donald Trump (R) 52.1%–46.0% in the…
Scott Baugh (R) and Dave Min (D) are running in the general election for California’s 47th Congressional District on November 5, 2024. Incumbent Katie Porter (D) ran for the U.S. Senate. Porter was re-elected in 2022 after defeating Baugh 52%-48% in the general election. She was first elected in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Mimi Walters 52%-48%. Politico said this race “could very well determine…
The final additions to the California general election ballot are two bond measures, Propositions 2 and 4, which together total $20 billion. Proposition 2 would issue $10 billion to fund construction and improvements to education facilities, including $8.5 billion for elementary and secondary educational facilities and $1.5 billion for community college facilities. In order for…
The deadline to qualify or withdraw a ballot initiative from the California ballot was June 27. This cycle, 12 ballot initiatives qualified for the ballot, but by the deadline, only five remained on the ballot. Six California ballot initiatives were withdrawn after qualifying for the ballot—the most since the practice was authorized in 2014 for…
The California Supreme Court ruled on June 20 that the Taxpayer Protection Act (TPA), as supporters call it, cannot appear on the Nov. 5 ballot because its proposed changes to vote thresholds for new taxes amount to a revision of the state constitution, which cannot be enacted via a citizen initiative. Under the state constitution,…
Californians for Safer Communities qualified an initiative for the Nov. 5, 2024, ballot that would make changes to Proposition 47, including increasing drug and theft penalties. The office of California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced on June 11 that the campaign had submitted at least 652,100 valid signatures, exceeding the 546,651 signature threshold to…