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Aishwarya Mitra
Aishwarya Mitra (Democratic Party) (also known as Sparky) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 50th Congressional District. Mitra declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Mitra completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2026
See also: California's 50th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House California District 50
Incumbent Scott Peters, Timothy Bilash, Aishwarya Mitra, and Ernesto Perez are running in the general election for U.S. House California District 50 on November 3, 2026.
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 | Scott Peters (D) | |
 | Timothy Bilash (D) | |
 | Aishwarya Mitra (D)  | |
 | Ernesto Perez (D) | |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Aishwarya Mitra completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mitra's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- We must restore peoples’ economic freedom and dignity and make San Diego more affordable. It is time that the top 1% paid their fair share to the workers that have ensured their success. Instead of using our taxes to pay for endless wars and genocide abroad, it is time that Congress worked for the people it is meant to represent. These funds can be used to fund the Social Security Expansion Act, federally-funded public transit, equity initiatives. These investments will allow us to build a future where scientific progress, economic security, and opportunity are not privileges, but rights shared by all.
- We are demanding care over cruelty. Dignity without delay. And it’s time our representation caught up. As people across the country are surveilled for merely existing and silenced for speaking out, we must push back against federally-backed campaigns of terror. Trump and his allies are attacking democracy itself, from the rights to protest and exist freely to the rights to fair jobs and livable wages. We can’t afford to wait this out. With the onslaught of domestic attacks on speech and human rights by our current administration, it is more important than ever to defend and assert our human rights. This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States.
- Our tradition of innovation in San Diego is losing its human touch. My extensive engineering background in research and policy-forward settings alike has uniquely equipped me with bold ideas to legislate on, such as creating government-funded LABraries to democratize science innovation. Progress doesn’t mean pushing profits over people. We need leaders capping drug prices while supporting funding for research. I will fight for Universal Healthcare and protect medical innovation. The bold path is the realistic one. Delay has already cost us too much. Our people and planet need decisive action like passing the Green New Deal, not half-measures.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
