California's 25th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)

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California's 25th Congressional District
Top-two primary General election
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Filing deadline: December 8, 2023
Primary: March 5, 2024 General: November 5, 2024
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Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting in California
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A top-two primary took place on March 5, 2024, in California's 25th Congressional District to determine which two candidates would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Incumbent Raul Ruiz and Ian Weeks advanced from the primary for U.S. House California District 25.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
December 8, 2023	March 5, 2024	November 5, 2024

California uses a top-two primary system, in which all candidates appear on the same ballot. The top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, move on to the general election. In states that do not use a top-two system, all parties are usually able to put forward a candidate for the general election if they choose to.

Unlike the top-two format used in some states (Louisiana and Georgia special elections for example), a general election between the top-two candidates in California occurs regardless of whether the top candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round of elections.

As of June 2025, California was one of five states to use a top-two primary system, or a variation of the top-two system. See here for more information.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on California's 25th Congressional District's top-two primary. For more in-depth information on the district's general election, see the following page:

• California's 25th Congressional District election, 2024

Candidates and election results

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 25

The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 25 on March 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Raul Ruiz (D)	45.1	45,882
✔		Ian Weeks (R)	20.6	20,992
		Ceci Truman (R)	17.5	17,815
		Oscar Ortiz (D)	10.0	10,171
		Miguel Chapa (R)	5.7	5,856
		Ryan Burkett (No party preference)	1.1	1,129

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 101,845
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Candidate profiles

This section includes candidate profiles that may be created in one of two ways: either the candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey, or Ballotpedia staff may compile a profile based on campaign websites, advertisements, and public statements after identifying the candidate as noteworthy. For more on how we select candidates to include, click here.

Ryan Burkett

Party: No party preference

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I was born at Valley Memorial Hospital in 1972 to 18 year olds a few months removed from Grad Night at Disneyland and their wedding, not sure which was first. My mother divorced my father and moved the both of us out of the Coachella Valley in 1980 to the Pacific Northwest following my future step-father, who graduated from Indio High School with both my them. We spent 3 years in Eugene where I started to learn about our Planet when my mother would take me along volunteering with Green Peace. I can still imagine that taste of licking manila envelopes. The remaing 40 years was mainly spent within an 11 mile radius of Mercer Island, Washington, with brief stays in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and a little over 2 years in Cheney, Washinton. I have never been married or seeded children. I consider myself an introvert, so I really have no desire to make public speeches and with the amount of work that needs to be done I think that a productive thing. I have moved back to the Coachella Valley after 43 years to build a better relationship with my family that lives here and the surrounding area. I am an independent wanting to disrupt the 170 year stanglehold on our narrative by the 2 major factions."

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Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

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Abolish Daylight Saving Time while reducing the budget by 30%.

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Finally switch our units of measurement to the metric system while reducing the budget by 30%.

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Establish term limits on members of Congress while reducing the budget by 30%.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House California District 25 in 2024.

Miguel Chapa

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "Born and raised in Imperial Valley and 23 years resident of the Coachella valley I have deep roots in these two communities that I call home. With a career in mortgage banking that began in 1991 in Imperial Valley, where I worked closely with home builders and assisted hundreds of families in realizing their dreams. In 2000, I relocated to the Coachella Valley and for 32 years to this day, I continue to provide valuable support to families seeking mortgage finance guidance. In addition to my professional work, I am deeply committed to serving our business community. I have actively contributed as the President of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals Coachella chapter and as a Board Member for the Builder Industry Association. Furthermore, I have dedicated my time as Secretary and Board Member for GCVCC (City of La Quinta) and currently serve as the Chair of the City of Coachella Chamber of Commerce." Above all, I am a proud father of five beautiful children. Their future and the future of all families in our district inspire me to make a positive impact and fight for their well-being. "I am running for Congressional District 25 because I believe we need a true citizen representative who understands the needs of our community and can establish a strong connection. I have personal ties to numerous of our cities throughout District 25. Over the past 30+ years I have lived in 6 cities throughout Imperial Valley and the Coachella Valley. In addition, "

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Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

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National Security will be my 1st priority and supporting our local, State and Federal law enforcement so that our families are protected as well as them.

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Education and Parental Rights, Children Success and stop sexualization and indoctrination of children.

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Empowering Economy by helping the American families to secure better paying jobs. Tax them and our small businesses less.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House California District 25 in 2024.

Ceci Truman

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "Ceci Truman is running for California Congressional District 25. Ceci (Cecilia Maria) Truman is a Hispanic, America 1st,Christian, principled constitutional conservative. She is the eldest of eight children , comes from a strong line of military servicemen and was raised in Santa Ana, CA where is she attended school from kindergarten to high school. She has been married for 30 years, homeschooled and graduated three successful young men and is a lifelong advocate for Parental Rights. She has stepped into the political ring to fight for our constitutional freedoms and oppose all far left ideologies. She strongly supports 2A, is a member of the USCCA, the NRA and CRPA (California Rifle & Pistal Association)"

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Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

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Secure the Border to Save Lives!

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Reverse the destructive policies that have created the economic crisis the current administration has created in the last 3 years.

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Restore Election Integrity and the people’s confidence on fair elections

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House California District 25 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in California

Election information in California: March 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: March 5, 2024
• By mail: Postmarked by Feb. 20, 2024
• Online: Feb. 20, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

• In-person: N/A
• By mail: N/A by N/A
• Online: N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

• In-person: March 5, 2024
• By mail: Postmarked by March 5, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Varies to March 4, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (PST)

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Raul Ruiz	Democratic Party	$2,504,795	$2,388,851	$1,702,739	As of December 31, 2024
Oscar Ortiz	Democratic Party	$37,975	$34,075	$4,120	As of March 31, 2024
Miguel Chapa	Republican Party	$20,694	$19,968	$726	As of December 31, 2024
Ceci Truman	Republican Party	$142,532	$139,925	$2,608	As of December 31, 2024
Ian Weeks	Republican Party	$147,439	$134,181	$13,258	As of December 31, 2024
Ryan Burkett	No party preference	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election. *** Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

• District map
• Competitiveness
• Presidential elections
• State party control

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in California.

California U.S. House primary competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested top-two primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	52	52	7	241	52	42	80.8%	36	80.0%
2022	52	52	5	272	52	52	100.0%	47	100.0%
2020	53	53	4	262	53	47	88.7%	32	64.0%
2018	53	53	2	244	53	41	77.4%	39	76.5%
2016	53	53	4	202	53	40	75.5%	36	73.5%
2014	53	53	6	209	53	38	71.7%	32	68.1%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in California in 2024. Information below was calculated on 1/16/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Two-hundred forty-one candidates filed to run for California's 52 U.S. House districts in 2024, including 125 Democrats, 88 Republicans, and 28 independent or minor party candidates. That’s 4.63 candidates per district. In 2022, the first election after the number of congressional districts in California decreased from 53 to 52 following the 2020 census, 5.2 candidates filed per district. In 2020, when the state still had 53 Congressional districts, 4.94 candidates filed per district. In 2018, 4.6 candidates filed.

The 241 candidates who ran in California in 2024 were the fewest total number of candidates since 2016, when 202 candidates ran. Forty-five incumbents—34 Democrats and 11 Republicans—ran for re-election. That was fewer than in 2022, when 47 incumbents ran. Six districts were open, one more than in 2022, and the most since 2014, when six districts were also open.

Incumbents Barbara Lee (D-12th), Adam Schiff (D-30th), and Katie Porter (D-47th) ran for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat. Incumbent Sen. Laphonza Butler (D) didn't run for re-election. Incumbents Grace Napolitano (D-31st), Tony Cárdenas (D-29th), and Anna Eshoo (D-16th) retired from public office. One incumbent—Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-20th)—left Congress before the end of his term. A special election was held to fill his seat before the general election.

Fifteen candidates—12 Democrats, two Republicans, and one nonpartisan—ran in the open 30th district, the most candidates running for a seat in 2024.

Forty-two primaries were contested, the fewest since 2018, when 41 were contested. All 52 primaries were contested in 2022, and 47 were in 2020. In California, which uses a top-two primary system, a primary is contested if more than two candidates file to run.

Incumbents ran in 35 of the 42 contested primaries. That’s lower than 2022, when 47 incumbents ran in contested primaries, but higher than every other year since 2014. In 2020, 32 incumbents faced contested primaries. Thirty-nine incumbents did so in 2018, 36 in 2016, and 32 in 2014.

Democratic candidates ran in every district. Republican candidates ran in every district except one—the 37th. Two Democrats, including incumbent Sydney Kamlage-Dove, one nonpartisan candidate, and one Peace and Freedom Party member ran in that district.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+6. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 6 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made California's 25th the 158th most Democratic district nationally.

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in California's 25th based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
56.7%	41.4%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
54.9	44.8	D+10.0

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in California, 2020

California presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 15 Democratic wins
• 15 Republican wins
• 1 other win

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	P	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

See also: Party control of California state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of California's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from California
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	43	45
Republican	0	9	9
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	52	54

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in California's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in California, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor	Eleni Kounalakis
Secretary of State	Shirley Weber
Attorney General	Rob Bonta

State legislature

California State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	32
	Republican Party	8
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		40

California State Assembly

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	62
	Republican Party	18
	Independent	1
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		80

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

California Party Control: 1992-2024
Nineteen years of Democratic trifectas  •  No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
Senate	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
Assembly	D	D	D	S	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in California in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in California, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
California	U.S. House	All candidates	40-60	$1,740.00	12/8/2023	Source

See also

• California's 25th Congressional District election, 2024
• United States House elections in California, 2024 (March 5 top-two primaries)
• United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024

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Footnotes

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California's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Alex Padilla (D)

Adam Schiff (D)

Representatives

District 1

Doug LaMalfa (R)

District 2

Jared Huffman (D)

District 3

Kevin Kiley (R)

District 4

Mike Thompson (D)

District 5

Tom McClintock (R)

District 6

Ami Bera (D)

District 7

Doris Matsui (D)

District 8

John Garamendi (D)

District 9

Josh Harder (D)

District 10

Mark DeSaulnier (D)

District 11

Nancy Pelosi (D)

District 12

Lateefah Simon (D)

District 13

Adam Gray (D)

District 14

Eric Swalwell (D)

District 15

Kevin Mullin (D)

District 16

Sam Liccardo (D)

District 17

Ro Khanna (D)

District 18

Zoe Lofgren (D)

District 19

Jimmy Panetta (D)

District 20

Vince Fong (R)

District 21

Jim Costa (D)

District 22

David Valadao (R)

District 23

Jay Obernolte (R)

District 24

Salud Carbajal (D)

District 25

Raul Ruiz (D)

District 26

Julia Brownley (D)

District 27

George Whitesides (D)

District 28

Judy Chu (D)

District 29

Luz Rivas (D)

District 30

Laura Friedman (D)

District 31

Gil Cisneros (D)

District 32

Brad Sherman (D)

District 33

Pete Aguilar (D)

District 34

Jimmy Gomez (D)

District 35

Norma Torres (D)

District 36

Ted Lieu (D)

District 37

Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D)

District 38

Linda Sánchez (D)

District 39

Mark Takano (D)

District 40

Young Kim (R)

District 41

Ken Calvert (R)

District 42

Robert Garcia (D)

District 43

Maxine Waters (D)

District 44

Nanette Barragán (D)

District 45

Derek Tran (D)

District 46

Lou Correa (D)

District 47

Dave Min (D)

District 48

Darrell Issa (R)

District 49

Mike Levin (D)

District 50

Scott Peters (D)

District 51

Sara Jacobs (D)

District 52

Juan Vargas (D)

Democratic Party (45)

Republican Party (9)

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