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Henry Stern
Democratic Party
California State Senate District 27
Tenure
2016 - Present
Term ends
2028
Years in position
10
Compensation
Base salary
$132,703/year
Per diem
$236/day
Elections and appointments
Last election
November 5, 2024
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Henry Stern (Democratic Party) is a member of the California State Senate, representing District 27. He assumed office in 2016. His current term ends on December 4, 2028.

Stern (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the California State Senate to represent District 27. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Henry Stern is a sixth-generation Californian. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of California-Berkeley Law.[1]

Committee assignments

2025-2026

Stern was assigned to the following committees:

2023-2024

Stern was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Stern was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Stern was assigned to the following committees:

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

California committee assignments, 2017
• Elections and Constitutional Amendments, Chair
• Energy, Utilities and Communications
• Environmental Quality
• Judiciary
• Natural Resources and Water
• Arts
• Fisheries and Aquaculture

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2024

See also: California State Senate elections, 2024

General election

General election for California State Senate District 27

Incumbent Henry Stern defeated Lucie Volotzky in the general election for California State Senate District 27 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Henry Stern
Henry Stern (D)
 
59.5
 
270,005
Image of Lucie Volotzky
Lucie Volotzky (R) Candidate Connection
 
40.5
 
183,967

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 453,972
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Senate District 27

Incumbent Henry Stern and Lucie Volotzky defeated Susan A. Collins in the primary for California State Senate District 27 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Henry Stern
Henry Stern (D)
 
44.1
 
98,160
✔
Image of Lucie Volotzky
Lucie Volotzky (R) Candidate Connection
 
38.1
 
84,758
Image of Susan A. Collins
Susan A. Collins (D) Candidate Connection
 
17.8
 
39,488

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 222,406
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Campaign finance

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Stern in this election.

2022

See also: Municipal elections in Los Angeles County, California (2022)

General election

General election for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 3

Lindsey Horvath defeated Robert Hertzberg in the general election for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 3 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Lindsey Horvath (Nonpartisan)
 
53.0
 
258,315
Image of Robert Hertzberg
Robert Hertzberg (Nonpartisan)
 
47.0
 
229,358

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 487,673
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 3

The following candidates ran in the primary for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 3 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Robert Hertzberg
Robert Hertzberg (Nonpartisan)
 
31.1
 
105,923
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Lindsey Horvath (Nonpartisan)
 
27.7
 
94,528
Image of Henry Stern
Henry Stern (Nonpartisan)
 
24.3
 
82,852
Image of Jeffi Girgenti
Jeffi Girgenti (Nonpartisan)
 
8.0
 
27,382
Image of Roxanne Beckford Hoge
Roxanne Beckford Hoge (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
6.6
 
22,352
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Craig A. Brill (Nonpartisan)
 
2.3
 
7,743

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 340,780
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2020

See also: California State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for California State Senate District 27

Incumbent Henry Stern defeated Houman Salem in the general election for California State Senate District 27 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Henry Stern
Henry Stern (D)
 
60.2
 
284,797
Image of Houman Salem
Houman Salem (R) Candidate Connection
 
39.8
 
188,421

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 473,218
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Senate District 27

Incumbent Henry Stern and Houman Salem advanced from the primary for California State Senate District 27 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Henry Stern
Henry Stern (D)
 
63.8
 
158,184
✔
Image of Houman Salem
Houman Salem (R) Candidate Connection
 
36.2
 
89,646

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 247,830
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2016

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During the 2016 election cycle Stern was one of the candidates endorsed by President Barack Obama
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See also: California State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the California State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election was held on June 7, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was February 25, 2016, for candidates filing with signatures. The deadline for candidates using a filing fee to qualify was March 11, 2016.[2] Incumbent Fran Pavley (D) did not seek re-election.

Henry Stern defeated Steve Fazio in the California State Senate District 27 general election.[3][4]

California State Senate, District 27 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Henry Stern 55.85% 218,655
     Republican Steve Fazio 44.15% 172,827
Total Votes 391,482
Source: California Secretary of State


The following candidates ran in the California State Senate District 27 Blanket primary.[5][6]

California State Senate, District 27 Blanket Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Steve Fazio 37.13% 77,770
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Henry Stern 27.30% 57,189
     Democratic Janice Kamenir-Reznik 19.22% 40,250
     Democratic David Pollock 7.33% 15,359
     Democratic Shawn Bayliss 6.09% 12,757
     Democratic George Christopher Thomas 2.93% 6,143
Total Votes 209,468

Endorsements

In 2016, Stern's endorsements included the following:[7]

  • State Senator Fran Pavley
  • State Senator Ben Allen
  • State Senator Mark Leno
  • State Senator Loni Hancock
  • State Senator Lois Wolk
  • State Senator Jerry Hill
  • Former State Senator Alan Sieroty
  • Former State Senator Tom Hayden
  • Congressmember Ted Lieu
  • Congressmember Brad Sherman

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Henry Stern did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Henry Stern did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

2016

Stern's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Cleaner air, water and renewable energy

An expert on climate change, clean air and water policy, Henry has served as Senator Pavley’s Senior Policy Advisor and has written her environmental protection legislation for the past four years. He wrote the legislation to stop the gas wells at Porter Ranch from coming back online and to require the safety testing of all fracking and oil and gas wells throughout the state.

Henry has worked on generating incentives for local companies to build clean transportation and renewable energy infrastructure, reducing the need for fossil fuels. And he’s helped our local schools take advantage of money available to them for energy conservation so they can spend less on energy and more on classroom instruction.

Thriving local economy

Clean tech and small businesses are the key to creating local good-paying jobs, along with quality, up-to-date job training. Henry co-founded a clean-tech business incubator, and helped fight to pass legislation to stop film and television production from leaving California. He even enlisted his father, actor Daniel Stern, to help pass the law to stem “runaway production.”

Supporting education

Funding for schools and community colleges has been cut more than $20 billion since 2007-08. The result has been the reduction or elimination of various education programs. Proposition 98, which sets the minimum education funding level, was once considered the floor for education funding. However, with the decrease in state revenues, Proposition 98 is now treated as the ceiling for education funding. Henry will fight for more resources for our schools.

As our pool of new teachers shrinks, Henry is working with Senator Pavley on incentives which will encourage more students to enter the teaching profession.

Creating safer communities

Our local governments are severely underfunded and lacking in resources to address crime and overcrowded prisons in the wake of Prop 47. It is crucial that we prioritize all funding for local public safety protection programs and ensure continued funding for adult criminal justice facilities that will meet needs created by realignment. In addition, we need to continue to pursue full reimbursement of costs of state and federal mandates and oppose unfunded state mandates on our law enforcement agencies.

Henry has worked with Senator Pavley to pass legislation protecting the victims of domestic violence and closing loopholes in sentencing laws.[8]

”
—Henry Stern[9]

Campaign finance summary

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Henry Stern campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024California State Senate District 27Won general$1,183,066 $2,576,008
2020California State Senate District 27Won general$1,480,068 N/A**
2016California State Senate, District 27Won $3,051,374 N/A**
Grand total$5,714,508 $2,576,008
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Election Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ California State Senate, "Senator Henry Stern," accessed September 29, 2019
    2. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Key Dates and Deadlines," accessed April 18, 2017
    3. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Certified List of Candidates for the November 8, 2016, General Election," accessed September 7, 2016
    4. ↑ California Secretary of State, "2016 General Election results," accessed December 23, 2016
    5. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Certified List of Candidates for Voter-Nominated Offices," accessed April 4, 2016
    6. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Statement of Vote," accessed August 22, 2016
    7. ↑ Henry Stern for Senate, "Supporters," accessed September 28, 2016
    8. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    9. ↑ Henry Stern for Senate, "Issues," accessed September 28, 2016

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