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Jesse Gabriel
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Democratic Party

California State Assembly District 46
Tenure

2022 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

2

Predecessor
Prior offices
California State Assembly District 45
Successor: James Ramos

Compensation

Base salary

$128,215/year

Per diem

$214/day

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

High school

Oak Park High School, 2000

Bachelor's

University of California, Berkeley, 2004

Law

Harvard Law School, 2008

Personal
Profession
Attorney
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Jesse Gabriel (Democratic Party) is a member of the California State Assembly, representing District 46. He assumed office on December 5, 2022. His current term ends on December 7, 2026.

Gabriel (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the California State Assembly to represent District 46. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Jesse Gabriel lives in Encino, California. Gabriel graduated from Oak Park High School in 2000. Gabriel earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2008. His career experience includes working as an attorney with the United States Senate in Washington, D.C., and at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles.[1][2] Gabriel served as a Los Angeles County commissioner and as a board member of the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters and the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.[3]

Committee assignments

2025-2026

Gabriel was assigned to the following committees:

2023-2024

Gabriel was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Gabriel was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Gabriel was assigned to the following committees:


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 Assembly elections, 2024

General election

General election for California State Assembly District 46

Incumbent Jesse Gabriel defeated Tracey Schroeder in the general election for California State Assembly District 46 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Jesse Gabriel (D)
 
62.9
 
107,003
Image of Tracey Schroeder
Tracey Schroeder (R) Candidate Connection
 
37.1
 
63,114

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

Total votes: 170,117
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 46

Incumbent Jesse Gabriel and Tracey Schroeder advanced from the primary for California State Assembly District 46 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Jesse Gabriel
Jesse Gabriel (D)
 
65.5
 
50,156
✔
Image of Tracey Schroeder
Tracey Schroeder (R) Candidate Connection
 
34.5
 
26,371

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

Total votes: 76,527
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Campaign finance

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Gabriel in this election.

2022

See also: California State Assembly elections, 2022

General election

General election for California State Assembly District 46

Incumbent Jesse Gabriel defeated Dana Caruso in the general election for California State Assembly District 46 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Jesse Gabriel (D)
 
65.4
 
78,726
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Dana Caruso (R) Candidate Connection
 
34.6
 
41,619

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

Total votes: 120,345
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 46

Incumbent Jesse Gabriel and Dana Caruso advanced from the primary for California State Assembly District 46 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Jesse Gabriel (D)
 
67.3
 
52,362
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Dana Caruso (R) Candidate Connection
 
32.7
 
25,437

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

Total votes: 77,799
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Campaign finance

2020

See also: California State Assembly elections, 2020

General election

General election for California State Assembly District 45

Incumbent Jesse Gabriel defeated Jeffi Girgenti in the general election for California State Assembly District 45 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Jesse Gabriel
Jesse Gabriel (D) Candidate Connection
 
66.2
 
136,904
Image of Jeffi Girgenti
Jeffi Girgenti (R) Candidate Connection
 
33.8
 
69,802

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

Total votes: 206,706
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 45

Incumbent Jesse Gabriel and Jeffi Girgenti defeated Denise Feldman in the primary for California State Assembly District 45 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Jesse Gabriel
Jesse Gabriel (D) Candidate Connection
 
98.8
 
77,512
✔
Image of Jeffi Girgenti
Jeffi Girgenti (R) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
 
1.2
 
955
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Denise Feldman (D) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
23

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

Total votes: 78,490
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Endorsements

To view Gabriel's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.

2018

California State Assembly regular election

See also: California State Assembly elections, 2018

General election

General election for California State Assembly District 45

Incumbent Jesse Gabriel defeated Justin Clark in the general election for California State Assembly District 45 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Jesse Gabriel
Jesse Gabriel (D)
 
70.3
 
107,757
Image of Justin Clark
Justin Clark (R)
 
29.7
 
45,619

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

Total votes: 153,376
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 45

The following candidates ran in the primary for California State Assembly District 45 on June 5, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Jesse Gabriel
Jesse Gabriel (D)
 
43.7
 
31,068
✔
Image of Justin Clark
Justin Clark (R)
 
31.9
 
22,709
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Tricia Robbins Kasson (D)
 
7.4
 
5,277
Image of Ankur Patel
Ankur Patel (D)
 
6.4
 
4,534
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Jeff Bornstein (D)
 
5.7
 
4,039
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Daniel Brin (D)
 
3.4
 
2,432
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Raymond Bishop (D)
 
1.5
 
1,088

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

Total votes: 71,147
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

California State Assembly special election

See also: California state legislative special elections, 2018
CA House District 45

A special primary election for the position of California State Assembly District 45 was called for April 3, 2018. Jesse Gabriel (D) and Justin Clark (R), the top two vote-getters, advanced to the special general election that was held on June 5, 2018.[4][5] Gabriel won the seat.[6]

To qualify for the race, candidates had to obtain nomination documents from election officials in their county of residence by February 8, 2018. Candidates could have qualified by paying a $1,072.42 filing fee. Candidates could have also qualified by submitting petition signatures by January 9, 2018. The filing deadline for write-in candidates was March 20, 2018.[7]

The seat became vacant following Matt Dababneh's (D) resignation effective January 1, 2018, due to sexual misconduct allegations. He said the allegations against him were not true.[8]

Eight candidates—six Democrats, one Republican, and one independent—filed to run in the race.[9] Independent candidate Dennis Zine unofficially withdrew from the race in February 2018, but his name still appeared on the primary election ballot.[10]

General election

Special general election for California State Assembly District 45

Jesse Gabriel defeated Justin Clark in the special general election for California State Assembly District 45 on June 5, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Jesse Gabriel
Jesse Gabriel (D)
 
65.7
 
46,168
Image of Justin Clark
Justin Clark (R)
 
34.3
 
24,109

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

Total votes: 70,277
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Nonpartisan primary election

Special nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 45

The following candidates ran in the special primary for California State Assembly District 45 on April 3, 2018.

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Raymond Bishop (D)
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Jeff Bornstein (D)
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Daniel Brin (D)
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Justin Clark (R)
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Jesse Gabriel (D)
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Tricia Robbins Kasson (D)
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Ankur Patel (D)
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Dennis Zine (Independent)

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

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Endorsements

Gabriel was endorsed by the following elected officials and organizations:[11]

  • Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz
  • Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu
  • LACCD Vice President Mike Fong
  • Steamfitters - Refrigeration Fitters of United Association (UA) Local 250
  • Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley (DPSFV)
  • California Legislative Jewish Caucus
  • Democrats for Israel - Los Angeles (DFI - LA)
  • IATSE Los Angeles Local Unions (The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States)
  • Los Angeles County Young Democrats (LACYD)
  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California State Council
  • Teamsters Joint Council 42
  • Voices For Progress
  • UFLAC

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Jesse Gabriel did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Jesse Gabriel did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Candidate Connection

Jesse Gabriel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gabriel's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Jesse Gabriel was first elected to the State Assembly in 2018.

In his short time in the Legislature, Gabriel has championed efforts to address California's housing and homelessness crisis, strengthen public education, fight climate change, pass commonsense gun safety measures, and protect vulnerable communities. In his first full term, Gabriel authored nine bills that were signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, including highly regarded measures to expand access to justice and protect communities at risk of hate-motivated violence. He also has fought to protect Californians during the COVID-19 pandemic, including through measures to increase testing, provide PPE to healthcare and essential workers, and deliver emergency financial relief to struggling workers and small businesses.

Before being elected to the Legislature, Gabriel worked as a constitutional rights attorney. In 2017, Gabriel sued the Trump Administration in two landmark lawsuits to protect young people-known as Dreamers-who were promised protection under the DACA program. Gabriel also represented Holocaust survivors, victims of domestic abuse, and communities facing hate-motivated violence,

Gabriel previously served as a LA County Commissioner and as a board member of the LA League of Conservation Voters and the Jewish Federation. Gabriel lives in Encino with his wife Rachel Rosner-an affordable housing attorney-and their three sons. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School.
  • Jesse Gabriel has fought to protect our community during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Jesse Gabriel sued the Trump Administration twice to protect Dreamers and the DACA program
  • Jesse Gabriel is endorsed by the Democratic Party, as well as local nurses, firefighters, teachers, and grocery workers
Jesse Gabriel has championed efforts to address California's housing and homelessness crisis, strengthen public education, fight climate change, pass commonsense gun safety measures, and protect vulnerable communities.

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Campaign finance summary

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Jesse Gabriel campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* California State Assembly District 46Won general$1,819,507 $882,659
2022California State Assembly District 46Won general$1,361,243 $440,530
2020California State Assembly District 45Won general$1,314,882 N/A**
Grand total$4,495,632 $1,323,189
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 18, 2020
    2. ↑ LinkedIn, "Jesse Gabriel," accessed January 15, 2023
    3. ↑ Jesse Gabriel 2022 campaign website, "About Jesse," accessed January 15, 2023
    4. ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Calendar of Events: Assembly Districts 45 and 54 Special Primary Elections," accessed February 9, 2018
    5. ↑ California Secretary of State, "State Assembly District 45 - Districtwide Results," accessed April 4, 2018
    6. ↑ California Secretary of State, "State Assembly District 45 - Districtwide Results," accessed June 6, 2018
    7. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Special Election Calendar: Special Primary Election April 3, 2018 California State Assembly, 45th District (Matthew Dababneh)," accessed January 11, 2018
    8. ↑ SFGate, "California Assemblyman Matt Dababneh resigns, accused of sexual misconduct," December 8, 2017
    9. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official Certified List of Candidates: State Assembly Member District 45," accessed March 29, 2018
    10. ↑ Daily Breeze, "Former LA councilman Dennis Zine’s campaign for Assembly is over after 2 weeks," February 12, 2018
    11. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named bio

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