Primaries in California, 2026

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Top-two primaries, 2026

Primary Date

June 2, 2026

Federal elections

Top-two primaries for U.S. House

State party

State political party revenue

This page focuses on the top-two primaries that will take place in California on June 2, 2026.

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 October 2025, California was one of five states to use a top-two primary system, or a variation of the top-two system for some or all statewide primaries. See here for more information.

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

Federal elections

U.S. House

See also: United States House elections in California, 2026 (June 2 top-two primaries)

The U.S. House of Representatives elections in California were on November 3, 2026. Voters will elect 52 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 52 U.S. House districts. The primary is June 2, 2026. The filing deadline is March 6, 2026. To see a full list of candidates in the primary in each district, click "Show more" below.

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District 1

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Audrey Denney  (Democratic Party)
• Mike McGuire  (Democratic Party)
• James Salegui  (Democratic Party)
• Casey Stewart  (Democratic Party)
• Angelita Valles  (Republican Party) 
• Kyle Wilson  (Democratic Party) 

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District 2

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Jared Huffman  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Kevin Eisele  (Democratic Party) 
• Paul Saulsbury  (Republican Party)
• Colby Smart  (No party preference) 
• Rose Penelope Yee  (Democratic Party)

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District 3

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Ami Bera  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Kevin Kiley  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
• Chris Bennett  (Democratic Party) 
• Lyndon Cervantes  (Democratic Party)
• Heidi Hall  (Democratic Party)

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District 4

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Mike Thompson  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Sharon Brown  (Republican Party)
• Heath Fulkerson  (Republican Party)
• Mandy Ghusar  (Republican Party)
• Eric Jones  (Democratic Party)
• Laurie MacKenzie  (Republican Party)
• Trevor Merrell  (Democratic Party) 
• John Wesley Tyler  (Independent) 

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District 5

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Tom McClintock  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
• Mike Barkley  (Democratic Party) 
• Paul Danbom  (Democratic Party)
• Michael Masuda  (Democratic Party)
• Angelina Sigala  (Democratic Party)
• Kate Sills  (Democratic Party)
• Jason Weland  (Republican Party)

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District 6

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Lauren Babb Tomlinson  (Democratic Party)
• Christine Bish  (Republican Party) 
• Craig DeLuz  (Republican Party)
• Thien Ho  (Democratic Party)
• Richard Pan  (Democratic Party)
• Kindra Pring  (Democratic Party)
• Raymond Riehle  (Republican Party)
• Michael Stansfield  (Republican Party)
• Tyler Vandenberg  (Democratic Party)

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District 7

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Doris Matsui  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Erica Lee  (Democratic Party) 
• Kathryn Ming  (Republican Party)
• Robert Morin  (Democratic Party)
• Enayat Nazhat  (Democratic Party)
• Mai Vang  (Democratic Party)

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District 8

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• John Garamendi  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Nicolas Carjuzaa  (Democratic Party)
• Harinder Lamba  (Democratic Party)
• Rudy Recile  (Republican Party)
• Aaron Rowden  (Democratic Party)

District 9

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Josh Harder  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• John McBride  (Republican Party) 
• Jim Shoemaker  (Republican Party)
• Parminder Singh  (Republican Party)

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District 10

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Mark DeSaulnier  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Jeffrey Frese  (Republican Party)
• Josh Hamilton  (Democratic Party)
• Mitchell Maisler  (Democratic Party) 
• Katherine Piccinini  (Republican Party)

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District 11

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Cole Bettles  (Democratic Party)
• Saikat Chakrabarti  (Democratic Party) 
• Connie Chan  (Democratic Party)
• David Ganezer  (Republican Party)
• Omed Hamid  (Democratic Party)
• Darren Helton  (Democratic Party) 
• Daniel Wheeler  (Democratic Party)
• Scott Wiener  (Democratic Party)
• Jingchao Xiong  (Democratic Party) 

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District 12

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Lateefah Simon  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Heath Fulkerson  (Republican Party)

District 13

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Adam Gray  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Alberto Escobedo  (No party preference)
• Vin Kruttiventi  (Republican Party)
• Kevin Lincoln II  (Republican Party)
• Javier Lopez  (Republican Party) 

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District 14

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Melissa Hernandez  (Democratic Party)
• Wendy Huang  (Republican Party)
• Rakhi Israni  (Democratic Party)
• Matt Ortega  (Democratic Party)
• Abrar Qadir  (Democratic Party)

District 15

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Kevin Mullin  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Mantosh Kumar  (Democratic Party) 
• Brian Tetrud  (Democratic Party) 

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District 16

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Sam Liccardo  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Kevin Johnson  (Republican Party)
• Jotham Stein  (No party preference) 

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District 17

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Ro Khanna  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Nicholas Finan  (Democratic Party)
• Ha Phan  (Republican Party)
• Ritesh Tandon  (Republican Party)

District 18

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Zoe Lofgren  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Chris Demers  (No party preference)
• Zakaria Kortam  (Republican Party) 
• Shane Lewis  (Republican Party)

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District 19

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Jimmy Panetta  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Sean Dougherty  (Green Party)
• Hannah James  (Democratic Party)
• Peter Verbica  (Republican Party)

District 20

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Vince Fong  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
• Patrick Robb  (Democratic Party)
• Carol Kristina Roper  (Democratic Party)
• Sandra Van Scotter  (Democratic Party) 

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District 21

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Jim Costa  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Lourin Hubbard  (Democratic Party)
• Kyle Kirkland  (Republican Party)
• Lorenzo Rios  (Republican Party)

District 22

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• David G. Valadao  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
• Jasmeet Bains  (Democratic Party)
• Eric Garcia  (Democratic Party)
• Rudy Salas  (Democratic Party)
• Randy Villegas  (Democratic Party)

District 23

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Jay Obernolte  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
• Edwin Alonzo  (Democratic Party) 
• Paul Chakalian  (Democratic Party) 
• Alexis Claiborne  (Democratic Party) 
• Tessa Lynn Hodge  (Democratic Party) 
• David Jones  (Democratic Party)
• Karen Matthews  (Independent)
• Pat Wallis  (Democratic Party)

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District 24

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Salud Carbajal  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Bob Smith  (Republican Party) 

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District 25

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Raul Ruiz  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Ronald Huffman  (Republican Party)
• John Kesselmark  (Republican Party)
• Joe Males  (Republican Party)
• Eli Owens  (Independent)

District 26

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Sonia Devgan-Kacker  (Democratic Party)
• Chris Espinosa  (Democratic Party)
• Samuel Gallucci  (Republican Party)
• Crystal Golden  (Republican Party) 
• Jacqui Irwin  (Democratic Party)
• Michael Koslow  (Republican Party)
• Kyle Langford  (Democratic Party)
• Kyle Rohrbach  (Democratic Party)
• William Scott  (Republican Party) 
• Jonathan Wagoner  (Republican Party) 

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District 27

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• George Whitesides  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Jason Gibbs  (Republican Party)
• David Neidhart  (Republican Party)
• Roberto Ramos  (Democratic Party)

District 28

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Judy Chu  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Robert Gonzalez  (Democratic Party) 
• Michael Tucker  (Democratic Party)
• April Verlato  (Republican Party)

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District 29

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Luz Maria Rivas  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Margarita Maria Carranza  (Republican Party)
• Angélica María Dueñas  (Democratic Party)
• Steven Sparrow  (Republican Party)

District 30

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Laura Friedman  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Dennis Feitosa  (Republican Party)
• Lester Herman  (Democratic Party)
• Darrell Reeves  (Democratic Party)
• Alan Starzinski  (Democratic Party)

District 31

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Gil Cisneros  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Erskine Levi  (Republican Party) 

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District 32

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Christopher Ahuja  (Democratic Party)
• Dory Benami  (Democratic Party)
• Orissa Ishii  (Democratic Party)
• Wyatt Karem  (Democratic Party)
• Jake Levine  (Democratic Party)
• Marena Lin  (Democratic Party)
• Mia Phillips  (Democratic Party)
• Josh Sautter  (Democratic Party) 
• Larry Thompson  (Republican Party) 
• Anna Wilding  (Democratic Party) 

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District 33

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Pete Aguilar  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Stephanie Vargas  (Republican Party) 
• Eugene Weems  (Democratic Party)

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District 34

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Jimmy Gomez  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Loren Colin  (No party preference)
• Arthur Dixon  (Democratic Party) 
• David Ferrell  (Democratic Party)
• Angela Gonzales-Torres  (Democratic Party)
• Calvin Lee  (Republican Party)
• Robert Lucero  (Democratic Party)
• Vivian Nguyen  (Independent)

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District 35

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Norma Torres  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Mike Cargile  (Republican Party)
• Michael Horvath  (Republican Party)
• W.H. Lane  (Democratic Party)

District 36

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Claire Anderson  (No party preference)
• Houston Brignano  (Republican Party) 
• Rustin Knudtson  (Democratic Party)
• Ivan Perkins  (Democratic Party)
• Melissa Toomim  (Republican Party)

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District 37

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Sydney Kamlager-Dove  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Ryan Duckett  (Democratic Party) 
• Elizabeth Fenner  (Democratic Party)
• Steve Hill  (No party preference)
• Todd Lombardo  (Democratic Party)
• Samantha Mota  (Democratic Party) 

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District 38

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Linda Sánchez  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Thomas Adams-Falconer  (Democratic Party)
• Monica Sanchez  (Democratic Party)
• Hilda Solis  (Democratic Party)

District 39

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Mark Takano  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)

District 40

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Ken Calvert  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
• Young Kim  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
• Christian Ahmed  (No party preference)
• Claude Keissieh  (Democratic Party)
• Joe Kerr  (Democratic Party)
• Nina Linh  (Independent)
• Maricar Payad  (American Independent Party)
• Eric Peterson  (Democratic Party)
• Lisa Ramirez  (Democratic Party)
• Paula Swift  (Democratic Party) 
• Esther Kim Varet  (Democratic Party)

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District 41

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Katherine Aleman  (Democratic Party)
• Jason Byors  (Democratic Party)
• Hector De La Torre  (Democratic Party)
• David Karson  (Democratic Party)
• Gale Duane Lawton  (Democratic Party)
• Shaaf Patel  (Libertarian Party) 
• Cody Wiebelhaus  (Republican Party)
• Shonique Williams  (Democratic Party)

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District 42

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Robert Garcia  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Brian Burley  (Republican Party)
• Philip Turek  (Republican Party)

District 43

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Maxine Waters  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Eden Cristo  (Democratic Party)
• Craig Geiger  (Republican Party)
• Anish Jain  (Republican Party)
• Christopher Truman  (Democratic Party)

District 44

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Nanette Barragán  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)

District 45

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Derek Tran  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Brian Forde  (Democratic Party)
• Mark Leonard  (Republican Party) 
• Chi Charlie Nguyen  (Republican Party)
• Amy Phan West  (Republican Party)
• Michelle Steel  (Republican Party)
• Chuong Vo  (Republican Party)
• Thomas Vo  (Republican Party)

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District 46

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Lou Correa  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Francisco Bahena  (Democratic Party) 
• Christian Mendez  (Democratic Party) 
• David Pan  (Republican Party)

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District 47

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Dave Min  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Julia Hashemieh  (Republican Party)
• Sage Lam  (Republican Party)
• Michael Maxsenti  (Republican Party)
• Hunter Miranda  (Democratic Party) 
• Eric Troutman  (Independent) 

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District 48

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Darrell Issa  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
• Mike Bucy  (Independent)
• Ammar Campa-Najjar  (Democratic Party)
• Abel Chavez  (Democratic Party)
• Stephen Clemons  (Democratic Party) 
• Corinna Contreras  (Democratic Party)
• Nicholas Davis  (Democratic Party)
• Curtis Morrison  (Democratic Party) 
• Brian Nash  (Democratic Party)
• Ferguson Porter  (Democratic Party)
• Brandon Riker  (Democratic Party)
• Whitney Shanahan  (Democratic Party)
• Marni von Wilpert  (Democratic Party)

Did not make the ballot:

• Marc Iannarino

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District 49

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Mike Levin  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Julian Arellano  (No party preference) 
• Jim Desmond  (Republican Party) 
• Star Parker  (Republican Party) 
• Eli Stern  (Republican Party)

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District 50

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Scott Peters  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Tim Arnous  (Democratic Party) 
• Timothy Bilash  (Democratic Party)
• Aishwarya Mitra  (Democratic Party) 
• Ernesto Perez  (Democratic Party) 

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District 51

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Sara Jacobs  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
• Mike Bucy  (Independent)
• John-Samuel Etheridge Williams  (Republican Party) 

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District 52

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Juan Vargas  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)

State elections

State Senate

See also: California State Senate elections, 2026

Elections for the California State Senate will take place in 2026. The general election is on November 3, 2026. The primary is June 2, 2026. The filing deadline is March 6, 2026. To see a full list of state Senate candidates in the top-two primaries, click "Show more" below.

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California State Senate elections, 2026
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Office	Democratic	Republican	Other
District 2
District 4		Marie Alvarado-Gil (i)
District 6	Did not make the ballot: David Hildebrand	Roger Niello (i)
District 8	Angelique Ashby (i)
District 10	Aisha Wahab (i) Scott Sakakihara
District 12		Michael Maher
District 14	Esmeralda Soria
District 16	Melissa Hurtado (i)
District 18	Steve Padilla (i)
District 20	Caroline Menjivar (i)
District 22	Susan Rubio (i)
District 24	Sion Roy   Nico Ruderman
District 26	Maria Elena Durazo (i)
District 28	Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (i)
District 30	Bob Archuleta (i)
District 32	Tiffanie Tate	Kelly Seyarto (i)
District 34
District 36	Richard Foster	Tony Strickland (i)
District 38	Catherine Blakespear (i)
District 40	Sabrina Bazzo

State Assembly

See also: California State Assembly elections, 2026

Elections for the California State Assembly will take place in 2026. The general election is on November 3, 2026. The primary is June 2, 2026. The filing deadline is March 6, 2026. To see a full list of state House candidates in the top-two primaries, click "Show more" below.

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State executive offices

See also: California state executive official elections, 2026

Twelve state executive offices are up for election in California in 2026:

Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Attorney General
Secretary of State
Controller
Insurance Commissioner
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Treasurer
State Board of Equalization (4 seats)

To see a full list of candidates in the top-two primaries, click "Show more" below.

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Governor of California

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Ethan Agarwal  (Democratic Party)
• Jesse Alberti  (No party preference) 
• Xavier Becerra  (Democratic Party)
• Chad Bianco  (Republican Party)
• Ian Charles Calderon  (Democratic Party)
• Tony Fitzpatrick  (No party preference) 
• Sharifah Hardie  (Republican Party) 
• Lewis Herms  (No party preference) 
• Steve Hilton  (Republican Party)
• Brandon Jones  (Republican Party) 
• Daniel Mercuri  (Republican Party) 
• Katie Porter  (Democratic Party)
• Raji Rab  (Democratic Party)
• Jon Slavet  (Republican Party) 
• George Slivka  (Democratic Party) 
• Thomas Steyer  (Democratic Party)
• Eric Swalwell  (Democratic Party)
• Nicholas Thompson  (Libertarian Party) 
• Tony Thurmond  (Democratic Party)
• Antonio Villaraigosa  (Democratic Party)
• Butch Ware  (Green Party)
• Betty Yee  (Democratic Party)
• Michael Younger  (Democratic Party) 
• Leo Zacky  (Republican Party)

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Lieutenant Governor of California

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• David Fennell  (Republican Party)
• Josh Fryday  (Democratic Party)
• Brian Jones  (Republican Party)
• Janelle Kellman  (Democratic Party) 
• Fiona Ma  (Democratic Party)
• Oliver Ma  (Democratic Party) 
• Tim Myers  (Democratic Party)
• Mike Schaefer  (Democratic Party)
• Michael Tubbs  (Democratic Party)

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Attorney General of California

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Rob Bonta  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)

California Secretary of State

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

California Controller

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

California Commissioner of Insurance

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Ben Allen  (Democratic Party)
• Steven Bradford  (Democratic Party)
• Stacy Korsgaden  (Republican Party)
• Patrick Wolff  (Democratic Party) 

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California Treasurer

Primary candidates

Note: The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

• Anna Caballero  (Democratic Party)
• Eleni Kounalakis  (Democratic Party)
• Tony Vazquez  (Democratic Party)

California State Board of Equalization

District 1

Primary candidates

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District 2

Primary candidates

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District 3

Primary candidates

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District 4

Primary candidates

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Voting information

See also: Voting in California

Ballotpedia will publish the dates and deadlines related to this election as they are made available.

Context of the 2026 elections

California Party Control: 1992-2026
Twenty-one years with Democratic trifectas  •  No Republican trifectas
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State party overview

Democratic Party of California

See also: Democratic Party of California

Republican Party of California

See also: Republican Party of California

State political party revenue

See also: State political party revenue and State political party revenue per capita

State political parties typically deposit revenue in separate state and federal accounts in order to comply with state and federal campaign finance laws.

The Democratic Party and the Republican Party maintain state affiliates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and select U.S. territories. The following map displays total state political party revenue per capita for the Democratic and Republican state party affiliates.

See also

2026 Elections

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