California — what is on the 2026 ballot
52 House seats and no Senate seat. Voting is on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 33 days away. 398 people have filed with the FEC.
Senate
No California Senate seat is up in 2026. Senate terms run six years and the seats are split into three classes, so each state votes on a Senate seat in two elections out of every three.
House of Representatives
52 seats · every one contested every two years
- CA-1Held by James Gallagher (Republican)9 filed
- CA-2Held by Jared Huffman (Democrat)10 filed
- CA-3Held by Kevin Kiley (Independent)6 filed
- CA-4Held by Mike Thompson (Democrat)11 filed
- CA-5Held by Tom McClintock (Republican)7 filed
- CA-6Held by Ami Bera (Democrat)9 filed
- CA-7Held by Doris O. Matsui (Democrat)8 filed
- CA-8Held by John Garamendi (Democrat)5 filed
- CA-9Held by Josh Harder (Democrat)5 filed
- CA-10Held by Mark DeSaulnier (Democrat)7 filed
- CA-11Held by Nancy Pelosi (Democrat)16 filed
- CA-12Held by Lateefah Simon (Democrat)3 filed
- CA-13Held by Adam Gray (Democrat)7 filed
- CA-14Seat currently vacant14 filed
- CA-15Held by Kevin Mullin (Democrat)7 filed
- CA-16Held by Sam T. Liccardo (Democrat)5 filed
- CA-17Held by Ro Khanna (Democrat)7 filed
- CA-18Held by Zoe Lofgren (Democrat)8 filed
- CA-19Held by Jimmy Panetta (Democrat)7 filed
- CA-20Held by Vince Fong (Republican)7 filed
- CA-21Held by Jim Costa (Democrat)7 filed
- CA-22Held by David G. Valadao (Republican)4 filed
- CA-23Held by Jay Obernolte (Republican)9 filed
- CA-24Held by Salud O. Carbajal (Democrat)4 filed
- CA-25Held by Raul Ruiz (Democrat)5 filed
- CA-26Held by Julia Brownley (Democrat)13 filed
- CA-27Held by George Whitesides (Democrat)5 filed
- CA-28Held by Judy Chu (Democrat)4 filed
- CA-29Held by Luz M. Rivas (Democrat)4 filed
- CA-30Held by Laura Friedman (Democrat)10 filed
- CA-31Held by Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (Democrat)3 filed
- CA-32Held by Brad Sherman (Democrat)14 filed
- CA-33Held by Pete Aguilar (Democrat)6 filed
- CA-34Held by Jimmy Gomez (Democrat)8 filed
- CA-35Held by Norma J. Torres (Democrat)4 filed
- CA-36Held by Ted Lieu (Democrat)7 filed
- CA-37Held by Sydney Kamlager-Dove (Democrat)9 filed
- CA-38Held by Linda T. Sánchez (Democrat)5 filed
- CA-39Held by Mark Takano (Democrat)2 filed
- CA-40Held by Young Kim (Republican)15 filed
- CA-41Held by Ken Calvert (Republican)12 filed
- CA-42Held by Robert Garcia (Democrat)8 filed
- CA-43Held by Maxine Waters (Democrat)7 filed
- CA-44Held by Nanette Diaz Barragán (Democrat)2 filed
- CA-45Held by Derek Tran (Democrat)8 filed
- CA-46Held by J. Luis Correa (Democrat)4 filed
- CA-47Held by Dave Min (Democrat)10 filed
- CA-48Held by Darrell Issa (Republican)24 filed
- CA-49Held by Mike Levin (Democrat)5 filed
- CA-50Held by Scott H. Peters (Democrat)11 filed
- CA-51Held by Sara Jacobs (Democrat)8 filed
- CA-52Held by Juan Vargas (Democrat)3 filed
Seats come from the districting plan in force — the same lines the district pages draw. A candidate list is what the FEC holds, which is not the ballot: state filing deadlines and ballot-access rules are separate, and both lists contain names the other does not.