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The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members of the State Assembly. The State Legislature meets in the state capital, Sacramento.

Assembly Members serve two year terms and face election in years evenly divisible by two. Members of the Assembly are limited to three terms. Their term of office begins on December 4th.

Each Assembly Member represents approximately 420,000 Californians.

State Assembly Members, 2005-2006 Session

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*	Democrats: 48
*	Republicans: 32
*	Vacant

[Analysis of Bills]

Officers

• Speaker Fabian Núñez (D-46)
• Speaker pro Tempore Leland Yee, Ph.D. (D-12)
• Assistant Speaker pro Tempore Sally Lieber (D-22)
• Majority Floor Leader Dario Frommer (D-43)
• Minority Floor Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-32) to April 17 2006; George Plescia (R-75) from April 17 2006
• Chief Clerk E. Dotson Wilson
• Sergeant at Arms Ronald Pane

Note: The Chief Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms are not Members of the Legislature

District	Name	Party
1st	Patty Berg	Dem
2nd	Doug La Malfa	Rep
3rd	Rick Keene	Rep
4th	Tim Leslie	Rep
5th	Roger Niello	Rep
6th	Joe Nation	Dem
7th	Noreen Evans	Dem
8th	Lois Wolk	Dem
9th	Dave Jones	Dem
10th	Alan Nakanishi	Rep
11th	Joseph Canciamilla	Dem
12th	Leland Yee	Dem
13th	Mark Leno	Dem
14th	Loni Hancock	Dem
15th	Guy S. Houston	Rep
16th	Wilma Chan	Dem
17th	Barbara S. Matthews	Dem
18th	Johan Klehs	Dem
19th	Gene Mullin	Dem
20th	Alberto Torrico	Dem
21st	Ira Ruskin	Dem
22nd	Sally J. Lieber	Dem
23rd	Joe Coto	Dem
24th	Rebecca Cohn	Dem
25th	Dave Cogdill	Rep
26th	Greg Aghazarian	Rep
27th	John Laird	Dem
28th	Simon Salinas	Dem
29th	Michael N. Villines	Rep
30th	Nicole Parra	Dem
31st	Juan Arambula	Dem
32nd	Kevin McCarthy	Rep
33rd	Sam Blakeslee	Rep
34th	Bill Maze	Rep
35th	Pedro Nava	Dem
36th	Sharon Runner	Rep
37th	Audra Strickland	Rep
38th	Keith Richman	Rep
39th	Cindy Montañez	Dem
40th	Lloyd E. Levine	Dem
41st	Fran Pavley	Dem
42nd	Paul Koretz	Dem
43rd	Dario Frommer	Dem
44th	Carol Liu	Dem
45th	Jackie Goldberg	Dem
46th	Fabian Nuñez	Dem
47th	Karen Bass	Dem
48th	Mark Ridley-Thomas	Dem
49th	Judy Chu	Dem
50th	Hector De La Torre	Dem
51st	Jerome Horton	Dem
52nd	Mervyn M. Dymally	Dem
53rd	Mike Gordon* Ted Lieu*	Dem
54th	Betty Karnette	Dem
55th	Jenny Oropeza	Dem
56th	Rudy Bermúdez	Dem
57th	Ed Chavez	Dem
58th	Ronald S. Calderon	Dem
59th	Dennis Mountjoy	Rep
60th	Bob Huff	Rep
61st	Gloria Negrete McLeod	Dem
62nd	Joe Baca, Jr.	Dem
63rd	Bill Emmerson	Rep
64th	John J. Benoit	Rep
65th	Russ Bogh	Rep
66th	Ray Haynes	Rep
67th	Vacant	Rep
68th	Van Tran	Rep
69th	Tom Umberg	Dem
70th	Chuck DeVore	Rep
71st	Todd Spitzer	Rep
72nd	Lynn Daucher	Rep
73rd	Mimi Walters	Rep
74th	Mark Wyland	Rep
75th	George A. Plescia	Rep
76th	Lori Saldaña	Dem
77th	Jay La Suer	Rep
78th	Shirley Horton	Rep
79th	Juan Vargas	Dem
80th	Bonnie Garcia	Rep

*Ted Lieu won the September 13, 2005 special election (and was sworn in on September 21, 2005) for the 53rd Assembly District seat to replace Mike Gordon, who died on June 25, 2005, due to a brain tumor.

State Assembly Members, 2003-2004 Session

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*	Democrats: 48
*	Republicans: 32

Officers

• Speaker Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
• Speaker pro Tempore Christine Kehoe
• Assistant Speaker pro Tempore Leland Yee
• Chief Clerk E. Dotson Wilson
• Majority Leader Wilma Chan
• Majority Floor Leader Marco Antonio Firebaugh
• Minority Floor Leader Dave Cox
• Sergeant at Arms Ronald Pane

[Analysis of Bills]

The party affiliation and district numbers of Assembly members are listed after their names in this list.

• Greg Aghazarian (R-26)
• Patricia C. Bates (R-73)
• John J. Benoit (R-64)
• Patty Berg (D-1)
• Rudy Bermúdez (D-56)
• Russ Bogh (R-65)
• Ronald S. Calderon (D-58)
• John Campbell (R-70)
• Joseph Canciamilla (D-11)
• Wilma Chan (D-16)
• Ed Chavez (D-57)
• Judy Chu (D-49)
• Dave Cogdill (R-25)
• Rebecca Cohn (D-24)
• Ellen M. Corbett (D-18)
• Lou Correa (D-69)
• Dave Cox (R-5)
• Lynn Daucher (R-72)
• Manny Diaz (D-23)
• John A. Dutra (D-20)
• Robert D. Dutton (R-63)
• Mervyn M. Dymally (D-52)
• Marco Antonio Firebaugh (D-50)
• Dario Frommer (D-43)
• Bonnie Garcia (R-80)
• Jackie Goldberg (D-45)
• Loni Hancock (D-14)
• Tom Harman (R-67)
• Ray Haynes (R-66)
• Jerome Horton (D-51)
• Shirley Horton (R-78)
• Guy S. Houston (R-15)
• Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-35)
• Rick Keene (R-3)
• Christine Kehoe (D-76)
• Paul Koretz (D-42)
• Jay La Suer (R-77)
• John Laird (D-27)
• Doug LaMalfa (R-2)
• Mark Leno (D-13)
• Tim Leslie (R-4)
• Lloyd E. Levine (D-40)
• Sally J. Lieber (D-22)
• Carol Liu (D-44)
• John Longville (D-62)
• Alan Lowenthal (D-54)
• Ken Maddox (R-68)
• Abel Maldonado (R-33)
• Barbara S. Matthews (D-17)
• Bill Maze (R-34)
• Kevin McCarthy (R-32)
• Cindy Montañez (D-39)
• Dennis Mountjoy (R-59)
• Gene Mullin (D-19)
• Alan Nakanishi (R-10)
• George Nakano (D-53)
• Joe Nation (D-6)
• Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-61)
• Fabian Núñez (D-46)
• Jenny Oropeza (D-55)
• Robert Pacheco (R-60)
• Nicole Parra (D-30)
• Fran Pavley (D-41)
• George A. Plescia (R-75)
• Sarah Reyes (D-31)
• Keith Richman (R-38)
• Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-48)
• Sharon Runner (R-36)
• Simon Salinas (D-28)
• Steven N. Samuelian (R-29)
• S. Joseph Simitian (D-21)
• Todd Spitzer (R-71)
• Darrell Steinberg (D-9)
• Tony Strickland (R-37)
• Juan Vargas (D-79)
• Herb J. Wesson, Jr. (D-47)
• Patricia Wiggins (D-7)
• Lois Wolk (D-8)
• Mark Wyland (R-74)
• Leland Yee (D-12)

State Assembly Members, 2001-2002 Session

Democrats: 50
Republicans: 30

District	Name	Party
1	Virginia Strom-Martin	Dem
2	Richard L. Dickerson	Rep
3	Samuel M. Aanestad	Rep
4	Tim Leslie	Rep
5	Dave Cox	Rep
6	Joseph Nation	Dem
7	Patricia Wiggins	Dem
8	Helen Thomson	Dem
9	Darrell Steinberg	Dem
10	Anthony Pescetti	Rep
11	Joseph Canciamilla	Dem
12	Kevin Shelley	Dem
13	Carole Migden	Dem
14	Dion Aroner	Dem
15	Lynne C. Leach	Rep
16	Wilma Chan	Dem
17	Barbara S. Matthews	Dem
18	Ellen M. Corbett	Dem
19	Louis J. Papan	Dem
20	John A. Dutra	Dem
21	S. Joseph Simitian	Dem
22	Elaine Alquist	Dem
23	Manny Diaz	Dem
24	Rebecca Cohn	Dem
25	Dave Cogdill	Rep
26	Dennis Cardoza	Dem
27	Fred Keeley	Dem
28	Simon Salinas	Dem
29	Mike Briggs	Rep
30	Dean Florez	Dem
31	Sarah L. Reyes	Dem
32	Roy Ashburn	Rep
33	Abel Maldonado	Rep
34	Phil Wyman	Rep
35	Hannah-Beth Jackson	Dem
36	George Runner	Rep
37	Tony Strickland	Rep
38	Keith Richman	Rep
39	Tony Cardenas	Dem
40	Robert M. Hertzberg	Dem
41	Fran Pavley	Dem
42	Paul Koretz	Dem
43	Dario Frommer	Dem
44	Carol Liu	Dem
45	Jackie Goldberg	Dem
46	Gil Cedillo	Dem
47	Herb Wesson	Dem
48	Roderick Wright	Dem
49	Judy Chu	Dem
50	Marco Antonio Firebaugh	Dem
51	Jerome Horton	Dem
52	Carl Washington	Dem
53	George Nakano	Dem
54	Alan Lowenthal	Dem
55	Jenny Oropeza	Dem
56	Sally Havice	Dem
57	Edward Chavez	Dem
58	Thomas M. Calderon	Dem
59	Dennis Mountjoy	Rep
60	Robert Pacheco	Rep
61	Gloria Negrete McLeod	Dem
62	John Longville	Dem
63	Bill Leonard	Rep
64	Rod Pacheco	Rep
65	Russ Bogh	Rep
66	Dennis Hollingsworth	Rep
67	Vacant	Rep
68	Ken Maddox	Rep
69	Lou Correa	Dem
70	John Campbell	Rep
71	Bill Campbell	Rep
72	Lynn Daucher	Rep
73	Patricia C. Bates	Rep
74	Mark Wyland	Rep
75	Charlene Zettel	Rep
76	Christine Kehoe	Dem
77	Jay La Suer	Rep
78	Howard Wayne	Dem
79	Juan Vargas	Dem
80	Dave Kelley	Rep

[Analysis of Bills]

State Assembly Members, 1999-2000 Session

Democrats: 50
Republicans: 29

[Analysis of Bills]

State Assembly Members, 1997-1998 Session

Democrats: 43
Republicans: 37

[Analysis of Bills]

The party affiliation and district numbers of Assembly members are listed after their names in this list.

District	Name	Party
1st	Virginia Strom-Martin	Dem
2nd	Tom Woods	Rep
3rd	Bernie Richter	Rep
4th	Thomas "Rico" Oller	Rep
5th	Barbara Alby	Rep
6th	Kerry Mazzoni	Dem
7th	Valerie Brown	Dem
8th	Helen Thomson	Dem
9th	Deborah Ortiz	Dem
10th	Larry Bowler	Rep
11th	Tom Torlakson	Dem
12th	Kevin Shelley	Dem
13th	Carole Migden	Dem
14th	Dion Aroner	Dem
15th	Lynne C. Leach	Rep
16th	Don Perata	Dem
17th	Michael Machado	Dem
18th	Michael Sweeney	Dem
19th	Louis J. Papan	Dem
20th	Liz Figueroa	Dem
21st	Ted Lempert	Dem
22nd	Elaine Alquist	Dem
23rd	Mike Honda	Dem
24th	Jim Cunneen	Rep
25th	George House	Rep
26th	Dennis Cardoza	Dem
27th	Fred Keeley	Dem
28th	Peter Frusetta	Rep
29th	Charles Poochigian	Rep
30th	Robert Prenter	Rep
31st	Cruz M. Bustamante	Dem
32nd	Roy Ashburn	Rep
33rd	Tom J. Bordonaro, Jr.	Rep
34th	Keith Olberg	Rep
35th	Brooks Firestone	Rep
36th	George Runner	Rep
37th	Nao Takasugi	Rep
38th	Tom McClintock	Rep
39th	Tony Cardenas	Dem
40th	Robert M. Hertzberg	Dem
41st	Sheila James Kuehl	Dem
42nd	Wally Knox	Dem
43rd	Scott Wildman	Dem
44th	Jack Scott	Dem
45th	Antonio R. Villaraigosa	Dem
46th	Louis Caldera	Dem
47th	Kevin Murray	Dem
48th	Roderick Wright	Dem
49th	Diane Martinez	Dem
50th	Martha M. Escutia	Dem
51st	Edward Vincent	Dem
52nd	Carl Washington	Dem
53rd	Debra Bowen	Dem
54th	Steven T. Kuykendall	Rep
55th	Richard Floyd	Dem
56th	Sally Havice	Dem
57th	Martin Gallegos	Dem
58th	Grace F. Napolitano	Dem
59th	Bob Margett	Rep
60th	Gary G. Miller	Rep
61st	Fred Aguiar	Rep
62nd	Joe Baca	Dem
63rd	Bill Leonard	Rep
64th	Rod Pacheco	Rep
65th	Brett Granlund	Rep
66th	Bruce Thompson	Rep
67th	Scott Baugh	Rep
68th	Curt Pringle	Rep
69th	Jim Morrissey	Rep
70th	Marilyn C. Brewer	Rep
71st	Bill Campbell	Rep
72nd	Dick Ackerman	Rep
73rd	Bill Morrow	Rep
74th	Howard Kaloogian	Rep
75th	Jan Goldsmith	Rep
76th	Susan Davis	Dem
77th	Steve Baldwin	Rep
78th	Howard Wayne	Dem
79th	Denise Moreno Ducheny	Dem
80th	Jim Battin	Rep

Officers information

Sergeant-at-Arms is the division which protects the assemblymen of the California State Assembly. The chief sergeant at arms is the head of this division. This position has existed since December 15, 1849 when Samuel N. Houston became California's first Sergeant at Arms. [Official website of the Sergeant at Arms]

See also

• California State Capitol
• California State Capitol Museum
• California State Legislature
• California State Senate
• List of Speakers of the California State Assembly
• Members of the California State Legislature
• Districts in California

External links

• [California State Assembly]
• [Current Candidates for the State Assembly]
• [California Legislative District Maps (1911-Present)]
• [Map of Assembly Districts]

 

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