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Governor
Lt. Governor
The Lieutenant Governor serves as Acting Governor whenever the Governor is absent from the state, and automatically becomes Governor if a vacancy occurs in the Office of Governor.
Peace and Freedom
Secretary of State
Shirley Weber
Democrat
– Incumbent
Controller
The Controller, or Comptroller, is effectively the chief financial officer of a public body.
Betty Yee
Democrat
– Outgoing Incumbent
Republican
Treasurer
Fiona Ma
Democrat
– Incumbent
Attorney General
The attorney general enforces federal laws, provides legal counsel in federal cases, interprets the laws that govern executive departments, heads federal jails and penal institutions, and examines alleged violations of federal laws.
No Party Preference
Insurance Commissioner
Ricardo Lara
Democrat
– Incumbent
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Tony Thurmond
Democrat
– Incumbent
Board of Equalization – 1st District
Ted Gaines
Republican
– Incumbent
Senator – 12th District
Senate District 12 includes portions of Fresno, Kern, and Tulare Counties, including the whole Cities of California City, Clovis, Exeter, Maricopa, Ridgecrest, Taft, and Tehachapi, and portions of the Cities of Bakersfield, Fresno, Shafter, Tulare, and Visalia.
Susanne Gundy
Democrat
Senator – 14th District
Senate District 14 includes portions of Fresno, Madera, Merced, and Tulare Counties, including the whole Cities of Atwater, Chowchilla, Coalinga, Dos Palos, Firebaugh, Fowler, Gustine, Huron, Kerman, Los Banos, Madera, Mendota, Merced, Orange Cove, Parlier, Reedley, Sanger, San Joaquin, and Selma, and portions of the Cities of Fresno and Livingston.
Senator – 16th District
Senate District 16 includes Kings County and portions of Fresno, Kern, and Tulare Counties. This district includes the whole Cities of Arvin, Avenal, Corcoran, Delano, Dinuba, Farmersville, Hanford, Kingsburg, Lemoore, Lindsay, McFarland, Porterville, Wasco, and Woodlake, and portions of the Cities of Bakersfield, Shafter, Tulare, and Visalia.
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Republican
State Assembly – 32nd District
Assembly District 32 consists of portions of Kern and Tulare Counties, including the whole Cities of Exeter, Ridgecrest, Tehachapi, Maricopa, and Taft, and portions of the Cities of Bakersfield and Visalia.
State Assembly – 33rd District
The district, one of the largest in California, encompasses a wide expanse of the High Desert, stretching from the Victor Valley to the Nevada and Arizona borders.
Democrat
State Assembly – 35th District
Assembly District 35 consists of portions of Kern County including the whole Cities of McFarland, Shafter, Arvin, Delano, and Wasco, and portions of the City of Bakersfield. *This is most similar to the current 32nd district in which Rudy Salas is the incumbent
