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1996 general · November 5, 1996

1996 California State Assembly election results, district by district

Every California State Assembly district in the 1996 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 80 seats

After the electionD 43 · R 37
Races80
Changed party4
Unopposed6%5 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 43 · R 37

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
AD-1Virginia Strommartin (D)10.8
AD-2Tom Woods (R)10.1
AD-3Bernie Richter (R)23.1
AD-4Thomas Oller (R)16.0
AD-5Barbara Alby (R)23.1
AD-6Kerry Mazzoni (D)36.4
AD-7Valerie K. Brown (D)29.8
AD-8Helen M. Thomson (D)17.3
AD-9Deborah V. Ortiz (D)36.2
AD-10Larry Bowler (R)4.0
AD-11Tom Torlakson (D)29.1
AD-12Kevin Shelley (D)56.0
AD-13Carole Migden (D)Unopposed
AD-14Dion Louise Aroner (D)45.0
AD-15Lynne C. Leach (R)0.8
AD-16Don Perata (D)56.6
AD-17Michael J. Machado (D)7.2
AD-18Michael Sweeney (D)Unopposed
AD-19Louis J. Papan (D)18.3
AD-20Liz Figueroa (D)22.6
AD-21Ted Lempert (D)26.2
AD-22Elaine White Alquist (D)24.1
AD-23Michael M. Honda (D)46.8
AD-24James Cunneen (R)16.1
AD-25George House (R)20.2
AD-26Dennis Cardoza (D)0.1
AD-27Fred Keeley (D)19.0Flipped
AD-28Peter Frusetta (R)1.6
AD-29Charles S. Poochigian (R)40.4
AD-30Robert M. Prenter Jr. (R)Unopposed
AD-31Cruz M. Bustamante (D)31.0
AD-32Roy Ashburn (R)37.5
AD-33Tom J. Bordonaro Jr. (R)22.1
AD-34Keith Olberg (R)30.6
AD-35Brooks Firestone (R)36.9
AD-36George C. Runner (R)28.4
AD-37Nao Takasugi (R)19.4
AD-38Tom McClintock (R)15.8
AD-39Tony Cardenas (D)43.3
AD-40Bob Hertzberg (D)28.1
AD-41Sheila James Kuehl (D)17.5
AD-42Wally Knox (D)37.1
AD-43Scott Wildman (D)0.2Flipped
AD-44Jack Scott (D)9.1FlippedIncumbent lost
AD-45Antonio R. Villaraigosa (D)56.5
AD-46Louis Caldera (D)55.0
AD-47Kevin Murray (D)63.7
AD-48Roderick Wright (D)Unopposed
AD-49Diane Martinez (D)38.5
AD-50Martha M. Escutia (D)65.9
AD-51Edward Vincent (D)46.4
AD-52Carl Washington (D)69.1
AD-53Debra Bowen (D)15.3
AD-54Steven T. Kuykendall (R)1.3
AD-55Richard E. Floyd (D)48.5
AD-56Sally M. Havice (D)1.9Flipped
AD-57Martin Gallegos (D)39.4
AD-58Grace F. Napolitano (D)30.3
AD-59Bob Margett (R)16.8
AD-60Gary G. Miller (R)5.4
AD-61Fred Aguiar (R)14.7
AD-62Joe Baca (D)28.6
AD-63Bill Leonard (R)25.6
AD-64Rod Pacheco (R)12.2
AD-65Brett Granlund (R)17.9
AD-66Bruce Thompson (R)27.8
AD-67Scott R. Baugh (R)18.3
AD-68Curt Pringle (R)17.4
AD-69Jim Morrissey (R)0.2
AD-70Marilyn C. Brewer (R)30.0
AD-71Bill Campbell (R)41.2
AD-72Dick Ackerman (R)Unopposed
AD-73Bill Morrow (R)36.1
AD-74Howard Kaloogian (R)20.0
AD-75Jan Goldsmith (R)47.6
AD-76Susan A. Davis (D)8.7
AD-77Steve Baldwin (R)16.1
AD-78Howard Wayne (D)2.9
AD-79Denise Moreno Ducheny (D)43.0
AD-80Jim Battin (R)15.9

California State Assembly

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner