1998Flipped from independentFinal results
1998 election for California Senate District 8
California State Senate · California
Jackie Speier (D) won with 79.2% of the vote, defeating Jim Rus Tomlin (R) by 58.4 points, a seat another party won last time.
Jackie SpeierDemocrat · winner
79.2%167,216
Jim Rus TomlinRepublican
20.8%43,936
211,152 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1998
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET