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California elects United States senators to class 1 and class 3. The state has been represented by 48 people in the Senate since it was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. Its U.S. senators are Democrats Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. Dianne Feinstein was the state's longest serving senator, who served from 1992 until her death in 2023.
United States Army officer U.S. House: Harvard University (AB, JD) January 3, 2015 2026 Class 2 Little Rock [11] California: Alex Padilla: Democratic March 22, 1973 (age 51) Engineer Secretary of State of California
Alejandro "Alex" Padilla (born March 22, 1973) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from California, a seat he has held since 2021.A member of the Democratic Party, Padilla served as the 30th secretary of state of California from 2015 to 2021 and was a member of the California State Senate and the Los Angeles City Council.
In the United States House of Representatives, California is apportioned 52 U.S. representatives, each representing approximately 750,564 people, [2] while in the California State Senate, each of the 40 state senators represents approximately 931,349 people, almost exactly the population of the entire state of Delaware. [3]
From the 50 state legislatures in the United States, the following superlatives emerge: Largest legislature: New Hampshire General Court (424 members) Smallest legislature: Nebraska Legislature (49 members) Largest upper house: Minnesota Senate (67 senators) Smallest upper house: Alaska Senate (20 senators)
California State Senate election, 2020; Primary election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Nancy Skinner (incumbent) : 263,751 100.0 Libertarian: Jamie Dluzak (write-in)
Seven Democrats and one Republican are vying in the top-two primary March 5 to replace termed-out Democrat Steven Bradford in state Senate District 35 in South L.A. County.
The California State Legislature is the bicameral state legislature of the U.S. state of California, consisting of the California State Assembly (lower house with 80 members) and the California State Senate (upper house with 40 members). [1] Both houses of the Legislature convene at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.