# Member of the State Assembly, District 10 Compare records and positions simply between Stephanie Nguyen or Vinaya Singh for Member of the State Assembly, District 10 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term). - Jurisdiction: California Legislature - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-10 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 24, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 97 out of 100 (Very strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Stephanie Nguyen** — State Assemblymember · Democratic · Incumbent - **Vinaya Singh** — Retired Application Developer · Republican Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen took 71.7% of the June 2 vote to Republican Vinaya Singh's 28.3%, and the two were the only candidates on the primary ballot. This is a rematch: the same pairing ran in November 2024, when Nguyen won 67.6% to 32.4%. The district covers Elk Grove and south Sacramento, where Hoodline reports registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than two to one. The winner holds one of 80 Assembly seats for a two-year term, inside a 12-year lifetime cap on service in Sacramento. An Assemblymember authors bills, sits on the policy committees that decide which bills advance, and argues for the district's share of the annual state budget. Elk Grove is close enough to the Capitol that access is not the constraint here; what the seat buys is a vote and a committee chair's ear. June's margin tells you where this district's registration sits, and the two candidates are not offering competing versions of the same program — they disagree about what the job is for. One is running on accumulated legislative output inside the majority; the other is running against the way that majority is financed and staffed. Weigh whether you want the seat used to keep producing bills through the existing machinery, or used to argue against it. ## Stephanie Nguyen Stephanie Nguyen, the Democratic Assemblymember for District 10, grew up in Sacramento's Little Saigon neighborhood as the daughter of Vietnamese refugees who fled by boat. Before running for office she was executive director of Asian Resources, Inc., serving low-income, immigrant and refugee communities (assembly website). She was elected to the Elk Grove City Council in 2017, the first Asian American woman in that role, and in 2022 became the first AAPI woman to represent the Sacramento region in the Assembly (assembly website). Nguyen authored AB 46, which clarifies the public-safety standard courts use when deciding whether to grant mental health diversion instead of prosecution; Governor Newsom signed it into law in June 2026 after it passed the Senate 36-0 (assembly website). She also serves as vice chair of the Legislature's AAPI Caucus and co-chairs its Select Committee on Child Care Costs (assembly website). She says her priorities include continuing to bring state funding to Elk Grove and south Sacramento; her campaign points to a five-million-dollar effort for regional homeless services and support for local food banks as examples (Hoodline). She promises to keep pursuing legislation, like AB 46, that she says draws bipartisan support. **Strengths:** A specific, signed law to her name this year, a unanimous Senate vote for it, and a public-service career rooted in the district she represents. **Trade-offs:** Her legislative style is incremental and consensus-seeking, a different kind of representation than a challenger promising to shake up the system. **Keep in mind:** She has now beaten this same opponent twice by wide margins, so this race also reflects how the district is registered, not only how the two candidates compare. ## Vinaya Singh Vinaya Singh, a retired application developer, immigrated to the United States from rural India and later became a U.S. citizen. He is the Republican candidate challenging Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen for a second time, having lost the same race in November 2024 (Hoodline). Singh positions himself as an anti-establishment candidate: per Hoodline, he is not pursuing traditional fundraising or endorsements and says he would abolish political action committees. He has never held elected office, so voters have no legislative record to judge him on. His platform, as reported by Hoodline, calls for ending sanctuary policies, giving local school boards more control over curriculum, and prioritizing government services for U.S. citizens. No other outlet we cite covers his positions independently, so this account rests on a single source. **Strengths:** A clear, stated choice to run without PAC support or traditional endorsements, positioning himself as independent of party machinery. **Trade-offs:** That same choice leaves him with fewer resources to reach voters, and he has no record in office to be judged on. **Keep in mind:** His platform is documented in one outlet's reporting, not in his own published materials, so read it as a single account rather than a corroborated one. ## Record in office Stephanie Nguyen (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 31 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 10 of them signed into law. Vinaya Singh has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Per the California Legislature's public bill data (leginfo bulk download), retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Record details Nguyen — AB 1758 (2026): Sellers of travel. Nguyen — AB 1615 (2026): Firearms: unsafe handguns. Nguyen — AB 2024 (2026): Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **Stephanie Nguyen** - Primary: $770,709 raised (Small donors: $289; Individuals: $67,765; PACs & committees: $364,889; Businesses & other orgs: $331,150) - November: $10,750 raised (PACs & committees: $1,750; Businesses & other orgs: $9,000) Vinaya Singh has no contributions reported to Cal-Access for this race. Figures are CA Form 460 filings through June 30, 2026 by committees controlled by each candidate, and can include transfers from a candidate's earlier committees. Semi-annual reports covering January–June 2026 were due July 31, 2026, so some totals lag a period behind. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-09-21. Vinaya Singh has no itemized contributions dated after the June 2, 2026 primary reported to Cal-Access yet. Total is itemized (Schedule A) contributions and self-funding loans dated after the June 2, 2026 primary, through June 30, 2026 — small-dollar unitemized (under $100) contributions aren't independently dated in Cal-Access's raw export, so they aren't reflected here and this may undercount true small-donor activity since the primary. This also doesn't include money reported only on 24-hour late-contribution reports (Form 497) that haven't yet appeared in a periodic Form 460 filing. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-08-30. ## Sources 1. [CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)](https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/primary-election-june-2-2026/statement-vote) 2. [Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary](https://ballotpedia.org) 3. [Hoodline — Assembly District 10 rematch coverage](https://hoodline.com/2026/04/elk-grove-on-edge-as-nguyen-vs-singh-rematch-takes-over-2026-ballot/) 4. [Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen — official biography and newsroom pages (used for her background and AB 46)](https://nguyen.asmdc.org/biography) 5. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) 6. [Cal-Access raw data export — California Secretary of State](https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/helpful-resources/raw-data-campaign-finance-and-lobbying-activity) ## The rest of the ballot Member of the State Assembly, District 10 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Member of the State Assembly, District 10 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-10 (sources last retrieved September 24, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.