# Member of the State Assembly, District 14 Compare records and positions simply between Buffy Wicks or Mark Rendon for Member of the State Assembly, District 14 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-14 - 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: 88 out of 100 (Strong), across 9 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Buffy Wicks** — Assemblymember/Mom · Democratic · Incumbent - **Mark Rendon** — Teacher · Green Assemblymember Buffy Wicks took 81.2% of the June 2 vote. The second slot went to Green Party candidate Mark Rendon with 10.0%, who edged out Republican Borgar Solnordal at 8.8% — so the November ballot in this East Bay district offers a Democrat and a Green rather than the usual pairing. The district covers Berkeley, Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo and Piedmont. 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. Seniority compounds here: a member several terms in chairs committees and shapes which bills reach a floor vote at all. June's margin tells you where this district's politics sit, and the choice on offer is not between two governing programs of comparable reach. One candidate is a senior member of the majority with a legislative record and the committee position that comes with it; the other is a third-party challenger running without institutional backing. Weigh whether you are choosing a legislator for the next two years or registering a preference about the direction of the majority itself — both are legitimate uses of the vote, and this ballot makes the difference unusually stark. ## Buffy Wicks Buffy Wicks, a Democrat, is the sitting Assemblymember for this East Bay district. Before Sacramento she "served for President Barack Obama for six years" and describes herself as "a lifelong organizer" (Assemblymember Wicks' official site). She has served in the Assembly since 2018 and is now Chair of the Appropriations Committee, after two years chairing the Housing Committee; she has authored legislation on housing production, child safety online and the social safety net (official site). She says, "When you see injustices in the world, you want to be a part of the change. Our community deserves more — that's why I'm running for re-election" (campaign site). In September 2026, Governor Newsom signed Adam's Law (Senate Bill 1119), which Wicks co-authored with Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan and Senator Steve Padilla to set nation-leading safety standards for AI companion chatbots used by children (official site). She promises to keep tackling the housing crisis and homelessness, protect children online, strengthen consumer protections and defend working families (campaign site). Her official site adds a focus on the social safety net and on continuing the housing-construction-innovation work she has chaired in the Assembly. **Strengths:** Eight years in the Assembly, now chairing Appropriations, with a signed law on AI chatbot safety and a long record of housing legislation. **Trade-offs:** Her seniority and committee chairmanships put her deep inside the majority's leadership, a cost if you want a member with more distance from it. **Keep in mind:** She won her June primary with more than eight in ten votes in a heavily Democratic district. The fall contest offers a genuine alternative in Rendon but not a close one. ## Mark Rendon Mark Rendon, the Green Party candidate, taught music in Oakland Unified for 29 years and served the Oakland Education Association as site representative, treasurer, secretary, executive board member and delegate to the California Teachers Association State Council, where he founded the CTA's Green Party caucus (Ballotpedia candidate survey). He has been a Green Party member since the early 1990s and has not held elected office. He describes himself as ready to "bring a progressive voice to Sacramento" (Ballotpedia candidate survey). In 2001, he organized teachers and parents at his school to persuade Oakland Unified to adopt an Integrated Pest Management Plan, "thus ending the use of toxic pesticides in all of the public schools in Oakland" (Ballotpedia candidate survey). He promises "Healthcare with CalCare (Medicare for All)" and what he calls social housing, proposing that the state buy vacant units and tax "billionaires and wealthy corporations" to pay for it (Ballotpedia candidate survey; campaign site). He says he will fight the proposed coal port in Oakland, push to transform the Chevron refinery in Richmond, and that refusing corporate and super-PAC money keeps him "accountable to you" (campaign site). **Strengths:** Three decades teaching in district classrooms and a long record in union governance, giving him direct experience of the school-funding questions the Legislature decides. **Trade-offs:** No record in any office, and a platform built on proposals, like statewide single-payer health care, well outside what the Legislature has passed. **Keep in mind:** He advanced to November by finishing narrowly ahead of a Republican in a heavily Democratic district. The seat is very unlikely to change hands this cycle. ## Record in office Buffy Wicks (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 31 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 14 of them signed into law. Mark Rendon 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 Wicks — AB 2168 (2026): Active Transportation Program: guidelines. Wicks — AB 2015 (2026): Department of Transportation: third-party navigation applications: study and report. Wicks — AB 1946 (2026): Reporting mechanism: child sexual abuse material. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **Buffy Wicks** - Primary: $1,303,986 raised (Small donors: $416; Individuals: $152,402; PACs & committees: $500,166; Businesses & other orgs: $638,597) - November: $53,900 raised (Individuals: $23,700; PACs & committees: $8,900; Businesses & other orgs: $21,300) - **Mark Rendon** - Primary: $1,390 raised (Individuals: $1,259) - November: No itemized funding reported yet. 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. Mark Rendon 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. ## Review notes - Buffy Wicks for Assembly and Mark Rendon for Assembly District 14 may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## 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. [ABC10 Sacramento — California legislative race results and candidate tracking](https://www.abc10.com/article/news/politics/elections/california-assembly-district-14-race-primary-election-results/103-69d9a2fd-d97c-46cc-854b-e79fbee37f0d) 4. [Assemblymember Buffy Wicks — official Assembly website (biography and press releases)](https://wicks.asmdc.org/) 5. [Buffy Wicks for Assembly — campaign site (biography and priorities)](https://www.buffywicks.com/) 6. [Ballotpedia — Mark Rendon (biography, elections history, 2026 candidate survey)](https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Rendon) 7. [Mark Rendon for Assembly District 14 — campaign site](https://markrendon4ad14.com) 8. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) 9. [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 14 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 14 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-14 (sources last retrieved September 24, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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