- sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)
- ballotpedia.org (opens in a new tab)Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary
- assembly.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California State Assembly — Liz Ortega member page (committee assignments)
- pleasantonweekly.com (opens in a new tab)Pleasanton Weekly — "Ortega v. Muga in race for State Assembly District 20" (used for both candidates)
- downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)
- sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Cal-Access raw data export — California Secretary of State
Last updated September 24, 2026.
State of California
Member of the State Assembly, District 20
This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term).
Assemblymember Liz Ortega took 75.1% of the June 2 vote. Republican Patricia Muga took 24.9%. They were the only two candidates on the primary ballot. The district covers Hayward, Union City and southern Alameda County.
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. A member two terms in has committee standing that a newcomer would spend years building.
June's margin tells you where this district's registration sits. The incumbent's funding profile is the most union- and committee-weighted on this part of the ballot, which is either the point or the problem depending on how you read the relationship between organized labor and this seat. Weigh that alongside a challenger about whom little has been published.
Liz Ortega
Liz Ortega is the sitting Assemblymember for this district. She chairs the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee. She led the Alameda Labor Council before she was elected, the first Latina to hold that job. She was a labor organizer before that.
She has authored bills on worker protections and child labor. She says her top priority is making sure hardworking people can get ahead.
She promises to keep expanding access to jobs, health care and education. Her campaign calls her a longtime labor and community leader.
Patricia Muga
Patricia Muga is a Republican and the only other candidate on this district's ballot. She is a real estate appraiser who lives in Dublin. She graduated from UCLA and moved to the Bay Area in 2014.
She was once a registered Democrat. She later had no party, and now she is a Republican. She did not respond to interview requests from the local paper covering this race.
She promises to restore what she calls a middle class working economy. She backs keeping natural gas and nuclear power plants open. She wants more water storage and proof of citizenship to register to vote. Her platform also calls for what it calls vagrancy laws for people who are homeless.
Record in office
Liz Ortega (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 33 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 6 of them signed into law. Patricia Muga 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.
Financial info
- Small donors
- Individuals
- PACs & committees
- Businesses & other orgs
Liz Ortega
Primary — $553,694
- Small donors$718<1%
- Individuals$51,0589%
- PACs & committees$469,21885%
- Businesses & other orgs$32,7006%
November — $27,700
- Individuals$11,80043%
- PACs & committees$15,90057%
1Patricia Muga has no contributions reported to Cal-Access for this race.
2Figures 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.
3Patricia Muga has no itemized contributions dated after the June 2, 2026 primary reported to Cal-Access yet.
4Total 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.