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Member of the State Assembly, District 32

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State of California

Member of the State Assembly, District 32

This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term).

Only one candidate filed for this open seat. David Couch was the sole name on the June 2 primary ballot. He took 100% of the vote and is unopposed in November. This contest is settled, so your vote here does not change the outcome. The district covers Kern County and part of the southern Central Valley.

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 of the minority caucus depends on cross-party support to move anything, since the majority's leadership controls committee assignments and the floor calendar.

This is an open seat with a single candidate, which is the least contested combination on the ballot — nobody is being replaced and nobody is being challenged. With no record in this office and no opponent, the useful information is what his campaign is funded by and what the office he is about to hold actually controls.

David Couch

David Couch is a Kern County Supervisor and the only candidate who filed for this Assembly seat, so he is unopposed in November. He has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress.

No campaign website or news coverage of his platform could be located. What is known about him comes from his ballot designation as a county supervisor.

His campaign has not published stated priorities that could be located, so what he would promise voters in the Assembly is not documented here.

Record in office

This is an open seat: no candidate on the November ballot currently serves in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress, so there is no legislative record to compare here. These records cover only those offices.

Financial info

David Couch

Primary — $262,574

$262,574raised
  • Small donors$106<1%
  • Individuals$63,80025%
  • PACs & committees$90,20035%
  • Businesses & other orgs$106,20041%

November — $1,500

$1,500raised
  • PACs & committees$1,500100%

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.

Total is itemized (Schedule A) contributions and self-funding loans dated after the June 2, 2026 primary, through June 26, 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.

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