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Member of the State Assembly, District 39

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State of California

Member of the State Assembly, District 39

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

Assemblymember Juan Carrillo took 62.3% of the June 2 vote. Republican Paul Andre Marsh took 37.7%. They were the only two candidates on the primary ballot. The district covers the Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles 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. Committee assignment is where most of the leverage sits, and it is handed out by the majority's leadership.

The incumbent's funding is almost entirely institutional — $99 of a campaign of $874,506 came from small donors, the lowest small-dollar share on this ballot. That is worth weighing against a solid enacted record. The challenger has raised almost nothing, so the practical question is what this district is getting from a safe seat.

Juan Carrillo

Juan Carrillo immigrated from Guadalajara, Mexico, at age 15 and settled in Los Angeles. He worked as a city planner for 15 years, including 10 in Palmdale. He then served on the Palmdale City Council. He was elected to the Assembly in 2022 and reelected in 2024. His colleagues chose him this year to lead the California Latino Legislative Caucus.

Primary elections often draw far fewer voters than general elections, especially among Latino and young voters. Carrillo has pushed to fix that. He wrote a bill requiring county nonpartisan races to go to a runoff between the top two finishers. That runoff would happen even when one candidate wins a majority outright in the primary. The bill did not pass. It died at the end of last session.

Carrillo's office highlights small businesses and veterans as ongoing priorities. It is planning a first veterans parade in Palmdale this November. He has also held hearings on transportation and water needs across the Antelope Valley and into San Bernardino County. As a city council member before Sacramento, he pushed for affordable housing to address homelessness.

Paul Andre Marsh

Paul Andre Marsh is a Republican whose ballot designation is community services liaison. No campaign website or news coverage of his background could be located.

No documented record in any office exists to judge his conduct or votes. What is known about him comes from his ballot designation.

His campaign promises are not documented in any source that could be found.

Record in office

Juan Carrillo (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 9 of them signed into law. Paul Andre Marsh 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

Juan Carrillo

Primary — $874,506

$874,506raised
  • Small donors$99<1%
  • Individuals$35,2004%
  • PACs & committees$431,10050%
  • Businesses & other orgs$395,15046%

November — $63,100

$63,100raised
  • PACs & committees$30,30048%
  • Businesses & other orgs$32,80052%

Paul Andre Marsh

Primary — $5,022

$5,022raised
  • Individuals$1,50043%
  • PACs & committees$1,97557%

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.

Paul Andre Marsh 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.

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