# Member of the State Assembly, District 39 Compare records and positions simply between Juan Carrillo or Paul Andre Marsh for Member of the State Assembly, District 39 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-39 - 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: 98 out of 100 (Very strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Juan Carrillo** — State Assemblymember · Democratic · Incumbent - **Paul Andre Marsh** — Community Services Liaison · Republican Assemblymember Juan Carrillo took 62.3% of the June 2 vote and 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 was born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and immigrated to Los Angeles at 15; he earned degrees in architecture, urban and regional planning, and public administration, and worked as a city planner for 15 years, including 10 with the City of Palmdale (assembly website). He served on the Palmdale City Council, advocating for affordable housing amid the homelessness crisis, before his election to the Assembly in 2022 and reelection in 2024; this August his colleagues elected him chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus (assembly website). Carrillo authored AB 868, which would have required county nonpartisan races to advance to a top-two runoff even when a candidate wins an outright majority in the primary, citing findings that primary turnout "nearly doubl[es]" by the general election, particularly among Latino, young and voters of color (California Legislature bill text). The bill did not clear the Legislature and, per the official record, "died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution" on January 31, 2026 (California Legislature bill history). Carrillo's office lists small-business recognition, veterans' services — including a first annual veterans parade in Palmdale this November — and hearings on transportation and water infrastructure across the Antelope Valley and the Victor Valley as ongoing priorities (assembly website). **Strengths:** A documented path from city planner to council member to Assemblymember, and this year his colleagues elected him to chair the Latino Legislative Caucus. **Trade-offs:** His bill to change how county primaries work did not survive the session, so its effect on turnout remains untested. **Keep in mind:** This is a lopsided contest in both funding and turnout, so most of what's on the record here is a full term's work, not a real campaign test. ## Paul Andre Marsh Paul Andre Marsh is a Republican candidate whose ballot designation is community services liaison. No campaign website, social media presence, or local news coverage of his background could be located. No record in any office exists to judge his conduct or votes against. What is known about him comes from his ballot designation alone. His campaign promises are not documented in any source that could be located. **Strengths:** He drew real votes in a heavily Democratic district with almost no visible campaign behind him. **Trade-offs:** No record in any office to judge, and no documented platform beyond his ballot designation. **Keep in mind:** Coverage of this race carries almost nothing about him beyond the primary result. That gap is what is publicly available, not a comment on his candidacy. ## 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. ## Record details Carrillo — AB 1154 (2025): Junior accessory dwelling units. Carrillo — AB 450 (2025): Public social services: support for older and aging immigrants. Carrillo — AB 894 (2025): General acute care hospitals: patient directories. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **Juan Carrillo** - Primary: $874,506 raised (Small donors: $99; Individuals: $35,200; PACs & committees: $431,100; Businesses & other orgs: $395,150) - November: $63,100 raised (PACs & committees: $30,300; Businesses & other orgs: $32,800) - **Paul Andre Marsh** - Primary: $5,022 raised (Individuals: $1,500; PACs & committees: $1,975) - 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. ## 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. [California State Assembly — Juan Carrillo biography (immigration story, career as city planner and council member)](https://a39.asmdc.org/biography) 4. [California State Assembly — Juan Carrillo official website newsroom (Latino Legislative Caucus chairmanship, district priorities)](https://a39.asmdc.org/) 5. [California Legislature — AB 868 bill text and history (status: died at end of session)](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB868) 6. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) 7. [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 39 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 39 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-39 (sources last retrieved September 24, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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