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California Legislature · Statewide General Election

Member of the State Assembly, District 47

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

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

Assemblymember Greg Wallis took 48.1% of the June 2 vote — short of a majority — and Democrat Leila Namvar took 32.3% to claim the second slot. The district covers the Coachella Valley and part of the desert Inland Empire.

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. This district's member sits in the minority caucus, where enacting legislation requires majority-party agreement.

This is one of the seats both parties are treating as winnable, and the money shows it: the incumbent's campaign carries $143,000 in direct party funding, one of eight campaigns on this ballot drawing party money at that scale. He also took under half the vote in his own primary. Weigh a minority-caucus record against a challenger who has assembled real committee backing of her own.

Greg Wallis

Republican, the sitting Assemblymember for this district. He is lead author of 30 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 4 of them signed into law — from the minority caucus, where bills need majority-party support to advance. He raised $1,290,544, including $143,000 directly from party committees.

Strengths

Four bills signed from the minority side of the aisle, and the strongest combined party and committee backing of any Assembly Republican here.

Trade-offs

He took 48.1% in his own primary, short of a majority in a seat he already holds.

Keep in mind

Party money at this scale means the state party has a direct stake in this seat, which tells you how competitive it is considered.

Leila Namvar

Democrat, who advanced with 32.3% of the June vote. Her campaign reports $207,809 in contributions, including $179,300 from PACs and committees and $24,841 from individuals, along with money of her own. She has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress.

Strengths

She assembled substantial committee backing for a first run, which most challengers on this ballot did not.

Trade-offs

She finished nearly 16 points behind on about a sixth of the incumbent's resources, and has no record in office to be judged on.

Keep in mind

Coverage surfaced little detail about her platform; what we can document is how her campaign is funded and how it polled, not what she would do in office.

Record in office

Greg Wallis (Republican) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 30 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 4 of them signed into law. Leila Namvar 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 2026-08-10.

Record details

Wallis — AB 580 (2025): Surface mining: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Wallis — AB 1476 (2025): Meal program: senior citizens. Wallis — AB 1293 (2025): Workers’ compensation: qualified medical evaluators. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record.

Financial info

Greg Wallis

$1,290,544raised
  • Small donors$794<1%
  • Individuals$98,4008%
  • PACs & committees$494,09539%
  • Party$143,00011%
  • Businesses & other orgs$544,83343%

Leila Namvar

$207,809raised
  • Small donors$2,1891%
  • Individuals$24,84112%
  • PACs & committees$179,30084%
  • Businesses & other orgs$1,000<1%
  • Self-funding$5,0002%

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 2026-08-22.

June 2 primary — how they advanced

Greg Wallis (Republican)48.1% · 68,831 votes
Leila Namvar (Democratic)32.3% · 46,256 votes
Jason Byors (Democratic)19.5% · 27,915 votes
Source review: Very strong (97/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

Last updated August 10, 2026.