California Legislature · Statewide General Election
Member of the State Assembly, District 50
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On the ballot
- Robert Garcia — Democratic · Incumbent
- Victoria Viveros Mageno — Republican
This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term).
Assemblymember Robert Garcia took 58.2% of the June 2 vote and Republican Victoria Viveros Mageno took 38.7% to claim the second slot. The district covers part of the eastern San Gabriel 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. Committee assignment is where most of the leverage sits, and it is handed out by the majority's leadership.
The incumbent took 58.2%, a middling showing by the standards of this ballot, against a challenger with no reported campaign funding. That combination — a sitting member well under two-thirds against an unfunded opponent — is worth noting as a signal about the district rather than about either candidate.
Robert Garcia
Democrat, the sitting Assemblymember for this district. He is lead author of 28 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 5 of them signed into law. He took 58.2% of the June vote.
Strengths
Five bills signed into law from 28 authored is a reasonable conversion rate, and at $522,268 he raised less than most incumbents on this ballot.
Trade-offs
About two-thirds of his money came from PACs and committees, so the efficiency of that record runs through the relationships that fund it.
Keep in mind
58.2% is on the lower end for a sitting member here, against an opponent who reported no fundraising.
Victoria Viveros Mageno
Republican, who advanced with 38.7% of the June vote. She has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. Cal-Access shows no contributions reported for her committee.
Strengths
She took nearly four in ten votes with no reported campaign funding at all, one of the strongest unfunded showings on this ballot.
Trade-offs
No money and no record in office leaves very little for a voter to evaluate beyond party.
Keep in mind
Coverage surfaced almost no biographical or platform detail about her. That gap is what was available to us on 2026-08-10, not a comment on her candidacy.
Record in office
Robert Garcia (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 28 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 5 of them signed into law. Victoria Viveros Mageno 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
Garcia — AB 2175 (2026): Renewable electrical generation facilities: multiple meters: aggregation: logistics businesses and manufacturing businesses. Garcia — AB 1280 (2025): Energy. Garcia — AB 1410 (2025): Utilities: service outages and updates: alerts. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record.
Financial info
- Small donors
- Individuals
- PACs & committees
- Businesses & other orgs
Robert Garcia
$522,268 raised
- Small donors$2,5981%
- Individuals$59,24011%
- PACs & committees$326,80063%
- Businesses & other orgs$129,80025%
1Victoria Viveros Mageno 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 2026-08-22.
June 2 primary — how they advanced
Source review: Very strong (97/100) · 4 cited sources
Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.
- 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
- 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 August 10, 2026.