# Member of the State Assembly, District 50 Compare records and positions simply between Robert Garcia or Victoria Viveros Mageno for Member of the State Assembly, District 50 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-50 - 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: 100 out of 100 (Very strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Robert Garcia** — State Assemblymember/Educator · Democratic · Incumbent - **Victoria Viveros Mageno** — Cucamonga School District Member Governing Board Area 1 · Republican 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 Robert Garcia, a Democrat, has represented the 50th Assembly District since 2024 (Assembly biography). Before Sacramento, he spent more than twenty years as a classroom teacher and school administrator (Assembly biography). In 2016 he was elected to the Etiwanda School District board and later served as board president (Assembly biography). Under his leadership, the district won the California Exemplary District Award twice, and five of its schools earned National Blue Ribbon status (Assembly biography). By his account, his commitment to education "led him to the State Assembly" (Assembly biography). There, he says, he is "focused on securing safe neighborhoods, fully funding public schools, reducing homelessness, creating good-paying jobs, and supporting small businesses" (Assembly biography). The single most decision-relevant fact about his record: in 2025 he abstained on Assembly Bill 715, a school antisemitism measure (CalMatters). He said the bill "only reinforces broader national trends of silencing constitutionally protected speech, erasing historically relevant curriculum, and persecuting anyone who expresses even the slightest opposition to the federal administration" (CalMatters). He promises safer neighborhoods, fully funded public schools and reduced homelessness (Assembly biography). He also promises good-paying jobs and support for small businesses across the Inland Empire (Assembly biography). **Strengths:** A twenty-year career teaching and leading schools, plus a record of guiding his former school board to two state exemplary-district awards. **Trade-offs:** He broke with most Democrats to abstain on a high-profile bill this year, a sign of independence but also a thin record to weigh it against. **Keep in mind:** As a first-term member, most of what can be judged is his education career before Sacramento rather than years of legislative record. ## Victoria Viveros Mageno Victoria Viveros Mageno is a Republican who serves on the Cucamonga School District governing board, representing Area 1 (Ballotpedia). They have not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. No campaign website or news coverage of their platform could be located. What is known about them comes from their ballot designation as a Cucamonga School District governing board member and Republican candidate (Ballotpedia). **Strengths:** Current experience as an elected member of a local school board. **Trade-offs:** No documented record in state office, and no platform information beyond Viveros Mageno's ballot designation could be found. **Keep in mind:** No campaign website or news coverage of their platform could be located. What is known comes from their ballot designation as a school board member. ## 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, 6 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 2026-09-21. ## 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 - **Robert Garcia** - Primary: $522,268 raised (Small donors: $2,598; Individuals: $59,240; PACs & committees: $326,800; Businesses & other orgs: $129,800) - November: $24,300 raised (Individuals: $11,800; PACs & committees: $7,500; Businesses & other orgs: $5,000) Victoria Viveros Mageno has no contributions reported to Cal-Access for this race. 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. Victoria Viveros Mageno 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. [Assemblymember Robert Garcia — Official Biography (career background, priorities)](https://a50.asmdc.org/biography) 4. [CalMatters — Protecting Jewish students or chilling speech? Inside California's 'hardest' fight over antisemitism (AB 715, Zbur co-authorship, Garcia's abstention/quote)](https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/10/school-antisemitism-bill-signed/) 5. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) 6. [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 50 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 50 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-50 (sources last retrieved September 24, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.