Skip to main content

California Legislature · Statewide General Election

Member of the State Assembly, District 55

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

This is one contest. Enter your address to see every race on your November ballot, and keep track of your picks.

On the ballot

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

Assemblymember Isaac G. Bryan took 64.6% of the June 2 vote and fellow Democrat Ashley M. Brown took 18.9%, so November is a contest between two members of the same party. The district covers Culver City and the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles.

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. Seniority compounds: a member several terms in chairs committees and shapes which bills reach a floor vote at all.

With two Democrats on the ballot, party is not the axis. The incumbent has the highest enacted-bill count of any candidate on this entire ballot — 14 signed into law from 35 authored — which is the clearest measure of legislative effectiveness the public record offers. Weigh that against whatever case a same-party challenge is making, noting that the challenger has reported no funding.

Isaac G. Bryan

Democrat, the sitting Assemblymember for this district. He is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 14 of them signed into law — the highest enacted count of any candidate on this ballot. He took nearly two-thirds of the June vote.

Strengths

Fourteen bills signed into law in one session is the strongest legislative conversion rate anywhere on this ballot.

Trade-offs

Nothing adverse surfaced in his record, and his funding is unremarkable for a majority member — the choice here is continuity or change.

Keep in mind

He drew a same-party challenger despite that record, which usually signals a disagreement inside the district's own coalition rather than dissatisfaction with output.

Ashley M. Brown

Democrat, who advanced with 18.9% of the June vote against an incumbent of her own party. She has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. Cal-Access shows no contributions reported for her committee.

Strengths

Nearly a fifth of the vote against a well-funded sitting member of her own party, with no reported campaign funding at all.

Trade-offs

No money and no record in office leaves very little for a voter to evaluate.

Keep in mind

Coverage surfaced almost no detail about why she is challenging an incumbent Democrat; the disagreement she represents is not documented in the sources we cite.

Record in office

Isaac G. Bryan (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 14 of them signed into law. Ashley M. Brown 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

Bryan — AB 2286 (2026): Criminal procedure: attorney visits: medical settings. Bryan — AB 1768 (2026): Transactions and use taxes: Counties of Contra Costa and Los Angeles. Bryan — AB 247 (2025): Incarcerated individual hand crew members: wages. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record.

Financial info

Isaac G. Bryan

$812,238raised
  • Small donors$467<1%
  • Individuals$198,28525%
  • PACs & committees$344,50043%
  • Businesses & other orgs$261,68033%

Ashley M. Brown 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 2026-08-22.

June 2 primary — how they advanced

Isaac G. Bryan (Democratic)64.6% · 79,396 votes
Ashley M. Brown (Democratic)18.9% · 23,242 votes
Keith G. Cascio (Republican)15.3% · 18,847 votes
William "Billion" Campbell (No Party Preference)1.2% · 1,508 votes
Source review: Very strong (97/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

Last updated August 10, 2026.