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California Legislature · Statewide General Election

Member of the State Assembly, District 61

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 Tina Simone McKinnor took 98.6% of the June 2 vote to Republican Brian Lockwood's 1.4%. The district covers Inglewood, Hawthorne and part of the South Bay.

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.

A 97-point primary margin means the practical question is what the incumbent does with a seat she holds without contest, not who holds it. Her record and her funding sources are the substance; the ballot itself will not test either.

Tina Simone McKinnor

Democrat, the sitting Assemblymember for this district. She is lead author of 34 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 5 of them signed into law. She took more than 98% of the June primary vote.

Strengths

Five bills signed into law this session and the committee standing that comes with multiple terms.

Trade-offs

About half her money came from PACs and committees, the ordinary shape for a member with committee standing and a cost if you want distance from it.

Keep in mind

She faces no meaningful electoral pressure here, so accountability for how she uses the seat will not come from the ballot.

Brian Lockwood

Republican, and the only other candidate on this district's ballot, with 1.4% of the June vote. He has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. Cal-Access shows no contributions reported for his committee.

Strengths

He gives this district a name on the ballot other than the incumbent's, which a one-candidate race would not.

Trade-offs

No reported funding, no record in office, and one of the smallest vote shares of any advancing candidate here.

Keep in mind

Coverage surfaced no biographical or platform detail about him at all. That gap is what was available to us on 2026-08-10, not a comment on his candidacy.

Record in office

Tina Simone McKinnor (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 34 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 5 of them signed into law. Brian Lockwood 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

McKinnor — AB 749 (2025): Youth Sports for All Act. McKinnor — AB 851 (2025): Real property transactions: Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura wildfires: unsolicited offers. McKinnor — AB 628 (2025): Hiring of real property: dwellings: untenantability. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record.

Financial info

Tina Simone McKinnor

$823,774raised
  • Small donors$975<1%
  • Individuals$33,9054%
  • PACs & committees$425,82053%
  • Businesses & other orgs$347,50043%

Brian Lockwood 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

Tina Simone McKinnor (Democratic)98.6% · 79,047 votes
Brian Lockwood (Republican) · write-in1.4% · 1,104 votes
Source review: Very strong (97/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

Last updated August 10, 2026.