# Member of the State Assembly, District 62 Compare records and positions simply between Paul Irving Jones or José Luis Solache for Member of the State Assembly, District 62 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-62 - 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: 93 out of 100 (Very strong), across 8 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Paul Irving Jones** — Retired Combat Marine · Republican - **José Luis Solache** — California State Assemblymember · Democratic · Incumbent Assemblymember José Luis Solache took 73.1% of the June 2 vote and Republican Paul Irving Jones took 26.9%; they were the only two candidates on the primary ballot. The district covers Lynwood, South Gate and part of southeast Los Angeles County. 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 has a solid enacted record and a funding profile that is almost entirely institutional — $100 from small donors out of more than $1 million. Weigh that record against that funding shape, against an opponent with no reported campaign at all. ## José Luis Solache José Luis Solache, a Democrat, is the Assemblymember for District 62, which covers Lynwood, South Gate and neighboring southeast Los Angeles County cities. He grew up in Lynwood, earned a bachelor's degree in liberal studies from Cal State Dominguez Hills, and was elected to the Lynwood Unified School District's board at 23, one of the youngest elected officials in the county at the time (official Assembly site). He went on to serve as a Lynwood councilmember, mayor pro tem and mayor before his 2024 election to the Assembly, where he chairs the Committee on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact (campaign site; official Assembly site). He says on his campaign site that he has learned "the best way to get things done is to listen, bring people together, and work hard" (campaign site). In October 2025, Governor Newsom signed his AB 1390, which raised the pay ceiling for school board members statewide (California Legislature). This year he introduced AB 1708, the "HHAP Pathways for Cities Act," to give smaller cities a clearer route to state homelessness funding, and AB 1636, aimed at easing the move from high school to Cerritos College (official Assembly site). He promises to "fully fund schools and lower the financial barriers" to California's public universities, and to "reduce homelessness by investing in mental health and affordable housing" (campaign site). His stated priorities also include fighting climate change through clean energy investment, helping businesses create jobs with worker protections, and expanding health care access while lowering prescription costs (campaign site). **Strengths:** He already has a signed law on the books and an economic development committee chair, giving him standing beyond a freshman term. **Trade-offs:** His platform leans on broad promises like fully funding schools, with fewer specifics on paying for them. **Keep in mind:** His opponent has run against him twice now, so this seat has already been decided by voters once before. ## Paul Irving Jones Paul Irving Jones is a Republican whose ballot designation is "Retired Combat Marine" (Ballotpedia). He has not served in the California Legislature or Congress. This is his second consecutive run against Democratic Assemblymember José Luis Solache for the 62nd Assembly District, after also facing him in 2024 (Los Angeles Daily News). No public statement from him about his motivation for running could be located. What is documented is that this is a rematch: he challenged Solache in 2024 and lost, then challenged him again in the 2026 primary with a similar result (Los Angeles Daily News). No campaign website or news coverage of his platform could be located. What is known about him is limited to his ballot designation and his repeated candidacy against the same opponent (Ballotpedia; Los Angeles Daily News). **Strengths:** He has held a share of the vote against the same opponent across two elections, a small but consistent base. **Trade-offs:** No record in office and no located platform leave little else for a voter to weigh. **Keep in mind:** Coverage did not surface why he is running again after his 2024 loss to the same opponent. ## Record in office Paul Irving Jones has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. José Luis Solache (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 10 of them signed into law. Per the California Legislature's public bill data (leginfo bulk download), retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Record details Solache — AB 786 (2025): California Pollution Control Financing Authority: name change. Solache — AB 482 (2025): California Table Grape Commission. Solache — AB 1390 (2025): Public school governance: board member compensation. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **José Luis Solache** - Primary: $1,004,140 raised (Small donors: $100; Individuals: $60,700; PACs & committees: $536,744; Businesses & other orgs: $401,100) - November: $47,450 raised (Individuals: $100; PACs & committees: $18,650; Businesses & other orgs: $28,700) Paul Irving Jones 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. Paul Irving Jones 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 29, 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. ## Review notes - Solache for Assembly may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## 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 José Luis Solache — Biography and press releases (career background, committee role, authored bills)](https://a62.asmdc.org/biography) 4. [Solache for Assembly — Home page (his stated priorities and motivation, in his own words)](https://www.solacheforassembly.com) 5. [California Legislature — AB 1390 bill history (Solache's school board pay bill, signed into law)](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1390) 6. [Los Angeles Daily News — Check out who's advancing in LA County Assembly races to the general election (rematch context and primary results for AD62/64/65)](https://www.dailynews.com/2026/06/27/check-out-whos-advancing-in-la-county-assembly-races-to-the-general-election/) 7. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) 8. [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 62 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 62 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-62 (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.