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California Legislature · Statewide General Election

Member of the State Assembly, District 64

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 Blanca Pacheco took 66.5% of the June 2 vote and Republican Raul Ortiz Jr. took 33.5%; they were the only two candidates on the primary ballot. The district covers Downey, Bell Gardens 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 one of the most organization-funded campaigns on this ballot: $535,100 of her $1,102,606 came from businesses and other organizations and $528,932 from PACs and committees, with no small-donor total reported. Weigh the record against that funding shape.

Blanca Pacheco

Democrat, the sitting Assemblymember for this district. She is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 7 of them signed into law. She took two-thirds of the June vote against her only opponent.

Strengths

Seven bills signed into law this session, a solid conversion rate from authored to enacted.

Trade-offs

Roughly 96 cents of every dollar came from organizations rather than people — the trade is a member funded by institutions, not by the district.

Keep in mind

A 66% primary is a fact about this district's registration as much as about her record.

Raul Ortiz Jr.

Republican, and the only other candidate on this district's ballot, with 33.5% of the June vote. His campaign reports $11,388 in contributions, mostly from individuals and small donors. He has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress.

Strengths

A campaign funded almost entirely by individuals, and a third of the vote on about one percent of the incumbent's money.

Trade-offs

That funding gap is close to total, and he has no record in office to be judged on.

Keep in mind

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

Record in office

Blanca Pacheco (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 7 of them signed into law. Raul Ortiz Jr. 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

Pacheco — AB 64 (2025): Vital records. Pacheco — AB 1178 (2025): Peace officers: confidentiality of records. Pacheco — AB 352 (2025): Crimes: criminal threats. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record.

Financial info

Blanca Pacheco

$1,102,606raised
  • Individuals$23,8002%
  • PACs & committees$528,93249%
  • Businesses & other orgs$535,10049%

Raul Ortiz Jr.

$11,388raised
  • Small donors$3,64031%
  • Individuals$7,39862%
  • PACs & committees$8147%

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

Blanca Pacheco (Democratic)66.5% · 58,939 votes
Raul Ortiz Jr. (Republican)33.5% · 29,655 votes
Source review: Very strong (97/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

Last updated August 10, 2026.