California Legislature · Statewide General Election
Member of the State Assembly, District 77
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On the ballot
- Trinity Hannaway — Republican
- Tasha Boerner — Democratic · Incumbent
This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term).
Assemblymember Tasha Boerner took 61.8% of the June 2 vote and Republican Trinity Hannaway took 38.2%; they were the only two candidates on the primary ballot. The district covers coastal north San Diego 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 an established seat and a mid-range record; her funding is almost entirely institutional, with $100 from small donors. Her opponent has reported no campaign funding at all. The practical question here is what this district is getting from a safe seat.
Tasha Boerner
Democrat, the sitting Assemblymember for this district. She is lead author of 30 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 4 of them signed into law. She took more than six in ten votes in June.
Strengths
An established seat with committee standing built over multiple terms.
Trade-offs
Her money is split between committees and business organizations, with effectively none of it from small donors.
Keep in mind
Four bills signed from 30 authored is a middling conversion rate for a majority member.
Trinity Hannaway
Republican, and the only other candidate on this district's ballot, with 38.2% of the June vote. She has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. Cal-Access shows no contributions reported for her committee.
Strengths
She took nearly four in ten votes with no reported campaign funding at all.
Trade-offs
No money and no record in office leaves very little for a voter to evaluate beyond party.
Keep in mind
Coverage surfaced almost no biographical or platform detail about her. That gap is what was available to us on 2026-08-10, not a comment on her candidacy.
Record in office
Tasha Boerner (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 30 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 4 of them signed into law. Trinity Hannaway 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
Boerner — AB 2556 (2026): Evidence: credibility of witnesses and evidence affected or excluded by extrinsic policies. Boerner — AB 87 (2025): Housing development: density bonuses. Boerner — AB 1017 (2025): Energy: electrical and gas corporations: general rate cases. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record.
Financial info
- Small donors
- Individuals
- PACs & committees
- Businesses & other orgs
Tasha Boerner
$603,862 raised
- Small donors$100<1%
- Individuals$39,4507%
- PACs & committees$280,05047%
- Businesses & other orgs$277,44046%
1Trinity Hannaway has no contributions reported to Cal-Access for this race.
2Figures 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
Source review: Very strong (97/100) · 4 cited sources
Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.
- sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)
- ballotpedia.org (opens in a new tab)Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary
- downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)
- sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Cal-Access raw data export — California Secretary of State
Last updated August 10, 2026.