California Legislature · Statewide General Election
Member of the State Assembly, District 80
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On the ballot
- David A. Alvarez — Democratic · Incumbent
- Alejandro Galicia — Republican
This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term).
Assemblymember David A. Alvarez took 59.1% of the June 2 vote and Republican Alejandro Galicia took 34.2% to claim the second slot. The district covers Chula Vista and the South Bay of 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 a solid enacted record and took 59.1% against an opponent with no reported funding — a middling hold by the standards of this ballot. The practical question here is what this district is getting from a safe seat.
David A. Alvarez
Democrat, the sitting Assemblymember for this district. He is lead author of 32 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 7 of them signed into law. He took 59.1% of the June vote.
Strengths
Seven bills signed into law this session, a solid conversion rate from authored to enacted.
Trade-offs
About half his money came from PACs and committees, which is the ordinary institutional shape rather than a concentration.
Keep in mind
59.1% against an unfunded opponent is on the lower end for a sitting member on this ballot.
Alejandro Galicia
Republican, who advanced with 34.2% 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 took more than a third of the vote 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 him. That gap is what was available to us on 2026-08-10, not a comment on his candidacy.
Record in office
David A. Alvarez (Democratic) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 32 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 7 of them signed into law. Alejandro Galicia 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
Alvarez — AB 35 (2026): Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: Administrative Procedure Act: exemption: program guidelines and selection criteria. Alvarez — AB 662 (2025): Postsecondary education: mixed-use intersegmental educational facility in the City of Chula Vista: South County Higher Education Planning Task Force. Alvarez — AB 610 (2025): Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement. 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
David A. Alvarez
$727,218 raised
- Small donors$910<1%
- Individuals$49,8007%
- PACs & committees$343,96148%
- Businesses & other orgs$322,20545%
1Alejandro Galicia 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.