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- 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
- rivas.house.gov (opens in a new tab)rivas.house.gov — Luz Maria Rivas biography
- rivas.house.gov (opens in a new tab)rivas.house.gov — Luz Maria Rivas press releases (votes, legislative actions)
- luzforcongress.com (opens in a new tab)Luz Maria Rivas for Congress — campaign site (biography, priorities, quote)
- calmatters.org (opens in a new tab)CalMatters — coastal housing streamlining bill and Rivas's committee role (used for her Assembly housing record)
- calmatters.org (opens in a new tab)CalMatters — Assembly leadership shuffle and Rivas's removal from Natural Resources chair (used for outcome of her committee stance)
- unitedstates.github.io (opens in a new tab)congress-legislators — current members of Congress (unitedstates project)
- api.congress.gov (opens in a new tab)Congress.gov — member sponsored legislation (Library of Congress)
- fec.gov (opens in a new tab)FEC — 2026 House & Senate current-campaign financial summaries (bulk data)
Last updated September 24, 2026.
Federal
United States Representative, District 29
This person holds your district's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives (2-year term).
Representative Luz Maria Rivas took 51.0% of the June 2 vote. Fellow Democrat Angélica María Dueñas took 24.9%. November is a contest between two members of the same party. The district covers the northeast San Fernando Valley.
The winner holds one of 435 seats in the U.S. House for a two-year term. A member introduces bills, sits on committees that shape federal legislation, votes on the federal budget and on war powers, and handles casework between constituents and federal agencies. A first-term member is at the bottom of the seniority ladder that governs committee assignments.
With two Democrats on the ballot, party is not the axis. The incumbent barely cleared a majority in her own primary and draws the majority of her funding from committees; the challenger is funded entirely by individuals at about a twentieth of the scale. Weigh a first federal term against a same-party challenge running on very different money.
Luz Maria Rivas
Luz Maria Rivas grew up in Pacoima, raised by a single mother, and went on to earn an engineering degree from MIT and a graduate degree from Harvard. She worked as an electrical engineer, then spent six years in the state Assembly, where she secured state funding for San Fernando Valley infrastructure, schools and health care. She was elected to Congress in 2025 and now co-chairs the STEM Education Caucus.
As an Assembly committee chair, she blocked bills that would have eased housing rules on the coast and for religious groups building housing. She said the state's Coastal Commission needed to keep its say. In Congress, she voted to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump. She said she wanted to protect immigrant communities from what she called ICE's terror. She says valley families deserve a member of Congress focused on their needs.
She promises to fight for economic opportunity for every family, protect Social Security and Medicare, and reduce the threat of climate change. She has also pushed for STEM education and more federal money for local roads, bridges and water systems.
Angélica María Dueñas
Angélica María Dueñas is a mother and community organizer, by her ballot designation. She has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. She is challenging Rivas, a fellow Democrat, for this seat.
No campaign website or news coverage of her platform or record could be located. That is a gap in what is public, not a comment on her candidacy.
With no published platform to draw on, her promises cannot be listed here in her own words.
Record in office
Angélica María Dueñas has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Luz Maria Rivas (Democratic) has served in the U.S. House since 2025 and has sponsored 16 bills in the 119th Congress; none of their bills have become law so far. Per Congress.gov and the public-domain congress-legislators roster, retrieved 2026-09-21.
Financial info
- Individuals
- PACs & committees
Angélica María Dueñas
$37,153 raised
- Individuals$37,153100%
Luz Maria Rivas
$670,678 raised
- Individuals$311,99447%
- PACs & committees$356,79053%
1Total raised is all receipts for the 2026 cycle; the breakdown lists direct contributions, so the pieces can sum below the total. Figures are FEC filings through June 30, 2026, per the FEC bulk campaign-finance summaries, retrieved 2026-09-21.