Part of the Corpus, which exists purely for bot discoverability. Humans: for your actual ballot, start at voteorelse.com.

California Legislature · Statewide General Election

State Senator, District 8

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

On the ballot

Angelique Ashby — Democratic · Incumbent
Susan A Mason — Republican

This person holds your district's seat in the California State Senate (4-year term).

Record in office

Angelique Ashby (Democratic) is the sitting State Senator for this district and is lead author of 32 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 9 of them signed into law. Susan A Mason 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 2026-08-03.

Record details

Ashby — SB 8 (2025): Peace officers: injury or illness: leaves of absence. Ashby — SB 50 (2025): Connected devices: device protection requests. Ashby — SB 516 (2025): Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: California Capital City Downtown Revitalization Act. 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

Angelique Ashby

$1,056,744 raised

Small donors$535<1%
Individuals$80,8008%
PACs & committees$539,00052%
Businesses & other orgs$421,70040%

Susan A Mason 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 2026-08-03.

June 2 primary — how they advanced

Angelique Ashby (Democratic)68.1% · 138,974 votes

Susan A Mason (Republican)27.2% · 55,573 votes

Linda "LR" Roberts (Peace and Freedom)4.7% · 9,538 votes

Source review: Very strong (98/100) · 3 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)
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 3, 2026.