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Federal · Statewide General Election

United States Representative, District 17

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

On the ballot

Ro Khanna — Democratic
Ritesh Tandon — Republican

This person holds your district's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives (2-year term).

Record in office

Ro Khanna (Democratic) has served in the U.S. House since 2017 and has sponsored 48 bills in the 119th Congress; 8 of their career bills have become law. Ritesh Tandon has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Per Congress.gov and the public-domain congress-legislators roster, retrieved 2026-08-03.

Record details

Khanna — Committees: Armed Services; Oversight and Government Reform; House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Khanna — HR 4405 (2025): Epstein Files Transparency Act Khanna — HR 5887 (2025): Government Service Delivery Improvement Act Khanna — HR 7535 (2022): Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record.

Financial info

Individuals
PACs & committees
Self-funding

Ro Khanna

$13,761,491 raised

Individuals$12,735,790100%
PACs & committees$1,000<1%

Ritesh Tandon

$37,653 raised

Individuals$37,628100%
Self-funding$25<1%

Total 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 2026-08-03.

June 2 primary — how they advanced

Ro Khanna (Democratic)62.3% · 83,051 votes

Ritesh Tandon (Republican)14.8% · 19,793 votes

Jennie Ha Phan (Republican)10.7% · 14,282 votes

Ethan Agarwal (Democratic)6.5% · 8,658 votes

Mike Katz (Democratic)4.8% · 6,382 votes

Joe Dehn (Libertarian)0.9% · 1,152 votes

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