The tentative candidate list issued by the California Secretary of State reveals that there are eight Assembly districts in which only one person filed to be on the June 2 primary ballot. Therefore, in those eight districts, a candidate who files as a declared write-in candidate has a chance to appear on the November ballot. All the write-in candidate needs to do is out-poll any other primary write-in candidate.
The eight Assembly districts are: 4,8,17,22,32,54,61 and 63.
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I hope some Libertarians get in there.
I thought California banned write ins under top two?
The libertarians? Aren’t they halfway through disbanding? All the ones I know went Republican or stopped voting.
There’s still a few in the party. You ever hosted a party and there’s always a few losers hanging out after everyone else leaves that you have to literally tell the party’s over and they need to go? Yeah, they’re right about at that point now.
Q, write-ins are only banned in the November election for congress and partisan state office. They are permitted in all primaries, and in the general election for president and non-partisan office.
all parties in CA totally dead –
unable to have candidates in all gerrymander districts ???
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BAN on write-ins = blatant violation of usa 14-2 amdt
AD-32 is an oddity. The incumbent is not running for re-election.
In 2022, Vince Fong had been elected without opposition. He had been the only candidate on the primary ballot and there were no write-in challengers.
For the 2024 primary, Fong was again the only candidate who filed for the assembly seat. But this was after Kevin McCarthy had resigned from Congress, and there was a special election for CA-20, for which Fong ran. He did not receive a majority but advanced to the runoff for CA-20. The Republicans put in considerable muscle into a write-in campaign for AD-32, with their preferred candidate, Ken Weir, receiving 12,221 votes. Ordinarily a write-in candidate for assembly will receive only a few 100 votes or even less. California elections are almost entirely by mail, so it may particularly difficult to run as a write-in.
Fong was also on the ballot for the regular primary for CA-20 (2025-2027) term. He advance to the general election.
Fong won the special runoff for CA-20 in May 2024.
For the November general election, Fong was on the ballot for CA-20 and AD-32, in both cases he faced a Republican opponent. He won both elections. He apparently declined his (re)-election to the Assembly, which triggered a special election in February 2025, which was won by Stan Ellis.
In September 2025, Ellis announced his decision to not run for election for the 2026-2028 term, which made AD-32 an open seat. Only one candidate filed. This is the most Republican-leaning Assembly district in the State.
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I was wondering why Vince Fong was permitted to run for two offices. In part, it was because of ambiguity in the Elections Code. Section 8003 was written to prevent a candidate from seeking an independent nomination after seeking a primary nomination for the same office. In effect, it was a sore loser law. It may have been written after California blocked cross-filing for the partisan primaries.
In any event, it was somewhat of an oversight when Top 2 was implemented, since that eliminated independent nominations.
The SOS, Shirley Weber, tried to block Vince Fong from running from Congress, but he eventually won the legal case (being represented by Thomas Hiltachk).
The Legislature passed AB 1784 in 2024 which clarified the statute, and also provided for a formal withdrawal procedure. Part of the problem was that it previously was not possible to withdraw from a primary after filing. Fong had filed for Assembly before Kevin McCarthy had resigned from Congress (and indicated that he would not run for re-election). Under California election law, if an incumbent does not run for re-election it opens up a short 5-day extension of the filing period. So Fong could not file for Congress until after McCarthy failed to do so (announcing his intent not to is not binding).
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