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California's 1st state senatorial district is one of 40 California State Senate districts. The district is represented by Republican Brian Dahle of Bieber, having won the seat in a June 2019 special election after Republican Ted Gaines of El Dorado Hills resigned to become a member of the California Board of Equalization in January 2019.
For and after the 2024 California State Senate election, the district will encompass the high desert communities of the Antelope Valley and Victor Valley, as well as the Santa Clarita Valley in Los Angeles County. The district has a very large Latino population.
2022 California State Senate election; Primary election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Lily Mei 47,149 33.1 Democratic: Aisha Wahab: 42,731 30.0
The district includes most of coastal Orange County, including Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Emerald Bay, Laguna Beach, and Dana Point; the Little Saigon area of northwestern Orange County, including Garden Grove, Westminster, Fountain Valley, Midway City, Stanton, Cypress, Rossmoor, and Los Alamitos; and Artesia, Cerritos, and Hawaiian Gardens in southwestern Los Angeles County.
California State Senate election, 2020; Primary election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Toni Atkins (incumbent) : 212,626 91.9 Republican: Linda Blankenship (write-in)
California State Senate election, 2020; Primary election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Steve Glazer (incumbent) : 135,123 48.3 Republican: Julie Mobley 76,180
The odd shapes—distended projections and non-natural feature-based wiggly boundaries—of California Senate districts in southern California (2008) have led to complaints of gerrymandering. Illinois's 4th congressional district has the moniker "the earmuffs" and amounts to packing of two mainly Hispanic areas. [115]
In response to this obvious gerrymandering, a 2010 referendum in California gave the power to redraw congressional district lines to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which had been created to draw California State Senate and Assembly districts by a 2008 referendum. In stark contrast to the redistricting efforts that followed ...