| District: | 36 |
| Chamber: | Assembly |
| Population: | 469,902[1] |
| Population Year: | 2020 |
| Percent White: | 32.45 |
| Percent Black: | 3.80 |
| Percent Latino: | 59.28 |
| Percent Asian: | 2.56 |
| Percent Native American: | 0.84 |
| Percent Pacific Islander: | 0.13 |
| Percent Other Race: | 0.38 |
| Percent Remainder Of Multiracial: | 2.04 |
| Npp: | 21.03 |
California's 36th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by Democrat Eduardo Garcia of Coachella. Despite California's six-year term limit on the State Assembly, during the 20-year period from 1992–2012, the seat was held continuously by members of either the Knight family of Palmdale or the Runner family of Lancaster.[2]
The district contains the wide swath between the Dead Mountains to the north and the Mexico-United States border to the south and the Santa Rosa Mountains to the west. Imperial County – 100%
Riverside County – 11.97%
San Bernardino County – 0.32%
| Year | Office | Results |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Recall | align="right" No 50.9 – 49.1% |
| 2020[3] | President | Biden 53.6 – 43.8% |
| 2018 | Governor | Newsom 51.2 – 48.8% |
| Senator | de León 52.7 – 47.3% | |
| 2016 | President | Clinton 49.9 – 43.9% |
| Senator | Harris 57.5 – 42.5% | |
| 2014 | Governor | Kashkari 57.9 – 42.2% |
| 2012 | President | Obama 48.8 – 48.5% |
| Senator | Feinstein 50.1 – 49.9% |
Due to redistricting, the 36th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2011 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
| Assembly members | Party | Years served | Counties represented | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Lafferty | Republican | January 5, 1885 - February 24, 1886 | San Francisco | Died in office.[4] | ||
| Charles F. Curry | January 3, 1887 - January 7, 1889 | |||||
| Charles H. Kiernan | Democratic | January 7, 1889 - July 16, 1889 | Died in office from hemorrhage in the lungs.[5] | |||
| John P. Glynn | Republican | January 5, 1891 - January 2, 1893 | ||||
| John Brownlie | Democratic | January 2, 1893 - January 7, 1895 | ||||
| John McCarthy | January 7, 1895 - January 4, 1897 | |||||
| Henry McGrath | Fusion | January 4, 1897 - January 2, 1899 | ||||
| Albert H. Merrill | Republican | January 2, 1899 - January 1, 1901 | ||||
| William J. Guilfoyle | January 1, 1901 - January 5, 1903 | |||||
| Augustus M. Mahany | Democratic | January 5, 1903 - January 2, 1905 | ||||
| Eugene E. Pfaeffle | Republican | January 2, 1905 - January 7, 1907 | ||||
| John Wessling | Independence League | January 7, 1907 - January 4, 1909 | ||||
| Henry Nixon Beatty | Republican | January 4, 1909 - January 6, 1913 | ||||
| Frank M. Smith | January 6, 1913 - January 4, 1915 | Alameda | ||||
| Harry A. Encell | Progressive | January 4, 1915 - January 8, 1917 | ||||
| Frank M. Smith | Republican | January 8, 1917 - January 6, 1919 | ||||
| Leon E. Gray | January 6, 1919 - May 17, 1919 | Resigns from office to become Deputy City Attorney of Oakland.[6] [7] | ||||
| Gilbert L. Jones | January 3, 1921 - January 8, 1923 | |||||
| Edward J. Smith | January 8, 1923 - January 7, 1929 | |||||
| William W. Hoffman | January 7, 1929 - January 2, 1933 | |||||
| Lucius Powers Jr. | January 2, 1933 - January 7, 1935 | Fresno | ||||
| Claud Minard | January 7, 1935 - January 4, 1937 | |||||
| Hugh M. Burns | Democratic | January 4, 1937 - January 4, 1943 | ||||
| Charles Lester Guthrie | January 4, 1943 - January 27, 1946 | Kings, Tulare | Died in office from a heart attack.[8] | |||
| Harry J. Johnson | January 6, 1947 - January 3, 1949 | |||||
| Harlan Hagen | January 3, 1949 - January 3, 1953 | |||||
| Stanley T. Tomlinson | Republican | January 5, 1953 - January 3, 1955 | San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara | |||
| James L. Holmes | January 3, 1955 - January 4, 1965 | |||||
| Winfield A. Shoemaker | Democratic | January 4, 1965 - January 6, 1969 | ||||
| W. Don MacGillivray | Republican | January 6, 1969 - November 30, 1974 | ||||
| John Kenyon MacDonald | Democratic | December 2, 1974 - November 30, 1976 | Ventura | |||
| Charles R. Imbrecht | Republican | December 6, 1976 - November 30, 1982 | ||||
| Tom McClintock | December 6, 1982 - November 30, 1992 | |||||
| William J. Knight | December 7, 1992 - November 30, 1996 | Los Angeles | ||||
| George Runner | December 2, 1996 – November 30, 2002 | |||||
| Sharon Runner | December 2, 2002 – November 30, 2008 | Los Angeles, San Bernardino | ||||
| Steve Knight | December 1, 2008 – November 30, 2012 | |||||
| Steve Fox | Democratic | December 3, 2012 – November 30, 2014 | Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino | |||
| Tom Lackey | Republican | December 1, 2014 – December 5, 2022 | ||||
| Eduardo Garcia | Democratic | December 5, 2022 - present | Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino |
| align=center | 1992 • 1994 • 1996 • 1998 • 2000 • 2002 • 2004 • 2006 • 2008 • 2010 • 2012 • 2014• 2016 • 2018 • 2020 • 2022 |