District: | 24 |
Chamber: | Assembly |
Population: | 478,426[1] |
Population Year: | 2020 |
Voting Age: | 374,736 |
Citizen Voting Age: | 287,565 |
Percent White: | 14.44 |
Percent Black: | 2.22 |
Percent Latino: | 16.17 |
Percent Asian: | 62.57 |
Percent Native American: | 0.18 |
Percent Pacific Islander: | 0.50 |
Percent Other Race: | 0.51 |
Percent Remainder Of Multiracial: | 3.42 |
Registered: | 243,992[2] |
Democratic: | 49.68 |
Republican: | 15.89 |
Npp: | 30.08 |
California's 24th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by Democrat Alex Lee of San Jose.
The district consists of portions of Santa Clara and Alameda Counties, including the whole Cities of Milpitas, Fremont, and Newark, and portions of the City of San Jose, which was split to balance population while considering communities of interest. This district includes a large immigrant Asian American Pacific Islander community that shares deep cultural and linguistic ties. Many people in this district are employed in the tech industry and rely on Highway 680 and Highway 880 to get to work.
Alameda County – 16.58%
Santa Clara County – 10.27%
Year | Office | Results |
---|---|---|
2021 | Recall | align="right" No 81.4 – 18.6% |
2020[3] | President | Biden 80.3 – 17.4% |
2018 | Governor | Newsom 76.7 – 23.3% |
Senator | Feinstein 62.6 – 37.4% | |
2016 | President | Clinton 78.2 – 15.9% |
Senator | Harris 74.4 – 25.6% | |
2014 | Governor | Brown 75.2 – 24.8% |
2012 | President | Obama 72.2 – 25.0% |
Senator | Feinstein 76.1 – 23.9% |
Due to redistricting, the 24th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2020 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Assembly members | Party | Years served | Counties represented | Notes | |
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Samuel I. Allen | Republican | January 5, 1885 - January 3, 1887 | Sonoma | ||
William J. Hotchkiss | Democratic | January 3, 1887 - January 7, 1889 | |||
James W. Ragsdale | Republican | January 7, 1889 - January 5, 1891 | |||
J. D. Barnett | January 5, 1891 - January 2, 1893 | ||||
Henry F. Emeric | Democratic | January 2, 1893 - January 7, 1895 | Contra Costa | ||
Charles M. Belshaw | Republican | January 7, 1895 - January 1, 1901 | |||
Arthur Williams | Democratic | January 1, 1901 - January 5, 1903 | |||
John W. Moore | Republican | January 5, 1903 - January 7, 1907 | San Joaquin | ||
Arthur Elwood Percival | January 7, 1907 - January 4, 1909 | ||||
J. W. Stuckenbruck | Democratic | January 4, 1909 - January 6, 1913 | |||
William M. Collins | Republican | January 6, 1913 - January 4, 1915 | San Francisco | Ran as Progressive in the 1914 election. He also died in office.[4] | |
Progressive | January 4, 1915 - January 8, 1917 | ||||
Republican | January 8, 1917 - December 11, 1920 | ||||
Walter J. Schmidt | February 23, 1921 - January 3, 1927 | Won special election and was sworn in after his predecessor died in office.[5] | |||
Thomas J. Lenehan | January 3, 1927 - January 7, 1929 | ||||
James L. Quigley | Independent | January 7, 1929 - January 5, 1931 | Ran as a Republican in his 2nd term. | ||
Republican | January 5, 1931 - January 2, 1933 | ||||
Patrick J. McMurray | Democratic | January 2, 1933 - January 2, 1939 | |||
Edward F. O'Day | January 2, 1939 - November 4, 1947 | Resigned from the Assembly to become a Judge for the San Francisco County Municipal Court. | |||
Charlie Meyers | January 3, 1949 - January 5, 1953 | ||||
George D. Collins Jr. | January 5, 1953 - January 3, 1955 | ||||
Edward M. Gaffney | January 3, 1955 - January 7, 1963 | ||||
Al Alquist | January 7, 1963 - January 2, 1967 | Santa Clara | |||
John Vasconcellos | January 2, 1967 - November 30, 1974 | ||||
Leona H. Egeland | December 2, 1974 - November 30, 1980 | San Benito, Santa Clara | |||
Dom Cortese | December 1, 1980 - November 30, 1992 | ||||
Santa Clara | |||||
Chuck Quackenbush | Republican | December 7, 1992 - November 30, 1994 | |||
Jim Cunneen | December 5, 1994 – November 30, 2000 | ||||
Rebecca Cohn | Democratic | December 5, 2000 – November 30, 2006 | |||
Jim Beall | December 4, 2006 – November 30, 2012 | ||||
Rich Gordon | December 3, 2012 - November 30, 2016 | San Mateo, Santa Clara | |||
Marc Berman | December 5, 2016 – November 30, 2022 | ||||
Alex Lee | December 5, 2022 - present | Alameda, Santa Clara |