California State Assembly: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members of the State Assembly. The state legislature meets in the state capital, Sacramento.

Assembly members serve two year terms and face election in years evenly divisible by two. Members of the Assembly are limited to three terms.

Each Assembly member represents approximately 423,396 Californians.

State Assembly members, 2003-2004 Session

For the 2003-2004 session, there are 48 Democrats and 32 Republicans in the Assembly.

The party affiliation and district numbers of Assembly members are listed after their names in this list.

• Greg Aghazarian (R-26)
• Patricia C. Bates (R-73)
• John J. Benoit (R-64)
• Patty Berg (D-1)
• Rudy Bermúdez (D-56)
• Russ Bogh (R-65)
• Ronald S. Calderon (D-58)
• John Campbell (R-70)
• Joseph Canciamilla (D-11)
• Wilma Chan (D-16)
• Ed Chavez (D-57)
• Judy Chu (D-49)
• Dave Cogdill (R-25)
• Rebecca Cohn (D-24)
• Ellen M. Corbett (D-18)
• Lou Correa (D-69)
• Dave Cox (R-5)
• Lynn Daucher (R-72)
• Manny Diaz (D-23)
• John A. Dutra (D-20)
• Robert D. Dutton (R-63)
• Mervyn M. Dymally (D-52)
• Marco Antonio Firebaugh (D-50)
• Dario Frommer (D-43)
• Bonnie Garcia (R-80)
• Jackie Goldberg (D-45)
• Loni Hancock (D-14)
• Tom Harman (R-67)
• Ray Haynes (R-66)
• Jerome Horton (D-51)
• Shirley Horton (R-78)
• Guy S. Houston (R-15)
• Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-35)
• Rick Keene (R-3)
• Christine Kehoe (D-76)
• Paul Koretz (D-42)
• Jay La Suer (R-77)
• John Laird (D-27)
• Doug LaMalfa (R-2)
• Mark Leno (D-13)
• Tim Leslie (R-4)
• Lloyd E. Levine (D-40)
• Sally J. Lieber (D-22)
• Carol Liu (D-44)
• John Longville (D-62)
• Alan Lowenthal (D-54)
• Ken Maddox (R-68)
• Abel Maldonado (R-33)
• Barbara S. Matthews (D-17)
• Bill Maze (R-34)
• Kevin McCarthy (R-32)
• Cindy Montañez (D-39)
• Dennis Mountjoy (R-59)
• Gene Mullin (D-19)
• Alan Nakanishi (R-10)
• George Nakano (D-53)
• Joe Nation (D-6)
• Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-61)
• Fabian Nuñez (D-46)
• Jenny Oropeza (D-55)
• Robert Pacheco (R-60)
• Nicole Parra (D-30)
• Fran Pavley (D-41)
• George A. Plescia (R-75)
• Sarah Reyes (D-31)
• Keith Richman (R-38)
• Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-48)
• Sharon Runner (R-36)
• Simon Salinas (D-28)
• Steven N. Samuelian (R-29)
• S. Joseph Simitian (D-21)
• Todd Spitzer (R-71)
• Darrell Steinberg (D-9)
• Tony Strickland (R-37)
• Juan Vargas (D-79)
• Herb J. Wesson, Jr. (D-47)
• Patricia Wiggins (D-7)
• Lois Wolk (D-8)
• Mark Wyland (R-74)
• Leland Yee (D-12)