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California House race, District 31

Gil Cisneros holds this seat and is running to keep it against Eric Ching.

The November ballot

Cisneros
$705K
Ching
$82K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

General-election ballot as recorded August 27, 2026. Not a prediction.

The seat

Gil Cisneros

Democrat · Holds the seat now

2,625
Trades disclosed
$53M
Estimated volume
45
Committee overlaps
Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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  • General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

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How they won the primary

Nonpartisan primaryTop two advance

The primary · 155,253 votes

  • Gil CisnerosAdvanced61.06%94,805
  • Eric ChingAdvanced23.83%36,999
  • Erskine Levi15.1%23,449

Every candidate runs on one ballot and the top two advance to November, whatever their party. Primary results as recorded August 27, 2026, in the canvass's own published order. Via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), which cites each state's canvass. A primary result is a filed fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$787K
Outside money
$10

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Cisneros$10
Opposing Cisneros-
Supporting Ching-
Opposing Ching-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing.

Where each candidate's money comes from

3%$24KSmall donors$5K6%
31%$216KLarge donors$76K94%
64%$454KPACs--
<1%$6.6KSelf-funding--
<1%$4.7KOther$250<1%

Small donors give under $200; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Who is spending on this race

The 1 group spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

1 filed

None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

How this seat voted last time

D+19 in 2024

  • Gil CisnerosWon59.7%
  • Daniel Jose Bocic Martinez40.3%

247,951 votes for candidates. The district's lines have changed since this result. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

The district

Census context
People
736K
Median household income
$92K
Unemployment
6.2%
Living below the poverty line
11.6%
Without health insurance
7.9%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.