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California House race, District 37

Sydney Kamlager-Dove holds this seat and is running to keep it against Samantha Mota.

The November ballot

Kamlager-Dove
$1.2M
Mota
$10K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

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

The seat

Sydney Kamlager-Dove

Democrat · Holds the seat now

Discloses no individual stock trades.

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 · 128,660 votes

  • Sydney Kamlager-DoveAdvanced55.18%70,990
  • Samantha MotaAdvanced11.67%15,019
  • Baltazar Fedalizo10.7%13,773
  • Ryan Duckett6.54%8,410
  • Elizabeth Fenner5.63%7,238

4 more candidates on the full canvass.

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
$1.2M
Outside money
$10

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Kamlager-Dove$10
Opposing Kamlager-Dove-
Supporting Mota-
Opposing Mota-

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

Where each candidate's money comes from

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 2 groups 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

7 filed

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.

The district

Census context
People
745K
Median household income
$70K
Unemployment
9.1%
Living below the poverty line
20.6%
Without health insurance
10.6%

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

How this seat voted last time

D+57 in 2024

  • Sydney Kamlager-DoveWon78.3%
  • Juan Rey21.7%

204,814 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.

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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.