California's_34th_congressional_district
California's 34th congressional district
U.S. House district for California
California's 34th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in California. Located in Los Angeles County, the district is represented by Democrat Jimmy Gomez. Its previous U.S. representative, Democrat Xavier Becerra of Los Angeles, resigned January 24, 2017, to become attorney general of California. Representative Gomez won a special election on June 6, 2017, beating fellow Democrat Robert Lee Ahn to replace Becerra.[3] He was later sworn in as the district's U.S. representative on July 11, 2017.[4]
California's 34th congressional district | |||
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Representative |
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Population (2022) | 745,561 | ||
Median household income | $58,845[1] | ||
Ethnicity |
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Cook PVI | D+32[2] |
The district is almost entirely within the City of Los Angeles and includes the following neighborhoods in Central, East, and Northeast Los Angeles: Boyle Heights, Chinatown, City Terrace, Cypress Park, Downtown Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, El Sereno, Garvanza, Glassell Park, Highland Park, Koreatown, Little Bangladesh, Little Tokyo, Lincoln Heights, Montecito Heights, Monterey Hills, Mount Washington, and Westlake.
Year | Office | Results |
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1990 | Governor[5] | Wilson 47.0% - 46.9% |
1992 | President[6] | Clinton 50.9% - 31.1% |
Senator[7] | Boxer 47.0% - 42.1% | |
Senator (Special)[8] | Feinstein 56.1% - 34.2% | |
1994 | Governor[9] | Brown 52.0% - 43.8% |
Senator[10] | Feinstein 48.8% - 40.0% | |
1996 | President[11] | Clinton 63.5% - 27.2% |
1998 | Governor[12] | Davis 69.6% - 27.7% |
Senator[13] | Boxer 63.5% – 32.7% | |
2000 | President[14] | Gore 67.3% - 29.5% |
Senator[15] | Feinstein 68.9% - 24.2% | |
2002 | Governor[16] | Davis 63.4% - 27.3% |
2003 | Recall[17][18] | 57.2% - 42.8% |
Bustamante 52.6% - 33.4% | ||
2004 | President[19] | Kerry 68.8% - 29.8% |
Senator[20] | Boxer 73.7% - 21.1% | |
2006 | Governor[21] | Angelides 62.6% - 32.4% |
Senator[22] | Feinstein 73.7% - 20.7% | |
2008 | President[23] | Obama 74.7% - 23.1% |
2010 | Governor[24] | Brown 71.5% - 23.0% |
Senator[25] | Boxer 71.2% - 22.7% | |
2012 | President[26] | Obama 83.0% - 14.1% |
Senator[27] | Feinstein 84.6% - 15.4% | |
2014 | Governor[28] | Brown 83.7% – 16.3% |
2016 | President[29] | Clinton 83.6% - 10.7% |
Senator[30] | Harris 55.4% - 44.6% | |
2018 | Governor[31] | Newsom 84.5% – 15.5% |
Senator[32] | Feinstein 52.0% – 48.0% | |
2020 | President[33] | Biden 80.8% - 16.9% |
2021 | Recall[34] | 84.3% - 15.7% |
2022 | Governor[35] | Newsom 81.8 - 18.2% |
Senator | Padilla 83.1 - 16.9% |
As of the 2020 redistricting, California's 34th congressional district is located in Southern California. The district is almost entirely within the city of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County is split between this district, the 28th district, the 30th district, the 37th district, the 38th district, and the 42nd district. The 34th and 28th are partitioned by Colorado Blvd, Lantana Dr, Church St, Adelaide Pl, Highway 110, N Huntingdon Dr, S Winchester Ave, Valley Blvd, Laguna Channel, Highway 710, l-10 Express Ln, Rollins Dr, Floral Dr, E Colonia, Belvedere Park, Highway 60, S Atlantic Blvd, and Pomona Blvd.
The 34th, 37th and 30th are partitioned by S Alameda St, E 7th St, Harbor Freeway, Highway 10, S Normandie Ave, W Pico Blvd, Crenshaw Blvd, Wilshire Blvd, S Van Ness Ave, S Wilton Pl, N Wilton Pl, Beverly Blvd, N Western Ave, Melrose Ave, Hollywood Freeway, Douglas St, Lilac Ter, N Boylston St, Academy Rd, Pasadena Freeway, Highway 5, Duvall St, Blake Ave, Fernleaf St, Crystal St, Blake Ave, Meadowvale Ave, Los Angeles, Benedict St, N Coolidge Ave, Glendale Freeway, Roswell St, Delay Dr, Fletcher Dr, Southern Pacific Railroad, S Glendale Ave, Vista Superba Dr, Verdugo Rd, Plumas St, Carr Park, Harvey Dr, and Eagle Rock Hilside Park.
The 34th, 38th and 42nd are partitioned by S Gerhart Ave, Simmons Ave, Dewar Ave, W Beverly Blvd, Repetto Ave, Allston St, S Concourse Ave, Ferguson Dr, Simmons Ave/S Gerhart Ave, Highway 72, Goodrich Blvd, Telegraph Rd, S Marianna Ave, Noakes St, S Bonnie Beach Pl, Union Pacific Ave, S Indiana St, Union Pacific Railroad, Holabird Ave, S Grande Vista Ave, AT & SF Railway, Harriet St, and E 25th St. The 34th district takes in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights, Naud Junction, El Sereno, Highland Park, Glassell Park, Mount Washington, Eagle Rock, and Garvanza, as well as the census-designated place East Los Angeles.
Cities & CDP with 10,000 or more people
- Los Angeles - 3,898,747
- East Los Angeles - 118,786
1962 • 1964 • 1966 • 1968 • 1970 • 1972 • 1974 • 1976 • 1978 • 1980 • 1982 • 1984 • 1986 • 1988 • 1990 • 1992 • 1994 • 1996 • 1998 • 2000 • 2002 • 2004 • 2006 • 2008 • 2010 • 2012 • 2014 • 2016 • 2017 (special) • 2018 • 2020 • 2022 |
1962
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Richard T. Hanna | 90,758 | 55.9 | ||
Republican | Robert A. Geier | 71,478 | 44.1 | ||
Total votes | 162,236 | 100.0 | |||
Democratic win (new seat) |
1964
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Richard T. Hanna (Incumbent) | 137,588 | 58.3 | |
Republican | Robert A. Geier | 98,606 | 41.7 | |
Total votes | 236,194 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1966
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Richard T. Hanna (Incumbent) | 127,976 | 55.8 | |
Republican | Frank LaMagna | 101,410 | 44.2 | |
Total votes | 129,386 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1968
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Richard T. Hanna (Incumbent) | 105,880 | 50.9 | |
Republican | Bill J. Teague | 102,333 | 49.1 | |
Total votes | 208,213 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1970
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Richard T. Hanna (Incumbent) | 101,664 | 54.5 | |
Republican | Bill J. Teague | 82,167 | 44.0 | |
American Independent | Lee R. Rayburn | 2,843 | 1.5 | |
Total votes | 186,674 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1972
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Richard T. Hanna (Incumbent) | 113,841 | 67.2 | |
Republican | John D. Ratterree | 48,916 | 28.9 | |
American Independent | Lee R. Rayburn | 6,604 | 3.9 | |
Total votes | 169,361 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1974
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Mark W. Hannaford (Incumbent) | 78,345 | 49.8 | |
Republican | Bill Bond | 72,967 | 46.3 | |
American Independent | James Manis | 3,169 | 2.0 | |
Peace and Freedom | John S. Donohue | 3,043 | 1.9 | |
Total votes | 157,524 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1976
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Mark W. Hannaford (Incumbent) | 100,988 | 50.7 | |
Republican | Dan Lungren | 98,147 | 49.3 | |
Total votes | 199,135 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1978
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Dan Lungren | 90,554 | 53.7 | |||
Democratic | Mark W. Hannaford (Incumbent) | 73,608 | 43.7 | |||
American Independent | Lawrence John Stafford | 4,410 | 2.6 | |||
Total votes | 168,572 | 100.0 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic | ||||||
1980
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dan Lungren (Incumbent) | 138,024 | 71.8 | |
Democratic | Simone | 46,351 | 24.1 | |
Peace and Freedom | John S. Donohue | 7,794 | 4.1 | |
Total votes | 192,169 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
1982
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Esteban Torres | 68,316 | 57.2 | |
Republican | Paul R. Jackson | 51,026 | 42.8 | |
Total votes | 119,342 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1984
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Esteban Torres (Incumbent) | 87,060 | 59.8 | |
Republican | Paul R. Jackson | 58,467 | 40.2 | |
Total votes | 145,527 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1986
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Esteban Torres (Incumbent) | 66,404 | 60.3 | |
Republican | Charles M. House | 43,659 | 39.7 | |
Total votes | 110,063 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1988
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Esteban Torres (Incumbent) | 92,087 | 63.2 | |
Republican | Charles M. House | 50,954 | 35.0 | |
Libertarian | Carl M. "Marty" Swinney | 2,686 | 1.8 | |
Total votes | 145,727 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1990
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Esteban Torres (Incumbent) | 55,646 | 60.7 | |
Republican | John C. Eastman | 36,024 | 39.3 | |
Total votes | 91,670 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1992
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Esteban Torres (Incumbent) | 91,738 | 61.3 | |
Republican | J. Jay Hernandez | 50,907 | 34.0 | |
Libertarian | Carl M. "Marty" Swinney | 7,072 | 4.7 | |
Independent | M V Paul Worland (write-in) | 1 | 0.0 | |
Total votes | 149,718 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1994
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Esteban Torres (Incumbent) | 72,439 | 61.7 | |
Republican | Albert J. Nunez | 40,068 | 34.1 | |
Libertarian | Carl M. "Marty" Swinney | 4,921 | 4.2 | |
American Independent | J. Scott (write-in) | 27 | 0.0 | |
Total votes | 117,455 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1996
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Esteban Torres (Incumbent) | 94,730 | 68.5 | |
Republican | David Nunez | 36,852 | 26.7 | |
American Independent | J. Scott | 4,122 | 2.9 | |
Libertarian | David Argall | 2,736 | 1.9 | |
Total votes | 138,440 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1998
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Grace Napolitano | 76,471 | 67.6 | |
Republican | Ed Perez | 32,321 | 28.6 | |
Libertarian | Jason Heath | 2,195 | 2.0 | |
American Independent | Walter Scott | 2,088 | 1.8 | |
Total votes | 113,075 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2000
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Grace Napolitano (Incumbent) | 105,980 | 71.3 | |
Republican | Robert Arthur Canales | 33,445 | 22.5 | |
Natural Law | Julia F. Simon | 9,262 | 6.2 | |
Republican | John W. Brantuk (write-in) | 36 | 0.0 | |
Total votes | 148,723 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2002
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lucille Roybal-Allard (Incumbent) | 46,734 | 74.1 | |
Republican | Wayne Miller | 17,090 | 25.9 | |
Total votes | 63,824 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lucille Roybal-Allard (Incumbent) | 82,282 | 74.5 | |
Republican | Wayne Miller | 28,175 | 25.5 | |
Total votes | 110,457 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2006
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lucille Roybal-Allard (Incumbent) | 57,459 | 76.8 | |
Republican | Wayne Miller | 17,359 | 23.2 | |
Independent | Naomi Crane (write-in) | 1 | 0.0 | |
Total votes | 74,819 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2008
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lucille Roybal-Allard (Incumbent) | 98,503 | 77.1 | |
Republican | Christopher Balding | 29,266 | 22.9 | |
Total votes | 127,769 | 100.0 | ||
Turnout | 63.68 | |||
Democratic hold | ||||
2010
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lucille Roybal-Allard (Incumbent) | 69,382 | 77.2 | |
Republican | Wayne Miller | 20,457 | 22.8 | |
Total votes | 89,839 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2012
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Xavier Becerra (Incumbent) | 120,367 | 85.6 | |
Republican | Stephen C. Smith | 20,223 | 14.4 | |
Total votes | 140,590 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Xavier Becerra (Incumbent) | 44,697 | 72.5 | |
Democratic | Adrienne Nicole Edwards | 16,924 | 27.5 | |
Total votes | 61,621 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2016
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Xavier Becerra (Incumbent) | 122,842 | 77.2 | |
Democratic | Adrienne Nicole Edwards | 36,314 | 22.8 | |
Total votes | 159,156 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2017 (Special)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Jimmy Gomez | 25,569 | 59.2 | ||
Democratic | Robert Lee Ahn | 17,610 | 40.8 | ||
Total votes | 43,179 | 100.0 | |||
Turnout | 14.3 | ||||
Democratic hold | |||||
2018
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Jimmy Gomez (Incumbent) | 110,195 | 72.5 | ||
Green | Kenneth Mejia | 41,711 | 27.5 | ||
Total votes | 151,906 | 100.0 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Democratic hold | |||||
2020
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jimmy Gomez (incumbent) | 108,792 | 53.0 | |
Democratic | David Kim | 96,554 | 47.0 | |
Total votes | 205,346 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
2022
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jimmy Gomez (incumbent) | 62,244 | 51.2 | |
Democratic | David Kim | 59,223 | 48.8 | |
Total votes | 121,467 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
From 2003 through 2013, the district consisted of parts of downtown Los Angeles, including Downey, Bellflower and Maywood. Due to redistricting after the 2010 United States census, the district pivoted north east within Los Angeles County and still includes downtown Los Angeles and areas north east.
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