California's 54th State Assembly district

California's 54th State Assembly district
California's 54th State Assembly district
Current assemblymember
	Mark Gonzalez; D–Los Angeles
Population (2010); • Voting age; • Citizen voting age	466,445; 375,241; 294,720
Demographics	29.45% White; 25.20% Black; 30.50% Latino; 12.73% Asian; 0.29% Native American; 0.17% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; 0.59% other; 1.07% remainder of multiracial;
Registered voters	316,478
Registration	63.73% Democratic; 8.67% Republican; 22.89% No party preference

California's 54th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by Mark Gonzalez of Los Angeles.

District profile

Before the 2020 - 2022 redistricting, the district encompassed parts of the Westside and South Los Angeles, reaching almost to the Pacific Ocean. The current 54th district includes East Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Koreatown, Pico-Union, Los Feliz, Downtown L.A., Chinatown, Boyle Heights, Commerce, Montebello and Vernon among other neighborhoods and municipalities. The district is ethnically diverse and heavily urban.

Los Angeles County – 4.8%

Culver City
Inglewood – 0.3%
Ladera Heights
Los Angeles – 10.8%
- Baldwin Hills
- Century City
- Crenshaw
- Leimert Park
- Mar Vista – partial
- Mid-City
- West Los Angeles
- Westwood
View Park-Windsor Hills

Election results from statewide races

Year	Office	Results
2021	Recall	No 85.6 – 14.4%
2020	President	Biden 83.1 - 13.5%
2018	Governor	Newsom 86.1 – 13.9%
2018	Senator	Feinstein 65.0 – 35.0%
2016	President	Clinton 85.1 – 10.1%
2016	Senator	Harris 76.9 – 23.1%
2014	Governor	Brown 82.9 – 17.2%
2012	President	Obama 83.6 – 13.9%
2012	Senator	Feinstein 85.2 – 14.8%

List of assembly members

Due to redistricting, the 54th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2011 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Assembly members	Party	Years served	Counties represented	Notes
Walter Minton Heywood	Republican	January 5, 1885 – January 3, 1887	Alameda
Francis Morgan Cooley	Republican	January 3, 1887 – January 7, 1889
Edwin Sherer Culver	Republican	January 7, 1889 – January 2, 1893
H. H. Johnson	Democratic	January 2, 1893 - January 7, 1895	Santa Clara
Cyrus P. Berry	Republican	January 7, 1895 - January 4, 1897
N. E. Malcolm		January 4, 1897 - January 2, 1899
Walter A. Clark		January 2, 1899 - January 1, 1901
Eli Wright	Good Government	January 1, 1901 - January 5, 1903
A. D. Duffey	Democratic	January 5, 1903 - February 10, 1903		Lost the election after being in office for 1 month.
Harry S. Wanzer	Republican	February 10, 1903 - March 16, 1903		Won election and took his seat. He resigned 1 month of being in office.
George C. Cleveland		January 2, 1905 - January 7, 1907
Harry C. Lucas		January 7, 1907 - January 4, 1909
John B. Maher	Democratic	January 4, 1909 - January 6, 1913
Joseph Warner Guiberson	Democratic	January 6, 1913 - January 4, 1915	Kings
William Adams Long	Republican	January 4, 1915 - January 6, 1919
Oscar L. Odale	Democratic	January 6, 1919 - January 3, 1921
Frank Johnson	Republican	January 3, 1921 - January 3, 1927
Augustus F. Jewett Jr.		January 3, 1927 - January 5, 1931
William G. Bonelli		January 5, 1931 - January 2, 1933	Los Angeles
Frank J. Rogers	Democratic	January 2, 1933 - January 7, 1935
Wilbur F. Gilbert	Democratic	January 7, 1935 - January 6, 1941
John B. Knight	Republican	January 6, 1941 - January 8, 1945
Ralph A. Beal	Independent	January 8, 1945 – January 6, 1947
Bud Collier	Republican	January 6, 1947 – November 30, 1974
Frank Vicencia	Democratic	December 2, 1974 – November 30, 1986
Paul E. Zeltner	Republican	December 1, 1986 – November 30, 1988
Willard H. Murray Jr.	Democratic	December 5, 1988 – November 30, 1992
Betty Karnette	Democratic	December 7, 1992 – November 30, 1994
Steven T. Kuykendall	Republican	December 5, 1994 – November 30, 1998
Alan Lowenthal	Democratic	December 7, 1998 – November 30, 2004
Betty Karnette		December 6, 2004 – November 30, 2008
Bonnie Lowenthal		December 1, 2008 – November 30, 2012
Holly Mitchell		December 3, 2012 – September 26, 2013		Resigned from the Assembly to be sworn in as a state senator representing the 30th State Senate district.
Sebastian Ridley-Thomas		December 5, 2013 – December 31, 2017		Resigned from the Assembly due to unspecified health problems.
Sydney Kamlager		April 16, 2018 – March 11, 2021		Won special election and was sworn in. Resigned from the Assembly to be sworn in as a state senator representing the 30th State Senate district.
Isaac Bryan		May 28, 2021 – present		Won special election and was sworn in May 28, 2021.

Election results (1992–present)

2021 (special)

California's 79th State Assembly district special election, 2021
Vacancy resulting from the resignation of Sydney Kamlager
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Isaac Bryan	21,472	50.8
	Democratic	Heather Hutt	10,538	24.9
	Democratic	Cheryl Turner	4,072	9.6
	Democratic	Dallas Denise Fowler	3,235	7.6
	No party preference	Bernard Senter	1,667	3.9
	Democratic	Samuel Morales	1,304	3.1
Total votes			42,288	100.0
	Democratic hold

2020

2020 California State Assembly election
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sydney Kamlager (Incumbent)	64,620	56.7%
	Democratic	Tracy Bernard Jones	34,005	29.8%
	Republican	Glen Ratcliff	10,880	9.5%
	Democratic	Clinton Brown	4,513	4.0%
Total votes			114,018	100.0%
General election
	Democratic	Sydney Kamlager (Incumbent)	119,818	64.2%
	Democratic	Tracy Bernard Jones	66,915	35.8%
Total votes			186,733	100.0%
	Democratic hold

2018

California's 54th State Assembly district election, 2018
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sydney Kamlager (incumbent)	41,838	55.5
	Democratic	Tepring Michelle Piquado	11,615	15.4
	Republican	Glen Ratcliff	9,359	12.4
	Democratic	Steve Dunwoody	6,409	8.5
	Democratic	Lamar Lyons	4,899	6.5
	Democratic	Breon Dupree Hollie	1,223	1.6
Total votes			75,343	100.0
General election
	Democratic	Sydney Kamlager (incumbent)	95,643	62.3
	Democratic	Tepring Michelle Piquado	57,760	37.7
Total votes			153,403	100.0
	Democratic hold

2018 (special)

California's 54th State Assembly district special election, 2018
Vacancy resulting from the resignation of Sebastian Ridley-Thomas
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sydney Kamlager	22,605	69.0
	Democratic	Tepring Michelle Piquado	4,673	14.3
	Republican	Glen Ratcliff	3,826	11.7
	Democratic	Grayson A. Pangilinan	1,182	3.6
	Democratic	Steve Dunwoody (write-in)	495	1.5
Total votes			32,781	100.0
	Democratic hold

2016

California State Assembly election, 2016
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sebastian Ridley-Thomas (incumbent)	83,889	83.2
	Republican	Glen Ratcliff	16,880	16.8
Total votes			100,769	100.0
General election
	Democratic	Sebastian Ridley-Thomas (incumbent)	146,723	81.6
	Republican	Glen Ratcliff	33,119	18.4
Total votes			179,842	100.0
	Democratic hold

2014

California State Assembly election, 2014
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sebastian Ridley-Thomas (incumbent)	34,444	78.2
	Republican	Glen Ratcliff	9,585	21.8
Total votes			44,029	100.0
General election
	Democratic	Sebastian Ridley-Thomas (incumbent)	66,082	79.1
	Republican	Glen Ratcliff	17,506	20.9
Total votes			83,588	100.0
	Democratic hold

2013 (special)

California's 54th State Assembly district special election, 2013
Vacancy resulting from the resignation of Holly Mitchell
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sebastian Ridley-Thomas	13,992	60.2
	Democratic	Christopher R. Armenta	8,270	35.6
	Democratic	John Jake	931	4.0
	No party preference	Morry Waksberg (write-in)	31	0.1
Total votes			23,224	100.0
	Democratic hold

2012

California State Assembly election, 2012
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Holly Mitchell (incumbent)	33,920	70.9
	Republican	Keith Brandon McCowen	8,350	17.4
	Democratic	Ed Nicoletti	5,601	11.7
Total votes			47,871	100.0
General election
	Democratic	Holly Mitchell (incumbent)	143,530	83.3
	Republican	Keith Brandon McCowen	28,688	16.7
Total votes			172,218	100.0
	Democratic hold

2010

2010 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Bonnie Lowenthal (incumbent)	73,775	56.7
	Republican	Martha E. Flores-Gibson	56,535	43.3
Total votes			130,310	100.0
	Democratic hold

2008

2008 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Bonnie Lowenthal	95,350	57.13
	Republican	Gabriella Holt	61,650	36.94
	Libertarian	John Kling	9,896	5.93
Total votes			166,896	100.00
Turnout				71.62
	Democratic hold

2006

2006 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Betty Karnette (incumbent)	69,890	60.76
	Republican	Michael Jackson	45,128	39.24
Total votes			115,018	100.00
Turnout				51.07
	Democratic hold

2004

2004 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Betty Karnette	89,987	53.49
	Republican	Steven T. Kuykendall	73,701	43.81
	Libertarian	John Howard Sterne	4,544	2.70
Total votes			168,232	100.00
	Democratic hold

2002

2002 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Alan Lowenthal (incumbent)	59,106	60.06
	Republican	Cesar N. Castellanos	39,310	39.94
Invalid or blank votes			5,873	5.63
Total votes			104,289	100.00
	Democratic hold

2000

2000 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Alan Lowenthal (incumbent)	83,000	58.59
	Republican	Rudy Svorinich, Jr.	54,938	38.78
	Libertarian	Dale F. Ogden	3,719	2.63
Invalid or blank votes			9,861	6.51
Total votes			151,518	100.00
	Democratic hold

1998

1998 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Alan Lowenthal	54,330	49.57
	Republican	Julie Alban	51,291	46.80
	Libertarian	Al Carlan	2,073	1.89
	American Independent	George P. "Phil" Drake	1,902	1.74
Invalid or blank votes			6,965	5.98
Total votes			118,561	100.00
	Democratic gain from Republican

1996

1996 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Steven T. Kuykendall	66,421	50.66
	Democratic	Gerrie Schipske	64,695	49.34
Invalid or blank votes			12,307	8.56
Total votes			143,423	100.00
	Republican hold

1994

1994 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Steven T. Kuykendall	56,225	47.57
	Democratic	Betty Karnette (incumbent)	55,628	47.07
	Libertarian	Alan J. Carlan	3,981	3.37
	Peace and Freedom	Patrick John McCoy	2,351	1.99
Invalid or blank votes			9,396	7.36
Total votes			127,581	100.00
	Republican gain from Democratic

1992

1992 California State Assembly election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Betty Karnette	78,400	51.94
	Republican	Gerald N. Felando (incumbent)	66,282	43.91
	American Independent	Joseph G. "Joe" Fields	6,264	4.15
Invalid or blank votes			13,844	8.40
Total votes			164,790	100.00
	Democratic gain from Republican