Tight California Primaries
California House Primaries: Incumbents Lead Many Races, Calvert and Kim Nearly Tied in CA-40
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Across several California House primaries on June 2, early unofficial results showed incumbents including Maxine Waters (CA-43), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Ted Lieu (CA-36), and Lou Correa (CA-46) leading crowded fields, with the top two vote-getters in each race advancing to the November general election. In CA-43, Waters led with about 63% of the vote, followed by Republican Cristian Morales at roughly 20%, while Myla Rahman had near 13% and David Sedlik trailed at about 4%. Kamlager-Dove and Lieu also posted double-digit leads in their districts despite multi-candidate competition. Redistricting influenced multiple contests, including CA-41 and CA-42, while Proposition 50 redrew lines and helped make the CA-40 GOP fight between incumbents Ken Calvert and Young Kim unusually tight. In CA-40, Calvert led slightly with 26.8% to Kim’s 26.2%, with Esther Kim-Varet third, and the campaign featured pointed messaging about loyalty to former President Donald Trump.
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In California’s 43rd District, the registrar’s office update came with detailed district context: the district covers parts of South Los Angeles and the South Bay (including Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Watts, Compton and Torrance) and has a voter-registration split of 57.89% Democrats, 11.77% Republicans, and 22.81% no party preference.
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The 37th District race featured an unusually large field: it had nine candidates—tied with Districts 26 and 32 for the most L.A. County House candidates in this primary cycle—while Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove led a Democratic vote-getting advantage in that crowded field.
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In California’s 32nd District, early results put Rep. Brad Sherman and challenger Larry Thompson in the top two spots, but the race’s major storyline was a “generational leadership change” debate—candidates argued it’s time for Sherman, completing a 15th term, to step aside for “a new generation of Democrats.”
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In California’s 49th District, early returns showed Republican Armen Kurdian ahead of conservative columnist Star Parker in the primary, and Parker’s profile included being selected by President Donald Trump to serve on a U.S. Civil Rights Commission Committee for California in 2020.
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