California's 12th State Assembly district

California's 12th State Assembly district
California's 12th State Assembly district
Current assemblymember
	Damon Connolly; D–San Rafael
Population (2020)	486,148
Demographics	61.56% White; 2.02% Black; 23.89% Latino; 5.92% Asian; 0.36% Native American; 0.25% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; 0.70% other; 5.26% remainder of multiracial;

California's 12th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by Democratic Damon Connolly of San Rafael.^[2]

District profile

The district is has the Sonoma Valley to its north and the San Francisco Bay to its south.

All of Marin County

Sonoma County – (45.79%)

Election results from statewide races

Year	Office	Results
2022	Governor	Newsom 75.9 – 24.1%
2022	Senator	Padilla 77.5 – 22.5%
2021	Recall^[3]^[4]	58.1 - 41.9%
2021	Recall^[3]^[4]	Elder 59.7 - 6.6%
2020	President	Trump 52.5- 45.3%
2018	Governor^[5]	Cox 56.1 – 43.9%
2018	Senator^[6]	De Leon 59.0 – 41.0%
2016	President	Trump 51.1 – 43.1%
2016	Senator	Harris 59.2 – 40.8%
2014	Governor	Kashkari 53.0 – 47.0%
2012	President	Romney 52.4 – 45.1%
2012	Senator	Emken 53.2 – 46.8%

List of assembly members

Due to redistricting, the 12th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2021 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.^[7]

Assembly members	Party	Years served	Counties represented	Notes
E. W. Britt	Democratic	January 5, 1885 – January 3, 1887	Lake
L. H. Gruwell		January 3, 1887 – January 7, 1889
C. M. Crawford		January 7, 1889 – January 5, 1891
James H. Renfro		January 5, 1891 – May 20, 1892		Died in office. Died after being kicked in the head by a horse on his ranch.^[8]
Richard I. Thomas	Republican	January 2, 1893 – January 4, 1897	Nevada
William Siles Robinson		January 4, 1897 – January 1, 1901
Frank M. Rutherford		January 1, 1901 – January 5, 1903
Benjamin F. Howard	Democratic	January 5, 1903 – January 2, 1905	Colusa, Glenn, Lake
Ernest Weyand	Republican	January 2, 1905 – January 7, 1907
F. H. Smythe	Democratic	January 7, 1907 – January 4, 1909
John L. Mendenhall		January 4, 1909 – January 6, 1913
G. W. Libby		January 6, 1913 – January 4, 1915	Sonoma
Knox Boude	Republican	January 4, 1915 – January 8, 1917
Lyman Green		January 8, 1917 – January 6, 1919
A. F. Stevens		January 6, 1919 – January 8, 1923
Emmett I. Donohue		January 8, 1923 – January 5, 1925
Hubert B. Scudder		January 5, 1925 – January 5, 1931
Percy G. West		January 5, 1931 – January 2, 1933	Sacramento
James E. Thorp		January 2, 1933 – January 27, 1948	San Joaquin	Died in office. Died from heart condition.^[9]
Verne W. Hoffman		January 3, 1949 – January 8, 1951
John J. McFall	Democratic	January 8, 1951 – January 3, 1957
William Biddick Jr.	Democratic	January 7, 1957 – January 2, 1961
Bob Monagan	Republican	January 2, 1961 – April 9, 1973		Resigned from the Assembly^[10]
Douglas F. Carter	Republican	July 17, 1973 – December 2, 1974		Was sworn in after winning a special election to replace the vacant seat of Bob Monagan.^[11]
Kenneth A. Meade	Democratic	December 2, 1974 – November 30, 1976	Alameda, Contra Costa
Tom Bates		December 6, 1976 – November 30, 1992	Alameda, Contra Costa
John Burton		December 7, 1992 – November 30, 1996	San Francisco
Kevin Shelley		December 2, 1996 – November 30, 2002	San Francisco, San Mateo
Leland Yee		December 2, 2002 – November 30, 2006
Fiona Ma		December 4, 2006 – November 30, 2012
Kristin Olsen	Republican	December 3, 2012 – November 30, 2016	San Joaquin, Stanislaus
Heath Flora	Republican	December 5, 2016 – November 30, 2022	San Joaquin, Stanislaus
Damon Connolly	Democratic	December 5, 2022 – Present

Election results (1992–present)

2022

2022 California State Assembly election
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Damon Connolly	42,950	37.1
	Democratic	Sara Aminzadeh	41,934	36.2
	Democratic	Steve Schwartz	16,612	14.3
	Democratic	Ida Times-Green	13,164	11.4
	Republican	Andrew Podshadley (write-in)	1,181	1.0
Total votes			115,841	100.0
General election
	Democratic	Damon Connolly	92,287	51.8
	Democratic	Sara Aminzade	85,900	48.2
Total votes			21,599	100.0
	Democratic gain from Republican

2020

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