Election 2026 · State of California

California Assembly District 46

Published September 29, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026

Jesse Gabriel (incumbent) and Tracey Schroeder are the candidates for California Assembly District 46 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

The State Assembly is one of the two houses of the California Legislature, which holds the state's lawmaking power. The Assembly has 80 members. Its members write and vote on state laws and, with the Senate, pass the state budget, which the Constitution requires by June 15 each year.

Summary by CityHallPass, not the official text or legal advice. The official text controls: LA County's official election information.

What it means for the City of LA

About 97% of the district's land lies inside the City of Los Angeles, across the west and central San Fernando Valley. State laws bind the City, and the state budget funds programs the City runs. Example: state law requires the City to plan housing for all income levels and update that plan on a set schedule (Government Code sections 65580 and 65588).

Primary results, June 2, 2026

Two candidates, both advanced to November 3. Total votes: 103,479, including 607 cast in the Ventura County part of the district. Certified results

The candidates

The job

Powers. The California Constitution gives the state’s lawmaking power to the Legislature, which is the Senate plus the 80-member Assembly (art. IV, sec. 1). A bill needs a majority of each house to pass (art. IV, sec. 8). The Legislature can override a Governor’s veto with two-thirds of each house (art. IV, sec. 10). Tax increases need two-thirds of each house (art. XIII A, sec. 3). The Legislature can also put constitutional amendments on the ballot by a two-thirds vote of each house (art. XVIII, sec. 1). The Legislature placed five of the 14 statewide measures on this ballot: Props 1, 2, 4, 5 and 43 (Secretary of State voter guide).

Budget. The Legislature must pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15, and a majority vote is enough (art. IV, sec. 12). CalMatters reported that the 2026-27 budget deal totaled $352 billion, added taxes, including a sales tax on everyday computer software, and gave counties $900 million for homelessness (CalMatters). Gabriel chairs the Assembly Budget Committee; his office says that in that role he works with legislative leaders and the Governor to write the state budget (Assembly biography).

The district.

• About 502,000 people live in the 46th District, and the Census Bureau’s 2020-2024 survey estimates the population as 40% Latino, 39% white, 12% Asian and 4% Black, with a median household income of $91,381 (Census Reporter).
• LAist describes it as straddling Los Angeles and Ventura counties along the 101 Freeway, from Van Nuys to Bell Canyon, with voter registration 48.4% Democratic, 20.8% Republican and 23.7% no party preference (LAist).
• Almost all of it is in the City of LA. Of the district’s 1,425 LA County voting precincts, 1,414 are in the City (County Registrar precinct map). By land area, about 97% is in the City (City council district map).
• City neighborhoods, by share of the district’s land (Neighborhood Council areas): Woodland Hills-Warner Center (21%), Encino (18%), West Hills (13%), Tarzana (11%), Reseda (8%), Lake Balboa (8%), Van Nuys (7%), Winnetka (6%) and Canoga Park (5%) (City Neighborhood Councils).
• City Council districts, by share of land: CD 3 (Bob Blumenfield, 47%), CD 4 (Nithya Raman, 17%), CD 6 (Imelda Padilla, 17%), CD 12 (John Lee, 13%) and a sliver of CD 2 (Adrin Nazarian, 1%) (City council district map).
• Land shares come from overlaying the County’s Assembly district map on the City’s Neighborhood Council and Council district maps. They measure area, not people.

Records

Jesse Gabriel

Office and roles. Gabriel has been in the Assembly since 2018 (Daily News). His office lists these assignments: chair of the Budget Committee, member of Governmental Organization, vice chair of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and alternate on all six budget subcommittees (committee page).

Bills, 2025-26 session. Counting only bills whose final version lists him as a lead author, the Legislature’s bill data shows Gabriel on 81 Assembly bills and one constitutional amendment in the regular session, 16 of them shared with other lead authors. Many are budget bills he introduced as Budget chair; dozens of others he introduced were later taken over by the Budget Committee and are not counted. As of the data’s Oct 1, 2026 update, after the Governor’s Sept 30 deadline to act on bills (art. IV, sec. 10), 26 of the 81 bills had become law, none was vetoed and 55 did not pass (bill data). Eight of the 26 were signed on Sept 29 and 30 (Governor’s office, Sept 29; Sept 29; Sept 30). In the 2025 special session he also carried budget bills with Sen. Scott Wiener; one, AB 4, became law (bill data). Laws include:

• AB 102 and AB 109, the Budget Acts of 2025 and 2026 (bill data).
• ACA 20, the “Save for California’s Future Act,” which is Prop 2 on this ballot. It enlarges the state’s rainy day fund. The Assembly passed it 59-8 on June 25, 2026 (votes). He shares lead authorship with Assemblymember Avelino Valencia and Senators John Laird and Melissa Hurtado (bill data).
• AB 1264 (Chapter 467, 2025), which phases “ultraprocessed foods of concern” out of school meals (bill data). STAT profiled his food bills in June 2026 (STAT).
• AB 1127 (Chapter 572, 2025), which bars dealers from selling pistols that can be easily converted to automatic fire (KQED).
• AB 468 on looting and AB 299 on hotels and short-term lodging during disasters, both signed in October 2025 (bill data).
• AB 1836 on the State Nonprofit Security Grant Program and AB 2378 on the CalVIP violence intervention grants, signed Sept 25 and Sept 26, 2026, and AB 2244, a state “Non-Ultraprocessed Certified” food standard, signed Sept 28 (bill data).
• AB 1806 and AB 1807. The Governor signed both on Sept 29, 2026 (Governor’s office). AB 1806 requires the Attorney General to investigate fatal shootings of unarmed civilians by immigration officers. AB 1807 bars federal immigration agents from using state property for immigration enforcement (Gabriel’s office).
• Signed Sept 29, 2026: AB 1924 (a statewide homelessness prevention strategy) and AB 2020 (housing program financing) (Governor’s office).
• Signed Sept 30, 2026: AB 1626 (mental health training for youth coaches), AB 1665 (a related coaches bill he co-led with Assemblymember Blanca Pacheco), AB 2204 (sports programs in prisons) and AB 395 (holidays) (Governor’s office).

Bills, 2023-24 session. He was a lead author on the final version of 68 measures: 58 bills, of which 25 became law and 5 were vetoed, and 10 resolutions, 9 of them adopted (Legislature’s bill data). They include AB 28, an excise tax on guns and ammunition; AB 418, the California Food Safety Act; AB 2316 on banned substances in school food; AB 2432, the California Victims of Crime Act; and AB 1252, which put the Office of Gun Violence Prevention in statute (bill data). A photo caption in a KQED story says the Governor signed his gun and ammunition tax bill on Sept 26, 2023 (KQED).

Key floor votes.

Source: Assembly floor votes on each bill’s votes page (linked in each row) and the Legislature’s bill data download.

Other committees he controls. Cal-Access lists a ballot measure committee controlled by Gabriel, Californians for Justice (Cal-Access), and two committees named for attorney general runs (see Key moments).

Ethics and court records. In April 2025 the FPPC sent Gabriel a warning letter for filing a behested payment report late. Uber Technologies paid $10,000 at his request to LA Family Housing on Oct. 3, 2024, and the report was due within 30 days. The FPPC chose a warning over a fine because he filed the report before it contacted him and the late filing caused “minimal public harm.”

The State Bar lists Jesse S. Gabriel, a Harvard Law School graduate admitted in 2009, as active with no discipline. No City Ethics Commission orders or FEC enforcement cases (searched Oct. 1, 2026) were found. The Assembly Legislative Ethics Committee posts no complaint decisions. No court case naming him as a party was found in CourtListener federal dockets and opinions, in web searches of Justia and PacerMonitor, or in news coverage (searched Oct. 1, 2026).

Tracey Schroeder

Career. Schroeder told LA School Report in 2022 that she had spent 24 years teaching in LAUSD (LA School Report). Her campaign site says she has taught elementary school with LAUSD for more than 25 years (campaign site). Her 2024 questionnaire lists union service in the National Education Association Representative Assembly and the UTLA House of Representatives (Daily News).

Past campaigns. She ran for the LAUSD board in District 4 in the June 2022 primary (LA School Report). She was Gabriel’s Republican opponent in November 2024, and this race is a rematch (Daily News).

Ethics and court records. No complaints or enforcement actions were found in FPPC, City Ethics Commission or FEC records (FEC searched Oct. 1, 2026), and no license in her name at the State Bar. No court case that can be tied to her was found in CourtListener federal dockets and opinions, in web searches of Justia and PacerMonitor, or in news coverage (searched Oct. 1, 2026).

Where they stand

Issues come from the questions in the Southern California News Group’s candidate questionnaire (budget, homelessness, crime, cost of living) and from each candidate’s platform. Gabriel’s campaign site has no issue pages, so his entries come from bills he wrote. Schroeder’s come from her issues page (checked Sept 30, 2026) and her 2024 questionnaire.

On the other ballot measures

State propositions are listed in the Secretary of State’s voter guide. For measures the Legislature placed on the ballot, the incumbent’s floor vote is shown. A vote to place a measure on the ballot is not the same as an endorsement.

Source: the SOS voter guide and each bill’s votes page (linked in the rows), with tallies checked in the Legislature’s bill data download. Schroeder’s issues page does not take positions on these measures.

Endorsements

Jesse Gabriel

• Party: The California Democratic Party endorsed him for the November election (CDP general election endorsements, Aug 5, 2026). The Los Angeles County Democratic Party reported spending on mail and literature supporting him before the primary (Cal-Access; see Outside spending).

His campaign’s endorsement page is undated and, when checked Sept 30, 2026, still listed officials who have since left office, such as Mayor Eric Garcetti and Controller Betty Yee, and Deborah Klein Lopez as Agoura Hills mayor, so it appears to date from an earlier campaign (endorsement page). It lists:

• Elected officials (partial list): U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, Reps. Brad Sherman and Jimmy Gomez, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta, Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Treasurer Fiona Ma, among others (endorsement page).
• Party groups: the California, Los Angeles County and Ventura County Democratic parties and several Democratic clubs (endorsement page).
• Unions: the California Labor Federation, the LA County Federation of Labor, the California Teachers Association, the California Federation of Teachers, the California Nurses Association, California Professional Firefighters, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association and SEIU California (endorsement page).
• Organizations: Sierra Club California, California Environmental Voters, Equality California, Planned Parenthood, the Armenian National Committee of America Western Region and others (endorsement page).
• Newspapers: None found.

Tracey Schroeder

• Party: The California Republican Party lists her among its 2026 endorsements for Assembly District 46 (CAGOP).
• Elected officials, unions and organizations: None found. LAist’s primary guide listed her endorsements as “not available” (LAist).
• Newspapers: None found.

Polls

No public polls of this race were found.

Money

Source: Form 460 summary pages for both committees (linked in the table) in the Cal-Access raw data, downloaded Sept 29, 2026. Schroeder’s 2026 committee had no report for July 1 to Sept 19 in that data. Her earlier committee, Schroeder for Assembly 2024, also filed 2026 reports. They listed $3,361.50 in contributions from Jan 1 to Jun 30, 2026, $1,358.50 in spending and $1,103 in cash on Jun 30 (Cal-Access raw data). Some of those gifts may duplicate the 2026 committee’s reports.

The contribution limit for Assembly candidates in 2025-26 is $5,900 per person per election (FPPC). That is the most common gift size in Gabriel’s data, and many donors gave $11,800 for the primary and general.

Who is giving

Method: itemized contributions (money and in-kind) on each committee’s Form 460s from Jan 1, 2025, plus late contribution reports filed after the last Form 460. A donor is a normalized name plus ZIP code for people, or a normalized name for organizations. Location is the donor’s reported ZIP code: a ZIP counts as City of LA if at least half its area is in the City. Unitemized gifts under $100 have no donor detail.

Source: itemized contributions on the two committees’ filings (Gabriel; Schroeder) in the Cal-Access raw data.

Jesse Gabriel. Organizations gave 78% of his itemized money. By type of donor:

Source: Gabriel’s committee filings in the Cal-Access raw data.

• Geography. By donor address, 15.1% of itemized dollars came from City of LA ZIP codes, 10.6% from the rest of LA County, 51.1% from elsewhere in California and 23.2% from out of state. Among individuals only, 40.2% of dollars came from the City (Cal-Access).
• Largest donors. $23,600 each from the United Domestic Workers of America Action Fund, SEIU Local 1000’s candidate PAC, the Carpenters’ Building a Stronger Future for California PAC and the school administrators’ PAC (in two entries). $11,800 each from Airbnb, Blue Shield of California, Comcast, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the California Dental Association PAC, DentaQuest’s PAC, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, Western Dental, UA Journeymen and Apprentices Local 250, SEIU California and SEIU Locals 99, 721 and 2015. Seven individuals also gave $11,800 each (Cal-Access).
• Real estate and development: 18 donors, $70,100 (5.4%), including the California Association of Realtors PAC ($9,900), the California Apartment Association PAC ($5,900) and the California Building Industry Association PAC ($5,500) (Cal-Access).
• Lobbying interests. 40 organizations that gave, totaling $195,500, are registered with the Secretary of State as lobbyist employers (Cal-Access lobbying data).
• Shared employers. No group of five or more donors from one employer within three days was found in his committee’s filings.

Tracey Schroeder. Her 2026 committee listed nine donors, eight of them with City of LA addresses. The largest gave $701.50. Six of the seven individual donors listed themselves as retired (Cal-Access).

Outside spending

Source: Form 496 independent expenditure reports filed by the LA County Democratic Party’s issues and state candidate committees, from the Cal-Access raw data. No outside spending for or against Schroeder was found.

Who funds the County party committees, contributions from Jan 1, 2025 through Sept 19, 2026 (Cal-Access raw data):

• Issues and Advocacy Committee ($1.18 million): unitemized gifts under $100 ($143,123); Fabian Núñez for State Treasurer 2026 ($126,000, including $26,000 reported after Sept 19); Allied Physicians of California ($100,000); the UTLA PACE issues committee ($75,000); SEIU Local 721 ($55,000); the Carpenters’ Building a Stronger West ($50,000); Edison International’s committee ($50,000).
• State Candidate Committee ($1.51 million): the UNAC/UHCP nurses’ PAC ($99,000); the Carpenters’ Building a Stronger West ($98,000); a Carpenters regional council committee ($98,000, listed under two names); Working for Working Americans ($98,000 in two entries); the California Professional Firefighters PAC ($87,500 in two entries); SEIU Local 2015 ($70,000); Airbnb’s Committee to Expand the Middle Class ($48,388).

Key moments

Debates and forums

No debates or candidate forums for this race were found.

Events

• Committees for attorney general.
  • What happened: Cal-Access lists a committee named Gabriel for Attorney General 2026 (Cal-Access). Its reports show $1,136,602 raised in 2025 and $14,800 in 2026, and $517,677 in cash on Sept 19, 2026 (Cal-Access raw data). In March 2026 the campaigns of Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur and Mark Gonzalez reported refunds of their contributions to it. Cal-Access also lists a Gabriel for Attorney General 2030 committee (Cal-Access). Attorney General Rob Bonta is on the November 2026 ballot for re-election (certified candidate list).
  • Gabriel’s response: no public statement found.