Election 2026 · State of California

California Assembly District 55

Published September 29, 2026 · Updated October 1, 2026

Ashley M. Brown and Isaac G. Bryan (incumbent) are the candidates for California Assembly District 55 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 84% of the district's voting precincts and 75% of its land are in the City of Los Angeles, from Mar Vista, Del Rey and Palms to Mid City, West Adams and the Crenshaw area. It also includes Culver City, View Park-Windsor Hills and Ladera Heights. 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

Four candidates. The top two, Isaac G. Bryan and Ashley M. Brown, both Democrats, advanced to November 3. Total votes: 122,993. 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 put constitutional amendments on the ballot by a two-thirds vote of each house (art. XVIII, sec. 1). Five of the 14 statewide measures on this ballot (Props 1, 2, 4, 5 and 43) were placed there by the Legislature (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. It added taxes, including a sales tax on some computer software, and gave counties $900 million for homelessness (CalMatters).

The district.

• About 467,000 people live in the 55th District. The Census Bureau’s 2020-2024 survey estimates the population as 34% Latino, 29% white, 20% Black and 10% Asian, with a median household income of $93,558 (Census Reporter).
• The Daily News lists Crenshaw, Culver City, Ladera Heights, Mar Vista, Del Rey, Palms, Pico-Robertson, Beverly Grove and Mid-Wilshire (Daily News). LAist gives voter registration as 63.1% Democratic, 20.8% no party preference and 9.7% Republican (LAist).
• Of the district’s 1,702 LA County voting precincts, 1,425 are in the City of LA, 167 in Culver City, and 110 in unincorporated View Park and Ladera Heights (County Registrar precinct map).
• City neighborhoods, by share of the district’s land (Neighborhood Council map): Mar Vista (10%), Empowerment Congress West (8%), South Robertson (8%), Del Rey (7%), United Neighborhoods (6%), West Adams (5%), Mid City West (5%), Mid City (5%), P.I.C.O. (5%), Park Mesa Heights (4%), Empowerment Congress North (4%), Empowerment Congress Central (3%) and Palms (2%).
• City Council districts, by share of land (Council district map): CD 10 (Heather Hutt, 30%), CD 11 (Traci Park, 17%), CD 5 (Katy Yaroslavsky, 17%) and CD 8 (Marqueece Harris-Dawson, 12%).
• Land shares come from laying the County’s Assembly district map over the City’s Neighborhood Council and Council district maps. They measure area, not people.

Records

Isaac G. Bryan

Office and roles. Bryan chairs the Natural Resources Committee and the Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color. He sits on Governmental Organization, Judiciary, Privacy and Consumer Protection, and the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies, and is vice chair of the Legislative Black Caucus (Assembly biography). He was Majority Leader under Speaker Robert Rivas until November 2023, when Rivas replaced him with Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and made him chair of Natural Resources (LA Times).

Bills, 2025-26 session. The Legislature’s bill data lists Bryan as a lead author of the final version of 41 bills, alone or jointly; resolutions are left out. He co-led six of them with another lead author: AB 562 (Solache), AB 1645 (Mark González), AB 1900 (Kalra), AB 2157 (Connolly), AB 2204 (Gabriel) and SB 352 (Sen. Eloise Gómez Reyes). The count leaves out AB 40 and AB 1138: he was lead author of earlier versions, but the final versions list Assemblymembers Mia Bonta and Rick Chavez Zbur. As of the Oct 1, 2026 data file, after the Governor’s Sept 30 deadline to act on bills (art. IV, sec. 10), 28 had become law, 4 were vetoed and 9 did not pass (bill data; Governor’s Sept 30 update).

• Laws include AB 246 (the Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025), AB 247 (wages for incarcerated fire crew members), AB 1388 (law enforcement settlement agreements), AB 1455 (emergency rules for ember-resistant zones), AB 1768, which lets Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties seek local sales taxes above the state cap, and AB 2157 (extending the Displaced Oil and Gas Worker Pilot Program; led by Assemblymember Damon Connolly, with Bryan as joint lead author).
• Vetoed: AB 7, which would have allowed college admissions preference for descendants of people enslaved in the United States. On Sept 27 the Governor also vetoed AB 1099, on intake for developmental services, and AB 1647, on transferring juveniles to adult criminal court (Governor’s Sept 27 update).
• Signed Sept 27 to 29: AB 1661, on low-production oil wells and health payments near the Baldwin Hills (LA Focus), and AB 1457, on environmental justice in general plans, both signed Sept 27 (Governor’s office); and AB 1349, which targets “ghost tickets” sold by resellers, signed Sept 27. Newsom asked Bryan to revisit its exemptions for some sellers (LA Times). Also signed Sept 27: AB 1573 on housing element target populations, AB 2162 on county housing funds for nonminor dependents and young adults, and AB 1646 on visits at juvenile facilities, with Asm. Mark González as joint lead author (Governor’s Sept 27 update). AB 1655, on CalWORKs aid during a parent’s immigration detention, was signed Sept 29 (Governor’s office).
• Vetoed Sept 30, 2026: AB 1537, barring California peace officers from side jobs in immigration enforcement (see Key moments) (veto message).
• Signed Sept 30, 2026: AB 2599, requiring corporate disclosure of ties to slavery (LA Sentinel; Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth, via IBW21); AB 1883 on workplace surveillance tools, with a signing message (Governor’s office); and two he co-led, AB 1645 (the HUGS Act on prison visits, led by Asm. Mark González) and AB 2204 (organized sports in prisons, led by Asm. Jesse Gabriel) (Governor’s Sept 30 update).

Bills, 2023-24 session. He was a lead author of the final version of 51 bills, alone or jointly; resolutions are left out. Of those, 26 became law, 6 were vetoed and 19 did not pass (bill data). His laws include AB 2716 on low-production oil wells in the Baldwin Hills and AB 1986 on banned books in state prisons. He was a joint lead author of AB 1, collective bargaining for legislative staff (led by Asm. Tina McKinnor); AB 3089, a formal state apology for slavery (led by Asm. Reggie Jones-Sawyer); and AB 2602 on contracts for digital replicas of performers (led by Asm. Ash Kalra).

Key floor votes. From the Assembly’s recorded votes:

Source: Assembly floor vote records on leginfo, linked for each bill above.

Ethics and court records. No fines, warning letters or other enforcement orders found in FPPC records, and no City Ethics Commission orders, FEC enforcement cases (searched Oct. 1, 2026) or State Bar license were found. The Assembly Legislative Ethics Committee posts no complaint decisions. No court judgment against him was found in CourtListener federal dockets and opinions or in web searches of Justia and PacerMonitor (searched Oct. 1, 2026).

Ashley M. Brown

Career. Brown works for LAUSD as a psychiatric social worker (Orange County Register questionnaire). She writes that she has “seen what happens when students don’t have access to mental health support” (Orange County Register).

Record. She lists no political office held, so she has no voting record (Orange County Register questionnaire).

Ethics and court records. No complaints or enforcement actions found in FPPC, City Ethics Commission or FEC records (FEC searched Oct. 1, 2026). No license or court judgment that could be tied to her was found in State Bar and CourtListener records (searched Sept. 30, 2026).

Where they stand

Brown’s entries come from her Southern California News Group questionnaire (Orange County Register). No questionnaire answers from Bryan were found. His entries come from his bills and his campaign plan, which lists goals without specific proposals.

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: measure titles from the Secretary of State’s voter guide; floor votes linked in each row.

Endorsements

Isaac G. Bryan

His endorsement page is titled “Past Endorsements” and carries no date, so some names may date from earlier campaigns. It lists:

• Party: the California Democratic Party and the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, plus the Stonewall Democratic Club, Westside Young Democrats and Black Women’s Democratic Club. The California Working Families Party is also listed (endorsement page).
• Unions: the California Labor Federation, the LA County Federation of Labor, the California Teachers Association, United Teachers Los Angeles, the California Nurses Association, SEIU California, the State Building and Construction Trades Council, UNITE HERE Local 11, California Professional Firefighters and many others (endorsement page).
• Organizations: Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project LA County, Abundant Housing LA, California Black Power Network Action Fund, Initiate Justice Action and Climate Action California (endorsement page).
• Newspapers: none found for 2026.

Ashley M. Brown

None found. Her website’s endorsement page had no readable list, and no endorsements were reported in news coverage.

Polls

No public polls of this race were found.

Money

Source: Form 460 summary pages in the Cal-Access bulk data, downloaded Sept 29, 2026: Bryan committee, latest report, July 1 to Sept 19, 2026, first 2025 report, with the transfers, late contribution reports; Brown committee. Cal-Access lists Brown’s committee from January 2026, but no reports for it appear in the Sept 29 data. The Assembly contribution limit for 2025-26 is $5,900 per person per election (FPPC).

Social media ad spending. Bryan’s committee reported $293,082 in payments to Facebook/Meta from January 2025 to Sept 19, 2026: $220,426 in 2025 and $72,656 in 2026 (Cal-Access expenditures).

Who is giving

Method: itemized contributions (money and in-kind) on Bryan’s Form 460s from Jan 1, 2025, plus late contribution reports filed after the last Form 460 (Cal-Access contributions). A donor is a normalized name plus ZIP code for people, or a normalized name for organizations. A ZIP counts as City of LA if at least half its area is in the City.

Isaac G. Bryan. 284 donors gave $859,527 in itemized contributions: 127 people and 157 organizations. Fifty-seven donors gave at least one $5,900 maximum gift, totaling $492,045 (57.2%). Donors giving under $250 in total gave 0.6% (Cal-Access contributions).

Source: Cal-Access contributions to Bryan for Assembly 2026, grouped by donor type.

• Geography. 13.7% of itemized dollars came from City of LA ZIP codes, 11.3% from the rest of LA County, 58.6% from elsewhere in California and 16.4% from out of state. Among individual donors, 35.8% of dollars came from the City (Cal-Access contributions).
• Real estate and development: 8 donors, $30,755 (3.6%), including the Realtors’ CREPAC ($10,800) and the California Apartment Association PAC ($5,900) (Cal-Access contributions).
• Lobbying interests. 41 donor organizations, giving $186,300, are registered state lobbyist employers (Cal-Access lobbying).
• Individuals. The three largest individual donors gave $11,800 each. Seven donors who list UCLA as their employer gave $4,270 (Cal-Access contributions).
• Clusters. No group of five or more donors from one employer within three days was found.

Outside spending

Source: Form 496 reports in Cal-Access: Advance California, County Democratic Party. No outside spending for or against Brown was found.

Who funds these committees: Advance California raised $5.44 million from Jan 1, 2025 through Sept 19, 2026, including $5.25 million from the California Apartment Association Independent Expenditure Committee (Advance California on Cal-Access). That committee’s largest funders were Essex Property Trust ($3.0 million), Equity Residential ($2.17 million) and AvalonBay Communities ($1.96 million) (CAA committee on Cal-Access). The County party committee’s funders are listed on the 46th District page.

Key moments

Debates and forums

No debates or candidate forums for this race were found.

Events

• Police side jobs with ICE (January-September 2026).
  • What happened: Bryan introduced AB 1537 on Jan. 5, 2026 to bar California officers from working for or volunteering with the Department of Homeland Security, Courthouse News reported (Courthouse News). Post News Group reported on Sept 22 that it had reached the Governor’s desk (Post News Group). The Governor vetoed it on Sept 30 (leginfo; veto message).
  • Bryan’s position: “We don’t collaborate in the kidnapping of our community members” (Courthouse News).
  • Brown’s position: none found.