Election 2026 · Federal

U.S. House, California District 27

Published September 29, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026

George Whitesides (incumbent) and Jason Gibbs are the candidates for U.S. House, California District 27 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

U.S. Rep. George Whitesides, a Democrat, faces Jason Gibbs, a Republican, for the U.S. House seat in the 27th Congressional District. In the City of Los Angeles, the district covers Granada Hills, most of Northridge and parts of Reseda, Lake Balboa and North Hills.

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

Congress writes the budgets for federal grant programs that pay for some City of Los Angeles services. One example is the Community Development Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The City's 2026-27 Proposed Budget says the City gets these funds based on its population, poverty and housing overcrowding, and uses them for housing, economic development and social services for low- and moderate-income residents. The same budget estimates $749,787,681 in grant receipts for City departments in 2026-27, from federal, state, local and other sources. About 143,800 City residents in the northwest San Fernando Valley live in this district.

Primary results, June 2, 2026

Four candidates. Jason Gibbs and George Whitesides, the top two, advanced to November 3. Total votes: 153,133, all in Los Angeles County. Percentages are each candidate's share of all votes cast for the office, from the certified Statement of Vote. Certified results

The candidates

The job

What a House member does. The House makes and passes federal laws; the Senate is the other chamber of Congress (House.gov). Members serve on committees, which consider bills and oversee federal agencies and programs (House.gov). A member’s office also helps constituents with federal agencies such as Social Security, the VA and the IRS (Whitesides’s office, casework page).

Pay and staff. A member earns $174,000 a year, a rate frozen since 2009. Each member gets a Members’ Representational Allowance for staff, travel, mail and district offices. Since 2023 these allowances have ranged from $1,849,149 to $2,088,499 per member, and the levels did not change for 2026. A member may hire up to 18 permanent staff plus up to four part-time or temporary employees (Congressional Research Service, Sept. 10, 2026).

Why it matters to the City. Congress funds grant programs the City relies on. The City’s proposed 2026-27 budget estimates $749.8 million in grant receipts for City departments from federal, state and other sources, including HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (City proposed budget).

The new district. Proposition 50 redrew the lines for 2026 through 2030 (Secretary of State).

• It covers all of Palmdale, most of Santa Clarita (220,589 of 229,158 residents) and most of Lancaster (162,707 of 171,488) (Statewide Database city splits report).
• The Daily News reported that the new lines dropped Acton and Quartz Hill and reached south into the San Fernando Valley, adding parts of Reseda and Lake Balboa (Daily News). The LA Times said the district “is home to major aerospace bases and logistics warehouses” and is one of the largest commuter regions in the country (LA Times).
• City of Los Angeles: 143,764 City residents live here, 3.7% of the City’s 3,912,115 (2020 Census; Statewide Database city splits report). They are in the northwest San Fernando Valley: Granada Hills, most of Northridge, and parts of Reseda, Lake Balboa and North Hills. Most are in Council District 12, with smaller parts of Districts 6, 4 and 3. We placed them by matching census tracts in the Statewide Database block file to the City’s council district and neighborhood council maps and the County’s community map, so the edges are approximate.
• Voters: 462,804 registered as of May 18, 2026: 42.14% Democratic, 27.37% Republican and 22.85% no party preference (Secretary of State).

Records

George Whitesides

Committees (House Clerk):

• Armed Services, on the Seapower and Projection Forces; Strategic Forces; and Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation subcommittees.
• Science, Space, and Technology, on the Space and Aeronautics subcommittee. His office says he is the committee’s vice ranking member (House bio).

Bills he sponsored. He introduced 23 bills and resolutions in the 119th Congress through Sept. 16, 2026. None had passed the House. The furthest along, H.R. 7150 on a VA reporting requirement, was forwarded by a subcommittee to the full Veterans’ Affairs Committee (Congress.gov). Examples:

• H.R. 1179, Chiquita Canyon Tax Relief Act (Feb. 2025), on tax relief for residents near the Chiquita Canyon landfill (bill).
• H.R. 8773, Containing Effects of Mineral Extraction Act (May 2026), aimed at mining impacts in the Santa Clarita Valley (bill; release).
• H.R. 9945, Lowering Energy Costs through Grid Modernization Act (July 2026), with Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-N.C.). It would support upgrading existing power lines with high-capacity cables (release).
• H.R. 9534, Wildfire Response Modernization Act, and H.R. 5615 on a National Guard wildfire detection program called FireGuard (bill; bill).
• H.R. 10137, No Insider Trading on National Security Act (Aug. 2026), with Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) (release).
• AI bills: H.R. 10180, Self-Improving AI Monitoring Act, and H.R. 10042, Understanding AI in the Classroom Act (Congress.gov; release; release).

Defense bill amendments. His office says he won amendments in the committee’s FY2027 defense bill for aircraft built at Plant 42 in Palmdale, wildfire detection, and an investigation of insider trading tied to military operations (release, June 5, 2026).

Voting record. From the Clerk’s 676 roll calls between Jan. 3, 2025 and Sept. 16, 2026 (Clerk):

• He missed 16 votes (2.4%) (Clerk).
• He voted with most House Democrats on 93.4% of the votes he cast. Among the five Los Angeles-area House Democrats running this year in districts that include parts of the City (Chu, Friedman, Rivas, Sherman and Whitesides), that is the lowest share; the others range from 97.6% to 98.4% (CityHallPass count of the same Clerk roll calls).
• He sided with most Republicans against most Democrats 40 times (Clerk). Examples:
  • Laken Riley Act (H.R. 29), yes, Jan. 7, 2025. 48 Democrats voted yes (roll call 6).
  • HALT Fentanyl Act (H.R. 27), yes, Feb. 6, 2025 (roll call 33).
  • GENIUS Act on stablecoins (S. 1582) and CLARITY Act on crypto market rules (H.R. 3633), yes on both, July 17, 2025 (roll call 199; roll call 200).
  • FY2026 defense authorization (H.R. 3838), yes, Sept. 10, 2025. 17 Democrats voted yes (roll call 262).
  • Affordable HOMES Act (H.R. 5184), yes, Jan. 9, 2026 (2026 roll call 12).
• Party-line votes: no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) on May 22 and July 3, 2025; no on the SAVE Act proof-of-citizenship bill, Apr. 10, 2025; no on the stopgap spending bills of Sept. 19 and Nov. 12, 2025 (roll calls 145, 190, 102, 281, 285).
• Yes on the Epstein Files Transparency Act (passed 427-1), Nov. 18, 2025 (roll call 289).
• War powers: yes on every resolution in 2026 to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran (March 5, April 16, May 14, June 3, July 23 and Sept. 15) and from Venezuela (Jan. 22). On Lebanon he voted no on June 4 and yes on June 30 (2026 roll calls 48, 85, 114, 170, 199, 201, 232, 282, 307).
• Yes on the Ukraine Support Act, June 4, 2026 (roll call 207).

Ethics and court records. No public enforcement actions were found in House Ethics Committee statements and reports, Office of Congressional Conduct referrals, FEC enforcement records (MURs, administrative fines and ADR cases, searched by his name, his committee’s name and its ID, C00834028), or FPPC and City Ethics Commission records. He holds no State Bar license (searched Sept. 30, 2026).

Jason Gibbs

Santa Clarita City Council, 2020 to now. Elected in 2020; chosen by the council as mayor in 2023; appointed to a second term in 2024 when no one filed against him in District 3, which covers parts of Saugus and Valencia (SCV Signal). His campaign lists public safety, local control and job creation as his council priorities (campaign site). In his SCNG questionnaire he cited Santa Clarita’s Open Space Preservation District, which he said has saved “over 14,000 acres” (SCNG).

Metro board bid (July 2026). On July 9 the North County and San Fernando Valley cities picked Gibbs, in a population-weighted vote, for their seat on the Metro board (meeting agenda; SCV Signal). Streetsblog LA reported he won by one vote out of 99 and that the pick still needed approval by a countywide committee of cities (Streetsblog LA, July 15).

Engineering career. Mechanical engineer on the Delta II, Delta IV and Atlas V launch systems (campaign site). He listed his current job as senior principal engineer (SCNG).

Ethics and court records. No public enforcement actions found in FPPC, City Ethics Commission or FEC enforcement records (MURs, administrative fines and ADR cases, searched by his name, his committee’s name and its ID, C00909887), and no license in his name at the State Bar. Searched Sept. 30, 2026.

Where they stand

Issues come from the LA Times voter guide (local jobs and commutes, immigration, the Trump administration) and the Southern California News Group questionnaire (cost of living, voter ID, stock trading, war powers, disaster aid). Gibbs answered the SCNG questionnaire (SCNG, May 4, 2026); we found no Whitesides questionnaire. Whitesides’s campaign site, georgewhitesides.com, blocked our checks on Sept. 30, 2026; the positions below from it come from the Internet Archive copy of its policies page (June 3, 2026). His other entries rely on his votes, bills and interviews.

On the other ballot measures

Neither candidate stated a position on any measure in the sources we checked: the LA Times guide, the SCNG questionnaire, Gibbs’s campaign site and the Whitesides policies page.

Endorsements

George Whitesides

• Party: California Democratic Party, primary endorsement (CDP list, Feb. 22, 2026).
• Unions: California Federation of Labor Unions, general election (Labor Fed list, Aug. 4, 2026); SEIU California (SEIU California); California Faculty Association (CFA); National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
• Organizations: Giffords (Giffords); End Citizens United (ECU).
• Elected officials: Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna (campaign announcement, May 15, 2026, Internet Archive copy). We found no full list of elected officials backing him.
• Newspapers: None found for 2026. The LA Times endorsed him in 2024 (LA Times, Sept. 25, 2024).

Jason Gibbs

• Elected officials: Former Rep. Mike Garcia, who held the seat from 2020 to 2025: “Jason Gibbs is the right candidate to take back this seat” (SCV Signal). Garcia’s PAC, Get America Right, gave his campaign $5,000 (FEC receipts).
• Party: California Republican Party (CAGOP endorsements).
• Unions and organizations: None found. His campaign site has no endorsement page.
• Newspapers: None found.

Polls

No public polls of this race were found.

Money

Source: FEC candidate summaries (Whitesides; Gibbs). Whitesides’s $1.31 million in debts is four loans he made to his own campaign in 2023 and 2024 ($500,000, $300,000, $260,000 and $250,000), still unpaid as of June 30, 2026 (FEC, Schedule C of the July 2026 quarterly report). The next reports, covering July 1 to Sept. 30, are due Oct. 15 (FEC 2026 reporting dates). The limit on gifts from one person is $3,500 per election (FEC contribution limits).

Who is giving

Method: CityHallPass analysis of itemized individual contributions to each candidate’s campaign committee in the FEC bulk contribution files for 2025-2026, latest amendment of each entry, refunds netted. A donor is a name plus ZIP code. Gifts of $200 or less need not be itemized; unitemized money is estimated as FEC individual receipts minus itemized totals. Location is by ZIP code; a ZIP code counts as City of LA when at least half its area is inside the City. Industry comes from employer and occupation keywords.

Source: FEC itemized contributions (Whitesides; Gibbs), analyzed by CityHallPass.

Source: same FEC contributions, placed by donor ZIP code using the City’s boundary map and Census ZIP code areas.

George Whitesides

Whitesides’s campaign listed 1,520 itemized donors (FEC). Out-of-state donors gave 45.3% of his itemized money, the largest share of any category. Rest of LA County, which includes Santa Clarita, Palmdale and Lancaster, gave 14.2%.

• Donors who gave $7,000: 125, or $875,000 in all (FEC).

• Industries (share of itemized dollars): retired or not employed 33.8%; finance and investment 13.6% (101 donors, $324,772); law 6.9%; education 5.0%; entertainment and media 4.3%; technology 3.7%; real estate 2.6%; lobbying and public affairs 1.5%. 18.4% could not be assigned an industry (CityHallPass coding of FEC employer and occupation fields).

• Shared employer: 14 employees of BWX Technologies, a nuclear components maker, gave $13,250; five of them gave on June 1-3, 2026 ($4,000). BWX Technologies’ PAC also gave $10,000 (FEC; FEC committee receipts).

• City of LA lobbyists and contractors: three donors match lobbyists on the City’s registry by both name and firm (City lobbyist registry). Five other donors share only a name with a registered lobbyist and are not counted. Thirteen donors ($19,366, 0.8%) work for firms on City contract reports, such as Caltech, Goldman Sachs, Holland & Knight and Paul Hastings (City Ethics contract data).

• PACs and other committees: giving committees reported $666,605 to Whitesides from 228 committees through August 2026 (FEC committee receipts; FEC bulk committee-to-candidate file). By type: leadership and other PACs $213,432; corporate PACs $196,000; labor union PACs $108,000; membership groups $51,134; other candidates’ committees $35,500; trade associations $29,500. $10,000 gifts came from House Democratic leaders’ PACs (Nancy Pelosi’s PAC to the Future, Steny Hoyer’s AmeriPAC, Katherine Clark’s Fair Shot PAC, Pete Aguilar’s CA LUV PAC), defense and aerospace companies (Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, BWX Technologies, TransDigm), unions (NEA, AFSCME, AFT, the Fire Fighters, the Machinists, LiUNA), American Crystal Sugar and No Labels PAC. Blue Origin’s PAC gave $7,500; General Dynamics and Honeywell $7,000 each; RTX $6,000.

Jason Gibbs

Gibbs’s campaign listed 151 itemized donors (FEC). Nearly three quarters of his itemized money (74.3%) came from Los Angeles County outside the City, mostly the Santa Clarita Valley. Maximum-size gifts made up 73.5%.

• Donors who gave $7,000: 22, or $154,000 in all (FEC).
• Industries: retired or not employed 29.8%; real estate and development 8.1% (11 donors, $28,700); health care 7.5%; construction 4.5%; finance 4.2%. 39.5% could not be assigned an industry (CityHallPass coding of FEC employer and occupation fields).
• Committees: $7,000 from two: Get America Right, Mike Garcia’s PAC ($5,000), and the Los Angeles County Lincoln Club ($2,000) (FEC committee receipts).
• City of LA lobbyists and contractors: no match on the City lobbyist registry; one donor ($500) works for a City vendor (City Ethics contract data).

Outside spending

All outside spending in this race so far came before the primary. No independent expenditures for the November election had been reported to the FEC as of Sept. 29, 2026 (FEC independent expenditures).

Source: FEC independent expenditures supporting Whitesides; FEC independent expenditure file, rechecked Sept. 30, 2026.

The FEC file also lists 2024 spending by the LCV Victory Fund for Whitesides; that was for the 2024 election and is not counted here.

Who funds Protect Progress. Its 2025-2026 FEC reports show $33,000,000 in transfers from Fairshake, a super PAC, and $250,000 from Ripple Labs (FEC, Protect Progress). Fairshake’s itemized 2025-2026 receipts are almost all from cryptocurrency companies: Ripple Labs $48,000,000; Coinbase $33,201,738 (including Coinbase Commerce); Digital Currency Group $1,000,000; Uniswap Labs $999,987. Its year-end 2025 report also lists $11.9 million each from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of AH Capital Management as memo entries (FEC, Fairshake). Protect Progress also spent $366,028 for Jacqui Irwin in the neighboring 26th District the same week (FEC).

Key moments

Debates and forums

No debate or candidate forum with both Whitesides and Gibbs was found for the primary or the general election as of Sept. 29, 2026.

Events

• Republican finishes first in the primary (June 2026).

  • What happened: Gibbs led the primary with 40.98% to Whitesides’s 40.63%, a margin of 544 votes (Statement of Vote). The Daily News noted that Democrats have a registration edge of nearly 15 points under the new map and that the Cook Political Report rates the seat solidly Democratic (Daily News). Two other Democrats split 18.4% of the vote (Statement of Vote).
  • Responses: we found none from either candidate.

• Crypto super PAC spending (May 2026).

  • What happened: Protect Progress spent $476,254 backing Whitesides in the last week before the primary (FEC).
  • Responses: we found none from either candidate.