Election 2026 · Federal

U.S. House, California District 34

Published September 29, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026

Jimmy Gomez (incumbent) and Angela Gonzales-Torres are the candidates for U.S. House, California District 34 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez and Angela Gonzales-Torres, both Democrats, are running for the U.S. House seat in the 34th Congressional District. About 641,000 City of Los Angeles residents live in the district, mostly in Council Districts 1 and 14, in neighborhood council areas that include Wilshire Center-Koreatown, Downtown Los Angeles, Boyle Heights, Historic Highland Park and Eagle Rock.

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 641,000 City residents live in this district, more than in any other House district except the 37th and 29th.

Primary results, June 2, 2026

Six candidates. Jimmy Gomez and Angela Gonzales-Torres, both Democrats, placed first and second and advanced to November 3. The whole district is in Los Angeles County. Total votes: 119,585. Certified results

The candidates

The job

Powers. The House “makes and passes federal laws.” Members introduce bills and resolutions, offer amendments and serve on committees, which also oversee federal agencies (House.gov). Under Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, bills for raising revenue must start in the House (Constitution, National Archives transcript). Gomez’s committee, Ways and Means, is the House’s chief tax-writing committee, with jurisdiction over tariffs and the revenue side of Social Security and Medicare (Gomez committees page).

Pay. $174,000 a year. Members last got a raise in January 2009. Congress has blocked every scheduled raise since, most recently in a law signed November 12, 2025 (CRS).

The district. California’s new congressional map was drawn by the Legislature (AB 604) and approved by voters as Proposition 50 in November 2025. The Secretary of State says the map is used from 2026 through 2030 and the new districts take effect January 3, 2027 (SOS). The LA Times reported in September 2025 that the 34th District “would remain unchanged” under Proposition 50 (LA Times). It described the district as majority-Latino, running “from Koreatown through Pico Union to Highland Park, Eagle Rock and East L.A.,” and “overwhelmingly composed of renters” (LA Times).

• City of Los Angeles share. 640,768 City residents live in the district (2020 Census), out of 3,912,115 citywide. The City is split among 11 House districts (Statewide Database city splits report). Los Angeles is the only city the same report lists for the district. The rest of the population lives in unincorporated East Los Angeles, based on the census tracts assigned to the district in the AB 604 map data.
• City council districts. Most of the district’s City neighborhoods are in Council Districts 1 and 14. It also takes in parts of Districts 10 and 13 and a small piece of District 5. Method: census tracts assigned to the district in the state’s AB 604 map data, matched to City council and neighborhood council maps from the City’s GeoHub. Tracts on a boundary are counted once.
• Neighborhood councils in the district, by the same tract match against the GeoHub neighborhood council map, include Wilshire Center-Koreatown, Boyle Heights, Downtown Los Angeles, Historic Highland Park, LA-32, Pico Union, Lincoln Heights, MacArthur Park, Eagle Rock, Arroyo Seco, Westlake South and North, Glassell Park, Rampart Village, Echo Park, Historic Cultural North, Greater Cypress Park and Olympic Park.

Federal money that reaches the district.

• On September 1, 2026, Gomez announced a $149.9 million Federal Transit Administration grant for Metro’s Vermont Avenue bus rapid transit line. His office says it is the maximum allowed under the Small Starts program. The 12.4-mile line would have 26 stations and is planned to open before the 2028 Olympics (Gomez release).
• For fiscal 2027, House members may request up to 20 “community projects.” Gomez’s requests include City of Los Angeles items, such as repairs at the North Central Animal Services Center and MacArthur Park accessibility work. Other requests are for LA housing authority buildings and a Chinatown Service Center clinic (Gomez appropriations page). Requests are not awards. Only some are funded.

Records

Jimmy Gomez

Offices. State Assembly for four and a half years, including as chair of Appropriations (House bio). In the House since a June 2017 special election (House bio). In the 119th Congress he serves on Ways and Means (Tax and Work and Welfare subcommittees) and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (House Clerk). He is ranking member of the Intelligence subcommittee on the CIA. He founded and chairs the Congressional Dads Caucus and the Congressional Renters Caucus (committees page).

Bills. Congress.gov lists 87 bills and resolutions sponsored by Gomez since 2017, 16 of them in the current Congress (Congress.gov). Two have become law, both naming Los Angeles post offices: the “Marine Corps Reserve PVT Jacob Cruz Post Office” on East 1st Street (H.R. 5900, Public Law 117-283, 2022) and the “Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Post Office” on West 6th Street (H.R. 599, Public Law 118-108, 2024). A 2023 bill to name the downtown federal courthouse for Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez passed the House but stalled in the Senate (H.R. 5754). His current-Congress bills include:

• Choose Medicare Act (H.R. 3911, June 2025)
• Affordable Housing Equity Act of 2025 (H.R. 3964, June 2025)
• Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth Act (H.R. 3763, June 2025)
• Baby Clothing Tax Relief Act (H.R. 4666, July 2025)
• Make Housing Affordable and Defend Democracy Act (H.R. 6390, December 2025)
• A bill barring U.S. currency from carrying the sitting president’s signature (H.R. 8174, April 2026)
• A resolution asking for records on an IRS-Homeland Security data-sharing agreement (H.Res. 1097, March 2026)

All of these were referred to committee and have had no further action (Congress.gov).

Key votes, 2025-2026. The same votes are shown for every House incumbent on CityHallPass.

On the two crypto bills, most House Democrats voted no on CLARITY (78 yes, 134 no) and split on GENIUS (102 yes, 110 no). Gomez voted yes on both (Roll 199; Roll 200). The final version of H.R. 7148, signed February 3, 2026, ended a partial shutdown and included $94.3 million for 2028 Olympics transportation, according to Metro (LAist). Gomez voted no on it (Roll 53). The S. 1071 short title, “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026,” is from the enrolled bill (Congress.gov; GovInfo text).

Attendance. Of 676 House roll calls from January 3, 2025 to September 16, 2026, Gomez did not vote on 41 (6.1%), based on House Clerk roll call records.

Immigration detention oversight. Gomez was one of a dozen House members who sued the Trump administration after being denied entry to immigration detention sites (LAist). After a December 2025 ruling by Judge Jia M. Cobb, he made an unannounced visit to the B-18 holding area in the downtown federal building on December 19, 2025. He told LAist detainees slept on the floor and no medical staff were on site (LAist). In January 2026, Homeland Security again required a week’s notice. Gomez said DHS was “grasping at straws” (LAist).

Ethics and court records. In January 2018 the FEC settled a referral against his campaign committee through its alternative dispute resolution office. The referral said the committee’s original pre-election report for the 2017 special general election left out $130,114.76 in debts, which it disclosed in later amendments. The committee said staff misunderstood the rules on vendor debt and some invoices arrived late. It agreed to adopt a compliance manual and paid a $2,400 civil penalty (FEC, ADR 844). No other public enforcement action was found in FEC enforcement records (MURs, administrative fines and ADR cases, searched by his name, his committee’s name and its ID, C00629659), Office of Congressional Conduct referrals, or FPPC and City Ethics Commission records. No finding against him appears in House Ethics Committee reports. He holds no State Bar license. No court judgment against him was found in CourtListener records (searched Oct. 1, 2026).

Angela Gonzales-Torres

Career. Her campaign biography lists no city, state or federal office (campaign site). She was president of the Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council (LA Times). She works as an academic counselor in a Pasadena City College program for formerly incarcerated students and as program director for a permanent affordable housing project in Altadena, the LA Times reported (LA Times). She previously interned in Mayor Bass’s administration and is a member of Metro’s Public Safety Advisory Committee (LA Times). Her campaign site describes her housing work as “intergenerational permanent affordable housing” that brings “scholars and seniors together” (campaign site).

Personal history she cites. She told the LA Times her father was deported to Mexico and she was raised by a single mother, and that she did homework “on the dashboard of a car that I lived in here in Highland Park” (LA Times). She told The Occidental her father was deported when she was 15. In that interview she said she was “born and raised in East Los Angeles” (The Occidental). Her campaign site says she was “born and raised in Highland Park” (campaign site).

Record. She has no voting record in public office to report; her campaign biography lists no city, state or federal office (campaign site).

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 her name, her committee’s name and its ID, C00901652), and no license in her name at the State Bar. No court case naming her as a party was found in CourtListener federal and appellate records or in news coverage (searched Sept. 30, 2026).

Where they stand

Gonzales-Torres’s entries come from what she told The Occidental (March 4, 2026) and the LA Times (September 4, 2025), plus her campaign’s issues page. Gomez’s entries come from his bills and votes and from his campaign’s issues page, which is undated. Both sites were checked September 30, 2026.

On the other ballot measures

No statement by either candidate on any November 3, 2026 state proposition was found on their campaign sites, House pages or in the news articles cited here.

Source: measure list from the Secretary of State’s qualified ballot measures page; positions checked on Gomez’s issues page and Gonzales-Torres’s issues page.

City residents in the district also vote on City measures FD, TE, LA, PL, EE, PRK and PRT (City Clerk Voter Information Pamphlet). Voters who live in LAUSD also decide City Charter Amendment SC, shown in the table above. No position by either candidate was found on those either.

Endorsements

Jimmy Gomez

His campaign’s supporters page lists these groups. The page is undated, so some endorsements may be from 2024 (campaign site, checked Sept 29, 2026).

• Party: California Democratic Party (campaign site).
• Elected officials: U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff. The page also quotes Sen. Alex Padilla; Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pramila Jayapal and Ayanna Pressley; Andy Kim, listed as a New Jersey congressman; Xavier Becerra, listed as HHS Secretary (he no longer holds that post); and Supervisor Hilda Solis (campaign site). The campaign posted Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement on October 5, 2024 (campaign post).
• Labor: LA County Federation of Labor, California Federation of Labor, SEIU, SEIU-UHW, SEIU 121RN, SEIU Local 99, UNITE HERE Local 11, UFCW 770, AFSCME, IBEW Local 11, LA/OC Building Trades, United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112, UAW and UAW Region 6 and Local 4811, Teamsters Joint Council 42, LiUNA, Western States Regional Council of Carpenters, CWA Local 9003, ILWU Southern California District Council, Painters District Council 36, Plumbers Local 398, UNAC/UHCP, United Farm Workers, California Teachers Association and NEA (campaign site).
• Organizations: Planned Parenthood Action Fund, EnviroVoters, League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club Angeles Chapter, End Citizens United, Equality California, Human Rights Campaign, Latino Victory Fund, GIFFORDS PAC, Moms Demand Action, Newtown Action Alliance, National Association of Social Workers, and the Stonewall, Northeast and AVANCE Democratic clubs. Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta is quoted (campaign site).
• Newspapers: None found.

Angela Gonzales-Torres

• Organizations: Justice Democrats, the PAC that backed Rep. Ocasio-Cortez in 2018, endorsed her on September 4, 2025 (LA Times). It lists her as a “Primary Winner” (Justice Democrats). The Working Families Party PAC spent on her behalf in the primary (FEC independent expenditures). Her site lists an event “with Aaron Frazer and CA WFP” (campaign events page).
• Individuals: David Kim, who ran against Gomez in 2020, 2022 and 2024, endorsed her, the LA Times reported (LA Times).
• Elected officials, unions, party: None found. Her endorsements page shows its list as images that our tools could not read.
• Newspapers: None found.

Polls

No public polls of this race were found.

Money

Source: FEC candidate summaries (Gomez; Gonzales-Torres), from the FEC’s bulk candidate summary dated September 29, 2026. Committees: Jimmy Gomez for Congress (C00629659); Angela for CA-34 (C00901652). The next reports (October quarterly and pre-general) are due in October 2026 (FEC 2026 reporting dates). Federal law limits individuals to $3,500 per candidate per election, so $7,000 for the primary and general combined (FEC contribution limits).

Who is giving

Method: FEC itemized individual contributions to each principal committee, 2025-2026 cycle through the latest filing, from the FEC bulk data. Committees must itemize donors who give more than $200 in a cycle (FEC). Gifts made through ActBlue or another conduit are itemized too. A donor is a normalized name plus ZIP code, with refunds netted. “Unitemized” is the FEC’s total individual money minus the itemized sum. Geography uses the City’s ZIP code list and Census ZIP-to-county files. “In the district” means the ZIP code’s center falls inside the new district (20 ZIP codes).

Source: CityHallPass analysis of FEC itemized receipts (Gomez; Gonzales-Torres) and FEC candidate totals (links above).

Jimmy Gomez

• Who. Nearly half of itemized dollars (45.8%) came from outside Los Angeles County. A third came from outside California, led by Washington, D.C. ($42,400), Texas ($37,050) and Virginia ($19,250) (FEC receipts).
• Industries (by employer and occupation): retired or not employed 21.5%; law 14.6%; finance and investment 13.8%; lobbying, public affairs and political consulting 5.8%; real estate and development 4.0% (23 donors, $25,300); health care 3.6%. Union staff gave 0.1% (FEC receipts).
• Largest individual donors. 21 donors gave the $7,000 two-election maximum (FEC receipts, largest first).
• Shared employers. Seven donors who list the same employer, a Houston law firm, gave $7,000 in February 2026, six of them from February 9 to 11 (FEC receipts).
• Money through AIPAC’s PAC. 114 donors gave $145,850 earmarked through the American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC, from June 2025 to March 2026. The PAC also gave $4,994 directly (FEC: AIPAC PAC payments to the Gomez committee). End Citizens United passed through $7,000 (FEC receipts). Most other conduit gifts came through ActBlue (FEC receipts).
• PACs and other committees. FEC committee data show $507,205 from 176 committees (FEC receipts from committees). By type: leadership and other PACs $186,251 (including CHC BOLD PAC, Turquoise PAC and Juntos PAC at $7,500 to $10,000 each); trade associations $137,360 (including the Manufactured Housing Institute, Investment Company Institute, Real Estate Roundtable, American Hospital Association and Mortgage Bankers Association); labor unions $112,000 (Operating Engineers Local 12, UFCW, AFT, the firefighters’ IAFF, the Machinists and LiUNA at $10,000 each); membership groups $43,594; other candidates’ committees $17,500. 21 corporate PACs appear in the data, and their gifts and reversals net to minus $3,500. Most net to zero; the Prudential and Invesco PACs net $2,500 each, and four show more refunded than given this cycle. For example, FedEx’s PAC reported $2,500 in April 2025 and a $2,500 reversal in December 2025, and Edison International’s PAC reported $4,000 in May 2026 and a $4,000 reversal in July 2026. Tribes gave $13,000 (FEC receipts from committees).

Angela Gonzales-Torres

• Who. Half her individual money came in gifts too small to itemize. Of itemized dollars, 41.0% came from California outside LA County, mostly from San Francisco and the Bay Area, and 28.2% from out of state (FEC receipts).
• Industries: retired or not employed 50.7%; finance and investment 10.4% (three donors); entertainment and media 7.9%. No real estate cluster (FEC receipts).
• Largest donors. Three donors gave the $7,000 maximum. One is Saikat Chakrabarti, who is himself a Justice Democrats-backed House candidate in the 11th District (Justice Democrats). A fourth donor gave $6,460 (FEC receipts, largest first).
• PACs. One: Justice Democrats PAC, $5,000 (FEC receipts from committees).
• Shared employers. No group of five or more donors from one employer (FEC receipts).

Outside spending

Source: FEC independent expenditure reports (Schedule E), deduplicated so amended reports replace originals (FEC independent expenditures in this race). All spending on file is from May 2026, before the primary. No general-election spending had been reported as of September 29.

Source: FEC independent expenditures supporting Gonzales-Torres.

No outside spending for or against Gomez appears in the 2026 FEC independent expenditure file (FEC). Gonzales-Torres’s campaign says pro-Israel groups have spent more than $2.5 million backing Gomez (campaign media page). The LA Times reported that Justice Democrats cited “the millions of dollars” AIPAC spent for Gomez “last cycle,” meaning 2024 (LA Times).

Who funds the Working Families Party PAC. It raised $20.57 million in itemized contributions from January 2025 through August 2026. The largest: Democracy PAC $6.5 million; Movement Voter PAC $2.19 million; Accountable Justice Action Fund $2.04 million; Patty Quillin $650,000; the Jordan/Delaney Family Trust $450,000; Carolyn Johnson $389,733 in stock; Sonjia Smith $377,500; Leaders We Deserve PAC $305,750; National Nurses United $200,000 (FEC committee page).

Key moments

Debates and forums

No debates or candidate forums for this race were found.

Events

• Justice Democrats endorses Gonzales-Torres (September 2025). The group behind Ocasio-Cortez’s 2018 win endorsed Gonzales-Torres (Justice Democrats). The LA Times called Gomez the first California Democratic incumbent the group had targeted (LA Times).

• Detention-site oversight (December 2025 to January 2026).

  • What happened: after a court order, Gomez inspected the B-18 holding area unannounced. DHS then reinstated a notice rule (LAist; LAist).
  • Gomez: “The drop-in visits allow us to document what the true conditions are” (LAist).
  • Gonzales-Torres: no response found. Her campaign calls for abolishing ICE (campaign media page).

• Primary (June 2, 2026). Gomez took 46.0% and Gonzales-Torres 30.7%. A Republican, Calvin Lee, was third with 13.6% (SOS Statement of Vote).