Election 2026 · Federal

U.S. House, California District 44

Published September 29, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026

Nanette Diaz Barragan (incumbent) and Genevieve Angel are the candidates for U.S. House, California District 44 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

U.S. Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragan, a Democrat, faces Genevieve Angel, a Republican, for the U.S. House seat in the 44th Congressional District. About 169,000 City of Los Angeles residents live in the district, in San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City and Harbor Gateway South.

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 169,000 City residents live in this district, in San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City and Harbor Gateway South, next to the City's Port of Los Angeles.

Primary results, June 2, 2026

Two candidates on the ballot and one write-in. Nanette Diaz Barragan (Democrat) and Genevieve Angel (Republican) advanced to November 3. The whole district is in Los Angeles County. Total votes: 109,971. 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). House.gov lists the requirements to serve as being at least 25, a citizen for seven years and “an inhabitant of the state he or she represents” (House.gov).

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).

• Cities. Under the new map the district includes all of Carson (95,994 residents), South Gate (93,114), Lynwood (67,622), Huntington Park (55,141), Paramount (54,003) and Vernon (226), and 118,963 of Long Beach’s 468,894 residents (Statewide Database city splits report). It also includes unincorporated areas (AB 604 map data).
• City of Los Angeles share. 169,236 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).
• City council district. All of the district’s City neighborhoods are in Council District 15. 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.
• Neighborhood councils in the district, by the same tract match against the GeoHub neighborhood council map: Wilmington, Coastal San Pedro, Central San Pedro, Northwest San Pedro, Harbor Gateway South and part of Harbor City.
• The Port. Barragán’s office calls the Port of Los Angeles, a City department, “a vital and critical component” of the district (House site).

Federal money and the City.

• For fiscal 2027, Barragán asked the Appropriations Committee to fund City of Los Angeles projects. They include $750,000 for upgrades at Fire Station 38 in Wilmington, $4 million for sidewalks and turn signals on Normandie Avenue in Harbor Gateway, and $4 million for eight San Pedro ballfields the Navy was authorized to convey to the City (Barragán project requests). Requests are not awards.
• The February 2026 spending law that ended a partial shutdown included $94.3 million for 2028 Olympics transportation, according to Metro (LAist).

Records

Nanette Diaz Barragan

Offices. She served on the Hermosa Beach City Council, including a term as mayor, and has been in the U.S. House since January 2017 (House bio). In the 119th Congress she serves on Energy and Commerce and its subcommittees on communications and technology, environment, and health (House Clerk). She co-chairs the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee (House bio). Her office says that on the Hermosa Beach council she opposed an oil company proposal to drill 34 wells, and the proposal was stopped (House bio).

Bills. Congress.gov lists 141 bills and resolutions sponsored by Barragán since 2017, 41 in the current Congress (Congress.gov). Two became law: the John Lewis NIMHD Research Endowment Revitalization Act of 2021 (H.R. 189, Public Law 117-104), for the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and a bill naming the Compton post office at 101 South Willowbrook Avenue for PFC James Anderson, Jr. (H.R. 1095, Public Law 117-268). Current-Congress bills, all in committee, include:

• Medicare Dental Benefit Act of 2026 (H.R. 9832), Medicaid Dental Benefit Act of 2026 (H.R. 9831) and a children’s dental care bill (H.R. 9833), July 2026
• Chemical Disaster Prevention Act (H.R. 6614), Clean Water Justice Act (H.R. 6616) and Climate Justice Grants Act (H.R. 6615), December 2025
• A bill to write the 2023 environmental justice executive order (E.O. 14096) into law (H.R. 576), and the Empowering and Enforcing Environmental Justice Act (H.R. 1553)
• Stop the Trump Electricity Price Hikes Act (H.R. 5673)
• Yes in God’s Backyard Act (H.R. 6957 and H.R. 7152), on housing on religious property
• Housing Tariff Exclusion Act (H.R. 10416) and Next Generation Shipping Act (H.R. 9454)
• A resolution affirming the independence of the Federal Reserve (H.Res. 677)

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

She was among the 94 Democrats who voted against the FY 2026 defense bill (115 Democrats voted yes) and among the 141 who voted against the Fix Our Forests Act (64 Democrats voted yes) (Roll 320; Roll 25). The final version of H.R. 7148 included the Olympics transportation money (LAist). 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, Barragán did not vote on 22 (3.3%), based on House Clerk roll call records.

Ethics and court records. No public enforcement actions found in House Ethics Committee statements and reports, Office of Congressional Conduct referrals, FEC enforcement records (MURs, administrative fines and ADR cases, searched by her name, her committee’s name and its ID, C00577353), or FPPC and City Ethics Commission records. The FEC records that name her are advisory opinion requests from her and her committee (AO 2023-01; AO 2024-09), not enforcement cases. The only State Bar license under her name (Nanette Barba Barragan, No. 240116, admitted December 2005, inactive since March 2017) shows no public discipline (State Bar). No court judgment against her was found in CourtListener and GovInfo federal court records (searched Oct. 1, 2026).

Genevieve Angel

Career. Her campaign site describes her as a family nurse practitioner, a “senior healthcare executive with extensive experience in hospitals, health plans, and community services,” and a small-business owner. It lists a 2025 master’s degree in nursing and two years of law school at Pacific Coast University (campaign site). It does not name her employers or business. She says she has lived in Lakewood for nearly 30 years (campaign site). Lakewood is not one of the cities in the new 44th District (Statewide Database). Her FEC filings list a Lakewood address (FEC filing).

Record. No public office, votes or programs to report; her campaign biography lists no public 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, C00942029), and no license in her name at the State Bar. No court case naming her as a party was found in CourtListener federal dockets and opinions, GovInfo federal court opinions or news coverage (searched Oct. 1, 2026).

Where they stand

Issues are drawn from Angel’s campaign priorities page and home page (checked September 30, 2026) and from Barragán’s bills and votes, linked in each cell. Angel’s site states goals and district statistics but no specific plans, so her cells say so. No reputable voter survey specific to this district was found.

On the other ballot measures

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

Source: measure list from the Secretary of State’s qualified ballot measures page; positions checked on Barragán’s House site, her campaign site and Angel’s priorities 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.

Endorsements

Nanette Diaz Barragan

Her campaign’s endorsements page is dated May 24, 2018 and lists endorsements from her 2018 race (campaign site). No current 2026 list was found. No newspaper endorsement was found.

Genevieve Angel

No endorsements are listed on her campaign site, and none were found elsewhere. No newspaper endorsement was found.

Polls

No public polls of this race were found.

Money

Source: FEC candidate summaries (Barragán; Angel), from the FEC’s bulk candidate summary dated September 29, 2026. Committees: Barragan for Congress (C00577353); Committee to Elect Genevieve Angel 2026 (C00942029). Barragán spent more than she raised in this period. Her cash on hand fell from $1,481,553.91 at the start of 2025 (FEC candidate page). The next reports are due in October 2026 (FEC 2026 reporting dates). Federal law limits individuals to $3,500 per candidate per election (FEC contribution limits).

Who is giving

Method: FEC itemized individual contributions to each principal committee, 2025-2026 cycle, from the FEC bulk data. Committees must itemize donors who give more than $200 in a cycle (FEC). Gifts through ActBlue are itemized too. A donor is a normalized name plus ZIP code, with refunds netted. 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 (16 ZIP codes).

Source: CityHallPass analysis of FEC itemized receipts (Barragán; Angel) and FEC candidate totals (links above).

Nanette Diaz Barragan

• Who. PACs gave $606,750, more than three times what individuals gave ($170,769). Of itemized individual dollars, 52.8% came from out of state, led by Washington, D.C. ($46,950), and 1.8% from ZIP codes in the district (FEC receipts).
• Industries: law 20.7%; retired or not employed 20.2%; lobbying, public affairs and political consulting 14.2% (19 donors, $23,250); real estate and development 6.4% (FEC receipts).
• Largest individual donors. Seven donors gave the $7,000 two-election maximum (FEC receipts, largest first). Donors who list theGROUP as their employer gave $6,500 (FEC receipts).
• PACs and other committees. FEC committee data show $695,800 from 201 committees (FEC receipts from committees). By type: corporate PACs $327,750, many from health care and drug companies (Pfizer, Blue Shield of California $10,000 each; Vertex $9,000; AbbVie $8,000; Cencora, Genentech, Gilead and Health Care Service Corporation $7,500 each), plus Verizon, Charter and Matson at $10,000 and Edison International at $7,500; trade associations $111,000 (National Multifamily Housing Council $10,000; broadcasters, beer wholesalers and Delta Dental $7,500); labor unions $87,500 (Sheet Metal Workers and LiUNA $10,000; AFT and AFSCME $7,500); membership groups $85,550 (optometrists $9,000; Alzheimer’s Impact Movement $8,500); leadership and other PACs $67,000.

Genevieve Angel

• Thirteen itemized donors gave $9,190, none from ZIP codes inside the new district. The five largest gifts were about $1,000 each. She lent the campaign $3,000 (FEC receipts; FEC filing).

Outside spending

Source: FEC independent expenditure reports (Schedule E). No independent spending for or against either candidate was reported in the 2025-2026 cycle as of September 29, 2026 (FEC: Barragán; FEC: Angel).

Key moments

Debates and forums

No debates or candidate forums for this race were found.

Events

• Primary (June 2, 2026). Barragán won 77.0% and Angel 23.0%. They were the only two candidates on the ballot. A write-in candidate received five votes (SOS Statement of Vote).