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DATA COVERAGE not externally verified tier raw_mirror vintage 2026-08-27 coverage 1980-2024 · 2026 Midterms in flight! money live · figures computing (best estimates)
Dollar figures are still computing and reflect best estimates while the corrected-financial reconciliation completes. Relationships, counts, and dates are final.

Congressional District 8

Congressional district · CA-08

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Geography intelligence — demographics, elections and money at a glance. Metrics shown are those available at this level; more light up as coverage and the money reconciliation land.

Geography

Land area (sq mi) 155
Candidates (all-time) 96

Demographics (CVAP)

Citizen voting-age pop (CVAP) 499,121
White CVAP 31.7%
Black CVAP 18.1%
Hispanic CVAP 26.3%
Asian CVAP 20.8%
Non-white CVAP 68.3%

Money in — to this geography's candidates

Candidates receiving funds 15
Committee→candidate links 653
Contributions (count) 19,675
Total received by candidates $4,308,999

These dollar figures are computing and reflect best estimates on an interim (2026-03-11) data vintage while financial reconciliation completes. Relationships, counts, and dates are final.

Top committee funders

to this geography's candidates · conduits excluded
CommitteeContributedContributionsCandidates
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $42,500 40 2
Lockheed Martin Corporation Employees' Political Action Committee $30,000 27 2
At&T Inc. Employee Federal Political Action Committee (At&T Employee Federal Pac) $34,000 25 2
National Active And Retired Federal Employees Association Political Action Com (Narfe-Pac) $30,500 24 2
General Dynamics Corporation Political Action Committee (General Dynamics Employee Pac) $30,000 23 2
Honeywell International Political Action Committee $32,500 21 2
American Association For Justice Political Action Committee (Aaj Pac) $26,000 21 1
National Electrical Contractors Association Political Action Committee $40,000 18 2

The biggest committee funders of this geography's candidates, by contribution volume. Pass-through conduits (ActBlue, WinRed) are excluded — the real giver there is the upstream individual, not the platform. Dollar figures are computing / best estimates on the interim vintage.

Candidates

mapped to this geography
CandidatePartyOfficeCycles
Recile, Rudy REP House 2022,2024,2026
Johnson, Demnlus Iii DEM House 2022,2024
Sudduth, Cheryl DEM House 2022,2024
Riley, Christopher DEM House 2022,2024
Rutsch, Edwin DEM House 2022
Gomez, Blanca DEM House 2020,2022,2024,2026
Mathisen, Peter G NPA House 2020,2022,2024
Staat, Jeremy REP House 2020,2022,2024
Conaway, Robert Dean DEM House 2020,2022,2024
Ellars, James Robert DEM House 2020,2022,2024
Esmus, Jeff NON House 2020,2022,2024
Caron, Craya Conradina Dr. REP House 2020,2022,2024
Green, Jacquetta L W House 2020,2022,2024
Bubser, Christine DEM House 2020,2022
Castillo, Saul Jr DEM House 2020
Laws, Jerry REP House 2020
Whitehead, Justin David REP House 2020
O'Donnell, Ronald DEM House 2018,2020,2022
Doyle, Marge DEM House 2018,2020,2022
Lovato, Destiny Wray REP House 2018,2020
Donnelly, Timothy M. REP House 2018,2020
Brown, Yolanda DEM House 2018
Garamendi, John DEM House 2016,2018,2020,2022,2024,2010,2026,2012,2014
Cook, Paul REP House 2016,2018,2020,2022,2012,2014
Conover, Rodney Lee REP House 2016,2018,2020,2014

Every candidate whose office maps to this geography (money-dark here — open a candidate for their detail). List capped at 25.