California's 1st State Assembly district

California's 1st State Assembly district
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Current assemblymember		Brian Dahle (R–Bieber)
Registration	41.75% Republican 28.38% Democratic 22.92% No party preference
Demographics	82.10% White 1.56% Black 9.81% Latino 2.12% Asian 3.61% Native American 0.25% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.24% other 0.31% remainder of multiracial
Population (2010)  • Voting age  • Citizen voting age	466,514 370,850 350,597
Registered voters	254,986

California's 1st State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by Republican Brian Dahle of Bieber.

District profile

The district stretches along the eastern edge of the state from the Oregon border to the Lake Tahoe area, wrapping around the Sacramento Valley along the northern Sierra Nevada. The district is primarily rural.

Butte County – 9.0%

All of Lassen County

• Susanville

All of Modoc County

• Alturas

All of Nevada County

• Grass Valley
• Nevada City
• Truckee

Placer County – 16.7%

• Colfax

All of Plumas County

• Portola
• Quincy

All of Shasta County

• Anderson
• Redding
• Shasta Lake

All of Sierra County

• Downieville
• Loyalton

All of Siskiyou County

• Dorris
• Dunsmuir
• Etna
• Fort Jones
• Montague
• Mount Shasta
• Tulelake
• Weed
• Yreka

List of assembly members

Due to redistricting, the 1st district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2011 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Assemblymember		Party	Years served
	T. J. T. Berry	Republican	1900–1902
	Clarence W. Leininger	Republican	1902–1904
	James L. Coyle	Republican	1904–1906
	T. J. T. Berry	Republican	1906–1908
	Kenneth C. Gillis	Democratic	1908–1910
	George E. Malone	Republican	1910–1912
	L. F. Coburn	Republican	1912–1914
	H. B. Ream	Democratic	1914–1918
		Republican	1918–1920
		Democratic	1920–1922
	G. H. Douglas	Republican	1922–1924
	J. J. Murphy	Republican	1924–1928
	Henry M. McGuinness	Republican	1928–1930
	Robert F. Fisher	Republican	1930–1932
	Michael J. Burns	Republican	1932–1948
	Arthur W. Way	Republican	1948–1950
	Frank Belotti	Republican	1950–1966
	Pauline Davis	Democratic	1966–1976
	Stan Statham	Republican	1976–1992
	Dan Hauser	Democratic	1992–1996
	Virginia Strom-Martin	Democratic	1996–2002
	Patty Berg	Democratic	2002–2008
	Wesley Chesbro	Democratic	2008–2012
	Brian Dahle	Republican	2012–present

Election results

2014

California State Assembly election, 2014
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Brian Dahle (incumbent)	65,466	69.5
	Democratic	Brigham Sawyer Smith	28,688	30.5
Total votes			94,154	100.0
General election
	Republican	Brian Dahle (incumbent)	104,103	70.2
	Democratic	Brigham Sawyer Smith	44,119	29.8
Total votes			148,222	100.0
	Republican hold

2012

California State Assembly election, 2012
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Brian Dahle	41,384	34.2
	Republican	Rick Bosetti	34,457	28.5
	Democratic	Robert Meacher	31,120	25.8
	Green	David Edwards	7,381	6.1
	Libertarian	Charley Hooper	6,503	5.4
Total votes			120,845	100.0
General election
	Republican	Brian Dahle	116,098	65.6
	Republican	Rick Bosetti	60,920	34.4
Total votes			177,018	100.0
	Republican hold

See also

• California State Assembly
• California State Assembly districts
• Districts in California

External links

• District map from the California Citizens Redistricting Commission