Blanca PachecoIncumbent

Candidate for Assembly District 64

Blanca Pacheco is a Democrat who holds the Assembly's 64th District seat. It covers Downey, Norwalk, Whittier, and La Mirada. She took office on December 5, 2022. She now seeks re-election. The vote is set for November 3, 2026. Her foe is Republican Raul Ortiz Jr. She moved on from the June 2026 primary. She received 58,939 votes (66.5%) there. Pacheco holds a bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA. She holds a law degree too. It is from Loyola Law School in L.A. She first went to Cerritos College. She practiced law from 2006 to 2018. Her work covered wills, estates, and evictions. She worked as a lawyer and a real estate broker too. That work was in Pico Rivera, from 2006 to 2014. She joined a law firm named Olivarez Madruga Lemieux O'Neill, LLP. This was in El Monte, in 2020. Before her Assembly win, she sat on the Downey City Council. She joined it in 2016. She became Mayor of Downey in 2020. In the Assembly she chairs the Rules panel. She sits on four more panels. These cover courts, local rule, and other state work. She wrote the Identity Integrity Act. It lets marks like accents appear on birth records. She has backed rules to guard students from bad school-loan deals. Home: Downey, California. Occupation: state lawmaker; trained as a lawyer; once worked as a real estate broker. Prior office: incumbent since December 5, 2022; served on the Downey City Council from 2016, and as Mayor of Downey in 2020.

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