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Ken Calvert

Republican. California’s 40th District. Leads the count as of November 5, 2026.

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Age on Election Day 2028
75
On November 7, 2028. Born June 8, 1953.2
Lean
R+6
Lean Republican. Cook PVI, 2026 lines.
In the House since
1993
Served since January 5, 1993.4
Cash on hand
$980K
$980,391, from the Federal Election Commission.15

Overview

November 3, 2026 election
Leads the count
Against Young Kim (R). As of November 5, 2026.1

2026 primary
Advanced from the 2026 top-two primary with 34.9%, June 2, 2026.
Lean on the 119th Congress lines (2025 edition)
R+1
The state in 2024
Harris won California in 2024.
2032 redistricting
Flagged as a 2032 redistricting risk.California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission draws the map after each census: 14 members, 5 Democrats, 5 Republicans and 4 from neither party. For the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections the state uses a map the Legislature passed in August 2025, which voters approved as Proposition 50 on November 4, 2025. The commission draws again in 2031. Cal. Const. Art. XXI, Sec. 2 (opens in a new tab); Cal. Const. Art. XXI, Sec. 4 (opens in a new tab).

Lean is the Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) on the district’s 2026 election lines: R+10 and up is solidly Republican, R+5 to R+9 lean Republican, D+4 to R+4 swing, D+5 to D+9 lean Democratic and D+10 and up solidly Democratic. A 2032 redistricting flag marks one of seven states American Ascent watches for the maps drawn after the 2030 census, with who draws the map there.

Sources (2)
  1. 1The count of the November 3, 2026 race. Checked November 5, 2026. Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  2. 2The congress-legislators dataset of every member of Congress: birthday. Open the source (opens in a new tab)

In the House

Leadership posts, 119th Congress
  • Chair of the Appropriations subcommittee on Defense
Committees, 119th Congress
  • Appropriations

Leadership posts and committees in the 119th Congress, as the Clerk of the House listed them on October 1, 2026; the 120th Congress names its own when it convenes on January 3, 2027. Chairman and Chairwoman are written as Chair. A gold mark names a leadership post. Years in the House come from the public congress-legislators record of every member’s terms.

Sources (2)
  1. 3Ken Calvert’s official site Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  2. 4Official congressional biography Open the source (opens in a new tab)

Election history

The 2026 primary, who was on the November 3, 2026 ballot, and what recent races in the seat cost.

2026 primary

Primary date
June 2, 2026
Kind
Top-two primary, every candidate on one ballot
Result
Advanced, first34.9% in the top-two primary, June 2. Young Kim (R) also advanced, with 20.6%.
Votes cast
217,286
Every name on the primary ballot, with votes and share of the vote
Ken Calvert (R)75,81134.9%
Young Kim (R)44,81820.6%
Esther Kim-Varet (D)36,07216.6%
Lisa Ramirez (D)30,49514%
Joe Kerr (D)18,6348.6%
Claude M Keissieh (D)4,8322.2%
Francis Xavier Hoffman (D)3,3131.5%
Nina Linh (no party preference)3,3111.5%

On the November 3, 2026 ballot

  • Young Kim (Republican)

California’s top-two primary put every candidate on one ballot; the two with the most votes advanced, whatever their party. Ken Calvert, who represented the 41st district, ran in the 40th under California’s new map and advanced with Young Kim, who represented the 40th.

Official results (opens in a new tab)5 from the state’s election office. Every name printed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for the seat, from the state’s official candidate list; write-in candidates are left out.

What a race here costs

Facts from free public data: the TV markets the district sits in, what every campaign and outside group spent in recent races, and the votes cast. Spending is campaign spending, less contributions to party committees and other candidates, plus independent expenditures. A vote is any vote cast in that contest.15

TV markets

The TV markets that cover the district
MarketTV homesOf the districtDistrict is, of market
Los Angeles, CA (rank 2)5,835,790100%4.1%

Markets are Nielsen’s Designated Market Areas, matched to the district county by county on the 2026 lines (2 counties or parts). Shares are of people, from the 2020 Census. TV homes are Nielsen’s 2024-25 estimates. A small share of a large market means most of what a TV buy reaches lives outside the district.10

2026 primary, June 2, 2026

$23,440,772 spent · $107.88 a vote

2026 primary: each candidate’s votes and campaign spending
CandidateVotesSpent
Ken Calvert (R)75,811$4,168,317
Young Kim (R)44,818$8,523,602
Esther Kim-Varet (D)36,072$2,580,431
Lisa Ramirez (D)30,495$479,471
Joe Kerr (D)18,634$247,750
Claude M Keissieh (D)4,832$12,990
Francis Xavier Hoffman (D)3,313No report
Nina Linh (no party preference)3,311$269,997
Outside money: Americans 4 Security PAC, CALIFORNIA CONSERVATIVES PAC, CALIFORNIA BLUE PAC$7,158,214

217,286 votes cast, on the 2026 lines. Outside money: $847,047 for the member, $4,540,344 against, $1,770,824 for or against others. Results (opens in a new tab)5.

2024 primary, March 5, 2024

$3,495,863 spent · $17.92 a vote

2024 primary: each candidate’s votes and campaign spending
CandidateVotesSpent
Young Kim (R)109,963$1,945,073
Joe Kerr (D)49,965$743,309
Allyson Muñiz Damikolas (D)35,153$560,215
Outside money: Flip the 40th, FAIRSHAKE, National Association of Realtors Political Action Committee$247,265

195,081 votes cast, on the 2022 lines. Outside money: $136,345 for the member, $0 against, $110,920 for or against others. Results (opens in a new tab)7.

2024 general, Nov. 5, 2024

$7,886,341 spent · $20.56 a vote

2024 general: each candidate’s votes and campaign spending
CandidateVotesSpent
Young Kim (R)211,998$4,906,453
Joe Kerr (D)171,637$679,255
Outside money: Fairshake, Americans for Prosperity Action, Inc. (AFP Action) DBA CVA Action and DBA LIBRE Action, National Association of Realtors Political Action Committee$2,300,633

383,635 votes cast, on the 2022 lines. Outside money: $2,205,536 for the member, $622 against, $94,475 for or against others. Results (opens in a new tab)8.

2022 general, Nov. 8, 2022

$8,146,416 spent · $28.65 a vote

2022 general: each candidate’s votes and campaign spending
CandidateVotesSpent
Young Kim (R)161,589$3,648,004
Asif Mahmood (D)122,722$2,698,148
Outside money: Congressional Leadership Fund, National Association of Realtors Congressional Fund, United We Can$1,800,264

284,311 votes cast, on the 2022 lines. Outside money: $854,924 for the member, $18,816 against, $926,524 for or against others. Results (opens in a new tab)9.

Google election ads

$2,235,500 on the lines Google labels 2026; $4,001,200 on the lines Google labels 2022; $1,563,600 on the lines Google labels 2012

Election ads for every race, the presidency included, served in the district on Google, YouTube and Google’s partner sites since 2018, rounded by Google to the nearest hundred dollars. Report updated Oct. 31, 2026.14

Sources (10)
  1. 52026 primary and the November ballot, official results Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  2. 62026 primary, results Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  3. 72024 primary, results Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  4. 82024 general, results Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  5. 92022 general, results Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  6. 10BritCrit/dma_county_zip: county FIPS to Nielsen DMA code and name (Nielsen edition not stated; published Dec. 22, 2021; uses pre-2015 county codes), checked against Nielsen’s 2016 county list Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  7. 11Nielsen, Local Television Market Universe Estimates (TV homes and rank, 210 DMAs), as reproduced in full by National Media Spots Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  8. 12U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census: 119th Congressional District Summary File (county or part within district) and PL 94-171 block populations for 2026 plans; county totals are 2020 counts Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  9. 13AB 604 congressional districts (enacted by Proposition 50, Nov. 4, 2025), block equivalency file, UC Berkeley Statewide Database Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  10. 14Google Political Ads transparency report Open the source (opens in a new tab)

Financial records

Cash on hand
$980,39115

Past cycles

Money raised, the share from individual donors, and cash on hand, by past cycle
CycleRaisedFrom individualsCash at year end
2020$1,444,95154%$410,599
2022$3,728,27359%$69,802
2024$8,056,90559%$262,136

Cash on hand from the member’s latest filing with the Federal Election Commission. Past cycles: money raised over each two-year cycle and cash on hand on December 31 of its election year, from the same filings, in dollars as reported. From individuals is the share of money raised that came from individual donors.

Sources (5)
  1. 15FEC bulk data: candidates, committee linkages, Form 3 report summaries, operating expenditures, independent expenditures Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  2. 16FEC, Federal Elections 2022 (2022 general results and primary dates) Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  3. 17FEC, 2024 congressional general-election candidates Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  4. 18FEC, 2024 congressional primary dates Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  5. 19Clerk of the House, Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 2024 Open the source (opens in a new tab)

Scorecards

Conservative scorecards, out of 100

Heritage Action (opens in a new tab) lifetime
61
Club for Growth (opens in a new tab) lifetime
63
Turning Point Action (opens in a new tab) lifetime
80
GOP Platform (opens in a new tab) 2025
74

Conservative average

69.4

Heritage Action and Turning Point Action are the member’s lifetime scores, read from those pages. Club for Growth is the member’s lifetime rating, and GOP Platform measures agreement with the national Republican Party platform in 2025, published by the Institute for Legislative Analysis.

The scorecard average covers all four. No score means none was published, not zero, and is left out of the average: the record says “No score published”.

How to read this

Each group’s name links to the member’s own page on its scorecard, opened on the date shown.

Progressive scorecards, out of 100

League of Conservation Voters (opens in a new tab) lifetime
7
Progressive Punch (opens in a new tab) lifetime, all votes
7
The link opens the scorecard’s list for the state, which shows this score: the member’s own page is not available.
Stop Corruption Now (Democracy Defenders Action) (opens in a new tab) 119th Congress, 10 measures
20

Progressive average

11.3

Mirrored for every member, of either party: the League of Conservation Voters’ lifetime score, read from the member’s page; Progressive Punch’s lifetime score on all votes, read from its House table; and Democracy Defenders Action’s Stop Corruption Now score for the 119th Congress (September 16, 2026), its total on 10 anti-corruption and pro-democracy votes and cosponsorships, shown out of 100. The progressive average covers the three; no score means none was published (Stop Corruption Now did not grade members in office for less than a year, or certain current and former House leaders).

Immigration accountability

IAP Action score
126
Rank in the House on this score
66 of 431

The Immigration Accountability Project’s IAP Action score counts sponsorship, cosponsorship, and votes on immigration. A running total, not a percentage. Higher means more restrictive on immigration.

Second Amendment grade

Gun Owners of America, 2024
B-

Gun Owners of America’s 2024 grades, its latest complete set, from its 2024 Voter Guide, A+ to F-.

Sources (4)
  1. 20Heritage Action scorecard, Ken Calvert’s page Retrieved October 31, 2026. Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  2. 21Club for Growth scorecard, Ken Calvert’s page Retrieved October 31, 2026. Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  3. 22Turning Point Action scorecard, Ken Calvert’s page Retrieved October 31, 2026. Open the source (opens in a new tab)
  4. 23GOP Platform scorecard, Ken Calvert’s page Retrieved October 31, 2026. Open the source (opens in a new tab)

Endorsements

For the 2026 race.

Ken Calvert won the seat in a district new to the member. The 2026 endorsements on file were researched for the race in the member’s old district, so they are not tracked for this one.

Sources

Each section lists its own sources, numbered through the page. Here they are together.

All sources for this record (23)

Overview

  1. 1The count of the November 3, 2026 race. (opens in a new tab) Checked November 5, 2026.
  2. 2The congress-legislators dataset of every member of Congress: birthday. (opens in a new tab)

In the House

  1. 3Ken Calvert’s official site (opens in a new tab)
  2. 4Official congressional biography (opens in a new tab)

Election history

  1. 52026 primary and the November ballot, official results (opens in a new tab)
  2. 62026 primary, results (opens in a new tab)
  3. 72024 primary, results (opens in a new tab)
  4. 82024 general, results (opens in a new tab)
  5. 92022 general, results (opens in a new tab)
  6. 10BritCrit/dma_county_zip: county FIPS to Nielsen DMA code and name (Nielsen edition not stated; published Dec. 22, 2021; uses pre-2015 county codes), checked against Nielsen’s 2016 county list (opens in a new tab)
  7. 11Nielsen, Local Television Market Universe Estimates (TV homes and rank, 210 DMAs), as reproduced in full by National Media Spots (opens in a new tab)
  8. 12U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census: 119th Congressional District Summary File (county or part within district) and PL 94-171 block populations for 2026 plans; county totals are 2020 counts (opens in a new tab)
  9. 13AB 604 congressional districts (enacted by Proposition 50, Nov. 4, 2025), block equivalency file, UC Berkeley Statewide Database (opens in a new tab)
  10. 14Google Political Ads transparency report (opens in a new tab)

Financial records

  1. 15FEC bulk data: candidates, committee linkages, Form 3 report summaries, operating expenditures, independent expenditures (opens in a new tab)
  2. 16FEC, Federal Elections 2022 (2022 general results and primary dates) (opens in a new tab)
  3. 17FEC, 2024 congressional general-election candidates (opens in a new tab)
  4. 18FEC, 2024 congressional primary dates (opens in a new tab)
  5. 19Clerk of the House, Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 2024 (opens in a new tab)

Scorecards

  1. 20Heritage Action scorecard, Ken Calvert’s page (opens in a new tab) Retrieved October 31, 2026.
  2. 21Club for Growth scorecard, Ken Calvert’s page (opens in a new tab) Retrieved October 31, 2026.
  3. 22Turning Point Action scorecard, Ken Calvert’s page (opens in a new tab) Retrieved October 31, 2026.
  4. 23GOP Platform scorecard, Ken Calvert’s page (opens in a new tab) Retrieved October 31, 2026.

Also used, named without a link

  • District lean: the Cook Political Report’s Partisan Voting Index, 2026 and 2025 editions.
  • Committees and leadership posts in the 119th Congress: the Clerk of the House, as listed on October 1, 2026. Years in the House: the public congress-legislators record of every member’s terms.
  • Cash on hand and past cycles: the campaign’s Federal Election Commission filings.
  • Immigration: the Immigration Accountability Project. Second Amendment: Gun Owners of America, 2024 Voter Guide.
  • Endorsements: 2026 endorsement records.

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