80th State Assembly District

The 80th Assembly District includes all of Imperial County and the eastern portion of Riverside County. It stretches from Coachella Valley, east to Blythe and south to the Mexican border. The border of Mexico is to the south of and the border of Arizona is to the east.

The 80th Assembly District has one of the highest Latino populations of any assembly district in the state, which makes up 60% of the district.

When this seat was redrawn by redistricting mapmakers in 2001, they established a 12-point Democratic registration advantage. In recent years, however, GOP registration has trended upwards while Democratic registration has trended down with Democrats now only holding under a 9-point advantage. There is clear evidence that this district votes much more conservatively than what might appear in the registration numbers.

AD 80 has voted Republican five out of the past five Assembly elections, the last being Bonnie¹s victory over Mary Ann Andreas. Republicans have also won every election since 1994 in the two overlapping congressional seats.

As a district, the voters of AD 80 voted 62.2% in favor of the October 2003 Recall and Governor Schwarzenegger received 50.5% of the vote.