Result
Assemblymember Gregg Hart (D-Santa Barbara) has won a third term in California Assembly District 37, beating Republican Sari Domingues on Tuesday, Nov. 3 in their second straight general election matchup. Unofficial returns show Hart with 94,465 votes, or 66.9%, to Domingues’ 46,656.
That is a wider margin than in 2024, when Hart beat Domingues with 60.7%. The two also met in the June 2 top-two primary, where Hart took 62.5%. His new two-year term begins Monday, Dec. 7.
Candidates and Platforms
Hart, a former Santa Barbara County supervisor, has represented the district since 2022 and chairs the Assembly Select Committee on the Non-Profit Sector. On affordability, he said the state is “trying to streamline the process to make it quicker and easier for developers to build affordable housing” and is putting money toward it. This year he carried bills on special interest license plates and on coverage for scalp cooling treatment, both of which cleared the Legislature in August.
Domingues, 69, is a retired business analyst, Santa Maria native and founder of the Santa Barbara County chapter of Moms for Liberty. She called the cost of living her biggest issue, said people she knows have left the state because it is too expensive, and argued that Californians pay too much in taxes.
District and Chamber
District 37 covers all of Santa Barbara County and a small part of southern San Luis Obispo County, including sections of Nipomo. Democrats are projected to grow their supermajority in the Assembly, with Speaker Robert Rivas saying his party will hold the largest Democratic caucus in the chamber’s modern history.
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