The primary election for California’s State Senate District 36, which encompasses much of coastal and northwest Orange County ...

Republicans hold the majority with 219 seats, Democrats hold 213 seats and there are three vacancies. The 2022 election results in California helped flip control of the US House to Republicans.

California’s 36th District is massive, beginning at the Arizona border and stretching westward across Riverside County. It takes in Palm Springs before continuing westward to include San Jacinto.