John Garamendi

American businessman & politician (born 1945)

IncumbentU.S. House — CA-08DemocraticRunning nowVugol ID VM-8KJ-BQXW FEC H0CA10149

Running for U.S. House, CA-08, 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/john-garamendi

Roster source: FEC filing (2026-08-26)

Headshot · github.com

John Garamendi — Portrait — Portrait · garamendi.house.gov

John Garamendi — On the trail — On the trail · garamendi.house.gov

John Garamendi — Illustration · Vugol.me — Illustration · Vugol.me
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain

Races

2026 · U.S. House, CA-08 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
2024 · U.S. House, CA-08 · General · Democratic · result not on file · incumbent · source
2022 · U.S. House, CA-08 · General · Democratic · won · 145,501 votes (75.7%) · incumbent · source
2020 · U.S. House, CA-03 · General · Democratic · won · 176,043 votes (54.7%) · source
2018 · U.S. House, CA-03 · General · Democratic · won · 134,875 votes (58.1%) · source

Background

John Raymond Garamendi is an American businessman, politician and member of the Democratic Party who has represented areas of Northern California between San Francisco and Sacramento, including the cities of Fairfield and Vacaville in the United States House…

of Representatives since 2009. Garamendi was the California insurance commissioner from 1991 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, and the 46th lieutenant governor of California from 2007 until his election to Congress in late 2009.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-24 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garamendi

Campaign finance

$489,135total raised (2026 cycle)

$557,834total spent (2026 cycle)

$1,196,018cash on hand (2026 cycle)

As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC

Website and social

Official websitevia Wikidata

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Sources

Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-24 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garamendi
Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340268
Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H0CA10149/
photo_headshot — https://github.com/unitedstates/images
photo_full_body — http://garamendi.house.gov
photo_action — https://garamendi.house.gov/about/

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