Candidate · November 3, 2026

Linda Sánchez

On the ballot for U.S. House · California's 41st District

DemocraticIncumbent
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$1.9M
cash on hand
$421K
issues with public statements
9
outside spending for or against
$300K

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. House · California's 41st District1
Party on the ballotDemocratic1,2
StatusIncumbent — Currently represents California's 38th District in the U.S. House.3
How it's decidedUnder California's top-two system, only the two candidates who received the most votes in the June 2, 2026, primary, regardless of party preference, appear on this general-election ballot.1,4
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Linda Sánchez was born in Orange County, California, to parents who immigrated from Mexico; her father worked as an industrial mechanic and her mother as an elementary school teacher.5,6 She earned a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in 1991 and a law degree from UCLA in 1995, and worked as an attorney before becoming executive director of the Orange County Central Labor Council in 2000.5,6 She was elected to the U.S. House in 2002, serves on the Ways and Means Committee as the top Democrat on its Trade Subcommittee, and was the ranking member of the House Ethics Committee from 2011 to 2017.5,6 She co-founded the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus, and her campaign website says she was the first woman member of the electrical workers' union IBEW elected to Congress.5,6

Why they say they're running

Her campaign website asks voters to re-elect her and says she is working to lower costs for working families, protect her community from President Trump and ICE, and make Southern California a better place to live and work.7

Service in Congress since 2023

  • 2025–nowU.S. Representative, CA-383
  • 2023–2025U.S. Representative, CA-383

Websites and accounts

§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Economy, Jobs and Trade

Tariffs

Her campaign website says she has fought to end President Trump's tariffs, which it says raised costs for everyone and hurt domestic manufacturing.5

  1. Lower or remove most tariffs
  2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
  3. Broad tariffs on most imports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Housing

Large investors buying single-family homes

Her campaign website lists passing legislation to ban hedge funds from buying up single-family homes among her results.10

Family and Social Policy

Child care costs

Her campaign website says she introduced legislation to make child care more affordable by helping centers hire and keep qualified workers without passing the cost on to parents.5,10

Health Care

Federal Medicaid funding

Her campaign website says she is fighting to restore Medicaid funding.10

  1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
  2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
  3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding
Marked: the option their statement matches.
ACA premium tax credits

Her campaign website says she is fighting to protect ACA subsidies.10

Taxes and Budget

Targeted tax breaks for individuals and families

Her campaign website says she introduced bipartisan legislation to give working families a tax credit for caring for a sick or elderly loved one at home.10

  1. Expand these breaks and make more of them refundable, so families who owe little income tax also benefit
  2. Add or expand breaks for costs such as education savings, adoption and selling a home
  3. Keep the current breaks
  4. Cut back these breaks and use the money for lower tax rates or deficit reduction
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Elections and Government Reform

Stock trading by members of Congress

Her campaign website says she owns no corporate stocks and supports legislation to ban members of Congress and their families from trading them.5,10

  1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
  2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
  3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Immigration

Masks and identification for immigration officers

Her campaign website says she has pushed for ICE agents to wear body cameras and to be barred from wearing masks that hide their identities.5

  1. Let officers cover their faces and keep their names private
  2. Require visible ID and body cameras, but allow face coverings
  3. Require visible ID and body cameras, and ban most face coverings
Marked: the option their statement matches.
Immigration enforcement inside the country

Her campaign website says she has refused to fund ICE and backed efforts to block its funding, and has pushed for changes including stricter hiring standards with background checks and restoring the sensitive-locations policy that kept ICE from conducting raids at places such as churches and hospitals.5,10

§4Popular bills that never got a vote

Why this matters: Many bills with wide support from both parties never reach a vote, so no member of Congress is ever on record for or against them. Signing on as a sponsor or cosponsor is the only public record of support.

While Linda Sánchez served, these bills had broad support from both parties but never reached a floor vote. No officeholder ever had to vote on them. Linda Sánchez sponsored or cosponsored 33 of the 52. How bills die without a vote.

See all 52

§5Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.63

Raised$1,898,188
Spent$1,903,176
Cash on hand$420,799

Where the money came from

Individual donors$450K · 24%
PACs and other political committees$1.4M · 75%
Political party committees$33 · 0%
Transfers from the candidate's other committees$12K · 1%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$8,260 · 0%

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $300,000 supporting and $0 opposing Linda Sánchez this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through May 20, 2026.64

Largest independent spenders, as named in their FEC filings.
GroupSupportingOpposing
BOLD America$300,000—

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.

§6Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.