State Government

California’s State Assembly has 80 districts with members elected to serve two-year terms, with all seats up for election every two years. The western edge of Calaveras is in District 9 while the rest of Calaveras is in District 8 with Tuolumne, Mariposa, and other Counties as of 2022 redistricting.
California has 40 districts in the State Senate. District 4 is a 13-county area that covers the rural and mountainous region of the eastern boundaries of California. The geographic area runs from Lake Tahoe in the north and down to Inyo County in the southeast. It includes all of Calaveras, Mariposa, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties. The majority of the area was represented by state Sen. Andreas Borgeas before redistricting as detailed here.

Congressional District 5 stretches from the eastern Sacramento area, through Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties and down into Kings Canyon, jutting west into Stanislaus County to include a portion of Modesto, Oakdale, Waterford and Hughson, plus Turlock’s east side and Denair. California lost a congressional seat in 2022 going from 53 to 52 with each of its congressional districts representing about 760,000 people.