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Patrick Ahrens

Democrat, State Assembly
District 26, Cupertino
Time in office:
  • Assembly: 2024-Assembly

Bio

Patrick Ahrens, 35, is the former district director for Assemblymember Evan Low, who vacated his seat in a failed Congressional bid in 2024. Before winning his Assembly seat with Low’s endorsement, Ahrens was president of the Foothill De Anza College Board of Trustees. He says his family struggled with substance abuse and he was the first of them to attend college. At one point, he lived in a Ford hatchback with his twin brother, who later died from cancer. Aherns has a master’s degree in public administration from San Jose State University.

Bill Activity

0

Of 2 bills:
 Passed
 Failed
2 Pending

For this session year, this legislator initiated 2 bills: None passed, None failed, and 2 are currently pending.

Alignment Meter

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Financials

This feature tracks three sources of money intended to help a candidate win election: 1-Money given directly to a candidate’s committee, 2-Money given to an Independent Expenditure Committee, 3-Money given to a political party. (NOTE: Senators are elected every four years. Twenty of the 40 Senators are on the ballot in even-numbered years, so Senators may do little or no fundraising in the first two-year session of their Senate term).

Election

This display shows money given directly to the incumbent’s campaign committee (NOTE: The industry categories for donors come from Open Secrets, a nonpartisan research organization for campaign finance. Some contributions are “uncoded,” meaning they have not been assigned to an industry sector. As a result, the total for each sector is also an estimate).

Candidate Contributions

$4.5K

Communications & Electronics

$15.1K

Construction

$1.5K

Defense

$300.0

Energy & Natural Resources

$1.6K

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate

$24.8K

General Business

$5.2K

Government Agencies/Education/Other

$34.4K

Health

$39.0K

Ideology/Single Issue

$6.0K

Labor

$114.5K

Lawyers & Lobbyists

$21.4K

Transportation

$6.0K

Uncoded

$395.1K

Unitemized Contributions

$8.4K

Candidate Donations

Individuals, corporations, organizations and committees are limited to a maximum donation to candidates of $5,500 for the primary and for the general elections.

Total
$677.8K

10.0% lower than the average legislators

Independent Expenditures

Money from Independent Expenditure Committees (IEC) for advertising or grassroots activity to help a candidate win office is unlimited, but it cannot be spent in coordination with the candidate or the candidate's campaign.

Total
$441.9K

Grand Total for Elections

$1.1M

48.0% higher than the average legislators

This is a total of the money to help this legislator win office including direct donations to the candidate, money from Independent Expenditure Committees and money from political parties.


Influence

There are three categories of donations to legislators after they are elected that encourage a working relationship between the donor and the legislator. The three categories are: 1-Gifts, 2-Travel, 3-Behests.

No personal gifts data found

Policy

Bills Authored by Patrick Ahrens

Committees

Most of the policy work in the state Capitol is done in “Standing” committees. Legislators also work on budget subcommittees. There are also “Special” and “Select” committees with a more narrow topic focus. And there are “Joint” committees with members from the Senate and Assembly.

Interest Group Rankings

Hearings

Featured Comments

Below are links to the video and transcript of recent, substantive comments by this legislator in committee hearings or floor sessions.

District

View of map with yellow overlay for Assembly District 26 boundaries.
District 26 is a Safe Democratic District
Democratic Party candidate has a very high likelihood of winning in an election

Previous Election:

Patrick Ahrens
56%
WON
Tara Sreekrishnan
44%

Party Registration

Census Data

Median age0102030

Median age