California

===Federal representation===
{{main|United States congressional delegations from California}}
{{See also|California's congressional districts}}
[[File:California Congressional Delegation honoring Pete Stark.jpg|thumb|right|Members of the [[United States congressional delegations from California|California Congressional Delegation]] in 2020]]
The state of California sends [[California's congressional districts|52]] members to the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Directory of Representatives |url=http://www.house.gov/representatives/#state_ca |access-date=March 25, 2014 |publisher=House.gov}}</ref> the nation's largest congressional state delegation. Consequently, California also has the largest number of [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral votes]] in national presidential elections, with 54. The former [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|speaker of the House of Representatives]] is the representative of California's 20th district, [[Kevin McCarthy]].<ref name="govtrack.us">{{Cite web |title=California Senators, Representatives, and Congressional District Maps |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/CA |access-date=January 15, 2019 |website=GovTrack.us}}</ref>

California is represented in the [[United States Senate]] by [[Alex Padilla]], a native and former secretary of state of California, and [[Laphonza Butler]], a labor union official who was appointed to the Senate by [[Governor of California|Governor]] [[Gavin Newsom|Gavin Newson]] to complete the term of [[Dianne Feinstein]], who died on September 29, 2023. Former U.S. senator [[Kamala Harris]], a native, former district attorney from [[San Francisco]], former attorney general of California, resigned on January 18, 2021, to assume her role as the current [[Vice President of the United States]]. In the [[1992 United States Senate election in California|1992 U.S. Senate election]], California became the first state to elect a Senate delegation entirely composed of women, due to the victories of Feinstein and [[Barbara Boxer]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Year of the Woman, 1992 |url=https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/Assembling-Amplifying-Ascending/Women-Decade/ |access-date=December 15, 2019 |website=history.house.gov |publisher=Office of the [[Historian of the United States House of Representatives|Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives]]}}</ref> Following the Vice President, Gov. [[Gavin Newsom|Newsom]] appointed [[Secretary of State of California|Secretary of State]] [[Alex Padilla]] to finish the rest of Harris's term which ended in [[2022 United States Senate election in California|2022]]. Padilla successfully ran for a full term that same year. Padilla was sworn in on January 20, 2021, the same day as the [[inauguration of Joe Biden]] as well as Harris.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maeve Reston, Alex Rogers and Daniella Diaz |title=Newsom picks Alex Padilla to fill Kamala Harris' Senate seat |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/alex-padilla-senate-gavin-newsom/index.html |access-date=January 18, 2021 |website=CNN|date=December 22, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 24, 2020 |title=Alex Padilla and Shirley Weber, promoted to new jobs by Newsom, say they'll run in 2022 |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Alex-Padilla-and-Shirley-Weber-promoted-to-new-15825694.php |access-date=January 18, 2021 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |last1=Wildermuth |first1=By John }}</ref>