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California's 14th State Assembly district

American legislative district

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5019941 ↗
Source-derived summary

California's 14th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by Democrat Buffy Wicks of Oakland.

District profile

The district is located in the East Bay, on the southern shore of the Carquinez Strait, spanning from Rodeo to Piedmont, in Contra Costa County and Alameda County.

Election results from statewide races

List of assembly members representing the district

Due to redistricting, the 14th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2021 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “California's 14th State Assembly district” as american legislative district. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where California's, 14th and State can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as american legislative district. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5019941. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “California's 14th State Assembly district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.