Federal candidate · 2025–2026 cycle

Brad Sherman

Official portrait of Brad Sherman
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for California’s 32nd district
Party
Democrat
Hometown
Sherman Oaks, CA
Born
1954
In Congress
House since 1997 · 29 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
SHERMAN, BRAD
Map of California with the current district highlighted

California, District 32

Biographical details from congress-legislators (CC0) and the House Clerk, retrieved October 23, 2026.

DemocraticU.S. House · California District 32IncumbentGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H6CA24113 · Principal campaign committee: SHERMAN FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · California District 32$2,841,425.26General-election nominee
2023–2024U.S. House · California District 32$2,059,587.35Won the general election
2021–2022U.S. House · California District 32$2,651,948.74Registered candidate (raised or spent over $5,000)
2019–2020U.S. House · California District 30$1,514,134.26Lost the general election (58.1%)
Total raised$2,841,425.26
Total spent$4,116,231.13
Cash on hand$2,647,138.83
Debts owed by the campaign$5,432.44
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2025–2026 cycle totals through September 30, 2026, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $1,510,230.58PACs and other committees: $828,424.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $48,283.11Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $454,487.57
  • Individual contributions$1,510,230.5853%
  • PACs and other committees$828,424.0029%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$48,283.112%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$454,487.5716%

Individual money

  • Contributions of $200 or less (small-dollar, including unitemized)$14,888.581%
  • Contributions over $200$1,469,121.0099%
  • Itemized from inside California$1,045,609.7671%
  • Itemized from other states$426,204.0029%

Top out-of-state sources of itemized individual money: New York $97,100.00 · Florida $61,750.00 · Massachusetts $53,750.00 · Maryland $32,100.00 · Connecticut $26,000.00. States with fewer than 10 contributions are not listed.

FEC-computed totals by contribution size and state, retrieved October 22, 2026. No individual contributor is named.

Raised and spent over time

$4.8M$0 APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $137,226.75APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $138,488.57JULY QUARTERLY: raised $340,499.01JULY QUARTERLY: spent $107,115.00OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $322,590.75OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $144,214.83YEAR-END: raised $616,169.73YEAR-END: spent $175,722.93APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $333,066.18APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $278,074.74PRE-PRIMARY: raised $367,171.22PRE-PRIMARY: spent $961,590.97JULY QUARTERLY: raised $397,606.04JULY QUARTERLY: spent $1,962,587.37OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $327,095.58OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $348,436.722025-032025-092026-032026-06

Raised per report Spent per report Cash on hand

Voting record, 119th Congress

Roll-call votes while serving674
Voted yea276
Voted nay379
Voted present1
Did not vote18 of 674
Bills and resolutions sponsored13
Sponsored that became law0
Cosponsored416

Recorded House roll-call votes from January 3, 2025 through September 16, 2026, the latest vote on record for this member. Each vote links to the official House Clerk record.

Latest roll-call votes

DateQuestionResultVote
Sep 16, 2026On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · S 2403
Retire through Ownership Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · HR 9497
Water Resources Development Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · HR 9340
Ratepayer Protection Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Passage · HJRES 213
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the “California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbo
PassedNay
Sep 16, 2026On Passage · HR 10326
PROOF Act
PassedNay
Sep 16, 2026On Passage · HR 9576
National Fraud Enforcement Division Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments · HR 5334
An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes
PassedNay
Sep 15, 2026On Agreeing to the Resolution · HCONRES 93
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran
PassedYea
Sep 15, 2026On Passage · HJRES 210
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vesse
PassedNay
Sep 15, 2026On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · HR 9500
Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act
PassedYea

Latest bills and resolutions sponsored

  • H.R. 9040 Regulate the Price of All Drugs Act
    Introduced May 26, 2026 · Latest action May 26, 2026: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently…
  • H.R. 8803 Iran War Oil Crisis Windfall Profits Tax Act
    Introduced May 13, 2026 · Latest action May 13, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
  • H.R. 8670 Stop Oil Exports to Lower Gas Prices Act
    Introduced May 7, 2026 · Latest action May 7, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
  • H.R. 7806 Direct File Act of 2026
    Introduced Mar 4, 2026 · Latest action Mar 4, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
  • H.R. 7271 Evan Anzoo Memorial Act
    Introduced Jan 27, 2026 · Latest action Jan 27, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
  • H.R. 7192 Hands Off Greenland Act
    Introduced Jan 21, 2026 · Latest action Jan 21, 2026: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, …
  • H.R. 5159 Nationwide Right to Unionize Act
    Introduced Sep 4, 2025 · Latest action Sep 4, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
  • H.R. 4819 Click to Cancel Act of 2025
    Introduced Jul 29, 2025 · Latest action Jul 29, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
  • H.R. 4382 America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act
    Introduced Jul 14, 2025 · Latest action Jul 14, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
  • H.R. 2346 Accountability for Terrorist Perpetrators of October 7th Act
    Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Latest action Mar 25, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, i…

Counts of the public record only; TerraCivic does not rate members or judge their votes. Votes: Voteview (Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/). Bills: GovInfo Bill Status (public domain). Retrieved October 23, 2026.

Committees

Assignments from unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

PAC and committee contributors

176 committees reported giving $787,494.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting Brad Sherman$974,088.19
  • Independent expenditures opposing Brad Sherman$400,832.50
  • Company and union communications to members about Brad Sherman$44,315.70

FEC totals for the 2026 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

California U.S. House, District 32, 2026 · 14 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Brad Sherman (D)$2,841,425.26$2,647,138.832026-09-30
Jake Levine (D)$2,757,127.79$599.922026-07-31
Jake Rakov (D)$583,940.00$0.002025-09-30
Larry Thompson (R)$66,331.34$7,145.892026-10-14
Dory Benami (D)$57,889.39$5,437.232026-09-30
Christopher Ahuja (D)$48,311.64$11,524.202026-07-20
Marena Lin (D)$39,134.22$0.002026-09-30
Josh Sautter (D)$31,028.00$24,990.112026-03-31
Anna Wilding (D)$13,556.63$773.662026-09-30

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • Decision Desk HQSafe DJuly 14, 2026
  • The Cook Political ReportSolid DNovember 5, 2025
  • Inside ElectionsSolid DMarch 7, 2025
  • Sabato's Crystal BallSafe DJuly 15, 2025
  • The EconomistSafe DMay 6, 2026

Recent polls

No public polling found for this race.

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in California (districts 27–52) (retrieved October 22, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: SHERMAN FOR CONGRESS.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 22, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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