{"id":80025,"date":"2026-04-14T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=80025"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:41:10","slug":"governor-newsom-issues-proclamation-setting-special-election-for-california-congressional-district-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=80025","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom issues proclamation setting special election for California Congressional District 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"m_-7290806597192569654mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"m_-7290806597192569654mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>SACRAMENTO<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation setting a special election on August 18, 2026 to fill the Congressional seat for the fourteenth congressional district.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=0da6c3269e&amp;e=0a97a8055b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dafffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55%26id%3D0da6c3269e%26e%3D0a97a8055b&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1776301023257000&amp;usg=AOvVaw28xcARWm43JWelbeu0nojh\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"m_-7290806597192569654mcnImage CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NamGl1WqOooWJtEhZu36FbRC0C--fXOVsmQKuBEqeCtpF1CLzG7UXrpo7ANaZP8mY9BnK3eXfRGdM110Q5DrtlDmqLZas_Fwhp0uLZUobpzgt9K4EgPuqM9DsJTnntGKrjYzxVQ5Omb7dupphwNb5bH_98xvcozzrw=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55\/images\/70bf7891-1fb1-2816-1f4e-0a26321999ad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"center\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"m_-7290806597192569654mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"m_-7290806597192569654mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n<h2>The text of the proclamation is below:<\/h2>\n<p>BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA<\/p>\n<p>I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor o f the State of California, do hereby proclaim and order that a special election shall be held on the 18th day of August 2026, within the 14th Congressional District o f the State, to fill the vacancy in the office of the U.S. House of Representatives from said district resulting from the resignation of Representative Eric Swalwell.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014 Governor Gavin Newsom today issued&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80026,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80025\/revisions\/80026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}