US Midterms 2026
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Kevin Kiley, a U.S. representative since 2023 who left the Republican Party in 2026 to become an independent, faces Democrat Richard Pan in the 2026 election for California's 6th congressional district.
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GillenWhen California voters approved Proposition 50 last year, redrawing congressional districts statewide, Rep. Kevin Kiley entered a brand-new political landscape.
The new District 6 shifted from its northern Sacramento-area suburbs to cover West Sacramento and parts of Roseville, Rocklin and Citrus Heights. The district still contains Natomas and sections of northern Sacramento.
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Kevin Kiley was born on January 30, 1985, and grew up in the Sacramento area, where his father was a physician and his mother was a special education teacher. He graduated from Granite Bay High School and earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 2007.
Kiley then joined Teach for America, teaching for two years at Manual Arts High School while earning his teaching credentials at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
He later graduated from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, clerked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and joined the law firm Irell & Manella in California. He married Chelsee Gardner on December 30, 2023.
Kiley was elected to the California State Assembly in 2016 and represented the 6th Assembly district until 2022. While in the Assembly he ran for the State Senate in the 1st district, losing the runoff to fellow Assemblyman Brian Dahle. In January 2021 he published the book Recall Gavin Newsom: The Case Against America's Most Corrupt Governor, and in the 2021 recall election he finished sixth among the candidates to replace Newsom with 3.5% of the vote.
Kiley won election to the U.S. House as a Republican in 2022 in California's 3rd congressional district, defeating Democrat Kermit Jones, and he was re-elected in 2024 against Democrat Jessica Morse.
In the 119th Congress he chaired the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education.
On March 9, 2026, Kiley changed his party affiliation from Republican to independent while saying he would continue to caucus with Republicans, and his committee assignments were vacated on March 18, 2026.
Kevin Kiley announced on March 2, 2026, that he would run in California's 6th congressional district, and on March 6 he filed for re-election as an independent.
He is the district's incumbent, having been re-elected as a Republican with 55.5% of the vote in 2024, and he continues to caucus with House Republicans.
In the top-two primary Kiley finished first with 24.28%, and Democrat Richard Pan, a former state senator from the 6th district who served from 2014 to 2022, placed second with 23.17%. Kiley faces Pan in the general election on November 3, 2026.
