page_title: California State Assembly
section_title: Composition
hierarchical_section_title: California State Assembly / Current session / Composition
context_page_description: The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate. The Assembly convenes, along with the State Senate, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.
  The Assembly consists of 80 members, with each member representing at least 465,000 people. Due to a combination of the state's large population and relatively small legislature, the Assembly has the largest population-per-representative ratio of any state lower house and second largest of any legislative lower house in the United States after the federal House of Representatives.
  Members of the California State Assembly are generally referred to using the titles Assemblyman, Assemblywoman, or Assemblymember. In the current legislative session, Democrats enjoy a three-fourths supermajority of 61 seats, while Republicans control a minority of 17 seats and Independents hold 1 seat; there is currently 1 vacant seat.
caption: Composition of the California State Assembly   Democratic Party   Republican Party