The __California State Senate__ is the  [upper house|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_house]  of the  [California State Legislature|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature] , the  [lower house|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_house]  being the  [California State Assembly|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly] . The State Senate convenes, along with the State Assembly, at the  [California State Capitol|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Capitol]  in  [Sacramento|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,_California].[1]

Due to a combination of the state's large population and relatively small legislature, the State Senate has the largest population per state senator ratio of any state legislative house. In the  [United States House of Representatives|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives] , California is apportioned 53 U.S. Representatives, each representing approximately 704,566 people,%%sup [[1]/% while in the California State Senate, each of the 40 State Senators represents approximately 931,349 people.%%sup [[2]/% This means that California State Senators each represent more people than California's members of the  [House of Representatives|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_California].[1]

[Orange County] has five partial or whole Senate districts as listed below. Note that this is subject to change upon reapportionment after a census.

! Election History

%%text-center 2000 Census Reapportionment /%
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||Year||[SD29|Member of the State Senate 29th District]||[SD33|Member of the State Senate 33rd District]||[SD34|Member of the State Senate 34th District]||[SD35|Member of the State Senate 35th District]||[SD38|Member of the State Senate 38th District]
|2002| | |First Last ([2002 SD34])| |[Bill Morrow] ([2002 SD38])
|2004|First Last ([2004 SD29])|First Last ([2004 SD33])| |First Last ([2004 SD35])|
|2006| | |First Last ([2006 SD34])| |[Mark Wyland] ([2006 SD38])
|2008|First Last ([2008 SD29])|First Last ([2008 SD33])| |First Last ([2008 SD35])| 
|2010| | |First Last ([2010 SD34])| | [Mark Wyland] ([2010 SD38])
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%%text-center 2010 Census Reapportionment /%
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||Year||[SD29|Member of the State Senate 29th District]||[SD32|Member of the State Senate 32nd District]||[SD34|Member of the State Senate 34th District]||[SD36|Member of the State Senate 36th District]||[SD37|Member of the State Senate 37th District]||Races
| 2012 | [Robert "Bob" Huff|Bob Huff] | | | | [Mimi Walters] | [2012 SDs]
| 2013 | | | | | |
| 2014 | | [Mario A. Guerra|Mario Guerra] | [Janet Nguyen] | [Patricia C. "Pat" Bates|Pat Bates] | | [2014 SDs]
| 2015 | | | | | |
| 2016 | [Josh Newman] | | | | [John M.W. Moorlach|John Moorlach] | [2016 SDs]
| 2017 | | | | | |
| 2018 | | [Bob J. Archuleta|Bob Archuleta] | [Janet Nguyen] | [Patricia C. "Pat" Bates|Pat Bates] | | [2018 SDs]
| 2019 | | | | | |






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! Footnotes
[#1] [Wikipedia:California_State_Senate]