California's 12th senatorial district

California's 12th senatorial district is one of 40 California State Senate districts. It is currently represented by Republican Shannon Grove of Bakersfield.

District profile

Since 2022

New district boundaries drawn by the 2020 California Citizens Redistricting Commission went into effect for the 2022 elections. The 12th State Senate district now encompasses the southeastern Central Valley and the northwestern corner of the Mojave Desert; and it includes portions of Fresno County, Kern, and Tulare Counties, including the following cities:

The district also includes the Tule River Indian Reservation, Cold Springs Rancheria, Big Sandy Rancheria, and Table Mountain Rancheria.
Tourism, agriculture, and ranching are important in the district. The neighboring districts 14 and 16 were specifically drawn to allow Latino voters to elect state senators of their choice in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act, which affected the western border of District 12.
The district's racial/ethnic demographics are as follows:

Population	Latino	White	Black	American Indian	Asian	Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	Other	Multiracial
939,354	317,166	457,719	33,143	7,634	74,614	1,519	5,435	43,124

2012-2022

The district included the Salinas Valley and a swath of the Central Valley between Modesto and Fresno. The rural district was primarily agricultural and heavily Latino.
Fresno County – 14.3%
Coalinga
Firebaugh
Fowler
Huron
Kerman
Kingsburg
Mendota
San Joaquin
Madera County – 81.1%

All of Merced County

Monterey County – 54.2%
Gonzales
Greenfield
King City
Salinas
Soledad
All of San Benito County
Hollister
San Juan Bautista
Stanislaus County – 27.6%

The district's demographics were as follows:

Population	Voting age	Citizen voting age	White	Black	Latino	Asian	Native American	Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	Other	Multiracial
933,222	641,932	438,286	25.68%	3.00%	64.48%	5.12%	0.80%	0.27%	0.25%	0.39%

As of February 18, 2020, the district had 377,188 registered voters, of whom 45.00% were registered as Democrats, 26.35% were registered as Republicans, and 23.22% were registered with no party preference.

List of senators representing the district

Due to redistricting, the 12th district has been moved around different parts of the state. The current iteration resulted from the 2021 redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.