Michelle Steel
- Republican · California
- Last race
- Lost the 2024 US House, CA-45 race, 49.9% to Derek Tran 50.1%
- Now
- Not on a 2026 ballot and holds no office in our files
- Served
- US House CA-45, 2023 to 2025; US House CA-48, 2021 to 2023
- 2020
- First race on record · in our results files
- 2
- Races won · in our records
- 1
- Races lost · in our records
Career
Newest first| Year | Race | Result | Share | Lost to, or other round |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | US House, CA-45 | Lost | 49.9% | Derek Tran 50.1% |
| 2022 | US House, CA-45 | Won · primary won 48.2% | 52.4% | |
| 2020 | US House, CA-48 | Won · primary won 34.9% | 51.1% |
Filed with the FEC, no race in our files: 2026 US House, CA-45.
This is the record in our results files, FEC candidate lists and DIME, not a complete career. Results for other offices, earlier years and most primaries can be missing. A general that went to a runoff counts as neither a win nor a loss.
More about Michelle Steel
Offices held (2 terms and offices)
- 2023 to 2024US House, California District 45 · 1 term
- 2021 to 2022US House, California District 48 · 1 term
Sources (4 sources)
unitedstates/congress-legislators
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: CC0 1.0.
FEC candidate master file (cnYY.zip bulk download)
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: US government work, public domain.
Stanford DIME v4.0 recipients file
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: ODC-BY 1.0.
MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House 1976-2024
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: CC0 1.0.
Officials files, 2026 candidate files, returns files, DIME, FEC candidate master and congress-legislators terms, as of 2026-10-29. Nothing about jobs, retirement, or reasons is recorded or inferred.
DataSources: Results filesData as of Oct 29, 2026