United States Representative, 43rd District in Congressional District 43, California

2026 Primary Election

• Myla Rahman — Executive Director, Angels for Sight in Carson, California

  Myla Rahman is a nonprofit executive and a lifelong resident of Carson, California. She graduated from California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her career in public service includes roles as District Director for California State Senators Lola Smallwood-Cuevas and Steven Bradford, and a Field Representative for the late Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald. She also has experience in public relations and has served on Carson's planning commission board. In November 2021, she was elected as Carson's City Clerk. She is currently the Executive Director for Angels for Sight, a nonprofit providing free vision care to underserved communities. Rahman is also a two-time breast cancer survivor.

• David Sedlik — Candidate in null, null

  There is no publicly available information indicating that a David Sedlik is a candidate for U.S. Representative in California's 43rd district for the 2026 election. A photographer named Jeffrey Sedlik was involved in a copyright lawsuit with Kat Von D, and a David Sedlík is listed as a Solution Architect at Pricefx, but neither is associated with this political race.

• Maxine Waters — Incumbent, U.S. Representative for California's 43rd Congressional District in Los Angeles, California

  Maxine Moore Waters, born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 15, 1938, is a prominent American politician. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from California State University, Los Angeles, in 1971 after working as a teacher and a volunteer coordinator for the Head Start program. Her career in public service began in the California State Assembly, where she served from 1976 to 1990 and became the Democratic Caucus Chair. In 1990, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Waters has represented California's 43rd district since 2013 and previously represented the 29th and 35th districts. She is a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, which she chaired from 1997 to 1999. She also made history as the first woman and first African American to chair the House Financial Services Committee, a position she held from 2019 to 2023.