Howard L. Berman

CA Blue Book

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-07-1972	Democratic	AD-57	65290	Win
11-05-1974	Democratic	AD-43	56133	Win
11-02-1976	Democratic	AD-43	80266	Win
11-07-1978	Democratic	AD-43	81013	Win
11-04-1980	Democratic	AD-43	74710	Win
11-02-1982	Democratic	CD-26	97383	Win
11-06-1984	Democratic	CD-26	117080	Win
11-04-1986	Democratic	CD-26	98091	Win
11-08-1988	Democratic	CD-26	126930	Win
11-06-1990	Democratic	CD-26	78031	Win
11-03-1992	Democratic	CD-26	73807	Win
11-08-1994	Democratic	CD-26	55145	Win
11-05-1996	Democratic	CD-26	67525	Win
11-03-1998	Democratic	CD-26	69000	Win
11-07-2000	Democratic	CD-26	96500	Win
11-05-2002	Democratic	CD-28	73771	Win
11-02-2004	Democratic	CD-28	115303	Win
11-07-2006	Democratic	CD-28	79866	Win
11-04-2008	Democratic	CD-28	137471	Win
11-02-2010	Democratic	CD-28	88385	Win
11-06-2012	Democratic	CD-30	98395	Loss

Candidate Biography:

Howard Lawrence Berman
Born: April 15, 1941 in Los Angeles, CA
Married: Janis
Children: Brinley and Lindsey

Previous: President, California Federation of Young Democrats
Previous: Legal Intern, US Department of Labor
Previous: Legislative Intern, Assembly Agriculture Committee
1965-1966: Assembly Fellow
1968: Delegate, Democratic National Convention
1973-1979: Majority Leader, California State Assembly
1975: Member, Americans for Democratic Action Board of Directors
1976: Delegate, Democratic National Convention
1980: Majority Caucus Chair, California State Assembly
1980: Candidate for Assembly Speaker (Lost; 24 to 51)
1984: Delegate, Democratic National Convention
2008: Delegate, Democratic National Convention

• An incumbent who lost to a member of their own party (in 2012).
• LEGISLATION: The Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 establishing the right to collective bargaining for farmworkers as well as the creation of the state's Agricultural Labor Relations Board

Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]