David Elder

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-07-1978	Democratic	AD-57	37134	Win
11-04-1980	Democratic	AD-57	41417	Win
11-02-1982	Democratic	AD-57	42030	Win
11-06-1984	Democratic	AD-57	49726	Win
11-04-1986	Democratic	AD-57	40001	Win
11-08-1988	Democratic	AD-57	53002	Win
11-06-1990	Democratic	AD-57	32024	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: February 10, 1942 in Los Angeles, CA
Married: Muriel Gilmour, Linda Proaps
Children: Jonathan, Nicholas, Christopher, and Amanda

Previous: Budget Analyst, City of Long Beach
1992: Primary Candidate for AD-55 (Lost; 26.9%)
1994: Primary Candidate for SBOE-4 (Lost; 4.99%)

• Linda Proaps worked for Assemblyman Elder of Long Beach before marrying and later divorcing him. In 1991, Proaps wrote "Capitol Punishment" described by Ken Hoover of the UPI as "the fictional story of a legislative staffer who has an affair with her boss, Assemblyman Eric Darcy of Long Beach, and suffers through an unhappy marriage with him." (Source)
• An incumbent who lost to a member of their own party (in 1992).

Source: California Legislature Handbook (1979), (1989)