Henry Perea

Henry T. Perea (born June 29, 1977) is an American politician and lobbyist. A member of the Democratic Party, he formerly represented the 31st district for the California State Assembly, encompassing western Fresno.

Henry T. Perea
Member of the California State Assembly from the 31st district
In office December 6, 2010 – December 31, 2015
Preceded by	Juan Arambula
Succeeded by	Joaquin Arambula
Fresno City Councilmember
In office December 2, 2002 – December 2, 2010
Succeeded by	Clinton Olivier
Personal details
Born	(1977-06-29) June 29, 1977 (age 48) Fresno, California
Nationality	American
Party	Democratic
Spouse	Yahaira Garcia-Perea
Children	Ava Perea,H. Joaquin Perea, Santiago Perea
Residence(s)	Fresno, California
Alma mater	California State University, Fresno

Career

Perea has been described as a leader of the moderate, more business-friendly wing of the state legislature's Democrats. On December 1, 2015, he announced that he would resign his seat at the end of 2015, a year early, to seek a lucrative position as a lobbyist.^[1]

Prior to his election to the Assembly, Perea served on the Fresno City Council from 2003 to 2010. He was first elected to the council at the age of 25 and served as council president in 2007.

Perea also ran, unsuccessfully, in the 2008 Fresno mayoral election.

Family

He is married to Yahaira Garcia-Perea and they have three children.

His father, Henry R. Perea, was a member of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors and the Fresno City Council.

Electoral history

Fresno City Supervisor

2002 Fresno City Supervisor seat 7 election[2][3]
Candidates	First round		Runoff
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Henry T. Perea	2,712	46.36	3,769	50.26
Richard Caglia	2,391	40.87	3,713	49.51
Keith Chun	739	12.63
Write-ins	8	0.14	17	0.23
Total	5,850	100	7,499	100

2004 Fresno City Supervisor seat 3 election[4][5]
Candidates	First round		Runoff
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Henry T. Perea	6,569	43.12	14,565	53.30
Sal Quintero	6,134	40.27	12,666	46.35
Debilyn Molineaux	1,732	11.37
Jose Guadalupe Camac	760	4.99
Write-ins	38	0.25	95	0.35
Total	15,233	100	27,326	100

2006 Fresno City Supervisor seat 7 election[6]
Candidates	Votes	%
Henry T. Perea (incumbent)	3,729	97.80
Write-ins	84	2.20
Total	3,813	100

2008 Fresno City Supervisor seat 3 election[7]
Candidates	Votes	%
Henry T. Perea	9,655	96.96

Fresno Mayor

2008 Fresno mayoral election[8][9]
Candidates	First round		Runoff
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Ashley Swearengin	15,410	27.11	72,784	54.35
Henry Perea	15,626	27.49	54.35	45.40
Jerry Duncan	6,495	11.43
Jeff L. Eben	5,572	9.80
Tom Boyajian	5,286	9.30
Mike Dages	4,601	8.09
Doug Vagim	1,226	2.16
Barbara Ann Hunt	1,089	1.92
Henry M. Montreal	682	1.20
Jim Boswell	533	0.94
Ignacio C. Garbibay	256	0.45
Write-ins	—	—	336	0.25
Total	—	—	140,192	100

2016 Fresno mayoral election[10][11]
Candidates	First round		Runoff
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Lee Brand	25,491	30.79	71,776	51.20
Henry Perea	37,006	44.70	68,053	48.54
H. Spees	15,089	18.23
Doug Vagim	2,910	3.52
Richard B. Renteria	2,090	2.52
Write-ins	199	0.24	363	0.26
Total	69,795	100	140,192	100

California State Assembly

2010 California State Assembly 31st district election^[12][13]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Henry Perea	14,071	75.5
	Democratic	Rosaline Velasco	2,597	14.0
	Democratic	Romelia Nino Castillo	1,973	10.5
General election
	Democratic	Henry Perea	40,947	59.8
	Republican	Brandon Shoemaker	27,606	40.2
Total votes			68,553	100.0
	Democratic gain from Independent

2012 California State Assembly 31st district election^[14][15]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Henry Perea (incumbent)	22,255	98.7
	Republican	James (JD) Bennett (write-in)	299	1.3
Total votes			22,554	100.0
General election
	Democratic	Henry Perea (incumbent)	55,626	64.0
	Republican	James (JD) Bennett	31,282	36.0
Total votes			86,908	100.0
	Democratic hold

2014 California State Assembly 31st district election

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Henry Perea (incumbent)	24,853	99.9
	No party preference	Walter O. Villarreal (write-in)	24	0.1
Total votes			24,877	100.0
General election
	Democratic	Henry Perea (incumbent)	36,165	66.7
	No party preference	Walter O. Villarreal	18,017	33.3
Total votes			54,182	100.0
	Democratic hold