Heath Flora

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Heath Flora
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Member of the California State Assembly
Assumed office
December 5, 2016
California's 12th State Assembly district election, 2016
Primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Ken Vogel23,67825.6
Republican Heath Flora21,48423.2
Democratic Virginia Madueno19,76421.4
Democratic Harinder Grewal17,24518.6
Republican Cindy Marks10,39711.2
Total votes92,568 100.0
General election
Republican Heath Flora 81,680 52.3
Republican Ken Vogel74,43347.7
Total votes156,113 100.0
Republican hold

2018 California State Assembly

California's 12th State Assembly district election, 2018
Primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Heath Flora (incumbent)56,21263.9
Democratic Robert D. Chase31,81136.1
Total votes88,023 100.0
General election
Republican Heath Flora (incumbent) 94,404 60.0
Democratic Robert D. Chase62,81140.0
Total votes157,215 100.0
Republican hold

2020 California State Assembly

2020 California's 12th State Assembly district election
Primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Heath Flora (incumbent)36,37166.9%
Democratic Paul Akinjo17,95833.1%
Total votes

2022 California State Assembly election

2022 California's 9th State Assembly district election [13] [14]
Primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Heath Flora (incumbent)65,64799.8
Democratic Mushtaq A. Tahirkheli (write-in)1420.2
Total votes65,789 100%
General election
Republican Heath Flora (incumbent) 96,990 69.2
Democratic Mushtaq A. Tahirkheli43,10930.8
Total votes140,099 100%
Republican hold

Personal life

Flora has two children. In 2015, Flora and his family moved from Modesto to Ripon, California, where he no longer lives. [4] [5] [15] Flora’s wife, Melodie, filed for divorce in April 2022 in San Joaquin County Superior Court. [16]

In July 2022, a woman named Emily Hughes claimed that Flora had multiple extra-marital affairs, one of which was with her. [17] Hughes' affair with Flora took place while Hughes worked as a lobbyist for the California Medical Association and Flora was serving on the Assembly Health Committee which deals with issues of interest to the California Medical Association. In August 2022, Flora promised to issue a formal statement about the affair, but has yet to issue a statement as of a week after the promise. [16]

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