Esther Varet
Running for U.S. House District 40 — 2026 election
Raised · 2026 cycle
$2.9M
Source: FEC
As of July 2026, Esther Varet is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House District 40 in California in the 2026 election. Federal Election Commission filings report $2,940,674 in total receipts for the 2026 cycle. All figures on this page are drawn from primary sources — FEC filings, congressional records, and STOCK Act disclosures — and link back to them.
Data last updated July 2026.
Esther Kim Varet was a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in California's 40th Congressional District in the 2026 election cycle, losing in the June 2, 2026 primary. Her campaign biography identifies her as the daughter of immigrants who came to the U.S. on family reunification visas and worked as janitors before starting their own janitorial company. She attended Yale, where she studied art history, and later was a doctoral researcher at Columbia University, where she helped graduate workers organize a union (GSWC-UAW, recognized in 2014). She is a small business owner.
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Individual donors make up 78% of fundraising, with the remainder from PACs and party committees.
$2.9M
Total raised
$2.7M
Total spent
$255K
Cash on hand
Where the money comes from
Reflects money received by the campaign committee itself. “Loans and other receipts” covers candidate or bank loans, offsets to operating expenditures, interest and other non-contribution receipts reported to the FEC. Independent expenditures by super PACs are not included.
Totals through 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC