Friedman Joins Assembly Today : Politics: The Democratic winner of Tuesday’s election will fill seat vacated by Mike Roos. She defeated her GOP rival by a 3-1 margin.

Democrat Barbara Friedman of Los Angeles will be sworn in as a member of the state Assembly today by Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of the State District Court of Appeal.

Friedman won the vacant 46th Assembly District seat in a special election Tuesday by defeating Republican Geoffrey C. Church and two minor party candidates. Friedman’s margin over Church was more than 3 to 1.

Friedman was elected to fill the balance of the two-year term of Democrat Mike Roos, who resigned in March. Her term will run through the first week in December, 1992. Roos left the Assembly to become president of a private group working to reform the Los Angeles city schools.

Friedman, 41, was on a leave of absence as chief deputy to City Controller James K. Hahn to run for the Assembly. She formerly worked for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO), the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, the Communications Workers of America and, during 1983-85, was chief of staff to Democratic Assemblyman Burt Margolin of Los Angeles.

About 17% of the district’s 63,172 registered voters went to the polls Tuesday or cast absentee ballots. Officials said that was a reasonably good turnout for a special election considering that the 46th Assembly District has one of the poorest voter-turnout records of the state’s 80 districts.

Friedman defeated 11 other Democrats in a June 4 primary election. Church, who lost to Roos in the heavily Democratic district in the regular election in 1990, was not opposed for the GOP nomination.

ELECTION RETURNS

Los Angeles

124 of 124 Precincts Reporting

46th Assembly District

CANDIDATE VOTE % Barbara Friedman (D) 8,018 72.3 Geoffrey C. Church (R) 2,350 21.2 Elizabeth Nakano (P)* 562 5.1 Michael Everling (L)** 167 1.5

* Peace and Freedom

** Libertarian