Milpitas: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) and the City of Milpitas General Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects city: Mayor (2-year term to 2028) and two at-large Council seats (4-year terms to 2030), plus Measure K (business tax modernization). U.S. Representative CA-17; Governor (open) and other statewide offices; State Senate SD-10 (vacant, open) and Assembly AD-24 (City Hall). No U.S. Senate contest..

Holding office10
the sitting council
On the ballot17
5 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Milpitas is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): California's 17th congressional district (City Hall, 455 E Calaveras Blvd; the whole city on both the 119th and 2026 maps) — Ro Khanna (Democratic)

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Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Carmen Montano ✉️ Elected Mayor → Running Independent City of Milpitas
Hon Lien ✉️ Elected Councilmember → Running for Mayor Independent City of Milpitas
Santosh Sahoo Mayor Running Independent City of Milpitas City Clerk
Voltaire Soriben Montemayor Mayor Running Independent City of Milpitas City Clerk
2

Councilmember

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Evelyn Chua ✉️ Elected Councilmember Independent At-Large City of Milpitas
William Lam ✉️ Elected Councilmember Independent At-Large City of Milpitas
Garry Barbadillo ✉️ Elected Councilmember → Running Independent At-Large City of Milpitas
Bill Chuan Councilmember Running Independent At-Large City of Milpitas City Clerk
Dipak Awasthi Councilmember Running Independent At-Large City of Milpitas City Clerk
Jennie Ha Phan Councilmember Running Independent At-Large City of Milpitas City Clerk
Seema Kanani Councilmember Running Independent At-Large City of Milpitas City Clerk
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Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Gavin Newsom Elected Governor Democratic California Secretary of State
Steve Hilton Governor Running Republican California Secretary of State
Xavier Becerra Governor Running Democratic California Secretary of State
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State Assembly Member — AD-24

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Alex Lee Elected State Assembly Member → Running Democratic California State Assembly
Max Hsia State Assembly Member Running Republican California Secretary of State
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State Senator — SD-10

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Linda R. Price State Senator Running Republican California Secretary of State
Scott Sakakihara State Senator Running Democratic California Secretary of State
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U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Adam B. Schiff Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators
Alex Padilla Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators
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U.S. Representative — CA-17

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Ro Khanna Elected U.S. Representative → Running Democratic U.S. House of Representatives
Ritesh Tandon U.S. Representative Running Republican California Secretary of State
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • City candidates: Milpitas City Clerk's Final Notice of Nominees (dated and posted 2026-10-21) and the Certified List of Candidates with candidate statements (signed 2026-08-07), both linked from https://www.milpitas.gov/1441/2026-Election. Names as on the Final Notice. The page's 'Public Candidate Contact List' was NOT opened (contact details). Carmen Montano's statement ends with a gmail address (not plainly a campaign address) — not copied. standsFor for 6 of 11 city candidates quoted from their own statements; Sahoo, Montemayor and Ha Phan filed none.
  • Municipal roster: Mayor Carmen Montano, Vice Mayor Garry Barbadillo, Councilmembers Evelyn Chua, Hon Lien, William Lam from https://www.milpitas.gov/512/City-Council; official @milpitas.gov emails from each member's directory entry (/m/directory/employee?eid=43,47,44,46,284); portraits linked. Council is elected at large; Mayor directly elected for two years. Non-partisan. Next municipal election after 2026: November 2028 (Chua, Lam seats and Mayor) — inferred from the term lengths printed on the 2026 notice.
  • State and federal candidates: California Secretary of State Certified List (2026-08-27). elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov answers robots.txt with 403, so this agent did not fetch it; the text was read from a copy fetched earlier the same day by another ResearchUpon agent. CA-17: Khanna (D, incumbent) v Tandon (R). SD-10: open (Senate roster shows District 10 'Member Vacant'): Sakakihara (D) v Price (R). AD-24: Lee* (D) v Hsia (R).
  • Districts: Census TIGERweb Milpitas city polygon (GEOID 0647766) sampled on a 40x40 grid (867 points inside): CA-17 only on both the 119th and 2026 maps; State Senate 10 only; Assembly 24 and 26 (AD-26: Patrick Ahrens*, D, v Tim Gorsulowsky, R — not recorded as people per the brief). City Hall: CD-17, SD-10, AD-24.
  • Hosts: www.milpitas.gov (robots names ClaudeBot in an AI-crawler group; paths read are allowed; Crawl-delay 10 honoured), www.senate.ca.gov, www.assembly.ca.gov, www.house.gov, unitedstates.github.io, geocoding/tigerweb.geo.census.gov. Not fetched: elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov (robots 403), vote.santaclaracounty.gov (Cloudflare block reported by earlier agents; not tried). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.