Riverside: who represents it, and who is running

California General Election (federal and state offices) consolidated with the City of Riverside General Municipal Runoff Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects city: Riverside City Council Wards 2 and 4 (runoffs; only Ward 2 and Ward 4 voters). U.S. Representative for CA-39 (2026 map); Governor (open seat) and other statewide offices; State Assembly District 58 (City Hall) among the Assembly seats covering the city (AD-58, 60, 63). State Senate District 31 (City Hall) is not up in 2026. No U.S. Senate seat is up in California in 2026..

Holding office15

the sitting council

On the ballot11

5 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): California's 39th congressional district (City Hall) on both the 119th and the 2026 (120th) maps; the city spans CA-39 and CA-41 on the 119th map and lies wholly in CA-39 on the 2026 map — Mark Takano (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Patricia Lock Dawson Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Riverside

Councilmember — Ward 2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Aram Ayra ✉️	Councilmember Running	Independent	Ward 2	City of Riverside City Clerk
Gracie Torres ✉️	Councilmember Running	Independent	Ward 2	City of Riverside City Clerk

Councilmember — Ward 4

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Chuck Conder Elected	Councilmember → Running	Independent	Ward 4	City of Riverside
Rich Vandenberg	Councilmember Running	Independent	Ward 4	City of Riverside City Clerk

State Assembly Member — AD-58

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Clarissa Cervantes ✉️ Elected	Councilmember → Running for State Assembly Member	Independent	AD-58	City of Riverside
Leticia Castillo Elected	Assemblymember → Running for State Assembly Member	Republican		California State Assembly

Councilmember

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Luis Hernandez Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 6	City of Riverside
Philip Falcone Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 1	City of Riverside
Sean Mill ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 5	City of Riverside
Steve Hemenway Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 7	City of Riverside
Steven Robillard Elected	Councilmember	Independent	Ward 3	City of Riverside

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Gavin Newsom Elected	Governor	Democratic	Governor's Proclamation for the November 3, 2026 General Election, via the Secretary of State
Steve Hilton	Governor Running	Republican	California Secretary of State
Xavier Becerra	Governor Running	Democratic	California Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-31

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Sabrina Cervantes Elected	State Senator	Democratic		California State Senate

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Adam B. Schiff Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic		@unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Alex Padilla Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic		@unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)

U.S. Representative — CA-39

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Mark Takano Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Steve Manos	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		California Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — CA-40

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Ken Calvert Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor and 7 Councilmembers by ward, from the City's Mayor & City Council page (riversideca.gov/council) and the seven ward pages, retrieved 2026-10-22. The charter makes City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk council-appointed, so Mayor + council are the only elected city offices. Official emails recorded only where the ward page shows the member's own riversideca.gov address (Cervantes, Mill); other ward pages list only staff addresses, which are not recorded. Photos linked from the council page; the site's disclaimer is about accuracy and liability and states no reuse licence.
City 2026 cycle: Wards 2, 4 and 6 were on the June 2, 2026 primary (a majority wins outright). Riverside County Registrar of Voters 'Final Official Election Results' (voteinfo.net, report dated 6/26/2026): Ward 6 Luis Hernandez won with 50.29%; Ward 2 (Torres 37.99%, Ayra 35.72%) and Ward 4 (Conder 45.63%, Vandenberg 28.34%) go to the November 3 runoff. Candidate names for November come from the City Clerk's 'Official List of Candidates' for the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Runoff Election (updated 9/16/2026). That list prints candidates' phones and emails: no phones recorded; personal-provider emails (aol.com, outlook.com) not recorded; campaign-named addresses kept. standsFor quotes the candidates' own statements, published by the City Clerk. Next municipal election: March 7, 2028 (Mayor and Wards 1, 3, 5, 7), per the City Clerk's elections page.
Ward 2 is an open seat: Councilmember Clarissa Cervantes is on the SOS certified list for State Assembly District 58 against incumbent Leticia Castillo. She is recorded once, at the municipal level, as incumbent-running with runningFor State Assembly Member AD-58. Riverside municipal offices are non-partisan: party null / partyShort 'None'.
District coverage: 13x13 point grid over the city's bounding box sent to the Census Geocoder (coordinates only, Current_Current and ACS2025_Current vintages); 77 points fell inside Riverside city. 119th Congress: CA-39 (74), CA-41 (3). 2026 (120th) map: CA-39 (77). State Senate: SD-31, SD-32 (same on 2024 and 2026 vintages). Assembly: AD-58, AD-60, AD-63. Ten points failed during a network outage and were re-queried. Slivers narrower than the ~2 km grid spacing could be missed. City Hall's coordinates (33.98095,-117.3755) fall in CA-39, SD-31, AD-58; only City Hall's legislators are listed, per the brief. TIGERweb (tigerweb.geo.census.gov) returned an F5 'Request Rejected' page for robots.txt, so it was not used.
Federal: house.gov Directory of Representatives (California 39th and 41st rows) and the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json, both retrieved 2026-10-22 (the session's shared copy). Photos linked from clerk.house.gov. Senators Padilla (term to 2029) and Schiff (term to 2031) come from the CC0 dataset. No U.S. Senate contest is on the 2026 SOS list.
Candidates (federal and state): California Secretary of State 'Certified List of Candidates for the November 3, 2026, General Election', certified 2026-08-27, read from the copy fetched in this session (the same public PDF). The list marks state incumbents with '*' but not federal ones. Party preference and ballot designation are as printed. State: Governor Newsom from the Governor's Proclamation (SOS PDF); SD-31 Sabrina Cervantes from senate.ca.gov/senators (odd-numbered Senate districts are not up in 2026); AD-58 Leticia Castillo from assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers.
Robots/terms: riversideca.gov and www.riversideca.gov robots.txt allow the council, ward, city clerk and candidate PDF paths (crawl-delay commented out; requests spaced 4-5 s); voteinfo.net, assembly.ca.gov and senate.ca.gov robots allow the pages used; geocoding.geo.census.gov has no robots.txt (404). One User-Agent was used throughout. No terms accepted, no forms, no logins. Write-ins and primary losers are excluded. No street addresses are recorded.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.