San Diego: who represents it, and who is running

California General Election (federal and state offices) consolidated with the City of San Diego General Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects city: Council Districts 2, 4, 6 and 8 (top-two runoffs from the 2026-06-02 primary). U.S. Representatives for the four districts covering San Diego on the 2026 map (CA-49, 50, 51, 52); Governor (open seat) and other statewide offices; Assembly District 77 (City Hall) among the legislative seats; San Diego County offices. State Senate District 39 is not up until 2028. No U.S. Senate seat is up in California in 2026..

Holding office20

the sitting council

On the ballot20

7 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): California's 50th congressional district (City Hall, 202 C St); the city spans CA-50, 51 and 52 (119th Congress) and CA-49, 50, 51 and 52 on the 2026 map — Mike Levin (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Todd Gloria Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of San Diego

Councilmember — District 2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jennifer Campbell Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 2	City of San Diego
Nicole Crosby	Councilmember Running	Independent	District 2	City of San Diego
Richard Bailey	Councilmember Running	Independent	District 2	City of San Diego

Councilmember — District 4

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Henry L. Foster III Elected	Councilmember → Running	Independent	District 4	City of San Diego
Martha Abraham	Councilmember Running	Independent	District 4	City of San Diego

Councilmember — District 6

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kent Lee ✉️ Elected	Councilmember → Running	Independent	District 6	City of San Diego
Mark Powell	Councilmember Running	Independent	District 6	City of San Diego

Councilmember — District 8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Vivian Moreno Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 8	City of San Diego
Antonio Martinez	Councilmember Running	Independent	District 8	City of San Diego
Gerardo Ramirez	Councilmember Running	Independent	District 8	City of San Diego

City Attorney

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Heather Ferbert ✉️ Elected	City Attorney	Independent	city-wide	City of San Diego

Councilmember

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Joe LaCava Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 1	City of San Diego
Marni von Wilpert Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 5	City of San Diego
Raul Campillo Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 7	City of San Diego
Sean Elo-Rivera Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 9	City of San Diego
Stephen Whitburn Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 3	City of San Diego

Governor

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

State Assembly Member — AD-77

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Tasha Boerner Elected	State Assembly Member → Running	Democratic		California State Assembly
Trinity Hannaway	State Assembly Member Running	Republican		California Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-39

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Akilah Weber Pierson 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-49

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Mike Levin Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Armen Kurdian	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		California Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — CA-50

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Scott Peters Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Steve Cohen	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		California Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — CA-51

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Sara Jacobs Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Ricardo Cabrera	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		California Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — CA-52

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Juan Vargas Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Jeff Belle	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		California Secretary of State

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor Todd Gloria (sandiego.gov/mayor), City Attorney Heather Ferbert (sandiego.gov/city-attorney) and the 9 Councilmembers from the 'City Councilmembers' list at https://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil (retrieved 2026-10-15). San Diego has no other city-wide elected office (the City Auditor, IBA and City Clerk are appointed). City Hall is the City Administration Building, 202 C St.
City 2026 cycle (https://www.sandiego.gov/city-clerk/elections/city/electioninfo): Primary 2026-06-02, General Municipal Election 2026-11-03 (consolidated with the statewide general) for the EVEN-numbered Council Districts 2, 4, 6 and 8 - verified. Candidates from the City Clerk's 'Notice of Nominees for Public Office' for the November 3, 2026 general (signed by City Clerk Diana J.S. Fuentes; https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/2026-08/notice-of-nominees-2026-11-03-english.pdf), cross-checked with the Candidate Log on the election page; ballot designations from the Candidate Log. Mayor, City Attorney and odd-numbered districts are next elected in 2028. The San Diego County Registrar of Voters list was not needed: the City Clerk is the City's elections official for these contests.
Open city seats in November: District 2 (Jennifer Campbell not on the list: Richard Bailey vs Nicole Crosby) and District 8 (Vivian Moreno not on the list: Antonio Martinez vs Gerardo Ramirez). Incumbents running: Henry L. Foster III (District 4, vs Martha Abraham) and Council President Pro Tem Kent Lee (District 6, vs Mark Powell). City offices are non-partisan; party null / partyShort 'None'.
standsFor for the 8 city candidates is quoted from each candidate's Statement of Qualifications for the general, published by the City Clerk as scanned PDFs (read visually; no OCR tool on the machine - quotes checked against the page images). Campaign websites are those printed in the statements (Foster printed none). The Clerk's per-candidate 'Contact Sheet' PDFs were not opened; no phone, address or personal email recorded.
Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygon for San Diego city (place 0666000) sampled on a 120x120 grid (2,882 points inside the city) against the 119th Congress districts (current members; tigerWMS_ACS2025) and the 120th Congress districts (the 2026 map after Proposition 50; tigerWMS_Current). 119th: CA-51 (1,261 points), CA-50 (1,104), CA-52 (517). 120th: CA-50 (1,491), CA-49 (468), CA-51 (465), CA-52 (458). Slivers narrower than the grid spacing (~0.4 km) could be missed. City Hall (Census geocoder match '202 C ST, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92101') is CA-50 on both maps, SD-39 and AD-77.
Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (California table, retrieved 2026-10-15), cross-checked with the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json; photos linked from clerk.house.gov. All four (Levin CA-49, Peters CA-50, Jacobs CA-51, Vargas CA-52) are Democrats on the 2026 ballot against a Republican. Mike Levin's current (119th) CA-49 does not cover the city; the 2026 CA-49 does, so he is included as the incumbent on this city's ballot.
U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (term to 2029) and Adam B. Schiff (term to 2031): senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (not bypassed); taken from the CC0 @unitedstates congress-legislators dataset. No U.S. Senate contest appears on the SOS certified list for 2026.
Candidates (federal and state): California Secretary of State 'Certified List of Candidates for the November 3, 2026, General Election', certified 2026-08-27 (same copy read for Los Angeles, retrieved 2026-10-15); '*' on the list marks incumbents. Party preference and ballot designation as printed. The SOS contact list was not used.
State: Governor Gavin Newsom (from the Governor's Proclamation PDF; gov.ca.gov returned 403); Governor is an open seat: Xavier Becerra (Democratic) vs Steve Hilton (Republican). City Hall's districts: State Senate 39 (Akilah Weber Pierson, senate.ca.gov/senators; odd-numbered, not up until 2028) and Assembly 77 (Tasha Boerner, assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers; incumbent vs Trinity Hannaway). Districts covering the city (same grid, 2026 lines): 4 State Senate (SD-18, 38, 39, 40) and 6 Assembly (AD-75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80); only City Hall's are listed per the brief.
Robots/terms: www.sandiego.gov robots.txt allows these pages (disallows only admin/search/user paths); house.gov, senate.ca.gov and assembly.ca.gov member pages and the SOS PDF were not re-fetched: the copies retrieved and robots-checked for the Los Angeles record earlier today were reused; elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov serves no robots.txt; tigerweb.geo.census.gov answers robots.txt with a WAF 'Request Rejected' page and geocoding.geo.census.gov with 404 - both are public Census query services. sandiego.gov pages carry 'Copyrighted © 2002-2026 City of San Diego. All rights reserved.' - photos linked, not copied. No terms accepted, nothing requested, no logins. Write-in candidates and primary losers excluded.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-15. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.