San Jose: who represents it, and who is running
California General Election (federal and state offices) consolidated with the City of San José Run-Off Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects city: run-offs for Council Districts 5, 7 and 9 (Districts 1 and 3 were decided outright at the 2026-06-02 primary). U.S. Representatives for the four districts covering San José (CA-16, 17, 18, 19); Governor (open seat) and other statewide offices; Assembly District 25 (City Hall) among the legislative seats; Santa Clara County offices and measures. State Senate District 15 is not up until 2028. No U.S. Senate seat is up in California in 2026..
Holding office20
the sitting council
On the ballot12
5 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What San Jose is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): California's 18th congressional district (City Hall, 200 E Santa Clara St); the city spans CA-16, 17, 18 and 19 on both the 119th Congress map and the 2026 map — Sam Liccardo (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Mahan Elected | Mayor | Independent | California Secretary of State |
2
Councilmember
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Tordillos Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 3 | California Secretary of State |
| Bien Doan Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 7 | California Secretary of State |
| David Cohen Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 4 | California Secretary of State |
| Domingo Candelas Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 8 | California Secretary of State |
| George Casey Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 10 | California Secretary of State |
| Michael Mulcahy Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 6 | California Secretary of State |
| Pam Foley Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 9 | California Secretary of State |
| Pamela Campos Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 2 | California Secretary of State |
| Peter Ortiz Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 5 | California Secretary of State |
| Rosemary Kamei Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 1 | California Secretary of State |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
4
State Assembly Member — AD-25
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Kalra Elected | State Assembly Member → Running | Democratic | California State Assembly | |
| Himat Singh Bainiwal | State Assembly Member Running | Republican | California Secretary of State |
5
State Senator — SD-15
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Cortese Elected | State Senator | Democratic | California State Senate |
6
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) |
7
U.S. Representative — CA-16
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Liccardo Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Peter Sundin Soulé | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | California Secretary of State |
8
U.S. Representative — CA-17
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ro Khanna Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Ritesh Tandon | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | California Secretary of State |
9
U.S. Representative — CA-18
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoe Lofgren Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Shane Lewis | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | California Secretary of State |
10
U.S. Representative — CA-19
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Panetta Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Peter Coe Verbica | 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.
- Municipal: Mayor Matt Mahan, Vice Mayor Pam Foley and the 10 Councilmembers from the Secretary of State's California Roster 2026, 'Incorporated Cities and Town Officials' (City of San Jose entry; PDF modified 2026-10-06; data supplied by the city). www.sanjoseca.gov answers every request, robots.txt included, with an Akamai HTTP 403 'Access Denied' - not bypassed - so no city council page, official photos or emails are linked. San José has no other city-wide elected office (City Attorney, City Clerk, City Manager are appointed).
- City 2026 cycle: Primary Municipal Election 2026-06-02 for Council Districts 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 (consolidated with the statewide primary); a Run-Off Municipal Election on 2026-11-03 where no candidate won a majority. From the City Council's Legistar records (webapi.legistar.com, file 26-812 'Declaration and Recording a Statement of the Results of the June 2, 2026, Primary Municipal Election', agenda 2026-08-11): attachments are titled for District 1 (Rosemary Kamei) and District 3 (Anthony Tordillos) as elected outright. Districts 5, 7 and 9 are in November run-offs. Even-numbered districts and the Mayor are next elected in 2028 (with the presidential cycle).
- City run-off candidates are NOT recorded: the official lists sit on hosts that could not be used - the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (vote.santaclaracounty.gov, www.santaclaracounty.gov, www.sccgov.org) returns a Cloudflare block, www.sanjoseca.gov returns 403, and the City Clerk's memo PDFs are on legistar.granicus.com, whose robots.txt is 'Disallow: /'. Incumbents Peter Ortiz (D5) and Bien Doan (D7) are therefore left as 'elected'. A person with a browser should read the County ROV's November 2026 candidate list (or the City Clerk's election page) and add the six run-off candidates for D5, D7 and D9.
- Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygon for San Jose city (place 0668000) sampled on a 120x120 grid (4,319 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-19 (1,818 points, much of it the rural south/Coyote Valley), CA-17 (1,233), CA-16 (811), CA-18 (456). 120th: CA-19 (1,821), CA-17 (1,307), CA-16 (802), CA-18 (388). Slivers narrower than the grid spacing (~0.3 km) could be missed. City Hall (Census geocoder match '200 E SANTA CLARA ST, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113') is CA-18, SD-15 and AD-25 on the 2026 lines.
- Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (California table, retrieved 2026-10-22), cross-checked with the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json; photos linked from clerk.house.gov (each URL returns 200). All four (Liccardo CA-16, Khanna CA-17, Lofgren CA-18, Panetta CA-19) are Democrats on the 2026 ballot against a Republican. The SOS list marks no congressional incumbents with '*', so incumbency is from the House directory.
- U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (term to 2029) and Adam B. Schiff (term to 2031) from the CC0 @unitedstates congress-legislators dataset (senate.gov returned 403 to earlier agents; not retried). 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 by Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber (retrieved 2026-10-22). Party preference and ballot designation as printed; '*' marks incumbents for state offices. The SOS contact list was not used.
- State: Governor Gavin Newsom (from the Governor's Proclamation PDF); Governor is an open seat: Xavier Becerra (Democratic) vs Steve Hilton (Republican). City Hall's districts: State Senate 15 (Dave Cortese, senate.ca.gov/senators; odd-numbered, not up until 2028) and Assembly 25 (Ash Kalra, assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers; incumbent vs Himat Singh Bainiwal). Districts covering the city (same grid, 2026 lines): 3 State Senate (SD-15 3,331 points, SD-10 986, SD-13 2 - a sliver) and 5 Assembly (AD-25, 28, 26, 24, 23); only City Hall's are listed per the brief.
- Robots/terms: house.gov, senate.ca.gov, assembly.ca.gov robots.txt allow these pages; www.sos.ca.gov serves an empty robots.txt; elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov and admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov answer robots.txt with an S3 'AccessDenied' (no robots file); webapi.legistar.com and sanjose.legistar.com have no robots.txt (404); legistar.granicus.com and sanjose.granicus.com are 'Disallow: /' for all agents; tigerweb/geocoding.geo.census.gov are public Census query services. No terms accepted, nothing requested, no logins. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements reachable). Write-in candidates and primary losers excluded.
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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.
- California Secretary of State — California Roster 2026, Incorporated Cities and Town Officials (City of San Jose; PDF modified 2026-10-06) 11
- California Secretary of State — Certified List of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election (dated 2026-08-27) 7
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (California) 4
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0) — senate.gov not fetched (returned 403 to earlier agents) 2
- California State Senate — Senators 1
- 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 1
- California State Assembly — Assemblymembers 1