Walnut Creek: who represents it, and who is running

California General Election (federal and state offices) consolidated with the City of Walnut Creek General Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Representative CA-10; Governor (open seat) and other statewide offices; State Assembly District 16 (SD-9 is not up). City of Walnut Creek: City Council seats (at-large) and, per news reports not verified at an official source, a measure to make the City Treasurer appointed. No U.S. Senate seat in California in 2026..

Holding office6
the sitting council
On the ballot6
2 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): California's 10th congressional district (City Hall, 1666 N Main St; the whole city on the 2026/120th map sample) — Mark DeSaulnier (Democratic)

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Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Gavin Newsom Elected Governor Democratic Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
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-16

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan Elected State Assembly Member → Running Democratic California State Assembly
Joseph A. Rubay State Assembly Member Running Republican California Secretary of State
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State Senator — SD-9

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Timothy S. Grayson Elected State Senator Democratic California State Senate
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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-10

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Mark DeSaulnier Elected U.S. Representative → Running Democratic U.S. House of Representatives
Jeff Frese 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 NOT RECORDED: no official source for Walnut Creek's council or its 2026 candidates could be read. walnutcreekca.gov answered its robots.txt with an Akamai 'Access Denied' (403), so no page on that host was requested; walnutcreek.granicus.com robots.txt disallows '/' for '*'; contracostavote.gov (county elections) and contracosta.ca.gov answered robots.txt with an AWS WAF 'Human Verification' page (405) and a 403 — not bypassed. The county's pastresults.contracostavote.gov (robots allows) shows the 2024 Nov 5 'City Council Member • City of Walnut Creek' contest, 'Candidates (Vote for 3)': Cindy Darling, Kevin Wilk, Craig Devinney, Laura Patch, Brendan Moran — but the vote counts load from contracostaca.elstats*.civera.com, whose robots.txt disallows '/', so winners were not read there.
  • Unverified leads (news and search snippets only, NOT used for any status; for the coordinator to confirm at an official list): Walnut Creek has a five-member at-large council; the Mayor is selected annually by and from the Council. Kevin Wilk was selected Mayor in December 2025 (contracosta.news 2025-12-03 'Kevin Wilk Selected as Next Mayor of Walnut Creek'), with Matt Francois as Mayor Pro Tem; contracosta.news 2026-06-26: 'Walnut Creek Councilmember Matt Francois Will Not Seek Re-Election'. A Walnut Creek Chamber event page describes the 2026 council race as two seats with two candidates, Cherise Khaund and Brendan Moran (uncontested). localnewsmatters.org 2024-11-06: 'Incumbents and Craig Devinney ahead for Walnut Creek City Council's three seats'. contracosta.news 2026-07-07: nomination papers for City Council and City Treasurer available July 13. Next regular municipal election after 2026: November 2028.
  • District coverage: 8x8 coordinate grid over the city's bounding box (-122.10 to -122.00, 37.86 to 37.94) to the Census Geocoder (Current_Current); 36 points inside 'Walnut Creek city', no errors: all in CA-10 (120th/2026 map), SD-9 and AD-16. City Hall (1666 N Main St) is the same. Slivers narrower than the ~1.1 km grid spacing could be missed.
  • Federal and state: Senators Padilla and Schiff, Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) and challenger Jeff Frese, Governor rows and Sen. Timothy S. Grayson (SD-9) carried over from the us-concord record (2026-10-31; same districts). Bauer-Kahan from assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers (read earlier today in this session). Candidates from the California SOS Certified List of Candidates (27 August 2026), read from the copy already fetched in this session (elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov answers 403 to robots.txt; not requested by this agent): CA-10 Mark DeSaulnier (D) vs Jeff Frese (R); AD-16 Rebecca Bauer-Kahan* (D) vs Joseph A. Rubay (R). 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.