Washington: who represents it, and who is running
District of Columbia general election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects mayor (open seat; Bowser not running); Attorney General; Chairman of the Council; two at-large Councilmember seats (Bonds, retiring; Silverman, running); Ward 1 (Nadeau retiring), Ward 3, Ward 5, Ward 6 Councilmembers; Delegate to the U.S. House (open; Norton not running); one U.S. Shadow Senator (Strauss seat); U.S. Shadow Representative (open); plus State Board of Education, ANCs and Initiative 86 (not recorded). First DC general election using ranked-choice voting (Initiative 83)..
Holding office19
the sitting council
On the ballot28
10 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Washington is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): District of Columbia at-large (DC-AL) — one non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House; no U.S. Senators. DC also elects two 'shadow' U.S. Senators and a shadow U.S. Representative (District offices, not seated by Congress). — Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democratic)
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muriel Bowser Elected | Mayor | Democratic | Executive Office of the Mayor | |
| Janeese Lewis George ✉️ Elected | Councilmember → Running for Mayor | Democratic | Council of the District of Columbia | |
| Rhonda Hamilton unofficial | Mayor Running | Independent | Wikipedia | |
| Robert L. Gross unofficial | Mayor Running | Green | Wikipedia |
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Councilmember — Ward 1
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brianne K. Nadeau ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Ward 1 | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Aparna Raj unofficial | Councilmember Running | Democratic | Ward 1 | Wikipedia |
| Jett James Jasper unofficial | Councilmember Running | Republican | Ward 1 | Wikipedia |
| Jude Crannitch unofficial | Councilmember Running | Green | Ward 1 | Wikipedia |
| Ryan Prince unofficial | Councilmember Running | Independent | Ward 1 | Wikipedia |
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Councilmember — Ward 3
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Frumin ✉️ Elected acclaimed | Councilmember → Running | Democratic | Ward 3 | Council of the District of Columbia |
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Councilmember — Ward 5
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zachary Parker ✉️ Elected | Councilmember → Running | Democratic | Ward 5 | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Jeffrey Kihien-Palza unofficial | Councilmember Running | Republican | Ward 5 | Wikipedia |
| Joyce Robinson-Paul unofficial | Councilmember Running | Green | Ward 5 | Wikipedia |
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Councilmember — Ward 6
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Allen ✉️ Elected | Councilmember → Running | Democratic | Ward 6 | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Jorge Rice unofficial | Councilmember Running | Republican | Ward 6 | Wikipedia |
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Attorney General
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian L. Schwalb ✉️ Elected | Attorney General → Running | Democratic | city-wide | Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia |
| Manuel Rivera unofficial | Attorney General Running | Republican | city-wide | Wikipedia |
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Chairman of the Council
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Mendelson ✉️ Elected | Chairman of the Council → Running | Democratic | Council of the District of Columbia | |
| Abi-Ananiah Prudent unofficial | Chairman of the Council Running | Republican | Wikipedia |
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Councilmember
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anita Bonds ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | At-Large | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Brooke Pinto ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Ward 2 | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Christina Henderson ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-Large | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Trayon White, Sr. ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Ward 8 | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Wendell Felder ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Democratic | Ward 7 | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Elissa Silverman ✉️ Elected | Councilmember → Running | Independent | At-Large | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Darrell Green unofficial | Councilmember Running | Republican | At-Large | Wikipedia |
| Darryl Moch unofficial | Councilmember Running | Green | At-Large | Wikipedia |
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U.S. Shadow Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankit Jain Elected unofficial | U.S. Shadow Senator | Democratic | Wikipedia | |
| Paul Strauss Elected unofficial | U.S. Shadow Senator → Running | Democratic | Wikipedia | |
| Robert Simmons unofficial | U.S. Shadow Senator Running | Republican | Wikipedia |
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Councilmember — At-Large
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oye Owolewa Elected unofficial | U.S. Shadow Representative → Running for Councilmember | Democratic | Wikipedia |
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Delegate to the U.S. House — DC-AL
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eleanor Holmes Norton Elected | Delegate to the U.S. House | Democratic | Office of the Clerk, U.S. House | |
| Robert C. White, Jr. ✉️ Elected | Councilmember → Running for Delegate to the U.S. House | Democratic | DC-AL | Council of the District of Columbia |
| Denise Rosado unofficial | Delegate to the U.S. House Running | Republican | Wikipedia | |
| Kymone Freeman unofficial | Delegate to the U.S. House Running | Green | Wikipedia |
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U.S. Shadow Representative — DC-AL
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor from mayor.dc.gov biography; Attorney General from oag.dc.gov About OAG; Council Chairman, at-large and ward councilmembers from https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/ and each member's dccouncil.gov page (term and political affiliation as printed there), retrieved 2026-10-15. DC has no state level: the Council and Mayor are the local and state-equivalent government; the elected Attorney General is recorded as municipal. DC municipal offices are partisan (party as printed on the member page).
- Federal: Delegate from the Office of the Clerk member page (https://clerk.house.gov/members/N000147; @unitedstates legislators-current.json agrees: term 2025-01-03 to 2027-01-03). No clerk photo found; photoUrl null. DC has no U.S. Senators or voting Representative.
- Shadow delegation (Strauss, Jain, Owolewa): no official roster reachable — dcboe.org is behind a Cloudflare JS challenge (robots.txt itself returns the challenge); not bypassed. Rows sourced from each person's Wikipedia article and flagged unofficial: true.
- Candidates: the official DCBOE 'General Election Candidates in Ballot Order' (https://www.dcboe.org/elections/2026-elections) and electionresults.dcboe.org were unreachable (Cloudflare challenge, HTTP 403) on 2026-10-15. All 2026 general-election candidates come from the general-election tables / certified-candidate summary on the Wikipedia race pages (/wiki/ paths only, robots.txt checked) and carry unofficial: true (incumbents: candidateUnofficial: true). Re-verify against the DCBOE ballot-order list before treating as certified. Write-ins and primary losers excluded.
- Incumbents running for a different office: Janeese Lewis George (Ward 4) for Mayor; Robert C. White, Jr. (at-large) for Delegate; Oye Owolewa (Shadow Representative) for at-large Councilmember. Their current seats stay on the record as elected rows marked incumbent-running with runningFor. Ward 3 (Matt Frumin) has no ballot opponent — the only unopposed contest found.
- At-large council: two seats are up; DC law lets only one of them go to a member of the majority party (Democratic). Elissa Silverman (Independent) won the 2026-06-16 special election for the McDuffie seat (term printed on dccouncil.gov: 07/17/2026 – 01/02/2027) and is on the general ballot. Anita Bonds is retiring. Ward 8's Trayon White, Sr. was re-elected in the 2025-07-15 special after his February 2025 expulsion (term printed 08/08/2025 – 01/02/2029).
- Mayor and Attorney General party (Democratic) is not printed on mayor.dc.gov / oag.dc.gov; it is taken from the Wikipedia race pages ('Incumbent Democratic mayor Muriel Bowser', 'Incumbent Democratic attorney general Brian Schwalb').
- Official emails recorded are the dccouncil.gov office addresses printed on each member page and oag@dc.gov; no phones or addresses copied. Photos are linked from dccouncil.gov (og:image), never copied; the site states '© Copyright 2016, The Council of the District of Columbia. All rights reserved' — no reuse grant. Next DC general election after 2026: November 2028 (the 2025-2029 Council seats).
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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.
- Wikipedia — 2026 Council of the District of Columbia election (general-election table; DC Board of Elections unreachable — Cloudflare challenge) 10
- Wikipedia — 2026 United States Shadow Representative election in the District of Columbia (general-election table; DC Board of Elections unreachable — Cloudflare challenge) 2
- Wikipedia — 2026 United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia (general-election table; DC Board of Elections unreachable — Cloudflare challenge) 2
- Wikipedia — 2026 Washington, D.C., mayoral election (general-election table; DC Board of Elections unreachable — Cloudflare challenge) 2
- Council of the District of Columbia — At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds 1
- Wikipedia — Ankit Jain (DC Board of Elections unreachable) 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne K. Nadeau 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — At-Large Councilmember Christina Henderson 1
- Office of the Clerk, U.S. House — Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia – Delegate, Democrat) 1
- Executive Office of the Mayor — Muriel Bowser biography 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White, Sr. 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Ward 7 Councilmember Wendell Felder 1
- Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia — About OAG 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Ward 3 Councilmember Matthew Frumin 1
- Wikipedia — Oye Owolewa (DC Board of Elections unreachable) 1
- Wikipedia — Paul Strauss (DC Board of Elections unreachable) 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Chairman Phil Mendelson 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — At-Large Councilmember Robert C. White, Jr. 1
- Council of the District of Columbia — Ward 5 Councilmember Zachary Parker 1
- Wikipedia — 2026 District of Columbia Attorney General election (general-election table; DC Board of Elections unreachable — Cloudflare challenge) 1
- Wikipedia — 2026 United States Shadow Senator election in the District of Columbia (general-election table; DC Board of Elections unreachable — Cloudflare challenge) 1