Rev. 9/15/2025

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PRIMARY ELECTION CANDIDATES

JUNE 2, 2026

On Your Alameda County Ballot

County Central Committees (Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa)

CAUTION: In our terrible “Top Two” Primary system, we no longer sift our preferred candidates for November. With a Democrat majority, the ONLY way to get any Republican onto the November ballot is to vote in unison for ONE Republican candidate per Office in the Primary. The California Republican Party takes a straw poll during the Spring Convention to serve for what the original California Primary system once wisely accomplished. With two or more Republicans listed on the June ballot for an office, we split the conservative vote, yielding TWO Democrats on the November Ballot and NO Republican candidates.

Here are the 2026 Republicans Candidates that we know about so far.

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NATIONAL

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US Senate -   Six-Year seats due in 2028 and 2030. None this year.

US House Representatives (Congressional Districts in Alameda County) 
  
CD12 (Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro)   

  • Lateefah Simon - D, Incumbent

CD13 (San Joaquin Valley - NOT on our Alameda County ballots)

  • Vin Kruttiventi - R - Businessman, Ran in 2024 in Alameda County

  • Javier Lopez - R - Ceres Mayor

CD14 (Rest of Alameda County) 

  • Eric Swalwell - D, Incumbent

  • Abrar Qadir - D

CD17 (South Fremont, Milpitas) 

  • Ha Phan - R

 
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STATE OFFICES

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Governor   - 11 Republican Candidates so far -

  • Chad Bianco - R - Spoke at TVR 9/2025 - Riverside County Sheriff was first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2022 - Has over 4000 employees reporting to him - “We are being led down a path of complete government control and socialism,” Bianco said in an interview. “This is no longer Democrat versus Republican. We’re at a point where it’s sane versus insane.” He is tired of how the government has failed a state that people otherwise love. Many of his priorities align with Hilton’s: Bianco would like to completely abolish the state income tax, get rid of laws that he said are driving farmers and ranchers out of business, and leave environmental regulation to the federal government. “The number one job of government is public safety,” Bianco said. “All the rest of it is fluff.”

  • Steve Hilton - R - Commentator and Author - Hilton kicked off his campaign in April 2025 with an event in Huntington Beach, the city that has remade itself into the bulwark of conservative resistance. Hilton said he will focus on practical solutions to rebuild a “ladder of opportunity,” so that every Californian can have a great job and a great home — though many are ideas that the Democrat led Legislature is unlikely to ever support. A former Fox News host and, back when a UK citizen, policy advisor to former British Prime Minister David Cameron.

  • Lee Zacky - R - Businessman - A poultry farm heir and perennial candidate who only received 1.3% of the 2022 gubernatorial primary and barely 0.1% in the 2021 recall election, seeded his campaign in April 2025 with $50,000 of own money.

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  • Sharifah Hardie: - R -Business consultant.

  • Brandon Jones: - R - Self-proclaimed problem solver, not a politician

  • Kyle Langford - R

  • Daniel Mercuri - R

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  • Gregory Albaugh - R

  • Heather Cohen - R

  • Michael Huizar - R

  • Leo Naranjo, IV - R

Lt. Governor   

  • Brian Dahle - R - Former State Senator

  • Brian Jones - R - State Senator

Secretary of State 

  • Donald Wagner - R, Orange County Supervisor

 Controller / Comptroller 

  • Herb Morgan - R - Spoke at TVR 9/2025

Treasurer 

  • Three Democrats so far

Attorney General  

  • Rob Bonta - D, Appointed Incumbent             

Insurance Commissioner

  • Stacy Korsgaden - R

California Superintendent of Public Instruction (Office is Non-Partisan ... but hardly so with current curricula)       

  • Sonia Shaw - R - Chino Valley USD Board

  • Gus Mattammal - R

Board of Equalization (Sales Tax Board) 
District 2 - Entire Bay Area   

State Senator (State Senate Districts within County) - Current 2025: 30 D vs 10 R
ODD-Number Districts (SD5, 7, 9) are NOT up for a vote

SD10 (East Bay, West of Tri-Valley, Hayward to Santa Clara)

  • Likely Aisha Wahab, Party Unknown

State Assembly (Assembly Districts within County) - Current 2025: 60 D vs 19 R

  • AD14 (Albany, Berkeley, Piedmont, Richmond)   

    • Likely, Buffy Wicks - D

  • AD16 (East Tri-Valley)   

    • Likely, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan - D      

  • AD18 (Alameda, Emeryville, Oakland)   

    • Likely, Mia Bonta - D

  • AD20 (Hayward, San Leandro, Union City) 

    • Likely, Liz Ortega - D

  • AD24 (Fremont, Newark, Milpitas, Sunol) 

    • Likely, Alex Lee - D

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COUNTY OFFICES

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County Sheriff/Coroner           

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LOCAL OFFICES

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Dublin

Livermore

Pleasanton

Sunol