2025 Candidate List
Updated: Jan. 17.
OAKLAND
Mayoral Special Election - April 15 (Ranked Choice Voting)
Wendy Adams
Tanzania Dodds
Johnny Gatlin
President Cristina Grappo ✔️QUALIFIED
Desmond Jeffries
Tyron Jordan
Barbara Lee, former congressmember
Peter Liu ✔️QUALIFIED
Mindy Pechenuk, educator/researcher ✔️QUALIFIED
Fabian Robinson, pastor
Suzanne Robinson
Eric Simpson ✔️QUALIFIED
Andrea Smith
Derrick Soo
Elizabeth Swaney, Olympian
Loren Taylor, former Oakland councilmember ✔️QUALIFIED
Renia Webb, former chief of staff
Larry Lionel Young, Jr.
Oakland City Council District 2 Special Election - April 15 (Ranked Choice Voting)
Kenneth Anderson, reverend ✔️QUALIFIED
Kara Murray Badal
Jorge Hernandez
Harold Lowe ✔️QUALIFIED
Kanitha Matoury-Nguyen
Paula Nelson
George Smith III
Charlene Wang, civil rights advisor
ALAMEDA COUNTY
District Attorney Appointment
Mikko Anderson, former prosecutorSimona Farrise Best, Alameda County deputy DAUrsula Jones Dickson, Alameda County Superior Court judge
Annie Esposito, fmr Alameda County prosecutor
Butch Ford, fmr Alameda County prosecutorVenus Johnson, Calif. chief deputy AG
L.D. Louis, Alameda County deputy county counsel
Elgin Lowe, Alameda County deputy DA
Kwixuan Maloof, Alameda County Asst. DAOcean Mottley, attorneyArvon Perteet, Calif. deputy AGYibin Shen, Alameda City Attorney
Seth Steward, fmr San Francisco asst. DAScott Tsui, Santa Clara County prosecutorJimmie Wilson, Alameda County asst. DA