Mindy Ruth Pechenuk’s Oakland Mayoral Platform Emphasizes Jobs, Faster Permits and Homelessness Treatment

Election-night update: preliminary results

Official source snapshot: November 3, 2026, 8:49 p.m. Pacific. Barbara Lee led the reported tally at that update. The count is incomplete and this article does not declare a winner.

Unofficial first-choice results — oakland
Candidate	First-choice votes	Share of reported candidate votes
Barbara Lee	53,650	85.53%
Julius Robinson	3,750	5.98%
Brenda F. Grisham	2,698	4.30%
Mindy Ruth Pechenuk	2,630	4.19%

The county labels this release preliminary/unofficial and vote-by-mail results only. No vote-center precincts had reported in this snapshot. Zero precincts reporting does not mean no ballots were counted: the figures above are processed mail ballots. The county identifies this table as the ranked-choice first-choice column only; it is not a completed ranked-choice tabulation.

Percentages describe reported votes in this contest, not the percentage of all eligible voters or all expected ballots. Additional ballots and verification can change totals and margins. Read the official Alameda County results and check later updates.

The campaign reporting below provides pre-election context. Personal voting appearances remain subject to the verification limits stated in that reporting.

OAKLAND — Mindy Ruth Pechenuk’s mayoral campaign links Oakland’s future to manufacturing jobs, faster approvals and a different response to homelessness. The city clerk’s final list identifies her as an educator and researcher qualified for the November 3, 2026, ballot.

Cover video: The League of Women Voters of Oakland’s October 3 mayoral forum is linked from its official voter-resources page. It features the four ballot-listed candidates. It is pre-election policy discussion, not footage of anyone casting a ballot.

Jobs and permits

Her campaign website promotes advanced manufacturing and apprenticeships for Oakland residents and opposes additional bond debt. Her published campaign statements also call for a 30-day deadline for complete permit applications and accountability for stalled reviews.

These are proposals she advocates, not an existing citywide guarantee that applications will be approved within that period. Her argument is that faster decisions would help construction, employment and businesses.

Homelessness and public safety

Pechenuk calls for mental-health and addiction treatment, longer-term care, job opportunities and an independent audit of homelessness-related spending. She criticizes moving people between streets without stable care or housing. Those criticisms are her campaign’s account, rather than independent findings of misconduct.

At the October forum she emphasized public safety, drug activity and attracting employers, according to Oakland North’s reporting. That forum provides a documented setting for comparing her positions with the other candidates.

Her website labels several separate campaign advertisements as generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence. Those ads should not be mistaken for documentary voting footage. The cover here is the League’s candidate forum.

Personal voting has not been verified

The sources reviewed for this profile do not establish the candidate’s personal voting date, method or location. A campaign request to vote does not establish that its author has voted. This article therefore attributes no polling-place appearance or voting photograph to the candidate.

The mayoral contest is nonpartisan. The official field includes four printed names and qualified write-in candidate Bro Ayinde. This profile makes no prediction and does not declare an election winner.

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