OAKLAND — The city clerk’s final list for the November 3, 2026, election includes four printed mayoral candidates, one qualified mayoral write-in, five council candidates, one auditor candidate and eight school-board candidates. The 19 names below come from that official document. Inclusion establishes qualification for the specified contest; it does not establish that a candidate personally voted at a particular place.

Mayor: four printed names and one write-in

Julius Robinson, Barbara Lee, Brenda F. Grisham and Mindy Ruth Pechenuk appear in the mayoral field. The final list separately identifies Bro Ayinde as a qualified write-in candidate. A write-in qualification is different from having a name printed in the candidate choices. A substantive, authenticated campaign platform or personal voting appearance for Ayinde has not been established in this review.

Read the individual profiles:

The profiles include the League of Women Voters of Oakland’s October mayoral forum as a video cover. The same four-candidate discussion is used for context, clearly labeled as pre-election footage rather than a voting appearance.

City council and auditor

The official list supplies ballot designations: community organizer for Adams; District 2 councilmember for Wang; councilmember, attorney and mother for Ramachandran; council president for Jenkins; tax preparer for Sidebotham; and Oakland city auditor for Houston. Those are filed descriptions, not this newsroom’s independent assessment of qualifications.

School board

  • District 2: Arielle Fleisher and Jennifer Brouhard.
  • District 4: Mike Hutchinson, Kathryn Camp and Sylvia Pfeiffer Williams.
  • District 6: Alexandra Williams, LeAna Powell and Valarie Bachelor.

These names reproduce the clerk’s final list, including the spelling Valarie Bachelor. The school contests are distinct from the council districts and mayoral contest. This index does not claim a verified personal voting appearance or a full policy profile for each school-board candidate.

Confirmed voting coverage and reporting limits

California58 has separately published the report on U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon voting at Allen Temple Baptist Church. Her congressional race is separate from the 19 municipal and school-board names in this index.

A candidate talking with voters near a vote center is not proof that the candidate cast a ballot there. The linked mayoral profiles explicitly state that personal voting time, method and location remain unverified. No election winner is declared here.

Primary sources: City clerk’s final qualified-candidate list; Oakland election information; League candidate and forum links.

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