Follow all coverage of Richmond’s 2026 election cycle, including mayoral and city council races, candidate announcements, campaign developments, and updates shaping the city’s political landscape.
Election'26
Follow all coverage of Richmond’s 2026 election cycle, including mayoral and city council races, candidate announcements, campaign developments, and updates shaping the city’s political landscape.
Mark Wassberg has been thrown out of Richmond City Council meetings more times than he can count. He figures it will happen again at the next one. He is running for mayor anyway.
Who he is
Wassberg was raised in San Pablo, went to Helms Junior High, and graduated from
Claudia Jimenez arrived in the United States in 2007 without speaking a word of English, enrolled in ESL classes in Berkeley, passed a language proficiency exam, and gained admission to UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. By then, she had already spent a decade in the mountains of
With Richmond’s June primary just weeks away, voters across the city have a bevy of questions not only concerning who the candidates are, but also who is running in each district and what the newly adopted rules mean for election outcomes.
With these questions in mind, Grandview has created
With Richmond’s June primary just weeks away, voters across the city have a bevy of questions not only concerning who the candidates are, but also who is running in each district and what the newly adopted rules mean for election outcomes.
With these questions in mind, Grandview has created
Mark Wassberg has been thrown out of Richmond City Council meetings more times than he can count. He figures it will happen again at the next one. He is running for mayor anyway.
Who he is
Wassberg was raised in San Pablo, went to Helms Junior High, and graduated from
Claudia Jimenez arrived in the United States in 2007 without speaking a word of English, enrolled in ESL classes in Berkeley, passed a language proficiency exam, and gained admission to UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. By then, she had already spent a decade in the mountains of
Eduardo Martinez did not set out to be a politician.
A retired elementary school teacher who had also taught at juvenile hall, years earlier, he marched from Downer Elementary School to Sacramento to demand relief from a debt the state had saddled the district with. The Richmond Progressive Alliance had
Keycha Gallon grew up on Sixth Street in the Iron Triangle, in a neighborhood where families of every background looked out for one another. She left. She came back. And when she did, what she found shook her.
"It was a real culture shock for me. When I came
Richmond City Councilmember Soheila Bana is seeking a second term representing District 4, pointing to her work on wildfire preparedness and public safety while drawing on a personal history shaped by political repression in Iran.
Bana came of age during the 1979 Iranian revolution, part of a generation that found
Demnlus Johnson is a fourth-generation Richmond resident. He grew up in the Iron Triangle, went to Howard University in Washington, D.C., and came straight back. He has never seriously considered leaving.
“I didn’t stay in D.C., I didn’t move to another city,” Johnson said. “I moved
Ahmad Anderson has lived in Richmond’s Laurel Park neighborhood for more than 55 years and built a career in community advocacy and workforce development. He is running for mayor on a platform that ties public safety, housing, and economic opportunity into what he calls a “people-centered” vision for the
