Skip to content
Potluck PunditsDish out politics among friends.
Menu
Ballot

Precinct 520000 · PLEASANTON

Ballot for precinct 520000

Tuesday, November 3, 2026. 13 contests, 26 candidates — every one decided by the neighbours you are talking to here.

See this as a sample ballot — the same contests laid out the way the county prints them.

Candidates

Federal / State

Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary Of State
Controller
Treasurer
Attorney General
Insurance Commissioner
14th Congressional District
16th Assembly District
Member, State Board Of Equalization, 2nd District

City

For Mayor, Pleasanton
  • JACK BALCH
    Mayor/CPA
  • JULIE TESTA
    Councilmember, City of Pleasanton

School Districts

State Superintendent Of Public Instruction

Special Districts

East Bay Regional Park District Director, Ward 5

Measures

Statewide propositions

On every ballot in California. Titles are the Secretary of State's, verbatim.

Proposition 1 — Authorizes Bonds for Housing Affordability Programs. Legislative Statute.
California · legislative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 2 — Increases State’s Rainy Day Fund. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
California · legislative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 3 — Provides Permanent Funding for Schools and Health Care by Extending Existing Tax on High Incomes. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 4 — Repeals Prohibition Against Public Funding of Election Campaigns. Legislative Statute.
California · legislative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 5 — Changes Recall Election Process for Statewide Officers. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
California · legislative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 37 — Creates Loan Program for Middle-Income Buyers of Qualified New Homes. Initiative Statute.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 38 — Authorizes Bonds for Immunology Medical Research. Initiative Statute.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 39 — Prohibits Citizens from Voting Unless They Present Government-Issued Identification. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 40 — Imposes One-Time Tax on Certain Taxpayers. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 41 — Prohibits New State Taxes That Exclude Revenues from State Spending Limit. Requires Audits for New State Special Taxes. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 42 — Prohibits New State Personal Property Taxes and Certain Retroactive State Taxes. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 43 — Limits Voters’ Ability to Raise Revenues for Local Government Services. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
California · legislative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 44 — Requires Community Health Clinics Spend 90% Of Revenue on Program Services. Initiative Statute.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Proposition 45 — Modifies Environmental Review for Certain Projects. Initiative Statute.
California · initiative

The Secretary of State's voter guide entry (PDF)

Local measures

County, city and school district measures for this precinct. The wording under each is the county's own.

Measure RTM — Regional Transit Measure
COUNTY
The county's ballot text

To prevent major service cuts to BART and other transit, avoid increased traffic, and reduce pollution by: Preserving BART, Caltrain, VTA, SamTrans, AC Transit, Muni, other transit for everyone, including workers, students, seniors, persons with disabilities; Supporting transit safety, cleanliness, affordability, reliability; Repairing targeted roads/potholes; Requiring financial transparency, oversight, accountability; shall the measure enacting a 0.5% (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara counties), and 1% (San Francisco) sales tax for 14 years generating approximately $980,000,000 annually, be adopted?

Measure HH — Uniform Transient Occupancy Tax Measure
City Of Pleasanton · passes at 50% + 1
The county's ballot text

Shall a measure be adopted to increase the City's Uniform Transient Occupancy Tax paid by hotel guests from 8% to 10% on July 1, 2027, and to 12% on July 1, 2028, generating an estimated $1.4 to $2.8 million per year in additional revenue, that can be used to maintain city services, such as: police and fire protection; park and street maintenance; recreation programs; and other general government uses, until ended by voters?

Judicial

Keep these judges?

Appellate justices stand for retention rather than against an opponent: the only question is whether to keep each one. Every ballot in the county carries the same list — the Supreme Court is statewide, and the First District Court of Appeal covers all of Alameda County.

Joshua Groban
Supreme Court of California

Shall Associate Justice of the Supreme Court JOSHUA GROBAN be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Kelli M. Evans
Supreme Court of California

Shall Associate Justice of the Supreme Court KELLI M. EVANS be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Monique Langhorne Wilson
Court of Appeal, First District, Division One

Shall Associate Justice MONIQUE LANGHORNE WILSON be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Charles A. Smiley
Court of Appeal, First District, Division One

Shall Associate Justice CHARLES A. SMILEY be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Kathleen M. Banke
Court of Appeal, First District, Division One

Shall Associate Justice KATHLEEN M. BANKE be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Therese M. Stewart
Court of Appeal, First District, Division Two

Shall Presiding Justice THERESE M. STEWART be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Tara M. Desautels
Court of Appeal, First District, Division Two

Shall Associate Justice TARA M. DESAUTELS be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Ioana Petrou
Court of Appeal, First District, Division Three

Shall Associate Justice IOANA PETROU be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Victor A. Rodriguez
Court of Appeal, First District, Division Three

Shall Associate Justice VICTOR A. RODRIGUEZ be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Tracie L. Brown
Court of Appeal, First District, Division Four

Shall Presiding Justice TRACIE L. BROWN be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Danny Y. Chou
Court of Appeal, First District, Division Five

Shall Associate Justice DANNY Y. CHOU be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Mark Simons
Court of Appeal, First District, Division Five

Shall Associate Justice MARK SIMONS be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No
Gordon Burns
Court of Appeal, First District, Division Five

Shall Associate Justice GORDON BURNS be elected to the office for the term provided by law?

Vote Yes or No

The official word

Registration deadlines, drop-off locations and your sample ballot all come from the Registrar of Voters.

Open the county candidate list

Built from precinct 520000 and the county's published candidate list (General Election - 11/03/2026 (Official)). Nothing here is legal or voting advice, and the county is authoritative wherever it disagrees with us.

Republican candidates are listed first. Your actual ballot puts them in the county's randomised alphabet order, so the names will be in a different sequence in the voting booth.