California county ballots

All 58 counties · General election Tuesday, Nov 3, 2026

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California counties elect most local officials in the June primary; a candidate who wins a majority there is elected outright. The Nov 3 ballot carries the runoffs (top two) plus cities, school boards and special districts that vote only in November. All of these races are nonpartisan.

California has no statewide list of local candidates, and each of the 58 county election offices publishes its own. For now Vote Book uses Ballotpedia's county pages and, for a few county-office runoffs Ballotpedia is missing, VoteOrElse. Both are secondary sources and are labeled as such. Your county voter information guide is the official word.

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Source: California Secretary of State, Nov 3, 2026 General Election (accessed Oct 16, 2026) · Ballotpedia (secondary source, not the official ballot) (accessed Oct 16, 2026). Each page names its own source. Find your exact ballot at California voter status lookup (Secretary of State).

CountyWhat's on the page
Alameda County76 contested · 24 unopposed (secondary source)
Alpine County0 contested · 0 unopposed
Amador County6 contested · 0 unopposed (secondary source)
Butte County20 contested · 1 unopposed (secondary source)
Calaveras County8 contested · 2 unopposed (secondary source)
Colusa County2 contested · 22 unopposed (secondary source)
Contra Costa County54 contested · 13 unopposed (secondary source)
Del Norte County4 contested · 1 unopposed (secondary source)
El Dorado County21 contested · 1 unopposed (secondary source)
Fresno County76 contested · 33 unopposed (secondary source)
Glenn County4 contested · 8 unopposed (secondary source)
Humboldt County17 contested · 6 unopposed (secondary source)
Imperial County27 contested · 0 unopposed (secondary source)
Inyo County12 contested · 0 unopposed (secondary source)
Kern County71 contested · 23 unopposed (secondary source)
Kings County17 contested · 2 unopposed (secondary source)
Lake County4 contested · 2 unopposed (secondary source)
Lassen County4 contested · 5 unopposed (secondary source)
Los Angeles County218 contested · 42 unopposed (secondary source)
Madera County15 contested · 1 unopposed (secondary source)
Marin County34 contested · 6 unopposed (secondary source)
Mariposa County2 contested · 0 unopposed (secondary source)
Mendocino County7 contested · 2 unopposed (secondary source)
Merced County32 contested · 10 unopposed (secondary source)
Modoc County2 contested · 5 unopposed (secondary source)
Mono County7 contested · 0 unopposed (secondary source)
Monterey County62 contested · 10 unopposed (secondary source)
Napa County13 contested · 1 unopposed (secondary source)
Nevada County19 contested · 1 unopposed (secondary source)
Orange County128 contested · 33 unopposed (secondary source)
Placer County44 contested · 3 unopposed (secondary source)
Plumas CountyCandidate list not yet found
Riverside County105 contested · 21 unopposed (secondary source)
Sacramento County64 contested · 21 unopposed (secondary source)
San Benito County16 contested · 2 unopposed (secondary source)
San Bernardino County127 contested · 19 unopposed (secondary source)
San Diego County134 contested · 25 unopposed (secondary source)
San Francisco County2 contested · 3 unopposed (secondary source)
San Joaquin County40 contested · 15 unopposed (secondary source)
San Luis Obispo County34 contested · 7 unopposed (secondary source)
San Mateo County43 contested · 19 unopposed (secondary source)
Santa Barbara County42 contested · 6 unopposed (secondary source)
Santa Clara County69 contested · 31 unopposed (secondary source)
Santa Cruz County16 contested · 4 unopposed (secondary source)
Shasta County28 contested · 0 unopposed (secondary source)
Sierra County1 contested · 0 unopposed (secondary source)
Siskiyou County9 contested · 2 unopposed (secondary source)
Solano County29 contested · 4 unopposed (secondary source)
Sonoma County33 contested · 4 unopposed (secondary source)
Stanislaus County41 contested · 4 unopposed (secondary source)
Sutter County5 contested · 21 unopposed (secondary source)
Tehama County7 contested · 2 unopposed (secondary source)
Trinity County2 contested · 0 unopposed (secondary source)
Tulare County61 contested · 5 unopposed (secondary source)
Tuolumne County8 contested · 1 unopposed (secondary source)
Ventura County54 contested · 5 unopposed (secondary source)
Yolo County15 contested · 8 unopposed (secondary source)
Yuba County12 contested · 2 unopposed (secondary source)