# Campbell City Council, District 3

Compare records and positions simply between Joseph Brenner or Daniel Furtado for Campbell City Council, District 3 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would represent District 3 on Campbell's five-member City Council. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. Campbell is in Santa Clara County and has about 44,000 residents. People call it The Orchard City. Council members are elected by district and serve staggered four-year terms. The council chooses the Mayor from its own members each year, not the voters. Districts 1 and 2 are not up again until 2028.

- Jurisdiction: City of Campbell
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026
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## On the ballot

- **Joseph Brenner**
- **Daniel Furtado** — Incumbent

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Incumbent Daniel Furtado faces challenger Joseph Brenner on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Campbell's District 3 City Council seat. Whoever gets the most votes wins outright. There is no primary or runoff.

This person would represent District 3 on Campbell's five-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use in this Santa Clara County city of about 44,000 residents, nicknamed "The Orchard City." Council members are elected by district to staggered four-year terms; the Mayor title is chosen by the council from among its own members each year, not elected separately by voters. Districts 1 and 2 aren't up again until 2028.

Furtado is seeking a second consecutive term after his November 2022 election to this seat, on top of an earlier, separate 1996-2010 council stint; Brenner has not previously held the office. District 3 is the only Campbell council race this cycle with an incumbent on the ballot -- Districts 4 and 5 are both open seats.

## Daniel Furtado

Daniel Furtado is Campbell's sitting District 3 councilmember. He was elected to this seat in November 2022, after an earlier council stint from 1996 to 2010. He is also the city's current Mayor. His council colleagues chose him for that title in December 2025. Voters do not elect it directly. He holds a Doctor of Pharmacy from UC San Francisco. He also holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of San Francisco. He spent more than 23 years at Stanford University's School of Medicine. There he was a senior lecturer and associate director of its Primary Care Associate Program. He is a retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel after 40 years of service. He qualified for the 2026 ballot on August 6, 2026.

**Strengths:** Two council stints spanning three decades, plus current service as Mayor. He has a documented background in pharmacy, public administration, and military service.

**Trade-offs:** No 2026 campaign website, independent news coverage of this campaign, or confirmed finance figures were found. Campbell's NetFile portal needed a browser tool that was not available.

**Keep in mind:** Furtado has a prior 1996 to 2010 stint plus a current term already underway. His record therefore lives mostly in Campbell's own council minutes and votes, not campaign material. It is worth checking directly if tenure matters to you.

## Joseph Brenner

Joseph Brenner is a candidate for Campbell's District 3 City Council seat. They qualified for the November 2026 ballot on August 7, 2026, the close of the regular nomination period. The city's own candidate-status page lists their name, district, and filing dates. Beyond that, no filed ballot designation, campaign website, campaign-finance record, or independent news coverage of them was found.

**Strengths:** As a non-incumbent, they represent a choice distinct from the sitting council majority for any voter looking for one.

**Trade-offs:** No independently confirmed background, platform, or finance information was found beyond their qualification for the ballot.

**Keep in mind:** No ballot designation, website, or press coverage turned up for them. This is a genuinely thin public record to evaluate a candidate by. It is worth researching directly closer to the election, when a candidate statement or further coverage may surface.

## Sources

1. [City of Campbell -- official "Notice of Election" (published July 1, 2026, signed by City Clerk Andrea Sanders): confirms exactly three offices up in the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election -- one City Council seat each for Districts 3, 4, and 5, each a full 4-year term -- and the July 13-August 7, 2026 nomination period.](https://www.campbellca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/29867/Notice-of-Election-Publish-2026)
2. [City of Campbell -- the city's own "November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election" page, hosting a live, city-clerk-maintained candidate qualification table (Form 501 filed / Nomination Papers Issued / Nomination Papers Returned / Qualified for Ballot, by name and district) for every 2026 filer: Daniel Furtado and Joseph Brenner (District 3); Joseph Guardado and Davis Fields (District 4, incumbent Elliot Scozzola never issued/returned papers); Daraius Sorabji and Joseph Ruggero (District 5, Ruggero never advanced past a March 2026 Form 501). This is this file's primary source for who is actually on the ballot.](https://www.campbellca.gov/1268/November-3-2026-General-Municipal-Electi)
3. [City of Campbell -- the "City Council" government page, naming the current five-member, by-district roster: Terry Hines (D1), Sergio Lopez (D2), Daniel E. Furtado (D3), Elliot Scozzola (D4), and Anne Bybee (D5) -- independent confirmation of which three seats' current holders line up with the 2026 election, and that Districts 1 and 2 aren't up this cycle.](https://www.campbellca.gov/189/City-Council)
4. [City of Campbell -- Mayor/Councilmember Daniel E. Furtado's own official bio page: confirms his November 2022 election to District 3 (after an earlier 1996-2010 council stint), his December 16, 2025 appointment as Mayor by his council colleagues, his Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Public Administration degrees, 23-plus years at Stanford University School of Medicine, and retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel rank.](https://www.campbellca.gov/1306/Daniel-E-Furtado---Dist-3)
5. [City of Campbell -- the "Run for Office" elections page: confirms basic candidacy requirements, the July 13-August 7, 2026 nomination period, FPPC Form 501/410 filing obligations once a candidate accepts contributions or spends $2,000, and the optional $300 candidate-statement fee for the sample ballot -- process detail, not a candidate roster.](https://www.campbellca.gov/1269/Run-for-Office)
6. [Wikipedia's Campbell, California article: 2020 census population (43,959), the city's "Orchard City" nickname, and its council-manager form of government with a council-selected, rotating mayor -- general civic context, not election-specific.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell,_California)

## The rest of the ballot

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