# Mayor of Compton Compare records and positions simply between Emma Sharif or Andre A. Spicer for Mayor of Compton at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person is Compton's directly elected chief executive. The term is four years. They manage the budget, public safety, and economic development for the city. An appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations. - Jurisdiction: City of Compton - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/compton-mayor - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 86 out of 100 (Strong), across 8 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Emma Sharif** — Incumbent - **Andre A. Spicer** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. No candidate cleared a majority in the June 2 primary, so the two leading finishers face off on November 3: incumbent Mayor Emma Sharif, who led with about 42% of the vote, against District 2 councilmember Andre Spicer, who took about 18%. Spicer is not seeking reelection to their own council seat. Compton's Mayor serves a 4-year term as the city's directly elected chief executive: proposing the budget, setting public-safety priorities, and leading economic-development efforts, while day-to-day operations run through an appointed city manager. The Mayor also chairs City Council meetings and is one vote on the five-member body that includes four district councilmembers. The choice is between continuity and change: keep the incumbent who has held the office since 2021, or hand it to a sitting district councilmember who argues a citywide role would extend the corridor and public-safety work they have pursued on the council to the rest of the city. ## Emma Sharif Emma Sharif is Compton's incumbent Mayor, in office since 2021 after previously serving on the City Council. She is running on continued investment in public safety, street and infrastructure repairs, small-business support, youth programs, and affordable housing. She led the June primary field with about 42% of the vote and carries endorsements including Rep. Maxine Waters, LA Mayor Karen Bass, and several labor unions. **Strengths:** Sitting Mayor with prior council experience; broad institutional and labor backing; led the June field by a wide margin. **Trade-offs:** Four years of incumbency means the city's current pace of street repairs and public-safety results are hers to defend, not promise. **Keep in mind:** Endorsed by an array of sitting Democratic officeholders and unions (Waters, Bass, several building-trades and public-safety unions) — a sign of institutional support voters may read as continuity or as ties to insiders. ## Andre A. Spicer Andre Spicer holds Compton's District 2 council seat, seated in 2022 after a Superior Court found illegal votes had been cast against them in a disputed 2021 election. They are running for Mayor on corridor revitalization, small-business support, and expanding homeownership and wealth-building in Compton. They finished second in the June primary with about 18% of the vote, behind incumbent Mayor Sharif. **Strengths:** Sitting District 2 councilmember since 2022; won a court fight over illegal votes cast against them in 2021; advanced to the runoff from second place. **Trade-offs:** They're vacating the District 2 seat to run citywide, so a vote for them trades a known council record for an untested citywide role. **Keep in mind:** A court found four illegal votes were cast against them in 2021 and declared them the rightful winner in 2022, a resolved but well-documented dispute over their first election (LA Times). ## Review notes - Andre Spicer for Mayor of the City of Compton (campaign site) may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [LA County RRCC — Certified June 2, 2026 Primary Nominating Election results, City of Compton (Mayor and Member of the City Council, 2nd District)](https://results.lavote.gov/text-results/4338) 2. [City of Compton Clerk — General Election Information](https://www.comptoncity.org/departments/city-clerk/elections) 3. [City of Compton — Elected Officials](https://www.comptoncity.org/our-city/elected-officials) 4. [LA County Politics — LA County Municipal Primary Results (2026-06-04)](https://losangelescountypolitics.com/monterey-park-mayor-compton-mayor-el-monte-council-and-more-la-county-municipal-primary-results/) 5. [Ballotpedia — Emma Sharif, Andrew A. Spicer, Bennie Tinson, and Anthony Perry (Compton, California, candidates 2026)](https://ballotpedia.org/Emma_Sharif_(Mayor_of_Compton,_California,_candidate_2026)) 6. [Andre Spicer for Mayor of the City of Compton — campaign site](https://www.andrespicer4mayor.com) 7. [Los Angeles Times — Compton City Council election overturned (2022-05-30)](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-30/compton-city-council-election-overturned) 8. [City of Compton Clerk — 410/460 Campaign Statements](https://www.comptoncity.org/departments/city-clerk/elections/campaign-statements/460-campaign-statements) ## The rest of the ballot Mayor of Compton is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Mayor of Compton — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/compton-mayor (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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