Daly City City Council

Pamela DiGiovanni is a sitting councilmember running for reelection under the ballot designation "Daly City Councilmember." Her own candidate statement credits her term with keeping Seton Medical Center open, implementing hazard pay for grocery and frontline workers during COVID-19, and increasing access to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations. She says she supported Measure Q, which restored a fire engine, expanded public safety, extended library hours, and added children's, teens', and senior programming, and cites collaborating with local, regional, and state partners on senior transportation, water-bill assistance, streetlight outages, and a "pedestrian first" Safe Routes to Schools approach. She says she'll keep libraries, parks, and city services open and accessible, protect Seton Medical Center, and oppose data center development if reelected.

Rod Daus-Magbual, 47, is a sitting councilmember running for reelection under the ballot designation "Councilman/Professor/Non-Profit Director." His own statement says he has served 8 years on the council, including two terms as Mayor, and credits himself with helping pass legislation bringing K-12 educator housing and mixed-income housing projects to Daly City, expanding youth and women's roles in local government, and championing mental-health services, first-aid training, and cultural programming. He describes himself as the son of immigrants -- his mother a registered nurse, his father working multiple blue-collar jobs -- and says he is a tenured professor and nonprofit director advancing ethnic studies education, with prior service on the city's Library and Planning Commissions and a current seat on the Westlight Energy Board.

Teresa Proaño is the sitting Vice Mayor and a councilmember running for reelection under the ballot designation "City Councilmember/Businesswoman." Born at Mary's Help Hospital (now Seton Medical Center) and a lifelong Daly City resident and public-school graduate, she and her husband raised three children in the city. Her own statement credits her term with supporting full staffing for police and fire, the Vista Grande Drainage Basin Project, Serramonte Library and citywide road repaving, small-business support, expanded affordable housing, strengthened senior services at the Bayshore, Doelger, Gellert, and Lincoln community centers, and expanded childcare and early-learning access. Professionally she has worked 27 years at Duggan's Serra Mortuary in Daly City, and lists more than 40 years of local volunteer work spanning the Hillside Homeowners Association, the Friends of Seton Foundation, the Daly City Chamber of Commerce, and the city's Recreation and Planning Commissions.

Thomas A. Nuris is an attorney who has practiced law in Daly City since 1978 and, per his own statement, has lived in the city since childhood, attending its public schools and raising three sons there with his wife. He lists an extensive record of local institutional service: Trustee of the Jefferson Union High School District, Commissioner on both the city's Personnel Board and Planning Commission, Trustee of the San Mateo County Community College District, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Seton Medical Center, President of the Daly City Property and Landowners Association, and President of the Daly City-Colma Chamber of Commerce. His stated priorities are a safe, clean environment and services -- schools, medical facilities, libraries, and recreation -- alongside economic development to expand the city's tax base.

Tony Bayudan is Chief of Staff to San Mateo County Supervisor David J. Canepa, a role he says he's held for ten years, and Vice Chair of Daly City's Personnel Board. His own statement, written as the son of Filipino immigrants whose family has lived in Daly City since 1977, centers on housing, healthcare, and grocery affordability, and pledges a City Hall "less focused on political games." He names endorsements from state Senator Scott Wiener, Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, and sitting Councilmember Juslyn Manalo.

Asia Su is a small-business owner who has raised her child in Daly City for nearly 20 years, per her own statement. She frames her candidacy around community engagement -- multilingual outreach, neighborhood meetings, and advisory groups reflecting the city's diversity -- and lists priorities of civil rights, public safety, local-business support, and fiscal accountability, without naming a specific past initiative or endorsement.

Barry Rodriguez qualified for the ballot by filing nomination papers, dated August 3, 2026, per San Mateo County's certified candidate roster and the city's own list of nominees. He filed no candidate statement -- the city's list marks his statement "None filed" -- and the roster records no ballot designation for him.