# Dublin City Council, District 2 Compare records and positions simply between Daniel Hor, Steve Lorey, Tejpreet Singh, and 1 more for Dublin City Council, District 2 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of two Dublin City Council seats up this cycle. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. The term is four years. Dublin shifted from at-large to district elections starting in November 2024. Districts 1 and 3 went first. This is the first district-based election for this seat. - Jurisdiction: City of Dublin - 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/dublin-council-2 - 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: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 88 out of 100 (Strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Daniel Hor** — Researcher - **Steve Lorey** — Intelligence Analyst - **Tejpreet Singh** — Investor/Father - **Richard Thornbury** — Principal Scientist A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. District 2 is an open seat with no incumbent running: four first-time candidates are competing -- Daniel Hor, Steve Lorey, Tejpreet Singh, and Richard Thornbury. This person would hold one of two Dublin City Council seats up this cycle. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use in this Alameda County city of about 72,000, under a council-manager government with an appointed City Manager. The term is four years. Dublin shifted from at-large to by-district Council elections starting with the November 2024 election (Districts 1 and 3 first); this is the first district-based election for District 2. Vice Mayor Jean Josey, a sitting at-large councilmember whose current term expires this year, is not on the county's certified candidate list for either District 2 or District 4 -- this dataset treats that absence as confirmation she is not seeking reelection to either newly drawn seat, without asserting a reason why. ## Daniel Hor A first-time candidate; their filed ballot designation is "Researcher." This dataset searched the city's own site, Ballotpedia, Vote411, local news coverage, and general web search and found no campaign website, news coverage, or further biographical detail beyond that self-declared occupation. Their campaign has filed only initial FPPC Form 410 (amendment)/501 organizing paperwork -- no Form 460 is on file yet. **Strengths:** not established in the sourcing found for this race. **Trade-offs:** as a first-time candidate with no located public record, voters have little beyond their name, their self-declared occupation, and the fact that they qualified for the ballot to go on. **Keep in mind:** this is a documented sourcing gap, not evidence against them -- a real, multi-method search turned up nothing further to report. ## Steve Lorey A first-time candidate; their filed ballot designation is "Intelligence Analyst." This dataset found no independent profile, campaign site, or news coverage beyond that self-declared occupation. Their campaign committee, Lorey for Dublin City Council 2026, reported $4,550 in monetary contributions plus a $450 nonmonetary contribution ($5,000 total) for the first half of 2026 -- their Form 460 records that same $450 in-kind item back out as a nonmonetary expenditure, so effectively none of the cash raised has been spent. **Strengths:** The largest reported H1 2026 fundraising total among the four District 2 candidates. **Trade-offs:** No independent (non-financial-filing) reporting on Lorey's candidacy or platform was found in this pass. **Keep in mind:** A single nonmonetary contribution and its matching in-kind expenditure make up $450 of their $5,000 total -- worth distinguishing from cash raised when comparing across candidates. ## Tejpreet Singh A first-time candidate; their filed ballot designation is "Investor/Father." This dataset found no independent profile, campaign site, or news coverage beyond that self-declared designation. Pleasanton Weekly's Aug. 9, 2026 election-preview article notes they had filed but was not yet county-confirmed for the ballot at its Aug. 9 snapshot; they do appear on the county's later, post-deadline certified candidate list used throughout this dataset. Their campaign has filed only an initial FPPC Form 501 -- no Form 460 is on file yet. **Strengths:** not established in the sourcing found for this race. **Trade-offs:** as a first-time candidate with no located public record, voters have little beyond their name, their self-declared occupation, and the fact that they qualified for the ballot to go on. **Keep in mind:** this is a documented sourcing gap, not evidence against them -- a real, multi-method search turned up nothing further to report. ## Richard Thornbury A first-time candidate; their filed ballot designation is "Principal Scientist." This dataset found no independent profile, campaign site, or news coverage beyond that self-declared occupation. Their campaign committee, Richard Thornbury for Dublin City Council 2 2026, filed a Form 460 covering January 2025 through June 2026 that reports no contributions and no expenditures of any kind. **Strengths:** not established in the sourcing found for this race. **Trade-offs:** as a first-time candidate with no located public record, voters have little beyond their name, their self-declared occupation, and the fact that they qualified for the ballot to go on. **Keep in mind:** their Form 460 reports zero contributions and zero expenditures -- a real, filed disclosure that may reflect a self-funded or not-yet-underway campaign, not a withdrawal. ## Sources 1. [Alameda County Registrar of Voters -- official Candidate List system (electionId 260, "General Election - 11/03/2026 (Official)"), queried directly via its own JSON/HTML API (POST /rov_app/candidatelist/) for all three Dublin races (categoryId 600, raceIds 112-114): For Mayor, Dublin (Sherry Hu, Michael McCorriston, Kiran Mohammad); For Members Of City Council #2, Dublin (Daniel Hor, Steve Lorey, Tejpreet Singh, Richard Thornbury); For Members Of City Council #4, Dublin (Kashef Qaadri, Shivraj Singh). Names ballot designations verbatim as filed: "Mayor/Entrepreneur/Engineer" (Hu), "Councilmember" (McCorriston), "Author" (Mohammad), "Researcher" (Hor), "Intelligence Analyst" (Lorey), "Investor/Father" (T. Singh), "Principal Scientist" (Thornbury), "City Councilmember/Scientist" (Qaadri), "Business Owner" (S. Singh). The system's own "Incumbent" field reads "N" for every Dublin candidate -- this dataset does not treat that field as reliable and instead confirms incumbency independently against the City of Dublin's own roster and district-elections pages (see dublin-clerk-directory-2026 and dublin-district-elections-2026).](https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/rov_app/candidatelist) 2. [City of Dublin -- "Mayor & City Council" roster page: names the sitting Mayor (Sherry Hu, term exp. 12/2026), Vice Mayor (Jean Josey, term exp. 12/2026), and Councilmembers (Kashef Qaadri, term exp. 12/2026; Michael McCorriston, District 1, term exp. 12/2028; John Morada, District 3, term exp. 12/2028) with contact info and term-expiration dates for each -- confirming which seats are up this cycle (Mayor, plus whichever district each of the 12/2026-expiring at-large-won members resides in) and that neither Jean Josey nor McCorriston's council seat is on the county's certified candidate list for District 2 or 4.](https://dublin.ca.gov/71/Mayor-City-Council) 3. [City of Dublin -- "2022 - Transition to District Elections" page: states the city adopted by-district City Council elections (Public Map 112, adopted Sept. 6, 2022) after a January 2022 California Voting Rights Act challenge, phased in with Districts 1 and 3 first elected in November 2024 and Districts 2 and 4 up for the first time in November 2026; the Mayor continues to be elected at-large by all voters on a separate cycle.](https://dublin.ca.gov/2436/2022---Transition-to-District-Elections) 4. [Wikipedia's Dublin, California article -- 2020 census population (72,589); incorporated Feb. 1, 1982; general-law city with a council-manager government and an appointed City Manager; states the Mayor serves a 2-year term while Council members serve 4-year terms, cross-checked against the term-expiration dates the city's own roster page states for each sitting member (Mayor and the two 2022-elected at-large seats expire Dec. 2026; the two 2024-elected district seats expire Dec. 2028).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_California) 5. [Pleasanton Weekly -- "Dublin poised for crowded elections for mayor, council, school board" (by Jeremy Walsh, Jude Strzemp, and Christian Trujano, Aug. 9, 2026), read in full: names Sherry Hu as "first-term incumbent mayor" and Michael McCorriston as a "councilmember who served as mayor by appointment for several months in 2024," running against first-time candidate Kiran Mohammad; names four confirmed District 2 candidates (Thornbury, Lorey, Hor as newcomers, and Tejpreet Singh as having "filed" but not yet county-confirmed at the article's Aug. 9 snapshot -- he is on the county's later certified list used here); and names Kashef Qaadri as "current councilmember elected at-large four years ago" running against newcomer Shivraj Singh for District 4. The same Aug. 9 snapshot also names a fourth mayoral candidate (Shawn Costello, a "perennial candidate" who "filed on deadline" but was "not yet confirmed for the ballot") and a fourth District 4 candidate (Vasanth Chetan, described as having "pulled papers"); neither appears on the county's own post-deadline certified list retrieved for this dataset, so neither is included as a candidate here.](https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/dublin/2026/08/09/dublin-poised-for-crowded-elections-for-mayor-council-school-board/) 6. [City of Dublin's own NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (agency code DUB, confirmed via NetFile's own public agency directory -- not the more obvious guess "DUBL"), queried directly via its own QuickNameSearch and filings/byCandidate JSON API for all nine 2026 candidates, with each candidate's most recent H1 2026 FPPC Form 460 downloaded directly via the portal's own CampaignDocuments/download endpoint and read for its actual reported totals. Real H1 2026 totals (monetary contributions raised / total expenditures, this period): Sherry Hu $3,600 / $5,570.50; Michael McCorriston $5,300 / $5,571.92 -- his Schedule B also reports a $51,200 personal loan to his own committee (dated Nov. 5, 2025, from Michael McCorriston himself, still outstanding in full as of this filing); Kiran Mohammad no Form 460 on file yet, only a Form 410/501; Daniel Hor no Form 460 on file yet, only a Form 410 (amendment)/501; Steve Lorey $4,550 monetary plus a $450 nonmonetary contribution ($5,000 total) / $450 (the same in-kind item, reported back out as a nonmonetary expenditure); Tejpreet Singh no Form 460 on file yet, only a Form 501; Richard Thornbury filed a Form 460 (covering Jan. 2025-June 2026) reporting all zeroes -- no contributions or expenditures; Kashef Qaadri $2,273 / $274.69; Shivraj Singh $1,125 / $541.90.](https://netfile.com/public/DUB/campaign) ## The rest of the ballot Dublin City Council, District 2 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. 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