alamedacountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)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).
dublin.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)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.
dublin.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)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.
en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)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).
pleasantonweekly.com (opens in a new tab)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.
netfile.com (opens in a new tab)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.

Last updated September 1, 2026.

City of Dublin

Mayor of Dublin

Dublin's Mayor is directly elected, citywide. The Mayor presides over City Council meetings and represents the city publicly. The Council has five members, four district members plus the Mayor. An appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. The Mayor's term is two years, shorter than a Council member's four-year term.

Three candidates are running for Mayor. They are first-term incumbent Sherry Hu and sitting District 1 Councilmember Michael McCorriston. The third is first-time candidate Kiran Mohammad.

Dublin's Mayor is directly elected citywide and presides over City Council meetings, representing the city publicly as one of five members of the Council (four district councilmembers plus the Mayor). An appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. The term is two years, shorter than the Council's 4-year terms.

Sherry Hu is running for their first reelection as Mayor; the city's own roster and Pleasanton Weekly's Aug. 9, 2026 election preview both describe Hu as a first-term incumbent. That same article describes challenger Michael McCorriston -- a sitting District 1 Councilmember -- as having served as Dublin's interim Mayor by council appointment for several months in 2024, before Hu took the Mayor's seat.

Sherry Hu

Sherry Hu is Dublin's first-term incumbent Mayor. Their ballot title is Mayor, Entrepreneur, and Engineer. No campaign site or further biography was found for them.

Michael McCorriston

Michael McCorriston is a sitting Dublin City Councilmember for District 1. They were elected in 2024 and are now challenging Hu for Mayor. Their ballot title is simply Councilmember. They served as interim Mayor by council appointment in 2024. That was before Hu won the seat.

Kiran Mohammad

Kiran Mohammad is a first-time candidate. Their ballot title is Author. No campaign site, news coverage, or further biography was found for them.

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