# Mayor of Dublin

Compare records and positions simply between Sherry Hu, Michael McCorriston, or Kiran Mohammad for Mayor of Dublin at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. 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.

- Jurisdiction: City of Dublin
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026
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## On the ballot

- **Sherry Hu** — Mayor/Entrepreneur/Engineer · Incumbent
- **Michael McCorriston** — Councilmember
- **Kiran Mohammad** — Author

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

Three candidates are running for Mayor. They are first-term incumbent Sherry Hu, sitting District 1 Councilmember Michael McCorriston, and 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

Hu is Dublin's first-term incumbent Mayor. Their filed ballot designation is "Mayor/Entrepreneur/Engineer." That points to a background in both entrepreneurship and engineering alongside their current office. No further independent biographical detail was found. No dedicated city bio page or campaign site turned up. Their campaign committee, Sherry Hu for Mayor 2026, reported $3,600 in monetary contributions. It reported $5,570.50 in expenditures for the Jan. 1 to June 30, 2026 period. That comes from their most recent Form 460, filed on Dublin's own NetFile portal.

**Strengths:** A full term already in the Mayor's seat. That brings the name recognition and record that come with incumbency.

**Trade-offs:** No independent reporting evaluating Hu's first term's record was found. That means reporting that is neither official nor campaign-finance filings.

**Keep in mind:** Their three-part ballot designation is self-filed. It has not been independently verified against any professional record.

## Michael McCorriston

McCorriston is a sitting Dublin City Councilmember for District 1, elected in 2024. They are challenging Hu for the Mayor's seat. Their filed ballot designation is simply "Councilmember." Pleasanton Weekly's Aug. 9, 2026 election-preview coverage reports they served as Dublin's interim Mayor. That was by council appointment for several months in 2024, before Hu won the seat outright. Their campaign committee, Michael McCorriston for City of Dublin Mayor 2026, reported $5,300 in monetary contributions. It reported $5,571.92 in expenditures for the first half of 2026. Their own Schedule B shows they personally loaned the committee $51,200 in November 2025. That loan is still outstanding in full as of this filing.

**Strengths:** Sitting council experience, plus a prior stint actually running the Mayor's office as an appointee. They have also made a large personal financial commitment to this campaign.

**Trade-offs:** Running for Mayor mid-term would leave their District 1 council seat vacant if they win. That seat has two years still remaining on it.

**Keep in mind:** The $51,200 they have loaned their own campaign is a debt to themselves, not outside support. It says nothing about broader donor backing. Their $5,300 in itemized contributions this period more directly reflects that.

## Kiran Mohammad

Mohammad is a first-time candidate. Their filed ballot designation is "Author." No campaign website, news coverage, or further biographical detail was found beyond that self-declared occupation. Their campaign has filed only initial FPPC Form 410 and Form 501 organizing paperwork. No Form 460 is on file yet. So no fundraising total exists to report.

**Strengths:** not established in the sourcing found for this race.

**Trade-offs:** Mohammad is a first-time candidate with no located public record. Voters have little to go on beyond their name, their self-declared occupation and the fact that they qualified for the ballot.

**Keep in mind:** this is a sourcing gap, not evidence against them. Nothing further about them was found to report.

## 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)

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