# Fremont City Council, District 2

Compare records and positions simply between Desrie Campbell or Keith Parker for Fremont City Council, District 2 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of six district seats on the Fremont City Council. Fremont is Alameda County's largest city, with about 230,000 residents. Fremont also has a separately elected, citywide Mayor. An appointed City Manager runs the council-manager government. The term is four years. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins. Fremont does not use ranked-choice voting.

- Jurisdiction: City of Fremont
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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## On the ballot

- **Desrie Campbell** — Councilmember/Healthcare Director · Incumbent
- **Keith Parker** — Marketing Director

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

Incumbent Desrie Campbell, first elected in 2022, faces one challenger for Fremont’s District 2 council seat. The challenger is marketing director Keith Parker.

This person would hold one of six district seats on the Fremont City Council -- Alameda County's largest city, with about 230,000 residents -- alongside a separately, citywide-elected Mayor, under a council-manager government with an appointed City Manager. The term is four years. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins; no ranked-choice voting is documented for Fremont.

The county's own candidate-filing system marks Campbell's "Incumbent" field "N," the same self-report quirk this dataset has found unreliable elsewhere in Alameda County -- Fremont's own city government page independently confirms she is the sitting District 2 councilmember, first elected to the council in 2022.

## Desrie Campbell

Desrie Campbell moved to Fremont in 1996 and raised her four sons there. She was elected to the Fremont Unified school board in 2012 and served ten years. That included service as a California School Boards Association Delegate Assembly member. She won this council seat in 2022. Earlier in her career she worked in Washington, D.C. city government and for a lobbying firm on Capitol Hill. She holds a bachelor’s in business administration and a master’s in public administration. She has served as a Human Relations Commissioner. She is a former chair of the Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women. As a councilmember she was appointed to the League of California Cities’ Community Services Policy Committee. There she says she pushes to reduce homelessness and increase affordable housing while keeping local decision-making. In her Vote411 questionnaire she describes thirty years living in Fremont. She says she has championed affordable housing, a compassionate response to homelessness and effective city governance.

Her three stated priorities are strong city finances, where she says she delivered balanced budgets without drawing on reserves or cutting staff; public safety, including hiring sworn police officers and advancing labor agreements; and climate sustainability, including enforcing the city's Climate Action Plan. She says she would hold open public meetings and forums to hear from residents. If cuts were needed, she says she would spare public safety and public-health programs and look first at contracted services and consultants. She would also strengthen the housing and building code to allow more homes.

**Strengths:** A council term plus ten prior years on the school board, the longest local record in Fremont's 2026 council races. By her account, she balanced budgets without using reserves.

**Trade-offs:** As the incumbent, she owns four years of District 2 council decisions most directly. Her stated priorities mostly continue current city policy, so a vote for her favors the present direction.

**Keep in mind:** Her finance, public safety and climate results are self-reported in her Vote411 answers. Her career bio comes from the city's own page, a self-published source, not an independent review of her record.

## Keith Parker

Keith Parker’s ballot designation is Marketing Director. He filed a campaign committee for a 2022 council run. That committee shows no filings since November 2022. No new 2026 committee was located for him on Fremont’s NetFile portal. In his Vote411 questionnaire he describes more than thirty years as a Fremont homeowner whose children attended local public schools. He lists a PTSA treasurer role at Centerville Middle School and board service with the Ohlone College Foundation, the Fremont Education Foundation and the Washington Health Foundation. He also lists a hospital bond oversight committee, Niles Rotary, a long technology career and a bachelor's degree.

His three stated priorities are reducing homelessness, mainly by keeping housed people from losing their homes and by individualized programs in place of one-size-fits-all ones; improving public safety, including police staffing and fair treatment of first responders who have worked without a contract; and economic development, such as streamlining the way new businesses open. He also says he wants residents to feel heard and would hold regular town halls in person and online. On budget cuts he says he would look first at consultant fees in capital projects and slow roadway changes. His zoning change would address the low parking counts at new high-density housing near transit.

**Strengths:** Long volunteer board service and regular council meeting attendance, by his own account. He gives specific views on consultant spending, roadway changes and parking at new housing.

**Trade-offs:** No active 2026 campaign committee was located, so there is no current fundraising signal. He has no council voting record to check his proposals against.

**Keep in mind:** His background, volunteer roles and consultant-spending claims in his Vote411 answers are self-reported and not independently confirmed here. A missing 2026 committee could mean a self-funded or low-visibility campaign.

## 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 API (GET /rov_app/racelist/260/600) for the City category: names all three Fremont races (raceIds 115-117) -- For Member Of City Council #2/#3/#4, Fremont -- alongside the other 43 Alameda County city races countywide, and confirms Fremont has no mayoral race this cycle.](https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/rov_app/candidatelist)
2. [Alameda County Registrar of Voters -- official Candidate List system, queried directly via its own POST-based HTML API (POST /rov_app/candidatelist/) for all three Fremont races, each flagged "Vote For: 1" and "On Ballot": For Member Of City Council #2 -- Desrie Campbell ("Councilmember/Healthcare Director") and Keith Parker ("Marketing Director"); #3 -- Kathy Kimberlin ("County Field Director") and Vipin Sharma ("Senior Engineering Manager"); #4 -- Aziz Akbari ("Director, Alameda County Water District"), Ying Min Li ("Small Business Owner"), Anurag Mishra ("Technical Leader"), and Manisha Pathak ("Educator/Nonprofit Executive"). The system's own "Incumbent" detail field reads "N" for every candidate including Campbell and Kimberlin, who Fremont's own city government page confirms are sitting councilmembers -- this dataset does not treat that field as reliable.](https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/rov_app/candidatelist/)
3. [City of Fremont -- "Mayor & City Council" page, read via the Internet Archive's July 23, 2026 snapshot after fremont.gov itself returned HTTP 403 to every direct fetch attempted in this pass: names every sitting councilmember by district -- Teresa Keng (District 1), Desrie Campbell (District 2), Kathy Kimberlin (District 3), Yang Shao (District 4), Vice Mayor Yajing Zhang (District 5), and Raymond Liu (District 6) -- plus Mayor Raj Salwan, sworn in December 2024. Independently confirms Campbell and Kimberlin as genuine incumbents in their Nov. 2026 races and that Yang Shao, not a candidate for reelection, is the outgoing District 4 officeholder.](https://web.archive.org/web/20260723041152/https://www.fremont.gov/government/mayor-city-council)
4. [City of Fremont's own NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (agency code FRE), queried directly via its own QuickNameSearch and filings/byFiler|byCandidate JSON API for every 2026 city council candidate, with each located candidate's actual H1 2026 FPPC Form 460 (or, where none existed, the most recent filing on record) downloaded directly via the portal's own CampaignDocuments/download endpoint and read for its real reported totals. Desrie Campbell (D2) $800 raised / $40 spent; Keith Parker (D2) no 2026 committee, only a 2022 one; Kathy Kimberlin (D3) $200 raised / $1,966.08 spent, including a $5,000 loan from her husband; Vipin Sharma (D3) only a Form 501 on file, no Form 460; Aziz Akbari (D4) $288 raised / $10.09 spent plus $1,107 in accrued unpaid bills; Ying-Min Li (D4) $50,060.88 in monetary contributions plus $80,000 in loans from Li herself / $13,932.33 spent, including an $850 contribution from sitting District 4 Councilmember Yang Shao; Manisha Pathak (D4) $4,091 raised / $1,395.06 spent; Anurag Mishra (D4) no campaign committee located.](https://netfile.com/public/fremont/campaign)
5. [Wikipedia's Fremont, California article -- 2020 census population (230,504), the fourth most populous city in the Bay Area and the largest in Alameda County; also lists the current City Council roster by name, used only as a secondary cross-check against the city's own page.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont,_California)
6. [League of Women Voters -- Vote411 voter guide, 'City of Fremont City Council Member, District 2' race (statewide All Races list): each candidate's self-submitted ballot designation and campaign contacts, plus answers to the League's questions -- If elected, what are your top 3 priorities?; What background, experience and/or education qualify you for this elected office?; How would you change things to increase residents' input into the city's decision making process?; Governing is about managing limited resources. If you have to cut the city budget, what programs or services would you prioritize saving, and which would you cut?; If you could alter or update one element of our city's zoning code to improve the community, what would it be? Answers on file from Desrie Campbell, Keith Parker. Capture in data/nov-2026/sources/vote411/fremont-council-district-2.json.](https://www.vote411.org/plan-your-vote)

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