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 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.
alamedacountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)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.
web.archive.org (opens in a new tab)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.
netfile.com (opens in a new tab)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.
en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)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.
vote411.org (opens in a new tab)League of Women Voters -- Vote411 voter guide, 'City of Fremont City Council Member, District 3' 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 Kathy Kimberlin, Vipin Sharma. Capture in data/nov-2026/sources/vote411/fremont-council-district-3.json.

Last updated October 7, 2026.

City of Fremont

Fremont City Council, District 3

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.

Kathy Kimberlin holds Fremont's District 3 seat, which covers Centerville. She faces one challenger, Vipin Sharma. Sharma is a senior engineering manager.

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 Kimberlin'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 3 councilmember. NetFile's committee records show Kimberlin has run for this seat before, with committees on file dating back to 2016.

Kathy Kimberlin

Kathy Kimberlin has lived in Fremont's Centerville neighborhood for more than 40 years. She has led the Fremont Education Foundation. She co-founded the Tri-City Non-Profit Coalition. She spent 12 years on the Fremont Chamber's Government Affairs Committee. As councilmember she cites work on Glenmoor design rules. She also cites the Centerville Unified Site talks with residents and a developer. She now works as Fremont Field Director for Supervisor David Haubert.

Vipin Sharma

Sharma's ballot title is Senior Engineering Manager. Their campaign committee is filed under the name vipin4fremont. It has filed only a statement of intent to run, dated Aug. 3, 2026. No report of money raised or spent was on file. Nothing else was found about them beyond their ballot title.

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