# Hercules City Council Compare records and positions simply between John Delgado, Preet Sidhu, Dion Bailey, or Adrena Breckenridge for Hercules City Council at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of Hercules's five at-large City Council seats. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this San Pablo Bay city of about 26,000. The term is four years. Whichever two candidates get the most votes win -- no ranked-choice voting or June primary is documented for Hercules. The council selects its own Mayor and Vice Mayor annually from among its own members rather than electing either directly. - Jurisdiction: City of Hercules - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Seats: 2 - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/hercules-council - 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 7, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 91 out of 100 (Very strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **John Delgado** — Assistant District Attorney - **Preet Sidhu** — Educator/Business Owner - **Dion Bailey** — Councilmember · Incumbent - **Adrena Breckenridge** — Civil Service Employee A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Four candidates are running for Hercules's two open City Council seats: incumbent Dion Bailey, plus challengers Preet Sidhu, John Delgado, and Adrena Breckenridge. The two highest vote-getters win -- no runoff. This person would hold one of Hercules's five at-large City Council seats. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this San Pablo Bay city of about 26,000 in western Contra Costa County. The term is four years. Whichever two candidates get the most votes win -- no ranked-choice voting or June primary is documented for Hercules. The council selects its own Mayor and Vice Mayor annually from among its own members rather than electing either directly, and there is no separately elected City Clerk or City Treasurer. Both seats up this November are held by outgoing officeholders in different situations. Dion Bailey is the sitting councilmember (their legal name is Anjulant D. Bailey) and is running for another term. The other seat belongs to Christine "Chris" Kelley, currently serving as Mayor -- a title the council rotates among its own members annually, not a separately elected office -- whose underlying Council seat is also up this cycle; she did not requalify for it, leaving it open. ## Dion Bailey The incumbent, seeking reelection; Bailey's filed ballot designation is "Councilmember." They are a sitting member of the Hercules City Council, listed on the city's own site under their working first name, Dion (legal name Anjulant D. Bailey per the county's own filing record). **Strengths:** incumbency, and a public role and email address on the city's own site. **Trade-offs:** this dataset found no independent reporting on their record in office -- their identification here comes from the city's and county's own official records, not outside journalism. **Keep in mind:** no 2026 campaign-finance figures are on file here -- CAL-ACCESS's own filer-search page returned a bot-gated, empty response for their name in this pass. ## Preet Sidhu A first-time candidate. Sidhu's filed ballot designation is "Educator/Business Owner." This dataset searched the county's and city's own election pages, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Contra Costa News's site search, and found no campaign website, news coverage, or further biographical detail beyond that self-declared occupation. **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 (the county's and city's own sites, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and local news) turned up nothing further to report. ## John Delgado A first-time candidate. Delgado's filed ballot designation is "Assistant District Attorney." This dataset searched the county's and city's own election pages, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Contra Costa News's site search, and found no campaign website, news coverage, or further biographical detail beyond that self-declared occupation -- including which county or district's DA's office they work for. **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 (the county's and city's own sites, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and local news) turned up nothing further to report. ## Adrena Breckenridge A first-time candidate. Breckenridge's filed ballot designation is "Civil Service Employee." This dataset searched the county's and city's own election pages, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Contra Costa News's site search, and found no campaign website, news coverage, or further biographical detail beyond that self-declared occupation. **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 (the county's and city's own sites, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and local news) turned up nothing further to report. ## Sources 1. [City of Hercules -- City Clerk "Municipal Elections" page (same Google Translate proxy workaround): independently names the same 4 qualified November 3, 2026 City Council candidates with the same filed ballot designations as the county's own documents -- Preet Sidhu, Dion Bailey (incumbent), Adrena Breckenridge, and John Delgado -- confirming the county's filing data directly from the city](https://www.herculesca.gov/government/city-clerk/elections) 2. [City of Hercules -- "City Council" page (read via a Google Translate proxy workaround after herculesca.gov itself returned HTTP 403 (Akamai) to every direct fetch attempt in this pass, the same technique already documented in this dataset for Galt and Martinez): names all 5 sitting members -- Mayor Chris Kelley, Vice Mayor Alex Walker-Griffin, and Council Members Dilli Bhattarai, Tiffany Grimsley, and Dion Bailey -- confirms all 5 seats are elected at-large on a non-partisan basis on staggered 4-year terms, and that Mayor and Vice Mayor are titles the council selects annually from among its own members rather than directly elected offices](https://www.herculesca.gov/government/city-council) 3. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Positions Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": the only county-section contest in the document is County Board of Education Areas 2, 4, and 5 (under Schools) -- no Board of Supervisors, row office, or Superior Court seat appears anywhere, consistent with both Supervisor seats up this cycle (Districts 1 and 4) having been decided outright in the June 2026 primary](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection.pdf) 4. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Contest/Candidate Proof List" (8-27-26_candidatelist_detail_final.pdf), the county's post-certification ballot-order-proofing export: shows Hercules Member, City Council (contest 5601) as ON BALLOT, vote for 2, with 4 qualified candidates -- Preet Sidhu ("Educator/Business Owner," qualified 7/24/2026), Dion Bailey ("Councilmember," qualified 8/4/2026), Adrena Breckenridge ("Civil Service Employee," qualified 8/11/2026), and John Delgado ("Assistant District Attorney," qualified 8/7/2026) -- and lists the contest's two outgoing incumbents as Anjulant D Bailey and Christine Anne Kelley](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/8-27-26_candidatelist_detail_final.pdf) 5. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Candidate List" (8-14-26_candidatelist_summary_final.pdf), the county's complete qualified-candidate roster: independently confirms the same 4-candidate Hercules Council field (Preet Sidhu, Dion Bailey, Adrena Breckenridge, John Delgado) and their qualification dates](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/8-14-26_candidatelist_summary_final.pdf) 6. [Wikipedia's Hercules, California article -- confirms Hercules sits in western Contra Costa County on San Pablo Bay, with a 2020 census population of 26,016](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules,_California) 7. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Positions Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": lists Hercules's only office with an expiring term this cycle as "2 Councilmembers" -- no City Clerk or City Treasurer line item appears for Hercules, consistent with the city's own site showing no such separately elected office.](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection.pdf) ## The rest of the ballot Hercules City Council 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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