# Livermore City Council, District 2 Compare records and positions simply between Ben Barrientos or Narayan Tadimeti for Livermore City Council, District 2 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of Livermore's four district-elected City Council seats. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. A separately elected, citywide Mayor also serves on the council. The term is four years. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins. Livermore does not use ranked-choice voting. - Jurisdiction: City of Livermore - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/livermore-council-2 - 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 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 85 out of 100 (Strong), across 3 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Ben Barrientos** — Incumbent - **Narayan Tadimeti** — Physician A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Ben Barrientos faces a single challenger, physician Narayan Tadimeti, for Livermore's District 2 City Council seat -- the only Livermore city race voters will actually decide this November. This person would hold one of Livermore's four district-elected City Council seats, alongside a separately, citywide-elected Mayor, on a council-manager government with an appointed City Manager. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use for the Tri-Valley's most populous city (about 88,000 residents as of the 2020 census). The term is four years. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins -- no ranked-choice voting is documented for Livermore. Livermore's other two Nov. 2026 city races aren't decided by voters this cycle. Mayor John Marchand and City Council District 1's Evan Branning each drew no challenger, and Alameda County's own candidate system flags both races NOT ON BALLOT -- meaning the City Council may appoint each of them directly to a new term under California Elections Code Section 10229 rather than print an uncontested race. District 2 is the only Livermore city contest that will actually appear on the ballot. ## Ben Barrientos The incumbent District 2 councilmember, seeking reelection; their filed ballot designation is simply "Incumbent." This dataset searched the city's own site (blocked by bot protection on every attempt this pass), Ballotpedia, Pleasanton Weekly's and Patch's local coverage, and general web search, and found no independent biography, campaign website, or news profile beyond their confirmed current District 2 seat (via Wikipedia) and their own filed ballot designation. **Strengths:** not established beyond their current, sitting seat in the sourcing found for this race. **Trade-offs:** as with their opponent, this dataset located no independent reporting or self-published platform describing their priorities or first-term record. **Keep in mind:** this is a documented sourcing gap, not evidence against them -- a real, multi-method search (city site, Ballotpedia, local Tri-Valley outlets, general web search) turned up nothing further to report for either candidate in this race. ## Narayan Tadimeti A first-time candidate challenging the incumbent. Their filed ballot designation is "Physician." This dataset searched the same sources -- the city's own site, Ballotpedia, Pleasanton Weekly, Patch, and general web 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 -- see Ben Barrientos's profile for the same finding on their opponent. ## 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 Livermore races (raceIds 118-120) -- For Mayor, For Member Of City Council #1, For Member Of City Council #2 -- alongside the other 43 Alameda County city races countywide.](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 Livermore races: For Mayor -- John Marchand, sole qualified filer, ballot designation "Mayor," race flagged NOT ON BALLOT; For Member Of City Council #1 -- Evan Branning, sole qualified filer, ballot designation "Incumbent/Teacher," race flagged NOT ON BALLOT; For Member Of City Council #2 -- Ben Barrientos ("Incumbent") and Narayan Tadimeti ("Physician"), race flagged ON BALLOT. The system's own "Incumbent" detail field reads "N" for all three candidates even where the ballot designation itself says "Incumbent" -- this dataset does not treat that field as reliable, per the same finding already documented for San Leandro's city races.](https://www.alamedacountyca.gov/rov_app/candidatelist) 3. [Wikipedia's Livermore, California article -- confirms the city's council-manager government, an at-large Mayor and four district City Council seats, and names the sitting officeholders as of 2026: Mayor John Marchand, and City Council members Evan Branning (District 1), Ben Barrientos (District 2), Steven Dunbar (District 3), and Kristie Wang, vice mayor (District 4) -- independent confirmation that Marchand and Branning are genuinely incumbents despite the county system's raw "Incumbent: N" field, and that Barrientos is the sitting District 2 councilmember being challenged. Also cited for the city's 2020 census population (87,955) and its status as the most populous city in the Tri-Valley.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermore,_California) ## The rest of the ballot Livermore City Council, District 2 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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