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Rancho Cucamonga Mayor

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City of Rancho Cucamonga

Rancho Cucamonga Mayor

Rancho Cucamonga elects its Mayor directly, citywide. The Mayor presides at Council meetings and votes as a full member. The Council has five members, the Mayor plus four district members. The term is four years, with no term limits. An appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations.

Five candidates are running for Rancho Cucamonga's open Mayor seat. The election is on November 3, 2026. They are Mayor Pro Tem Lynne B. Kennedy and businessman Jaskirat Sondh. Attorneys Marjorie Hamada and Oliver King are also running. So is retiree Michael R. Perez. L. Dennis Michael has been Mayor since 2010. He has served four terms. He did not file for another term. His 2026 campaign committee gave money to Kennedy's campaign instead. Whoever gets the most votes wins. There is no primary or runoff.

Rancho Cucamonga directly elects its Mayor citywide, separate from the City Council: presides at Council meetings and votes as a full member of the 5-person body (Mayor plus four district councilmembers), which sets city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this general-law, council-manager city. The term is four years with no term limits; day-to-day operations run through an appointed City Manager.

Kennedy, the sitting Mayor Pro Tem and a District 4 councilmember since 2014, is the only candidate who currently holds elected office. Campaign-finance filings from outgoing Mayor Michael's own committee -- which transferred funds to Kennedy's campaign and paid for a fundraiser hosted at a local Rancho Cucamonga venue, reported as an in-kind contribution to Kennedy -- point to Kennedy as his preferred successor, though neither he nor Kennedy has said so directly in any source found in this pass. King, a business owner and attorney, has raised a comparable war chest built substantially from a personal loan and family contributions. Sondh, Hamada, and Perez have no campaign-finance committee on file with the city's own NetFile portal and no independent profile found beyond their filed ballot designations.

Lynne B. Kennedy

Lynne B. Kennedy is Rancho Cucamonga's Mayor Pro Tem. They have represented District 4 since 2014. They won the seat again in 2024. That council seat is not up this cycle. They have lived in Rancho Cucamonga since 1980. They spent four decades in education. They were a math teacher in the Rialto Unified School District. They later served as assistant principal and then principal. They eventually became Superintendent and retired in 2012. They then had a second career at the Alliance for Education. That job was for the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. They were its Executive Director and retired in 2019. They hold a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. Their doctoral work was on algebra education. It won the university's Urban Leadership Achievement Award. It also won a Phi Delta Kappa dissertation award.

Jaskirat Sondh

Jaskirat Sondh is running for Rancho Cucamonga Mayor. Their ballot title is Businessman. They say they own several small businesses. No campaign finance committee was found for them.

Marjorie Hamada

Marjorie Hamada is running for Rancho Cucamonga Mayor. Their ballot title is Business Owner and Attorney. Oliver King filed the same ballot title. King is also running for Mayor. No link between the two was found. Hamada says they have practiced law in the Inland Empire for over twenty years. No campaign finance committee was found for Hamada.

Oliver King

Oliver King is running for Rancho Cucamonga Mayor. Their ballot title is Business Owner and Attorney. They loaned their own 2026 campaign $12,000. Their committee reports that Pamela P. King gave $5,900. She is retired and lives in Rancho Cucamonga. Emily King, M.D. of Claremont gave a late $5,900. Both appear to be family money. A San Bernardino attorney gave a late $5,000. A retired Oceanside donor gave a late $2,500.

Michael R. Perez

Michael R. Perez is running for Rancho Cucamonga Mayor. Their ballot title is Retired. They say they worked in college and sheriff's office administration. No campaign finance committee was found for them.

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