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City of San Leandro · Statewide General Election

San Leandro City Council, District 1

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

This person would hold San Leandro's District 1 seat on the 7-member City Council (six district members plus the mayor): city ordinances, the budget, and land use, under a council-manager government with an appointed City Manager. A 4-year term. This is the first district-based election for this seat -- Measure F, passed at the city's June 2, 2026 special municipal election, converted Council elections from citywide (at-large) voting to single-member districts starting this cycle.

Sbeydeh Viveros-Walton, San Leandro's Vice Mayor and District 1 councilmember, drew no opponent and is unopposed.

This person would hold San Leandro's District 1 seat on the 7-member City Council (six district members plus the mayor): city ordinances, the budget, and land use, under a council-manager government with an appointed City Manager. A 4-year term.

This is the first district-based election for this seat -- Measure F, passed at the city's June 2, 2026 special municipal election, converted Council elections from citywide (at-large) voting to single-member districts starting this cycle. Because the district itself is new, the city's own candidate-filing notice treats this office as having no "eligible incumbent" for filing-deadline purposes, even though a sitting councilmember (elected citywide in an earlier cycle) is running for it.

Sbeydeh Viveros-Walton

San Leandro's Vice Mayor and its District 1 councilmember, currently serving a term that expires December 2026. She serves on the board of directors of the San Leandro Improvement Association. Her filed ballot designation is "San Leandro Councilwoman." Her own official City of San Leandro biography page does not fill in its Personal or Occupation fields, and this dataset found no independent profile, campaign site, or news coverage supplying that background either.

Strengths

current service as Vice Mayor and a council seat already held, plus an outside civic role on the San Leandro Improvement Association board.

Trade-offs

beyond her title and board seat, this dataset located no further detail -- her career background and specific priorities for this term are not established in the sourcing found.

Keep in mind

unopposed races carry less independent scrutiny generally; there is no financial info to report for either candidate here since there is only one.

Source review: Strong (86/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • 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/HTML API (POST /rov_app/candidatelist/) for all five San Leandro races (categoryId 600, raceIds 124-128): For Mayor (Juan González III, James Maes); For Member Of City Council #1 (Sbeydeh Viveros-Walton, unopposed); For Member Of City Council #2 -- Short Term (James Aguilar, unopposed); For Member Of City Council #3 (Lee Thomas, Joseph Trujillo); For Member Of City Council #5 (Xouhoa Bowen, unopposed). Names ballot designations verbatim as filed: "Mayor, City of San Leandro" (González), "Business Operations Director" (Maes), "San Leandro Councilwoman" (Viveros-Walton), "Appointed City Councilmember" (Aguilar), "Nonprofit Executive Director" (Thomas), "Chief Plant Operator" (Trujillo), "San Leandro Councilmember" (Bowen). The system's own "Incumbent" field reads "N" for every San Leandro candidate, including sitting councilmembers -- this dataset does not treat that field as reliable for city races given San Leandro's own confirmation (see san-leandro-clerk-candidate-info-2026) that the district seats have no incumbent for filing purposes this cycle only because the district structure itself is new, not because no one currently holds the office.
  • sanleandro.org (opens in a new tab)City of San Leandro -- City Clerk's "Candidate Information" page for the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election: states the July 13 - August 7, 2026 nomination period; that Measure F (passed at the city's own June 2, 2026 special municipal election) converted City Council Districts 1, 2, 3, and 5 from at-large to single-member-district elections starting this cycle, so "these offices have no eligible incumbents for the purposes of the incumbent filing provisions"; and that Measure F did not affect incumbent eligibility for the separately, citywide-elected office of Mayor, for which the City Clerk issued nomination papers to the incumbent.
  • sanleandro.org (opens in a new tab)City of San Leandro -- official City Council directory and "City Council" page: names the current Mayor (Juan González III) and all six district councilmembers -- Sbeydeh Viveros-Walton (District 1, Vice Mayor), James Aguilar (District 2), Victor Aguilar, Jr. (District 3), Fred Simon (District 4, not up this cycle), Xouhoa Bowen (District 5), and Dylan Boldt (District 6, not up this cycle) -- confirming which sitting officeholders are, and (for Victor Aguilar, Jr., absent from the county's District 3 candidate list) are not, seeking this cycle's seat covering their district.
  • sanleandro.org (opens in a new tab)City of San Leandro -- "Ranked Choice Voting" page: states RCV applies only to Mayor and City Council races (not county, state, federal, special-district offices, or ballot measures), that voters may rank a first, second, and third choice, and that the city charter requires a successful candidate to receive at least 50 percent plus one vote to be elected.
  • southtechhosting.com (opens in a new tab)City of San Leandro's own Campaign Finance Disclosure Portal (a SouthTech eRetrieval system, southtechhosting.com/SanLeandroCity/CampaignDocsWebRetrieval), checked directly: it is a DevExpress ASPX web-forms grid application whose candidate-name search requires a stateful postback keyed to a per-session token generated by the page's own client-side JS, not a plain queryable API -- it was not practically retrievable by a direct fetch in this pass. Separately, NetFile's own public agency directory (netfile.com/api/public/sites/api/agencies) was queried directly and confirmed San Leandro has no entry under any agency code among all 729 listed agencies, so San Leandro's candidates are not using that platform either. No dollar figure is asserted for any San Leandro candidate as a result.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia's San Leandro, California article -- 2020 census population (91,008), cited only for general context.
  • sanleandro.org (opens in a new tab)City of San Leandro -- Sbeydeh Viveros-Walton's own official biography page: names her title (Council Member District 1, Vice Mayor), her term (expires December 2026), and her community role on the San Leandro Improvement Association's board of directors. The page's own "Personal" and "Occupation" fields are blank -- this dataset does not supply either detail from any other source.

Last updated September 1, 2026.