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City of South San Francisco · Statewide General Election

South San Francisco City Council, District 1

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On the ballot

This person holds your district's seat on South San Francisco's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, plus appointing the city manager. A 4-year term. The council selects one of its own to serve as Mayor each year in an annual rotation -- not a separately elected office.

Only one candidate qualified for South San Francisco's District 1 council seat: Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu, a public interest attorney who chairs the city's Planning Commission. This contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

The seat carries a 4-year term on South San Francisco's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, land use, and appointing the city manager, alongside four other district councilmembers. The council selects one of its own to serve as Mayor each year in a rotation -- not a separately elected office.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has said she'll do, and what to watch once she's seated.

Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu

A public interest attorney and mother of two who chairs South San Francisco's Planning Commission. Her LinkedIn profile independently lists a policy role at the San Francisco Foundation, a 2012 California bar admission after USC Law, a seat on the San Mateo County Commission on the Status of Women, and a former board-chair role at the Asian Pacific Environmental Network. Her campaign platform centers on affordable-housing supply and anti-displacement policy, expanded childcare and elder-care access, and climate-resilient public spaces.

Strengths

Direct land-use experience chairing the Planning Commission, plus endorsements from Mayor Mark Addiego, sitting councilmembers, Rep. Kevin Mullin, and state Sen. Josh Becker.

Trade-offs

Her land-use experience is appointive, not from a directly elected budget-voting seat -- this would be her first elected office.

Keep in mind

Running unopposed means her platform faces no organized counter-argument this cycle; accountability for how she follows through runs through the council and the public rather than through this ballot.

Source review: Mixed (75/100) · 6 cited sources

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  • smcacre.gov (opens in a new tab)San Mateo County ACRE (Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder-Elections) -- Roster of Candidates, Qualified Candidates Only, November 3, 2026 General Election (CFMR009), dated 2026-08-25: the county's own certified candidate list, confirming both District 5 (Short Term) candidates and their ballot designations, and that Board of Education Trustee Area 2 is the only one of three expiring county trustee areas flagged 'On Ballot: Yes'
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- South San Francisco, California: 'Government and politics' section names a five-member City Council elected by district to 4-year terms, with the Mayor and Vice Mayor selected by the council itself in an annual rotation rather than directly elected -- confirming why there is no Mayor contest on the November 2026 ballot. Also names the sitting council roster (Mayor Mark Addiego, Vice Mayor Mark Nagales, and Councilmembers James H. Coleman, Eddie Flores, and Buenaflor Nicolas) and dates Eddie Flores's appointment to the council to January 26, 2021, filling a vacancy left by Karyl Matsumoto
  • voteaysha.com (opens in a new tab)Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu for South San Francisco City Council, District 1 -- campaign site: describes her as a public interest attorney and Planning Commission Chair, lists a housing/families/sustainability platform, and names endorsers including Mayor Mark Addiego, sitting councilmembers, Rep. Kevin Mullin, state Sen. Josh Becker, and multiple county supervisors
  • linkedin.com (opens in a new tab)Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu's own LinkedIn profile: Senior Program Officer-level policy role at the San Francisco Foundation, USC Law graduate admitted to the California bar in 2012, chairs the South San Francisco Planning Commission, and serves as a San Mateo County Commission on the Status of Women commissioner and former Asian Pacific Environmental Network board chair
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer search for "Aysha Pamukcu," "Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu," and "Pamukcu" alone: no results at all in any variant tried
  • smcacre.gov (opens in a new tab)San Mateo County ACRE (Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder-Elections) -- Roster of Candidates, Qualified Candidates Only, November 3, 2026 General Election (CFMR009), dated 2026-08-25: the county's own certified candidate list, confirming South San Francisco's five contests (Council Districts 1, 3, 5; City Clerk; City Treasurer), the qualified candidate in each, and each candidate's filed ballot designation

Last updated September 1, 2026.