# South San Francisco City Council, District 1 Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu is running uncontested for South San Francisco City Council, District 1. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on South San Francisco's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, plus appointing the city manager. The term is four years. The council selects one of its own to serve as Mayor each year in an annual rotation -- not a separately elected office. - Jurisdiction: City of South San Francisco - 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/south-san-francisco-council-1 - 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: 75 out of 100 (Mixed), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu** — Policy Fund Director A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. 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 they'll do, and what to watch once they're seated. ## Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu A public interest attorney and mother of two who chairs South San Francisco's Planning Commission. Pamukcu's 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. Their 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:** Pamukcu's land-use experience is appointive, not from a directly elected budget-voting seat -- this would be their first elected office. **Keep in mind:** Running unopposed means their platform faces no organized counter-argument this cycle; accountability for how they follow through runs through the council and the public rather than through this ballot. ## Review notes - Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu for South San Francisco City Council, District 1 -- campaign site may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [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'](https://smcacre.gov/system/files/2026-08/52_candidateroster0825.pdf) 2. [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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_San_Francisco,_California) 3. [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](https://www.voteaysha.com) 4. [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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayshapamukcu) 5. [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](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Aysha%20Pamukcu) 6. [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](https://smcacre.gov/system/files/2026-08/52_candidateroster0825.pdf) ## The rest of the ballot South San Francisco City Council, District 1 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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