# State Senator, District 10 Compare records and positions simply between Linda R. Price or Scott Sakakihara for State Senator, District 10 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat in the California State Senate (4-year term). - Jurisdiction: California Legislature - 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/state-senate-10 - 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 24, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 88 out of 100 (Strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Linda R. Price** — Businesswoman · Republican - **Scott Sakakihara** — Councilmember/Navy Officer · Democratic This is an open seat. Democrat Scott Sakakihara led the June 2 primary with 29.1% and Republican Linda R. Price took 23.2%. The district covers part of southern Alameda County and the Tri-Valley. The winner holds one of 40 State Senate seats for a four-year term, inside a 12-year lifetime cap on service in Sacramento. Senate districts are twice the size of Assembly districts, terms run twice as long, and the Senate confirms the Governor's appointments. Because this seat is open, whoever wins starts without seniority. Neither candidate has held state office, so there is no legislative record on either side, and the funding gap is close to total — one raised more than $1.2 million, the other has reported nothing. That shapes how much either candidate has been able to say publicly, and therefore how much there is here for a voter to weigh. ## Scott Sakakihara Scott Sakakihara, a Democrat, is a Union City councilmember and former vice mayor. He is running for this open seat. He is a lifelong Union City resident. His grandparents were held at Manzanar during World War II (campaign site). He finished UC San Diego in two years. He earned his law degree with honors from Harvard (campaign site). He served in the Obama White House during the Affordable Care Act debate. He deployed to the Middle East as a Navy Reserve officer in 2021. He later worked as chief of staff for a tech company's finance team, overseeing a large budget (campaign site). He says his campaign is about "a California with real opportunity — where nobody is left behind" (campaign site). In December 2025 he left his job at Palantir Technologies. He said he grew uncomfortable with the firm's work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "I think what the company is doing right now is not okay," he said (East Bay Insiders). On the Union City council, he voted against a contract with a clean-energy vendor that also held ICE contracts (East Bay Insiders). He promises to "fight to lower the cost of housing, gas, and groceries" (campaign site). He says he will "defend immigrants, LGBTQ+ Californians, reproductive freedom, seniors" (campaign site). His platform calls for balanced community policing and expanded electric transit. He backs universal health care and preschool. He also wants what he calls "responsible innovation," holding tech firms publicly accountable (campaign site). **Strengths:** A documented career move leaving a lucrative tech job over its immigration-enforcement work, plus council and planning-commission experience. **Trade-offs:** No experience in the state Legislature, and a platform broader than what one city council term can be judged against. **Keep in mind:** He led a crowded June primary with under a third of the vote. How much a June plurality should weigh in November is the decision this profile leaves to you. ## Linda R. Price Linda R. Price, a Republican, is running for this open seat after a career as a human resources director and executive coach (Garry's Guide). They previously ran for a seat on the Fremont Union High School District board in 2022 (Garry's Guide). Price has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. No campaign website, public statement, or news coverage describing their positions in this race could be found. No stated platform or promises from Price could be located. What can be documented is their HR and executive-coaching career and their earlier school-board run (Garry's Guide). **Strengths:** Price gives this open seat a contested general election rather than a single-party race. **Trade-offs:** No record in office and no located platform leaves very little for a voter to evaluate beyond party and a prior school-board bid. **Keep in mind:** No record in office to judge; coverage of this race carries little beyond a past school-board run and their professional background. ## Record in office This is an open seat: no candidate on the November ballot currently serves in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress, so there is no legislative record to compare here. These records cover only those offices. ## Financial info - **Scott Sakakihara** - Primary: $1,242,176 raised (Small donors: $3,064; Individuals: $96,820; PACs & committees: $85,400; Businesses & other orgs: $7,900; Self-funding: $1,048,992) - November: $18,550 raised (Individuals: $850; PACs & committees: $17,700) Linda R. Price has no contributions reported to Cal-Access for this race. Figures are CA Form 460 filings through June 30, 2026 by committees controlled by each candidate, and can include transfers from a candidate's earlier committees. Semi-annual reports covering January–June 2026 were due July 31, 2026, so some totals lag a period behind. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-09-21. Linda R. Price has no itemized contributions dated after the June 2, 2026 primary reported to Cal-Access yet. Total is itemized (Schedule A) contributions and self-funding loans dated after the June 2, 2026 primary, through June 26, 2026 — small-dollar unitemized (under $100) contributions aren't independently dated in Cal-Access's raw export, so they aren't reflected here and this may undercount true small-donor activity since the primary. This also doesn't include money reported only on 24-hour late-contribution reports (Form 497) that haven't yet appeared in a periodic Form 460 filing. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-08-30. ## Review notes - Scott Sakakihara for State Senate may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)](https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/primary-election-june-2-2026/statement-vote) 2. [Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary](https://ballotpedia.org) 3. [Union City, CA — Mayor & City Council biography page (Scott Sakakihara)](https://www.unioncityca.gov/202/Mayor-City-Council) 4. [Scott Sakakihara for State Senate — campaign site (about and issues)](https://electscott.com/about) 5. [East Bay Insiders — "Scott vs. Palantir" newsletter on his departure from Palantir and a council vote](https://eastbayinsiders.substack.com/p/scott-vs-palantir) 6. [Garry's Guide — candidate entry for Linda R. Price](https://garrysguide.org/candidates/linda-r-price) 7. [Cal-Access raw data export — California Secretary of State](https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/helpful-resources/raw-data-campaign-finance-and-lobbying-activity) ## The rest of the ballot State Senator, District 10 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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