Santa Clara County Elections & Politics Articles

Pamela Campos said she remembers being in middle school the first time she marched with her family for immigrant rights — an experience that set her on a path toward advocating for families in her community where housing and child …

Joe Lopez said he was thrust into the world of public service when he became one of the first bilingual hostage negotiators for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, an experience enhancing the decades-long law enforcement career that sparked his …

A Cupertino incumbent is dropping out of the City Council race to focus on her health, leaving an open seat in November.
Councilmember Hung Wei suspended her campaign Tuesday to prioritize her health after battling stage four lung cancer since …

Madison Nguyen, wearing black athletic pants and tennis shoes, walks with her 12-year-old daughter Olivia Tran in scorching 93-degree heat, canvassing an East San Jose neighborhood across from Story Road. They coordinate reading out house numbers, before her daughter jogs …

Campaign finance reports are crucial to learning who’s funding elected office seekers. But new data shows Santa Clara County is rife with disregard for election transparency laws.
Nearly 40 political campaign committees across the county have failed to file transparency …

Betty Duong knocks on the door of an East San Jose porch wearing a big floppy sun hat and white sneakers. She chats with the man who opens the door in Vietnamese about her run for the District 2 seat …

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has withdrawn his endorsement of Tam Truong, a City Council candidate and police officer who’s still running for office after county prosecutors charged him with grand theft related to mortgage fraud allegations.
District Attorney Jeff …

A coalition of elected officials that Gov. Gavin Newsom dismissed as "just a couple mayors," is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort to reverse lenient rules on retail and drug crimes.
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan announced …

Santa Clara voters in November will weigh whether to replace half their elected officials and decide who should win a highly-competitive open seat.
Voters will also be asked to cough up money to fix the city's crumbling roads and buildings. …

There are no elections in Los Gatos this year because no one in town stepped up to challenge the incumbents, guaranteeing two councilmembers another four years in office.
Councilmembers Matthew Hudes and Maria Ristow are up for reelection, but with …

A federal elections complaint against state Assemblymember Evan Low is intensifying Silicon Valley’s hottest congressional race and putting attention on the political role of nonprofits.
A complaint filed over the weekend by former Federal Elections Commission Chair Ann Ravel alleges …

Los Gatos voters don't have to wait until November to learn municipal election results.

With the stripping of a November ballot measure that proposed putting billions of dollars into building affordable homes in the Bay Area, housing advocates are pivoting their efforts.
Regional Measure 4 would’ve infused $20 billion in affordable housing funds across …

Now that the qualifying period for candidates in the Nov. 5 general election is over, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office has released a list of qualified candidates for races in Morgan Hill and other local communities and …

A former San Jose official is taking regional leaders to court over the wording of a $20 billion affordable housing bond, claiming it’s misleading voters.
Former San Jose Councilmember Johnny Khamis, along with 12 other registered voters across eight Bay …

Santa Clara County’s hottest congressional race may come down to which of two establishment Democrats can expand their base and capture more young progressive voters.
While former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo hasn’t exactly branded himself a progressive, his opponent …

Campbell officials are asking residents to boost the city's sales tax to the highest rate in Santa Clara County this November to provide revenue they say is necessary to maintain its quality of life.
The Campbell City Council unanimously voted …

The race for Santa Clara County’s most powerful governing body has candidates pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars to represent San Jose and the West Valley on the Board of Supervisors.
While District 2 candidate Madison Nguyen has raised …

According to an unofficial candidate list supplied by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, three potential challengers have shown interest in running to unseat incumbents on the Morgan Hill Unified School District of Board of Trustees.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, I was sitting inside Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co., waiting for State Assemblymember Evan Low to appear, when I received a text informing me he was running a few minutes behind.