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Fresno County, CA

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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Governor
2 candidates
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Steve Hilton
REP
Biography
Steve Hilton is a Republican candidate for California governor, a former senior adviser to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, and a conservative media commentator. His campaign argues that California needs a change from Democratic one-party rule and frames its agenda around jobs, housing, schools, and public safety.
Top Priorities
  • Cut taxes and reduce regulatory barriers for workers and businesses
  • Lower housing costs and expand the ability to own a single-family home
  • Raise school standards and strengthen public safety
Campaign siteFull profile
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Xavier Becerra
DEM
Biography
Xavier Becerra is a Democratic candidate for California governor. He has served as U.S. secretary of health and human services, California attorney general, and a longtime member of Congress representing Los Angeles, and his campaign centers on protecting opportunity and making the California Dream more attainable.
Top Priorities
  • Make California more affordable for working families
  • Protect health care access and civil rights
  • Build, protect, and lead California through effective government
Campaign siteFull profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
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Rob Bonta
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Rob Bonta is California's incumbent attorney general and a candidate for re-election. A former state assemblymember from Alameda, he is California's first Filipino American attorney general and has emphasized consumer protection, civil rights enforcement, public safety, and defending Californians in court.
Top Priorities
  • Protect civil rights and constitutional freedoms
  • Hold powerful interests accountable through consumer and environmental enforcement
  • Improve public safety while supporting justice system reform
Campaign siteFull profile
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Michael Gates
REP
Biography
Michael Gates is a Republican candidate for California attorney general and former Huntington Beach city attorney. His campaign is built around law-and-order messaging, local government legal experience, and opposition to state policies he argues have weakened public safety.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen public safety and criminal law enforcement
  • Support local control against state overreach
  • Defend families, victims, and communities in the justice system
Campaign siteFull profile
Lieutenant Governor
2 candidates
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Fiona Ma
DEM
Biography
Fiona Ma is California's state treasurer, a CPA, and a candidate for lieutenant governor. As treasurer, she manages state banking, investments, bond financing, and public finance programs that support schools, housing, infrastructure, hospitals, and local governments.
Top Priorities
  • Expand housing and infrastructure financing
  • Strengthen fiscal transparency and public finance oversight
  • Support economic opportunity through state investment programs
Campaign siteFull profile
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Gloria Romero
REP
Biography
Gloria Romero is a former California Senate majority leader, former Democratic legislator, and Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. Her campaign emphasizes school choice, education reform, and challenging the state's current political establishment.
Top Priorities
  • Expand school choice and education accountability
  • Increase government accountability in Sacramento
  • Improve public safety and quality of life
Campaign siteFull profile
Secretary of State
2 candidates
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Shirley N. Weber
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Shirley N. Weber is California's incumbent secretary of state and a candidate for re-election. A former Assembly member and San Diego State University professor, she oversees statewide elections, business filings, archives, campaign and lobbying disclosure, and key transparency functions.
Top Priorities
  • Protect secure and accessible elections
  • Support voting access and civic participation
  • Improve government transparency and public records stewardship
Campaign siteFull profile
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Donald P. (Don) Wagner
REP
Biography
Donald P. Wagner is an Orange County supervisor, former Irvine mayor, former state assemblymember, and Republican candidate for California secretary of state. His campaign brings county election oversight, legislative experience, and public administration experience to the race.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen election integrity and voter confidence
  • Improve business and voter services
  • Run the secretary of state's office with efficient public administration
Campaign siteFull profile
Controller
2 candidates
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Malia M. Cohen
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Cohen is the sitting California State Controller, serving as the state's chief financial officer and sitting on more than 70 boards and commissions, per the campaign site. She previously served on the California State Board of Equalization, was the first African American woman to hold that seat, and was president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; she holds a bachelor's degree from Fisk University and a master's degree in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Protect fiscal accountability and independent oversight
  • Use audits and transparency to track public spending
  • Modernize responsible state payments and financial reporting
Campaign siteFull profile
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Herb W Morgan
REP
Biography
Herb W Morgan is a Republican candidate for California state controller and a finance professional. His campaign emphasizes auditing state spending, surfacing waste and fraud, and making California's finances easier for taxpayers to understand.
Top Priorities
  • Audit government waste and spending
  • Bring transparency to state accounting
  • Strengthen financial accountability for taxpayers
Campaign siteFull profile
Treasurer
2 candidates
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Eleni Kounalakis
DEM
Biography
Eleni Kounalakis is California's lieutenant governor, a former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, and a Democratic candidate for state treasurer. Her campaign connects public finance experience with housing, clean energy, infrastructure, and responsible investment.
Top Priorities
  • Use public finance to support housing and infrastructure
  • Invest in clean energy and long-term state resilience
  • Manage public money with transparency and fiscal responsibility
Campaign siteFull profile
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Jennifer Hawks
REP
Biography
Hawks is an accountant with a career focused on budgeting and financial management, per the campaign site. She describes herself as not a career politician and would chair or sit on six state boards if elected, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Restore transparency in state finances
  • Increase accountability and oversight of public funds
  • Promote fiscal discipline in debt and treasury management
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Insurance Commissioner
2 candidates
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Jane Kim
DEM
Biography
Jane Kim is a former San Francisco supervisor, attorney, educator, and Democratic candidate for California insurance commissioner. Her campaign emphasizes holding insurance companies accountable, protecting consumers, and improving access to coverage in a state facing wildfire and affordability pressures.
Top Priorities
  • Hold insurance companies accountable to consumers
  • Improve access to affordable home, auto, and health-related coverage
  • Address wildfire and disaster insurance availability
Campaign siteFull profile
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Ben Allen
DEM
Biography
Ben Allen is a California state senator and Democratic candidate for insurance commissioner. His campaign highlights consumer advocacy, experience responding to wildfire-related insurance problems, and work on legislation affecting consumers, the environment, and state governance.
Top Priorities
  • Put consumers first in insurance disputes
  • Improve insurance availability after wildfires and disasters
  • Stabilize the insurance market with transparent oversight
Campaign siteFull profile
Superintendent of Public Instruction
2 candidates
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Sonja Shaw
Biography
Sonja Shaw is president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board and a candidate for California superintendent of public instruction. The nonpartisan office provides statewide public education leadership, and Shaw's campaign focuses on parental involvement, academic performance, and local school accountability.
Top Priorities
  • Increase parent involvement and local school accountability
  • Improve reading, math, and classroom performance
  • Refocus schools on student safety and academic basics
Campaign siteFull profile
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Richard Barrera
Biography
Richard Barrera is a San Diego Unified School District board member and a candidate for California superintendent of public instruction. His campaign emphasizes public school investment, student support, workforce pathways, and collaboration with educators and families.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen public school funding and student support
  • Improve student achievement and career pathways
  • Partner with educators, families, and districts statewide
Campaign siteFull profile
Board of Equalization Member District 1
2 candidates
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Nelson Esparza
DEM
Biography
Nelson Esparza was elected to the Fresno City Council in 2018, where he is serving his second term as Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee, according to his campaign site. He teaches Economics at Fresno City College and holds a Master of Public Policy from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, per the site.
Top Priorities
  • Directing state tax revenue toward education, healthcare and public safety, per campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
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Shannon Grove
REP
Biography
Shannon Grove is a United States Army veteran who founded the staffing company Continental Labor and Staffing Resources, according to her campaign site. She was the first woman veteran elected to the California Legislature and currently represents the 16th Senate District, per the site.
Top Priorities
  • Opposing tax increases including protecting Proposition 13, per campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
Board of Equalization Member District 2
2 candidates
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Sally J. Lieber
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Sally J. Lieber is the Democratic candidate for California Board of Equalization District 2 on the November 3, 2026 ballot (ballot designation: Incumbent), per the Secretary of State's Certified List of Candidates for the General Election. Sally J. Lieber is the incumbent, per the Secretary of State. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
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John Pimentel
DEM
Biography
John Pimentel served as California's Deputy Secretary for Transportation and as a Housing Commissioner in Menlo Park, according to his campaign site. In the private sector he has created projects and companies that built clean energy and water recycling infrastructure, per the site.
Top Priorities
  • Reforming the Board of Equalization to operate fairly and transparently, per campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
Board of Equalization Member District 3
2 candidates
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Mike Gipson
DEM
Biography
Mike Gipson currently represents the 65th District in the California State Assembly, a seat he has held since 2014, according to his campaign site. Before the Assembly, he served as a Carson City Council Member, a police officer, and Chief of Staff for a former Chair of the Board of Equalization, per the site.
Top Priorities
  • Expanding access to affordable healthcare
  • Addressing homelessness
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Samuel P. Sukaton
DEM
Biography
Samuel P. Sukaton is the Democratic candidate for California Board of Equalization District 3 on the November 3, 2026 ballot (ballot designation: Labor Union Organizer), per the Secretary of State's Certified List of Candidates for the General Election. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
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Board of Equalization Member District 4
2 candidates
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Tom Umberg
DEM
Biography
Tom Umberg is the Democratic candidate for California Board of Equalization District 4 on the November 3, 2026 ballot (ballot designation: Small Businessman/Senator), per the Secretary of State's Certified List of Candidates for the General Election. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
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Denis Bilodeau
REP
Biography
Denis Bilodeau is the Republican candidate for California Board of Equalization District 4 on the November 3, 2026 ballot (ballot designation: Councilmember/Civil Engineer), per the Secretary of State's Certified List of Candidates for the General Election. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
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California Judicial Retention
2 candidates
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Kelli M. Evans
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Biography
Justice Evans assumed office January 2, 2023; before joining the Supreme Court she was a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court, and earlier served as Chief Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary in the Office of Governor Newsom, Special Assistant to the Attorney General at the California Department of Justice, Senior Director for Administration of Justice at the California State Bar, Associate Director of the ACLU of Northern California, a senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and an assistant public defender in Sacramento County; she holds a J.D. from UC Davis and an undergraduate degree from Stanford, per the court's official biography.
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Joshua Groban
INCUMBENT
Biography
Justice Groban was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Jerry Brown on November 14, 2018, and was sworn in on January 3, 2019; he had served as a senior advisor to Governor Brown since 2011, a role in which he oversaw the appointment of roughly 600 judges statewide, per the governor's official appointment announcement.
About this race
Retention vote: each judge appears alone with a yes-or-no question on keeping the seat. 62 more district or county retention judges depend on your address: see /judges/california.

Countywide races in Fresno County

ZIP 93609 sits in Fresno County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Fresno County races (15).

Measure S (Fresno County Transportation Improvement Act Measure)
1 candidate
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Measure S
Biography
Measure S is a Fresno County ballot measure on the November 3, 2026 general election ballot, titled the Fresno County Transportation Improvement Act Measure, per the Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters' election page. The measure's filed resolution and impartial analysis are posted by the county; this record is a ballot measure, not a candidate, and its full text was not accessible within this pass. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
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Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
The only county-wide (Fresno County government) measure on the November 3, 2026 ballot; all other Fresno County measures (A, B, D, F, H, J, O, T) are city or special-district measures, per the county's official election information page.

Statewide, California voters also decide 14 ballot questions — see the California ballot measures guide.

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