2022 Oakland mayoral election
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The 2022 Oakland mayoral election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the mayor of Oakland, California. Incumbent mayor Libby Schaaf was term-limited.[1] Sheng Thao won the election and was inaugurated as mayor in January 2023.
The position is non-partisan. The election was held using instant-runoff voting, the rules of which include voters ranking their top five candidates. If one candidate receives a majority (greater than 50%) of the #1 ranked votes, they win the election, but if no candidate meets that criteria, then the candidates with the lowest votes are eliminated and tallying continues to the #2 ranking, and so on until a single candidate receives a majority of votes. Following election day, ballot tallying showed that no candidate received the minimum >50% of the vote necessary to win outright.[2] The two candidates with the most #1 ranked votes were Councilmember Loren Taylor and Councilmember Sheng Thao, with Taylor receiving slightly more votes.[3] Vote tallying continued for over a week, before Thao was eventually declared winner on November 21.[4] The final tally, after rank tallying, had Thao with 50.3% of the 113,636 votes and Taylor with 49.7%.[4]
Qualified
- Ignacio De La Fuente, former city councilor from the 5th district and candidate for mayor in 1998 and 2006[5]
- Greg Hodge, former school board member[6]
- Tyron Jordan, paralegal[7]
- Peter Liu, entrepreneur and perennial candidate[7]
- Treva Reid, city councilor from the 7th district[7]
- John Reimann, retired carpenter and Carpenters Local 713 secretary[7]
- Seneca Scott, housing activist[8]
- Loren Taylor, city councilor from the 6th district[6]
- Sheng Thao, city councilor from the 4th district[6]
- Allyssa Victory, labor union attorney[6]
Disqualified
- Monesha "MJ" Carter[9]
- Derrick Soo[citation needed]
Endorsements
Local officials
- Sam Liccardo, incumbent Mayor of San Jose[10]
- Darrell Steinberg, Mayor of Sacramento[11]
- Michael Tubbs, former Mayor of Stockton[11]
Newspapers
State officials
State legislators
- Mia Bonta, state assemblywoman for the 18th district[13]
Local officials
- Nikki Fortunato Bas, President of the Oakland City Council[14]
- Rebecca Kaplan, Vice Mayor of Oakland[14]
Organizations
Organizations
- Oakland Tenants Union[17]
Results
| 2022 Oakland mayoral election results[20] | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Candidate | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7 | Round 8 | Round 9 | |||||||||
| Votes | Transfer | Votes | Transfer | Votes | Transfer | Votes | Transfer | Votes | Transfer | Votes | Transfer | Votes | Transfer | Votes | Transfer | Votes | ||
| Sheng Thao |
39,909 31.79% |
+118 | 40,127 31.84% |
+268 | 40,395 32.11% |
+241 | 40,636 32.36% |
+443 | 41,079 32.90% |
+1,565 | 42,643 34.41% |
+2,017 | 44,660 36.44% |
+8,430 | 53,090 44.22% |
+4,116 | 57,206 50.30% | |
| Loren Taylor | 41,510 33.07% |
+267 | 41,777 33.15% |
+80 | 41,857 33.27% |
+113 | 41,970 33.42% |
+926 | 42,906 34.36% |
+1,739 | 44,645 36.03% |
+3,612 | 48,257 39.38% |
+2,162 | 50,419 42.00% |
+6,110 | 56,529 49.70% | |
| Ignacio de la Fuente |
12,893 10.27% |
+199 | 13,092 10.39% |
+80 | 13,172 10.47% |
+87 | 13,259 10.56% |
+671 | 13,930 11.16% |
+585 | 14,515 11.71% |
+970 | 15,485 12.64% |
+1,053 | 16,538 13.78% |
-16,538 | Eliminated | |
| Allyssa Victory | 10,949 8.72% |
+166 | 11,115 8.82% |
+63 | 11,178 8.88% |
+296 | 11,474 9.14% |
+325 | 11,799 9.45% |
+1,294 | 13,093 10.57% |
+1,056 | 14,149 11.55% |
-14,149 | Eliminated | |||
| Treva Reid | 7,627 6.08% |
+195 | 7,822 6.21% |
+57 | 7,879 6.26% |
+95 | 7,974 6.35% |
+304 | 8,278 6.83% |
+744 | 9,022 7.28% |
-9,022 | Eliminated | |||||
| Greg Hodge | 5,798 4.62% |
+135 | 5,933 4.71% |
+55 | 5,988 4.76% |
+138 | 6,126 4.88% |
+760 | 6,886 5.51% |
-6,886 | Eliminated | |||||||
| Seneca Scott | 3,745 2.98% |
+111 | 3,856 3.06% |
+100 | 3,956 3.14% |
+195 | 4,151 3.31% |
-4,151 | Eliminated | |||||||||
| John Reimann | 1,268 1.01% |
+54 | 1,322 1.05% |
+54 | 1,391 1.11% |
-1,391 | Eliminated | |||||||||||
| Peter Liu | 960 0.77% |
+40 | 1,000 0.79% |
-1,000 | Eliminated | |||||||||||||
| Tyron Jordan | 863 0.69% |
-863 | Eliminated | |||||||||||||||
| Suspended[a] | 810 | -810 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total active votes |
126,332 100.00% |
-288 | 126,044 100.00% |
-228 | 125,816 100.00% |
-226 | 125,590 100.00% |
-712 | 124,878 100.00% |
-960 | 123,918 100.00% |
-1,367 | 122,551 100.00% |
-2,504 | 120,047 100.00% |
-6,312 | 113,735 100.00% | |
| Candidate | Maximum round |
Maximum votes |
Share in maximum round |
Maximum votes First round votesTransfer votes |
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| Sheng Thao | 9 | 56,841 | 50.3% |
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| Loren Taylor | 9 | 56,161 | 49.7% |
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| Ignacio de la Fuente | 8 | 16,538 | 13.8% |
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| Allyssa Victory | 7 | 14,149 | 11.6% |
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| Treva Reid | 6 | 9,022 | 7.3% |
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| Greg Hodge | 5 | 6,886 | 5.5% |
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| Seneca Scott | 4 | 4,151 | 3.3% |
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| John Reimann | 3 | 1,391 | 1.1% |
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| Peter Liu | 2 | 1,000 | 0.8% |
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| Tyron Jordan | 1 | 860 | 0.7% |
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