Santa Monica city, CA 2026 Elections: Candidates & Races

Member of the City Council

1. WADE KELLEY
2. ASHLEY OELSEN
3. ERICKA LESLEY
4. LANA NEGRETE
5. PHIL BROCK
6. DANIEL IVANOV
7. ELI GILL
8. BRETT MORROW

Measure ES: Shall a measure imposing a City of Santa Monica collected parcel tax of $495 per taxable parcel, adjusted annually for inflation, exempting qualifying seniors, affordable housing, non-profits, religious organizations, and schools, providing continual funding for Santa Monica’s public schools, including retaining teachers, assisting disadvantaged students, supporting art, music, science, math, and early childhood education, keeping school facilities clean and safe for student and community use, generating an estimated $12,000,000 annually until repealed by voters, with oversight requirements, be adopted?

Measure GG: Shall the City Charter be amended to: affirm the City of Santa Monica’s just cause eviction laws; allow Rent Control Board Commissioners to serve up to three terms, including appointed service; annually increase the cap on rent controlled unit registration fees; clarify Rent Control Board authority to regulate timelines for deciding rent adjustment petitions; and permit eviction from affordable housing units for tenants who are not eligible or do not establish eligibility?

Measure RR: Shall the City Charter be amended to prohibit evictions based on non- payment of rent when a tenant owes less than one month of the average of fair market rents, set annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for ZIP codes in Santa Monica?

Measure VV: Shall Article XXIII of the City Charter related to housing policies be amended to extend existing eviction protections to tenants renting single-unit dwellings and condominiums and require that for owner occupancy evictions from non-rent controlled units, the owner must intend in good faith to occupy the unit within 60 days after the tenant vacates and for at least 2 years thereafter?

Measure TT: Shall the measure, which maintains the existing transient occupancy tax rates; authorizes the City Council to establish Major Event Periods, as defined, when the tax applies to lodging paid for or obtained by corporate entities for stays over 30 days, and to adjust the hotel and motel tax rate for such stays; clarifies that refunds require a natural person to complete at least thirty-one consecutive days of occupancy, and authorizes administrative regulations, be adopted?

The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk final list of qualified candidates for the November 3, 2026 general election lists these countywide offices. Names are copied in the order printed on that list. County measure titles are copied from the county measures list, in the order printed there.

The candidate list also includes district, school, and special-district contests. It does not identify which places are in each of those districts, so those contests are not copied here.