Cities in California

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Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of elections in the 100 largest cities in America by population and the largest counties that overlap those cities. This encompasses all city, county, judicial, school district, and special district offices appearing on the ballot within those cities.

This page includes the following resources:

Cities

City government

Click the links in the table below for information about the cities in Ballotpedia's coverage scope and the county governments that overlap those cities:

City County
Anaheim Orange County
Bakersfield Kern County
Chula Vista San Diego County
Fremont Alameda County
Fresno Fresno County
Irvine Orange County
Long Beach Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Los Angeles County
Oakland Alameda County
Riverside Riverside County
Sacramento Sacramento County
Santa Ana Orange County
San Bernardino San Bernardino County
San Diego San Diego County
San Jose San Francisco County
San Jose Santa Clara County
Santa Clarita Los Angeles County
Stockton San Joaquin County

According to a 2022 study from the U.S. Census Bureau, this state's local governments consist of 57 counties, 482 cities, towns, and villages, and 2,949 special districts.[1]

San Francisco is a consolidated city-county government, exercising powers and responsibilities of both forms of government.


Elections

Click the links below for information about the elections held in each municipality. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of municipalities that held elections each year in this state; click here to learn more about Ballotpedia's local government coverage scope.

2025

See also: United States municipal elections, 2025 and School board elections, 2025

2024

See also: United States municipal elections, 2024 and School board elections, 2024

2023

See also: United States municipal elections, 2023 and School board elections, 2023

2022

See also: United States municipal elections, 2022 and School board elections, 2022

2021

See also: United States municipal elections, 2021 and School board elections, 2021

2020

See also: United States municipal elections, 2020 and School board elections, 2020

Past elections


Initiative process availability

See also: Laws governing local ballot measures in California

The local units of government in California that make the initiative process available are:

  • All 361 general law cities, which have a state mandated initiative and referendum process for ordinances.
  • All 121 charter cities, which have a state mandated initiative and referendum process for charter amendments.
  • All 44 general law counties, which have a state mandated initiative and referendum process for ordinances.
  • All 14 charter counties, which have a state mandated initiative and referendum process.[2]

See also

California Municipal government Other local coverage
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External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, "2022 Census of Governments – Organization," accessed October 16, 2023
  2. ↑ Ballotpedia, "Types and #'s of local government by state," September 1, 2012
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