Oakland, California Special Mayoral Election

Posted on by May 25, 2025

On April 15, Oakland, California, held a special election for Mayor, using ranked choice voting. Ten candidates appeared on the ballot. Here are the results.

One of the ten candidates, Eric Simpson, was the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party. He placed seventh.

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Oakland, California Special Mayoral Election — 62 Comments

  1. nooo more special elections –

    legis – candidate/incumbent replacement lists

    exec/judic – fill by law – officer or by appointment

  3. KGB agent SPAMBOT AZ 666 ??? CoG of CoGS ??? NOW not so sharp tool of killer derp state – globalist – fake news commie axis of evil ??? Not so sharp = so dull y’all get duller just by seeing its GIGAbytes of GIGO garbage in garbage out-put

  4. Reflexive knee jerk spambot spam of terrible, incredibly dumb ideas such as replacement lists

  7. Why was there multiple rounds when Barbara Lee had a majority on the first round with 50.06 percent?
    This makes no sense. With RCV, the only reason to have more than one round is when no candidate has at least 50%.

  8. Did California take six weeks to count votes in a municipal election? Or did Mr. Winger just come across last month’s results now?

  10. Bob,

    It’s true that many terrorists are inspired by Barak Insane Osama, both directly and indirectly. 32% sounds low to me, but could be true.

  11. Elias Rodriguez is our hero. He’s also dreamy, like Luigi Mangione! <3 <3 <3

  12. Barbara Lee was and is the true voice of socialist worker’s. Shame on the so call socialest woker party for tryna split her socialist worker’s vote. We must all unite behind Barbara Lee and fight unanimously with one voice until our capitalism class enema’s, the patriarchy, the oligarchy, and the blue eyed edomite devil’s are defeated once and for all! Free free Palestine!

    From the ocean, past the bay, up to sactown we must all be gay! Rainbow hugs and Allah Akhbar!

  13. @AZ,

    Why do you believe Oakland should replace their mayor by appointment? Who would you favor making the appointment?

  15. jr-

    if no replacement by law [such as vice-mayor], then appointment by law – by legislative body or 1 or more exec officers

    short terms for legis / exec officers – max 2 years

  18. Here we go with the retarded fake news spam from the spambot AZ 666, off topic TDS sputter and badly translated machine code. Another reason we need to remove and not replace the AZ 666 spambot with akismet plug-in.

  24. @AZ,

    I asked why you believed that Oakland should replace their mayor by appointment. Do you believe that Oakland should follow their city charter?

  29. My friend Roman Salute on May 25, 2025 at 12:01 pm said:

    @ spambot az 666 BULLSHIT about President Putin

    Yeah bro the spambot is always programmed to spew nonsense, and you know this man!

    From the same bro Vanya Vorobey:

    https://youtu.be/ArhB2D9LPzI

    No lies detected!!! I mean just saying…. Right ?!

    Real talk!

  30. NOOO local charters = one more scheme for special interests to get $$$

    see olde Detroit City charters — special loot-the -treasury pension stuff for so-called civil service hacks >>>

    Detroit Bankruptcy in 2012 — $$$ BILLIONS in pensions / bonds wiped out
    —
    all local govt stuff by general state laws / LOCAL ORDINANCES

  31. NOOO local charters = one more scheme for special interests to get $$$

    see olde Detroit City charters — special loot-the -treasury pension stuff for so-called civil service hacks >>>

    Detroit Bankruptcy in 2012 — $$$ BILLIONS in pensions / bonds wiped out
    —
    all local govt stuff by general state laws / LOCAL ORDINANCES

  35. Eugene,

    Lol yep…common ZenZe iZ Zo lacking nowadayZ…

    https://youtu.be/zAO_dqBdFZk

    Like the spambot keeps asking for with the fake news spam – they will eventually get what they are asking for if they keep asking Russia ppl enough times long and hard enough…

  36. @AZ,

    The California Constitution provides for city charters. Should the California Constitution be ignored?

    The Oakland city charter provides for a special election if more than one year remains on a vacant mayoral position. There are provisions for interim mayors. Oakland has had four mayors in the last few months.

    (1) Sheng Thao was recalled.
    (2) Nikki Fortunato Bas as Council President became interim mayor, serving until her term on the Alameda County supervisors began.
    (3) Kevin Jenkins was interim Council President who succeeded Fortunato Bas.
    (4) Barbara Lee became mayor upon her election in the special election.

  38. The AstroZeneca Alien Zombie aborted zygote ardently zealous azz zodiac adds zero…

    https://youtu.be/u3hceML5zJs

    Just a shot in the dark but, butt, that acid zoo(phile) always zany, ask Abraham Zapruder

  39. Roman, bro, man, fair enough, but before you get too carried away with the patriotic fervor – you are choosing for yourself and your immediate family. To live abroad, in enemy nation the USA no less.

    This is a choice, regardless of what underlies it – you do have other options and considerations as we are both well aware. So I have to bring this up – harsh but nevertheless quite true

    https://youtu.be/BHPH67CGApM

    What say you, bro? I know where we are speaking and you may respond in other place and format but you posted bro Vanya first and then continued to. Follow up, so it’s quite fair to throw this one back at you, would you to disagree?

  40. Eugene, I understand you say some not so nice things when you overconsume, it’s ok. I can respond here, using your chosen idiom. Respond privately, elsewhere, here, or not at all, whatever.

    You want unpatriotic? Here you go. Well, I wouldn’t say it’s unpatriotic, at all. It’s just reality. Facts are facts. They exist.

    https://youtu.be/MtAL3q6zR10

    I’m a dual citizen. I was born in America, I’ve been moving back and forth a couple of times as you know, for reasons you also know. Some things are when and where they have to be.

    Circumstances change, etc.

    Some things don’t change, like, wherever you go, there you are. I go – sometimes where I want to. Sometimes where I need to. Sometimes those coincide. You can go…well, you know, bro.

    I don’t think your last don’t really applied to me, do you? I don’t hate (y)our country. I love it. I may well go back to live there again. I don’t know yet how soon or for sure.

    Now sober up and consider your next move, mate.

  43. @ Roman

    Well, I wish I could say that your entirely wrong. However there’s at least some truth there, and I know you know I know etc. Etc.

    https://youtu.be/f_At8kaVQYo

    I don’t want to fight. Where’s Anna wannabe applebaum been hiding? These place just isn’t the same without her……

  44. @Roman

    Bro look sooner or later you have to choose one side or the other. Who do you stand with

    https://youtu.be/k2a4iWOaXK8

    You can’t serve two masters. Uncle Sam Amerika is the enemy. If you are stand with Russia, you need also to come back to Russia and make your stand, fight for Russia, expand borders ok but in adjacent areas, push those who don’t stand with Russia out. You know this bro.

  45. Who can survive anything, even a nuclear war? Only the Russian people! Fuck you’re Uncle Sam Asshole!

    https://youtu.be/3Egrh02mHak

    YouSA want to go to war? We’ll take you to war. And in the end we will win regardless of the price to be paid. Like ALWAYS.

  46. The fight is always the same, blood and soil. The hyperborean Eurasia polar Rus race is superior genetically and holds the most advantageous land position. This is why we alway win and always win. We are undefeatable . Let us all truly pray for world peace. If we go to war we win.

    https://youtu.be/MBvgtqVWMBc

    I really do mean everyone pray to God for peace. If we have to go to war we will destroy u and anyone else we have to , even if there is very little left. Of us, there will be NOTHING left of you. Understand, states of America?

  48. The Socialist Worker Party, as in currently, the Zionist Nutbar Cultist Party?

  51. Gary, your clown trump is tramp, he is playing with nuclear fire trying to talk bad about Russia and President Putin. God is with Russia, the third Rome, not your America, if it comes to that.

    America is country of gay pride parades and your clown president dances to the Village people, his favorite 1970s gay cosplay band.

    https://youtu.be/S6HkUMTf7JA

    The nerve of your clown tramp trump to make threats against Mother Russia. Jesus forgive all you American idiots, because we won’t. Not until our nuclear rockets penetration your airspace and reduce your cities and strategic bases to radioactive rubble and smithereens. That’s how tramp Trump will bless you fools.

    The song is even more true now than 6 years ago when bro Vanya sang it. To hell with your piece of crap west!

  53. jr-

    2025 special election turnout vs 2024 Prez turnout ???

    Oakland CA even more commie dead than Detroit, MI ???

  54. “No trolls” and “stop trolling” is mentally ill troll Chris Chan.

  56. A lot of dead communists vote in Detroit, don’t they? Oakland too.

  57. @AZ,

    What relevance is the 2024 presidential election to the mayor of Oakland?

  60. Awaiting consideration at (link in separate comment)

    I have a different explanation:

    https://thirdpartywatch.com/2024/10/21/opinion-the-era-of-parties-is-over/

    Addendum to that: during a period such as now when right leaning voters are relatively less dissatisfied with Republican leadership than at other times, or than left leaning voters are with D party leadership or than they are at other times, leftist (including some allegedly centrist) minor parties will do relatively better than right leaning minor parties, and vice versa.

    Many libertarians don’t like being classified as a right leaning party, much like e.g. the forward party does not like being classified as a leftist party, but at the same time that’s primarily who they appeal to , to the degree that they appeal to any nontrivial percentage of voters.

    Look at the other organizations at, for example, freedom fest, the talk show hosts, guests, and listeners primarily self identified or primarily identified by others as libertarians, politicians of other parties frequently called by others and in some cases themselves as libertarian – overwhelmingly rightist or right leaning.

    Many of the reasons libertarians are struggling right now are related to these various factors which are impacting all political parties, all minor parties, and/or all right leaning minor parties currently, and. You’re swimming upstream or spitting in the wind when you try to appeal more to the left. You’re too extreme on too many things to plausibly be a centrist party, as well. And whether you like it or not, most people still see politics as a left/right duality or spectrum.

    Yes, faction fights , “macho flash” behavior, and many other such things are impacting your performance too, but other more mundane explanations (besides those in the link and above) include the very fact of sticking with an increasingly outmoded 1970s model of opt in annually renewed dues paying membership to a national committee of questionable at best local relevance as your chief measure of organization strength.

    You might do better with a much more local and offline focus, ad hoc committees for various tasks, working on various goals through nonpartisan organizations and coalitions, focusing on individual campaign and cross campaign teams, among many other things, seeking out life members on one hand and monthly opt out card charge contributions on the other, etc, etc .

    Of course, you could also blame all of it on your faction fights – you had them going on when I was a dues payer and convention attendee of your party in 1987-9, 2008-9, and from what I’ve read before, in between, and ever since. But focusing entirely on that instead of, for example, surveying your former members as to why they opted to not renew, will only play into worsening that factionalization and attendant decline. At least, that’s what my experience in several different parties and reading on the subject over the course of about 60 years indicates.

  62. https://genius.com/Too-short-all-my-bitches-are-gone-lyrics

    All my bitches are gone, them bitches bounced
    I had a gang of’em, now they can’t be found
    They ain’t fuckin’ with $hort Dog
    Cause I’m from Oakland
    You fuck with us bitch, somethin’ gettin’ broken
    Your leg, arm, jaw, nose, pick a part
    Oakland motherfuckers’ll break your heart
    Until you recognize game in your face
    You’s a punk ass bitch, ain’t never been no place

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