Election Report – Greens in June 2, 2026 elections in California
At least 13 California Greens are running in partisan and non-partisan elections
By Mike Feinstein, Elections Database Manager, Green Party of the United States
Highlight #1: Green candidates achieve vote totals in three statewide races, to ensure Green party statewide ballot status for next four years. Under California Elections Code 5100, an already statewide ballot qualified political party can ensure its ballot status for the next four years, if “the sum of the votes cast for all of the candidates for an office voted on throughout the state who disclosed a preference for that party on the ballot was at least 2 percent of the entire vote of the state for that office.”
In three races the total of the Green candidate or candidates in that race exceeded 2% – for Attorney General 4.9%, Secretary of State 4.3% and State Treasurer 2.4%
Marjorie Mikels, Attorney General
263,521 votes, 4.9%
Michael Feinstein, Secretary of State
124,329 votes, 2.3%
Gary Blenner, Secretary of State
106,432 votes, 2.0%
Glen Turner, State Treasurer
125,240 votes 2.4%
Highlight #2: Green State Assembly District 59 candidate Victor Hernandez received 30.4% of the vote and finished second out of two candidates, meaning he will advance to the November general election. –only the sixth California Green to do so in a state or federal legislative races since top two jungle primary elections went into effect in 2012.
Highlight #3: Registered Green Kenneth Mejia was re-elected as Los Angeles City Controller in a non-partisan race. Los Angeles has over 2,200,000 million registered voters, making this the largest election in U.S. history won by a Green Party member, in terms of the total number of registered voters in the district. The previous high was also in a non-partisan race in Los Angeles County, when in June 2001, Green Nancy Pearlman was elected to the Los Angeles Community College District Board, at the time with a district with almost 2,125,050 registered voters, spanning an area that included the City of Los Angeles as well as 33 neighboring cities.
Note: Mejia has been a registered Green since January 2024, but is not an active organizer with the party itself. Mejia hose to run in this non-partisan race as a politically independent voice for the City as Controller, neither seeking nor accepting any endorsements from political parties, elected officials or other politicians or political figures. This fit with the independent manner in which he has performed his oversight and investigative duties as Controller. The Green Party of Los Angeles County respected and embraced this approach, proud that an independently-minded elected official such as Mejia would chose to be registered Green in his personal capacity, while being clearly non-partisan in his official capacity as an elected official.
This list below of all known registered Green Party members running for public office in California in June 2, 2026 elections. Inclusion does not imply endorsement of any individual candidate or campaign.
You can also click on the name of each candidate below to go to their campaign homepage in the Elections Database, where their results will also be displayed, and where you can see all of their campaign social media links and other relevant information about their campaigns.
Partisan state and federal office (10 candidates)
Rudolph “Butch” Ware, Governor (write-in)
61 candidates on the ballot, plus seven more as write-ins, for two places on November ballot
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/governor
write-in votes not expected to be counted and announced until later during the vote-counting period
Gary Blenner, Secretary of State
4th/4 candidates for two places on November ballot
106,432 votes, 2.0% (7:44 pm, June 4)
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/secretary-of-state
Michael Feinstein, Secretary of State
3rd/4 candidates for two places on November ballot
124,329 votes, 2.3% (7:44 pm, June 4)
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/secretary-of-state
Glen Turner, State Treasurer
6th/6 candidates for two places on November ballot
125,240 votes 2.3% (7:44 pm, June 4)
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/treasurer
Marjorie Mikels, Attorney General
3rd/3 candidates for two places on November ballot
263,521 votes, 4.9% (7:44 pm, June 4)
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/attorney-general
Chris Richardson, U.S. House of Representatives, District 3
8th/8 candidates for two places on November ballot
1,152 votes, 1.0% (7:44 pm, June 4)
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-rep/district/3
Michael Petrelis, U.S. House of Representatives, District 11 (write-in)
Four candidates on the ballot, one more as write-in, for two places on November ballot
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-rep/district/11
write-in votes not expected to be counted and announced until later during the vote-counting period
Mark Rendon, State Assembly, District 14
Three candidates for two places on November ballot
4,839 votes, 8.7% (7:44 pm, June 4)
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/14
Michael Goldstein, State Assembly, District 18
4th/4 candidates for two places on November ballot
2,147 votes, 5.2% (7:44 pm, June 4)
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/18
Victor Hernandez, State Assembly, District 59
2nd/3 candidates for two places on November ballot
27,698 votes, 31.1 % (7:44 pm, June 4)
https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/59
With only two candidates in the primary election, Hernandez will advance to November ballot and become only the sixth California Green to do so since the top two jungle primary system went into effect in 2012. Here is background on the other five.
Non-partisan local government offices (3 candidates)
The following candidates are registered Green, but by law, since all of these offices are non-partisan, all candidates in local government races run without a party label
Kenneth Mejia, City Controller, Los Angeles (incumbent)
1st/2 candidates for one seat
291,734 votes , 59.38 % (9:30am, June 5)
https://results.lavote.gov/#year=2026&election=4338
Dan Kapelovitz, Judge of the Superior Court, District 81, Los Angeles County
2nd/2 candidates for one seat
225,627 votes, 20.45% (9:30am, June 5)
https://results.lavote.gov/#year=2026&election=4338
Jordan Rivers, City Council, District 15, Los Angeles
2nd/2 candidates for one seat
5,915 votes, 22.90% (9:30am, June 5)
https://results.lavote.gov/#year=2026&election=4338
