Election 2026

Help win a more walk and bike-friendly Bay Area on Tuesday, November 4, 2026! This election will be critical for protecting the future of safe and equitable mobility both here in the Bay Area and across the state. Learn where and how to vote in Berkeley.

Researching the issues and voting is very important, but you also have opportunities to shape outcomes by getting involved in volunteer campaign activities now!

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Berkeley City Council Candidates

Berkeley City Council Candidates

Since Walk Bike Berkeley is fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)3 non-profit, Bike East Bay, we are not allowed to endorse individual candidates. But we can promote and host forums, allowing all candidates an opportunity to answer questions and share their positions on various topics, to help inform your vote.

City of Berkeley Measures

Walk Bike Berkeley has endorsed Measures U and V, which are about making smart, necessary investments in our city.

VOTE YES on Measure U, an infrastructure bond that would help make a meaningful dent in Berkeley’s long list of infrastructure needs.

VOTE YES on Measure V, a half-cent sales tax that would raise up to $10m each year for our essential public safety needs: police officers, firefighters, and youth programming.

Regional Transit Measure

VOTE YES on the Regional Transit Measure (RTM), a five-county effort to save public transit in the Bay Area from devastating service cuts and station closures.

Bike East Bay has endorsed this measure along with hundreds of local elected officials, labor and business organizations, as well as non-profits community advocacy groups all asking you to VOTE YES ON MEASURE RTM.

State Propositions

VOTE NO on State Proposition 43

  • If Prop 43 is passed, a two-thirds (66.667%) supermajority of voter support will be required to pass any special tax increase vote going to specific expenditures, removing the current 50%+1 simple majority threshold option for citizen-led ballot measures. This was used to pass Berkeley’s recent Measure FF paving and traffic safety initiative, but Prop 43 would make most similar efforts impossible in the future.

VOTE NO on State Proposition 45

  • Prop 45 purports to streamline state environmental reviews (CEQA) and speed up project implementation. But its application includes enabling destructive and regressive projects like freeway widenings.

  • Bike, walk, and transit projects already have categorical CEQA exemptions statewide, so this proposition will not help sustainable transportation.