Tonight the five candidates running for mayor of Richmond will participate in Richmondside’s moderated candidate forum.
Mayoral candidates Ahmad Anderson, Claudia Jimenez, Demnlus Johnson, Eduardo Martinez and Mark Wassberg will discuss the issues facing the city and share their visions for Richmond’s future. The forum will feature a moderated conversation with the candidates followed by a community Q&A.
The forum will be livestreamed here via YouTube beginning at 6:30 p.m. and can be watched later as well.
About the forum
Richmondside is partnering with Richmond Confidential, a publication of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and The Advocate, the student-led newspaper at Contra Costa College, to co-host and moderate the event. Our newsroom also partnered with El TÃmpano, a media organization serving the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities, to help collect questions for the mayoral candidates from local residents.
The mayoral candidate forum, taking place at CoBiz in downtown Richmond, is the first of three election forums. The forum for District 3 city council candidates is May 7 at Easter Hill United Methodist Church and the forum for District 4 city council candidates is May 13 at the De Anza High School library.
About the June 2 primary election
This is Richmond’s first-ever primary election after voters passed Measure J, a ballot measure that changed the city’s election system, in 2024. For the primary election, only the top two vote-getters in races where no one wins a majority will advance to a run-off in the November general election. If a candidate receives more than 50% of the votes in the primary, they will win and that race won’t be on the general election ballot.
More election information
Richmondside aims to be your go-to source for election news. Find more resources, news articles and a list of key dates in our primary election voter guide.
