2020 Stockton, California, mayoral election

Stockton, California,held an election for mayor on March 3, 2020, with a runoff election held on November 3, 2020. Despite a strong performance in the primary, incumbent Democrat Michael Tubbs was defeated by Republican Kevin Lincoln in the general election.

2020 Stockton, California, mayoral election

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Turnout	42.38% (primary) 75.13% (runoff)
Candidate Kevin Lincoln Michael Tubbs Bill Smith Popular vote 10,927 (primary) 57,276 (runoff) 21,016 (primary) 44,206 (runoff) 5,679 (primary) Percentage 20.7% (primary) 56.4% (runoff) 39.9% (primary) 43.6% (runoff) 10.8% (primary)   Candidate Motec P. Sanchez Shoua Lo Popular vote 5,523 (primary) 2,773 (primary) Percentage 10.5% (primary) 5.3% (primary)
Mayor before election Michael Tubbs Elected mayor Kevin Lincoln

Municipal elections in California are officially nonpartisan; candidates' party affiliations do not appear on the ballot.

Candidates

Declared

• Shelly Hollis, business owner and filmmaker^[1]
• Andrew Lee Johnson, business owner^[1]
• Kevin Lincoln, candidate for State Assembly in 2016^[2] (party preference: Republican)
• Shoua Lo, environmentalist and chemical engineer^[3]
• Motec Patrick Sanchez, community advocate and USMC veteran^[4]
• Bill Smith, project manager^[5]
• Michael Tubbs, incumbent mayor and former city council member^[2] (party preference: Democratic)
• Ralph Lee White, former city council member and candidate for mayor in 2012^[6]

Results

First round

2020 Stockton mayoral election^[7]

Candidate		Votes	%
Michael Tubbs (incumbent)		21,016	39.90%
Kevin Lincoln		10,927	20.74%
Bill Smith		5,679	10.78%
Motec Patrick Sanchez		5,523	10.49%
Shoua Lo		2,773	5.26%
Ralph Lee White		2,179	4.14%
Shelly Hollis		1,698	3.22%
Andrew Lee Johnson		674	1.28%
Total votes		52,674	100.00%

Runoff

2020 Stockton mayoral runoff election^[8]

Candidate		Votes	%
Kevin Lincoln		57,276	56.44%
Michael Tubbs (incumbent)		44,206	43.56%
Total votes		101,482	100.00%