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San Jose City Council is the municipal government of the city of San Jose, California.

City Councilmembers
Mayor	Chuck Reed
Vice Mayor	Dave Cortese
District 1	Pete Constant
District 2	Forrest Williams
District 3	Sam T. Liccardo
District 4	Kansen Chu
District 5	Nora Campos
District 6	Pierluigi Oliverio
District 7	Madison Nguyen
District 8	David D. Cortese
District 9	Judy Chirco
District 10	Nancy Pyle

1 2006 Elections
2 2007 Elections
3 2008 Elections
4 State representation
5 External links
6 References

[edit] 2006 Elections

Primary Election, June 6, 2006

Mayor (City-Wide) Chuck Reed* Cindy Chavez

Council District 1 Jay James Pete Constant* Ross Signorino "Council District 3 Manny Diaz Sam Liccardo*

- Winner

General Election, June 6, 2006

Councilmember Chuck Reed defeated Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez in the November general election and took the position as Mayor in January 2007. Sam Liccardo replaced Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez whose term ended December 31, 2006. Councilmember Ken Yeager defeated Council colleague Linda J. LeZotte to replace Santa Clara County Supervisor Jim Beall who was elected to the California State Assembly in November 2006. Pierluigi Oliverio defeated Steve Tedesco in a run-off election March 6, 2007 to replace Councilmember Yeager.

[edit] 2007 Elections

Council member Kansen Chu (District 4) soundly defeated Hon Lien in a special June 5th election.

[edit] 2008 Elections

Vote June 3rd 2008 candidates running for City Council include:

District	Name	Website	Status
2	Jackie Adams	jackieadams.org	Out
2	Ash Kalra	ashkalra.com
2	Bui Thang	BuiThangforCityCouncil.com
2	Ram Singh	www.RamSingh.org

[edit] State representation

At the state level, San Jose is represented in the California State Assembly by the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 28th Assembly districts^[1] . As of 2006, those Assembly members are Ira Ruskin, Sally J. Lieber, Joe Coto, James T. Beall Jr., and Anna Caballero, respectively; all Assembly Members are from the Democratic Party.^[2] San Jose residents are represented in the California State Senate by the 10th, 11th, 13th, and 15th Senate districts. The State Senators are Ellen Corbett, S. Joseph Simitian, Elaine Alquist, and Abel Maldonado. Senator Maldonado is a member of the Republican Party, the other three senators are Democrats.^[3]