| Election Name: | 2022 Oakland mayoral election |
| Flag Image: | File:Flag of Oakland, California.svg |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Turnout: | 53.28% |
| 1Blank: | First round |
| 2Blank: | Final round |
| Image1: | Mayor-Thao-Headshot (3x4b).jpg |
| Candidate1: | Sheng Thao |
| Color1: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data1: | 39,909 31.8% |
| 2Data1: | 57,206 50.3% |
| Candidate2: | Loren Taylor |
| Color2: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data2: | 41,510 33.1% |
| 2Data2: | 56,529 49.7% |
| Image3: | Ignacio de la fuente speaks outside an elementary school threatened with an ICE immigration raid (1).jpg |
| Candidate3: | Ignacio De La Fuente |
| Color3: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data3: | 12,893 10.3% |
| 2Data3: | Eliminated |
| Image4: | 3x4.svg |
| Candidate4: | Allyssa Victory |
| Color4: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data4: | 10,949 8.7% |
| 2Data4: | Eliminated |
| Image5: | Treva Reid, unknown date.jpg |
| Candidate5: | Treva Reid |
| Color5: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data5: | 7,627 6.1% |
| 2Data5: | Eliminated |
| Previous Election: | 2018 Oakland mayoral election |
| Previous Year: | 2018 |
| Next Election: | 2026 Oakland mayoral election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Libby Schaaf |
| After Election: | Sheng Thao |
The 2022 Oakland mayoral election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the mayor of Oakland, California. Incumbent mayor Libby Schaaf was term-limited.[1] Sheng Thao won the election and was inaugurated as mayor in January 2023.
The position is non-partisan. The election was held using instant-runoff voting, the rules of which include voters ranking their top five candidates. If one candidate receives a majority (greater than 50%) of the #1 ranked votes, they win the election, but if no candidate meets that criteria, then the candidates with the lowest votes are eliminated and tallying continues to the #2 ranking, and so on until a single candidate receives a majority of votes. Following election day, ballot tallying showed that no candidate received the minimum >50% of the vote necessary to win outright.[2] The two candidates with the most #1 ranked votes were Councilmember Loren Taylor and Councilmember Sheng Thao, with Taylor receiving slightly more votes.[3] Vote tallying continued for over a week, before Thao was eventually declared winner on November 21.[4] The final tally, after rank tallying, had Thao with 50.3% of the 113,636 votes and Taylor with 49.7%.[4]
| Candidate | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7 | Round 8 | Round 9 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | ||||||||||
| Sheng Thao | 39,909 31.79% | +118 | 40,127 31.84% | +268 | 40,395 32.11% | +241 | 40,636 32.36% | +443 | 41,079 32.90% | +1,565 | 42,643 34.41% | +2,017 | 44,660 36.44% | +8,430 | 53,090 44.22% | +4,116 | 57,206 50.30% | |
| Loren Taylor | 41,510 33.07% | +267 | 41,777 33.15% | +80 | 41,857 33.27% | +113 | 41,970 33.42% | +926 | 42,906 34.36% | +1,739 | 44,645 36.03% | +3,612 | 48,257 39.38% | +2,162 | 50,419 42.00% | +6,110 | 56,529 49.70% | |
| Ignacio de la Fuente | 12,893 10.27% | +199 | 13,092 10.39% | +80 | 13,172 10.47% | +87 | 13,259 10.56% | +671 | 13,930 11.16% | +585 | 14,515 11.71% | +970 | 15,485 12.64% | +1,053 | 16,538 13.78% | BGCOLOR=pink | -16,538 | Eliminated |
| Allyssa Victory | 10,949 8.72% | +166 | 11,115 8.82% | +63 | 11,178 8.88% | +296 | 11,474 9.14% | +325 | 11,799 9.45% | +1,294 | 13,093 10.57% | +1,056 | 14,149 11.55% | BGCOLOR=pink | -14,149 | Eliminated | ||
| Treva Reid | 7,627 6.08% | +195 | 7,822 6.21% | +57 | 7,879 6.26% | +95 | 7,974 6.35% | +304 | 8,278 6.83% | +744 | 9,022 7.28% | BGCOLOR=pink | -9,022 | Eliminated | ||||
| Greg Hodge | 5,798 4.62% | +135 | 5,933 4.71% | +55 | 5,988 4.76% | +138 | 6,126 4.88% | +760 | 6,886 5.51% | BGCOLOR=pink | -6,886 | Eliminated | ||||||
| Seneca Scott | 3,745 2.98% | +111 | 3,856 3.06% | +100 | 3,956 3.14% | +195 | 4,151 3.31% | BGCOLOR=pink | -4,151 | Eliminated | ||||||||
| John Reimann | 1,268 1.01% | +54 | 1,322 1.05% | +54 | 1,391 1.11% | BGCOLOR=pink | -1,391 | Eliminated | ||||||||||
| Peter Liu | 960 0.77% | +40 | 1,000 0.79% | BGCOLOR=pink | -1,000 | Eliminated | ||||||||||||
| Tyron Jordan | 863 0.69% | BGCOLOR=pink | -863 | Eliminated | ||||||||||||||
| Suspended | 810 | BGCOLOR=pink | -810 | |||||||||||||||
| Total active votes | 126,332 100.00% | -288 | 126,044 100.00% | -228 | 125,816 100.00% | -226 | 125,590 100.00% | -712 | 124,878 100.00% | -960 | 123,918 100.00% | -1,367 | 122,551 100.00% | -2,504 | 120,047 100.00% | -6,312 | 113,735 100.00% | |