Sacramento, California
| Sacramento, California | |
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| General information | |
Mayor of Sacramento
Kevin McCarty | |
| Last mayoral election: | 2024 |
| Next mayoral election: | 2028 |
| Last city council election: | 2024 |
| Next city council election: | 2026 |
| City council seats: | 9[1] |
| City website | |
| Composition data (2019) | |
| Population: | 500,930 |
| Race: | White 46.3% African American 13.2% Asian 18.9% Native American 0.7% Pacific Islander 1.7% Two or more 7.4% |
| Ethnicity: | Hispanic 28.9% |
| Median household income: | $62,335 |
| High school graduation rate: | 85.3% |
| College graduation rate: | 33.1% |
| Related Sacramento offices | |
| California Congressional Delegation California State Legislature California state executive offices | |
Sacramento is a city in Sacramento County, California. The city's population was 524,943 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.
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City government
- See also: Council-manager government
The city of Sacramento utilizes a council-manager system. In this form of municipal government, an elected city council, which includes the mayor and serves as the city's primary legislative body, appoints a chief executive called a city manager.[2][3][4]
Mayor
The mayor is a member of the city council. They preside over council meetings and official city ceremonies. The mayor also represents the city on the state, national, and international levels.[4][2]
The current Mayor of Sacramento is Kevin McCarty (nonpartisan). McCarty assumed office in 2024.
City manager
The city manager is the city's chief executive officer. The responsibilities of the city manager include overseeing the city's day-to-day operations, planning and implementing the city's operating budget, and appointing departmental directors and other senior-level positions.[2][3]
City council
The Sacramento City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for approving and adopting the city budget, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances.[4]
The city council consists of nine members including the mayor. While the mayor is elected at large, the other eight council members are elected by the city's eight districts.[4]
The widget below automatically displays information about city council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local government monitoring service, found in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to see more info and the full agenda:
Other elected officials
Ballotpedia does not cover any additional city officials in Sacramento, California.
Mayoral partisanship
Sacramento has a Democratic mayor. As of March 2025, 65 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 25 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, two are independents, four identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and three mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
Mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities. However, many officeholders are affiliated with political parties. Ballotpedia uses one or more of the following sources to identify each officeholder's partisan affiliation: (1) direct communication from the officeholder, (2) current or previous candidacy for partisan office, or (3) identification of partisan affiliation by multiple media outlets.
Elections
2024
The city of Sacramento, California, held general elections for mayor and city council on November 5, 2024. A primary was scheduled for March 5, 2024. The filing deadline for this election was December 8, 2023.
2022
The city of Sacramento, California, held general elections for city council on June 7, 2022. A runoff election was scheduled for November 8, 2022. The filing deadline for this election was March 11, 2022.
2020
The city of Sacramento, California, held general elections for mayor and Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 on the city council on March 3, 2020. A runoff election was scheduled for November 3, 2020. The filing deadline for this election was December 6, 2019.
2018
The city of Sacramento, California, held general elections for city council on November 6, 2018. The primary was on June 5, 2018. The deadline for candidates to file to run in this election was March 9, 2018.
2016
The mayor's chair and four seats on the Sacramento City Council were up for election on June 7, 2016. Because incumbent Mayor Kevin Johnson did not seek re-election, the filing period for that race was extended to March 16, 2016.
While the June election was called a primary, it was functionally a general election. The only races where no candidate won a majority (50 percent plus one) of the votes cast in the primary advanced to the election on November 8, 2016. The November election was called a general election, but it was functionally a runoff election.[5]
2015
The city of Sacramento, California, held a special election for city council on April 7, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was January 9, 2015.
The city held the special election to fill the District 6 seat of former council member Kevin McCarty, who won election to the California State Assembly in 2014.[6] The winner served a term that expired in 2016.
2014
The city of Sacramento, California, held nonpartisan elections for city council on November 4, 2014. A primary election took place on June 3, 2014. The filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in Districts 1 and 5 was on March 7, 2014. The deadline for Districts 3 and 7 was March 12, 2014.[7]
Four seats were up for election. These included Districts 1, 3, 5 and 7. Incumbents Angelique Ashby and Jay Schenirer ran for re-election in Districts 1 and 5, respectively. The former ran unchallenged. Districts 3 and 7 were both open seats.
A special election for District 8 coincided with the November 4 general election. The District 8 seat was vacated by Bonnie Pannell in April 2014. She was first elected to city council in 1998.[8][9]
Census information
The table below shows demographic information about the city.
| Demographic Data for Sacramento | |
|---|---|
| Sacramento | |
| Population | 524,943 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 98 |
| Race and ethnicity** | |
| White | 36.8% |
| Black/African American | 12.4% |
| Asian | 19.7% |
| Native American | 1% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.3% |
| Two or more | 15% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 29.5% |
| Education | |
| High school graduation rate | 86.9% |
| College graduation rate | 36.4% |
| Income | |
| Median household income | $83,753 |
| Persons below poverty level | 14.4% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2018-2023). | |
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | |
Budget
The city's budget process operates on a fiscal year cycle from July 1 to June 30. The city manager proposes a budget annually to the mayor and city council, who hold public budget hearings and are responsible for adopting the budget.[2][10]
Fiscally standardized cities data
The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[11]
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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, independent school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full picture of revenues raised from city residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the city government or a separate overlying government.[12] |
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| —Lincoln Institute of Land Policy[13] | ||
The tables below show estimated finances within city limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city budget.
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Historical total revenue and expenditure
To see the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the bars.[11]
See also
External links
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- City of Sacramento Official Website
- Office of the Mayor
- Sacramento City Council
- Sacramento City Code
Footnotes
- ↑ The mayor is included in this number as one of the city council members.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 City of Sacramento, "Sacramento City Code: City of Sacramento Charter," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 City of Sacramento, "Office of the City Manager," accessed September 14, 2021
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 City of Sacramento, "Mayor and Council," accessed September 14, 2021
- ↑ City Clerk of Sacramento, "Elective Offices," accessed September, 30 2015
- ↑ Sacramento, "Elections," accessed December 17, 2014
- ↑ City of Sacramento, "Candidate Information for the June 3, 2014 Primary Municipal Election," accessed March 10, 2014
- ↑ KCRA, "Bonnie Pannell to retire from Sacramento City Council," April 1, 2014
- ↑ City of Sacramento, "Elections," accessed October 1, 2014
- ↑ City of Sacramento, "Budget, policy & Strategic planning division," accessed on August 23, 2023
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ CBS 13 Sacramento, "‘I Can’t Breathe’: Police Brutality Protest Held In South Sacramento Streets In Honor Of George Floyd," May 27, 2020
- ↑ Movement Advancement Project, "Local Employment Non-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July 7, 2015
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