Tracy City Council race unusually crowded: 3 candidates for mayoral seat, 11 for council

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News October 25, 2024October 27, 2024

Tracy City Hall in Tracy, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2023. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News/Catchlight Local)

In the city of Tracy, current and former councilmembers are competing in the mayoral race, and 11 candidates are competing for three potential City Council seats.

That is an unusually high rate of civic engagement in a time when many nonpartisan positions are going uncontested this November, part of a growing trend. In 2022, the nonprofit research organization BallotReady found that 62% of the nonpartisan positions up for election in the Bay Area were uncontested.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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