Sylvia Arenas
No Party Preference
Elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2022 with 54.4% of the runoff vote after serving six years on the San José City Council. Arenas was the first Latina elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the first Democrat to win the South County District 1 seat in a quarter century. South Bay Labor Council "Unionist of the Year." Focus areas include behavioral-health expansion, county hospital funding, child-care access, and tenant protections.