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Voters in cities across Alameda County will elect a county supervisor on Election Day, as well as a Bay Area Rapid Transit District director, mayors, and city council members. 

Oakland voters will elect a 4th District council member to replace Dick Spees, who decided not to seek re-election this year following a 24-year run on the City Council. Jean Quan, a member of the Oakland Unified School District Board of Education, Is running against attorney David A. Stein for the seat. 

City of Alameda voters will elect a new mayor among councilmembers Barbara A. Kerr and Beverly Johnson, retired Navy Capt. Bill Withrow, and school supervisor Denise Timney Ranish. Voters in the island city will also elect two members of the City Council. 

Voters in the cities of San Leandro, Dublin, and Pleasanton will all elect mayors and members of the city council on Nov. 5. Voters in Fremont and Albany will choose two members of the city council. 

The voters of Castro Valley, who will also vote on whether to become an incorporated city, will elect five members for the possible city council for the proposed municipality. 

In the Board of Supervisors race, 3rd District incumbent Alice Lai-Bitker is running against the late Ralph Appezzato, former mayor of Alameda who took his own life in mid-September, but whose name remains on the ballot. 

If Appezzato is elected, the Board of Supervisors will then have 60 days to make an appointment to the vacant seat. In the event that the board does not make an appointment, it would be up to the governor to fill the seat. 

Thomas M. Blalock and Nancy Jewell Cross are vying for the 6th District seat of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit.