{"id":62810,"date":"2026-01-03T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/2026-marks-another-busy-election-year-for-san-jose\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:30:09","slug":"2026-marks-another-busy-election-year-for-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/2026-marks-another-busy-election-year-for-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 marks another busy election year for San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With five of San Jose\u2019s 11 City Council seats up for grabs in 2026, the city is gearing up for another busy election year. As the looming contests begin to come into focus, San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight has asked several local political observers to discuss the races and election storylines they\u2019ll be following most closely. They predict a campaign season that heavily features residents\u2019 concerns about affordability. They also said the five races have the potential to tip the delicate balance of power between the city\u2019s\u00a0opposing political camps of labor and business. Races to watch The next 10 months will see&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/2026-marks-another-busy-election-year-for-san-jose\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With five of San Jose\u2019s 11 City Council seats up for grabs in 2026, the city is gearing up for another busy election year. As the looming contests begin to come into focus, San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight has asked several local political observers to discuss the races and election storylines they\u2019ll be following most closely. They &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}