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4 candidates are tracked for Pierce County Council, District 1 on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Jerome O'Leary, Terrance Mayers, Kenneth King and Kelsey Barrans. Candidate information follows official Pierce County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
Open seat: sitting District 1 councilmember Dave Morell is not on the certified filing list, per the county's official council roster. Washington runs a top-two primary on August 4, 2026: every candidate for an office appears on one ballot, any voter may participate regardless of party, and the two highest vote-getters advance to November 3. Council districts appear only on the ballots of voters who live in them, so confirm your district with Pierce County Elections.
A senior vice president at the commercial real estate firm Kidder Mathews with more than 30 years in acquisition, leasing and sales across Washington and Idaho, per his campaign site. He started out in commercial construction as an estimator and project manager, and at 19 he founded Canopy Land, a Pierce County camper and canopy retailer he later sold to a manufacturer, per the same site. He is endorsed by the Tacoma Pierce County Association of Realtors, per that group's 2026 endorsement list.
2026 priorities
- Transparent decision making in county government, per his campaign site
- Responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, per his campaign site
- Government efficiency over partisan agendas, per his campaign site
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-07-31.
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A project manager for King County who also sits on the Bethel School District Board of Directors as its District 4 director, with a term running to 2027, per the district's official board roster. He holds an associate of applied science from Renton Technical College, studied at the International Culinary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, and completed a project management certification at Rutgers University, per the same roster.
2026 priorities
- Effective governance and fiscal responsibility, per his campaign site
- Protection of civil liberties, per his campaign site
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-07-31.
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A program manager for Foundational Community Supports who oversees behavioral health crisis response work across five counties, per his campaign site. His career runs through mobile crisis teams, intensive residential treatment and recovery navigation programs, and he holds an associate degree from Pierce College plus peer counseling and crisis intervention certifications, per the same site.
2026 priorities
- Securing utility grids, expanding transit access and finishing sewer and stormwater work to manage growth, per his campaign site
- Proactive crisis diversion programs to improve community safety, per his campaign site
- Balancing economic growth with environmental stewardship and fiscal accountability, per his campaign site
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-07-31.
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Director of transformational wellness at Green River College, where she leads a team providing basic needs access and support services to students, per her questionnaire to the 31st District Democrats. She was elected from Pierce County Council District 1 to the county Charter Review Commission and chairs that commission, per the same questionnaire, and campaigns under the slogan finding common ground for the common good.
2026 priorities
- Steering infrastructure funding toward projects in unincorporated Pierce County, per her campaign site
- Transit and road capacity for rural towns such as Orting, Buckley and Graham that have no transit service, per her campaign site
- Housing strategies each community picks for itself, from added density to incentives to rental subsidies, per her campaign site
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-07-31.
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