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Barbara Halliday
 
4897 votes
37.90%
- Occupation: Hayward Council Member
 - Council Member since 2004
 - Former Planning Commissioner
 - Former President, Southgate Area Homeowners Association
 - Former President, Southgate Swim Club
 - Former President, FESCO
 - Retired Medical Liability Claims Supervisor, Norcal Mutual Insurance Co.
  
Priorities:
- 1.	Working  with our neighborhoods and business communities to make the city safer, cleaner and more attractive.
 - 2.	Making sure Hayward continues to be well managed, fiscally solvent, and progressing toward long-term fiscal stability.
 - 3.	Striving to meet the goals established in our Climate Action Program.
  
Mark Salinas
 
4162 votes
32.21%
- Occupation: Councilman/Educator
 - Hayward High School \ 1988
 - Chabot College \ Puente Project Student
 - San Francisco State \ B.A. 1997
 - San Francisco State \ M.A. 1999
 - HIST and SOC Instructor, Chabot College
 - COMM and POC Lecturer, CSU East Bay
  
Priorities:
- Fully Staff fire and police
 - Create jobs and fill empty buildings
 - Strengthen Hayward schools
  
Francisco Zermeño
 
2942 votes
22.77%
- Occupation: Councilman/Educator/Businessman
 - Citycouncilman, 6 years
 - Professor at Chabot College, 35 years
 - Businessowner, Terlingua, 30 years
 - Master's Degree, UC Santa Bárbara
 - John Pappas Hayward Community Award, 1996
 - Martin Luther King Jr. Community Award, January 2005
  
Priorities:
- Economy
 - Education
 - Public Safety
  
Rakesh Kumar Christian
871 votes
6.74%
  
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