{"id":110784,"date":"2026-06-07T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/jones-dickson-widens-lead-in-alameda-county-district-attorney-race\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:37:27","slug":"jones-dickson-widens-lead-in-alameda-county-district-attorney-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/jones-dickson-widens-lead-in-alameda-county-district-attorney-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones Dickson Widens Lead in Alameda County District Attorney Race"},"content":{"rendered":"


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With more ballots tallied, Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson remains well ahead of former DA Pamela Price in the closely watched race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. Jones Dickson reversed many of Price\u2019s policies and decisions, a move that Price publicly rebuked.<\/span>\u00a0(Martin do Nascimento\/KQED)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At an election night watch party in downtown Oakland Tuesday, Jones Dickson told a crowd of supporters:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not over till it\u2019s over, so I don\u2019t celebrate before the eggs hatch. But what I see here is very encouraging,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Jones Dickson\u2019s campaign reserved the top deck of Mad Oak for its election night party, attended by staff members, attorneys and supporters.<\/p>\n

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Pamela Price speaks at a press event announcing her candidacy for the Alameda County District Attorney in Hayward on Dec. 4, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento\/KQED)<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wearing a bubblegum-pink blazer, Jones Dickson delivered brief remarks to staff members and supporters before the event got underway. Attendees in business attire, suits and button-down shirts mingled with cocktails and catered food.<\/p>\n

Supporters who were not affiliated with the campaign said they backed Jones Dickson because of her focus on crime victims. Some said they had noticed improvements in public safety in Oakland.
As election returns rolled in, supporters applauded and cheered.<\/p>\n

Under a 2022 law that shifted Alameda County district attorney elections to presidential election years, the winner of the 2026 race will serve a two-year term<\/a> instead of the customary four years.<\/p>\n

The office will then be on the ballot again in 2028 for a full four-year term. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors selected<\/a> Jones Dickson in February 2025 from a pool of mostly current and former Bay Area prosecutors after nearly 63% of voters voted to recall Price<\/a> in the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n

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Prior to being appointed, Jones Dickson was an Alameda County Superior Court judge for 11 years. She had also previously worked as a prosecutor with the Alameda County district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Price, a progressive DA who ran on a platform of restorative justice, faced opposition from critics who accused her of being too lenient on crime and of mismanaging the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Upon assuming office, Jones Dickson reversed many of Price\u2019s policies and decisions, a move that Price publicly rebuked.<\/a> She also said her office had inherited a substantial backlog of cases.<\/p>\n

At press conferences and during debates, Jones Dickson said she viewed the role of the district attorney as one that does not take political or ideological positions and talked frequently about centering the needs of victims of crime.<\/p>\n

Nic Allen, a Jones Dickson supporter, pointed to fairness as a defining trait of her approach to the justice system.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think her fairness being a part of the justice system, at times it can be unjust, especially to Black and brown people, and her fairness has been all of her strength from the time she became a prosecutor to a judge, and now as the DA\u2026 she doesn\u2019t waver from that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December, Price announced she was running<\/a> to get her old job back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI come here today because I stand in the gap for vulnerable communities,\u201d Price said at a campaign launch event in Hayward. \u201cAlameda County wants real justice that does not bend for wealth, status or political connections. I will be the district attorney who puts people first. I will go after corporate criminals, and I will hold law enforcement officers accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail, Price said her critics had been fixated on removing her from office before she started the job and there was more work to do.<\/p>\n

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Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson at KQED on Oct. 23, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento\/KQED)<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Activist and UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Angela Davis supported Price\u2019s bid for reelection, as did civil rights attorney John Burris and Elaine Brown, the former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party.<\/p>\n

Krishan, a political newcomer who ran on a campaign of bringing renewed energy to the office and fighting for the county\u2019s immigrants.<\/p>\n

Jones Dickson was endorsed by the Alameda County Democratic Party and a wide selection of current and former Democratic elected officials, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, former District Attorney Nancy O\u2019Malley and Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez.<\/p>\n

KQED\u2019s Maria Fernanda Bernal<\/a> contributed to this story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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