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San Jose
Mayor Matt Mahan · Democratic · in office since Jan. 1, 2023
Matt Mahan
Mayor of San Jose, CA · Democratic · since Jan. 1, 2023
City No.
#13
by population
| Government form | Council-manager |
| Performance scoring | In development |
| Population | 989,814 |
San Jose uses a council-manager government, so day-to-day administration runs through an unelected city manager. The mayor's performance will be scored as shared, and labeled that way.
City outcome data (unemployment, crime, cost of living and more) is in the verification pipeline. We publish numbers only after they clear it. Methodology
San Jose sits in CA, whose governor Gavin Newsom holds a scored statewide record (No. 6 of 29). State outcomes are not the mayor’s grade — a city is not a state — but they’re the nearest verified context today.