Tara Sreekrishnan
2021 - Present
2026
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Tara Sreekrishnan is a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education in California, representing Trustee Area 2. She assumed office on September 1, 2021. Her current term ends on December 11, 2026.
Sreekrishnan (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 26. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Sreekrishnan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2024
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2024
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 26
Patrick Ahrens defeated Tara Sreekrishnan in the general election for California State Assembly District 26 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Patrick Ahrens (D)  | 56.0 | 76,807 |
 | Tara Sreekrishnan (D) | 44.0 | 60,392 | |
| Total votes: 137,199 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 26
The following candidates ran in the primary for California State Assembly District 26 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Patrick Ahrens (D) | 34.4 | 25,057 |
| ✔ | | Tara Sreekrishnan (D) | 26.9 | 19,617 |
| Sophie Yan Song (R) | 21.9 | 15,965 | ||
 | Omar Din (D) | 12.1 | 8,779 | |
 | Bob Goodwyn (L) | 3.0 | 2,172 | |
| Ashish Garg (No party preference) | 1.7 | 1,221 | ||
| Total votes: 72,811 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Sreekrishnan received the following endorsements. To view a full list of Sreekrishnan's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here.
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Santa Clara County, California (2022)
General election
The general election was canceled. Tara Sreekrishnan (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tara Sreekrishnan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sreekrishnan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a child of immigrants growing up here, I benefited from the diversity and energy in this District. With an aim to pay it forward, I founded a non-profit organization that has empowered hundreds of students across Cupertino, San Jose, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale to actively engage in the environmental sciences and conservation. Connecting good schools to jobs of the future is why I serve our children as a Trustee on the Santa Clara County Board of Education – overseeing 270,000 students and balancing a budget of $300 million. I earned the confidence of our families and was re-elected in 2022.
With professional experience across all levels of local government – school district, city, county, and state – I’ve written and passed legislation that developed housing for the homeless, modernized our schools, curbed youth drug overdoses, and expanded job training and apprenticeship programs.- MAKING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS SAFE: Revitalize and reshape our public safety system to bolster community safety and tackle the underlying causes of violence and crime, including health services, housing, and jobs.
- EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION: Strengthen public education to ensure high-quality learning and academic success, creating pathways to prosperity for our children.
- CREATING STRONGER COMMUNITIES: Champion legislation to promote the development of affordable housing options as well as transit opportunities.
2. FIGHTING FOR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
3. EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION
4. PRIORITIZING OUR CLIMATE
5. SUPPORTING OLDER ADULTS
6. CREATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING
City of Santa Clara Firefighters Local 1171
350 Bay Area Action
California Labor Federation
California State Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar Curry
California State Senator Dave Cortese
California State Senator Nancy Skinner
California State Senator Melissa Hurtado
California Democratic Legislative Women’s Caucus
Former California Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Susan Ellenberg
Cupertino Union School District Trustee Ava Chiao
Cupertino Union School District Trustee Jerry Liu
Fremont Union High School District Trustee Stanley Kou
Santa Clara Vice Mayor Kevin Park
Santa Clara City Councilmember Raj Chahal
Sunnyvale School District Board President Isabel Jubes-Flamerich
Sunnyvale School District Board Trustee Nancy Newkirk
Sunnyvale School District Board Trustee Michelle Maginot
Santa Clara Unified School District Board President Vickie Fairchild
Santa Clara Unified School District Board Vice President Bonnie Lieberman
Santa Clara Unified School District Trustee Michele Ryan, Ph.D.
Sunnyvale City Councilmember Linda Sell
Sunnyvale Vice Mayor Murali Srinivasan
Los Altos School District Board President Jessica Speiser
Los Altos School District Trustee Shali Sirkay
Los Altos City Councilmember Pete Dailey
Los Gatos City Councilmember Rob Rennie
Former Cupertino Union School District Trustee Kristen Lyn
Former Cupertino Union School District Trustee Lorien Cunningham
Former Cupertino Union School District Trustee Emily Lee Kelley
Former Sunnyvale School District Trustee Reid Myers
San Jose City Councilmember Peter Ortiz
San Jose Unified School District Trustee Brian Wheatley
San Jose Unified School District Trustee Carla Collins
San Jose Evergreen Community College District Trustee Karen Martinez
East Side Union High School District Trustee Pattie Cortese
Alum Rock Union School District Trustee Minh Pham
Evergreen School District Trustee Jeremy Barousse
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin
Berkeley City Councilmember Ben Bartlett
Pinole City Councilmember Cameron Sasai
Former Fremont City Councilmember Anu Natarajan
Bob Levy, Santa Clara County Planning Commissioner, Environmental Leader
Narendra Pathak, Santa Clara County Human Relations Commissioner and Sunnyvale Community Leader
Timothy Oey, Chair of Sunnyvale Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission
Scott Duncan, Chair of the Sunnyvale Housing and Human Services Commission
Meena Juttukonda, Vice Chair of Sunnyvale Board of Library Trustees and Sunnyvale Parent Leader
Barry R. Vickrey, Sunnyvale Personnel Board Member and former dean of a law school
Prakash Giri, Commissioner, Sunnyvale Parks & Recreation
Barbara Fukumoto, Former Sunnyvale Sustainability Commissioner and Sunnyvale Cool Cities Founder
Dave Villafana, Former President of the Cupertino Education Association
Nancy Tivol, Former Executive Director of Sunnyvale Community Services
Shiloh Ballard, Former Executive Director of Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
Hoi Poon, Co-Founder, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, Environmental Leader
Linda Hutchins-Knowles, Co-Founder of Mothers Out Front Silicon Valley
James Tuleya, Sunnyvale Environmental Leader and Board Member, Carbon Free Silicon Valley
Dr. Gary Trott, Physicist & Climate Solutions Specialist
Debbie Mytels, Chair of Peninsula Interfaith Climate Action
Rev. Jethroe Moore, NAACP Silicon Valley
Kavita Gupta, Cupertino Science Teacher
Art Cohen, Former CEO of Bluelight Cinemas
Art Norins, Tech CEO
Mike Hennessy, Santa Clara Business Owner
Sven Thesen, Founder & CEO of Benisol Solar and ProjectGreenHome.org
Atul Shah, Santa Clara Community Leader
Wes Mukoyama, Santa Clara Community Leader
Sue Barbieri, Sunnyvale Community Leader & Local Centenarian
Mahesh Nihalani, Cupertino Community Leader
Frank Geefay, Cupertino Housing Advocate
Richard Adler, Cupertino Environmental Leader
Rohan Pandit, Cupertino Environmental Leader
Gary Latshaw, Cupertino Environmental Leader
Kathy Battat, Environmental Leader
John McKenna, Environmental Leader
Monica Mallon, Transit, Environmental Advocate, San Jose Community Leader
David Poeschel, San Jose Environmental Leader
Brian Haberly, Environmental Leader
Lauren Weston, Executive Director, Acterra
Bill DeVincenzi, San Jose Environmental and Education Leader
Peri Plantenberg, Sunnyvale High School Student of the Year 2020
Elisabeth Floyd, Student Trustee, Fremont Union High School District
Natalia Esparza, Sunnyvale High School Student of the Year 2022
Kaushik Tota, Sunnyvale High School Student of the Year 2019
Abhimanyu Jayarman, Cupertino Student
Maxim Medvedev, De Anza College Student
Daphne Zhu, Lynbrook High School Student
Rosie Chen, Wilcox High School Student
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2022
Tara Sreekrishnan did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
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