Estuardo Mazariegos

Nonpartisan · CA

Estuardo Mazariegos is a community organizer and co-director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), running for City Council District 9. An immigrant and roughly 20-year organizer in South Los Angeles, he is running a corporate-donation-free campaign centered on tenant protections, eviction defense, and affordable-housing production, with backing from DSA-LA. He advanced to the November 2026 runoff with about 26% in the June primary against Jose Ugarte.

Campaign Finance Information · Member of the City Council, District No. 9 · November 3, 2026

Data last updated July 27, 2026

Raised: $254,294
Spent: $325,113
Cash on hand: $118,181
Public funds: $236,200

Top disclosed occupations of direct donors

Organizer$33,901
Not Employed$19,537
Attorney$7,195
Professor$5,691

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Writer$5,058
Consultant$4,293
Producer$3,450
Lawyer$3,316
Director$2,977
Executive Director$2,415
City planner$2,336
Student$2,118
actor$2,000
Communications$1,906
Self$1,800
Social Worker$1,671
Filmmaker$1,500
Accountant$1,460
Program manager$1,412
Creative Director$1,393

Direct contributions by size

$5,000+$69,090
$1,000-$4,999$41,082
$500-$999$25,311
$250-$499$28,284
$100-$249$74,612
$1-$99$17,008

Spending by outside groups

Money spent on this race by outside groups — such as PACs and super PACs — not by the candidate's own campaign. This spending is not coordinated with the candidate's campaign and does not go directly to the candidate.

Outside money spent supporting this candidate: $123,454

Groups that spent money supporting this candidate (2)

TEACHERS AND COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ESTUARDO MAZARIEGOS FOR CITY COUNCIL AND MARISSA ROY FOR CITY ATTORNEY 2026, SPONSORED BY UNITED TEACHERS LOS ANGELES AND ACCE$118,398
Sponsored by United Teachers Los Angeles, the 35,000-member LA teachers' union, and the community group ACCE. · data.lacity.org · utla.net · acceaction.org
California Working Families Party$5,056
The California branch of the Working Families Party, a progressive party started by labor unions and community groups. · caworkingfamilies.org · en.wikipedia.org

Outside money spent opposing this candidate: $97,421

Groups that spent money opposing this candidate (1)

Los Angeles Police Protective League Independent Expenditure Committee$97,421
Police money: funded mainly by the LAPD officers' union, plus the real-estate firms Douglas Emmett and Kilroy Realty. · data.lacity.org · en.wikipedia.org

Member communications

Money organizations — such as unions or trade associations — reported spending to talk to their own members about this candidate. Disclosed separately from outside spending, and it does not go to the candidate.

Spent supporting this candidate: $653

Source: Los Angeles City Ethics · 2026 cycle · data.lacity.org

Track record

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Reduce Wealth Gap

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Co-directs the Los Angeles chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), leading roughly two decades of tenant-rights and economic-justice organizing in South Los Angeles, and is running a campaign that refuses corporate donations.
June 9, 2026For
Source: thelalocal.org · researched July 3, 2026

Housing Affordability

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Co-directs the Los Angeles chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), leading roughly two decades of tenant-rights and economic-justice organizing in South Los Angeles, and is running a campaign that refuses corporate donations.
June 9, 2026For
Source: thelalocal.org · researched July 3, 2026
As a Los Angeles co-director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, submitted a public comment requesting community engagement on Council File 23-0630 concerning representation and tenant-protection issues in City Council District 9.
June 23, 2023For
Source: cityclerk.lacity.org · researched July 11, 2026

Elections

Member of the City Council, District No. 9 · November 3, 2026 · Los Angeles city, California

Profile last researched July 3, 2026.