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2026 District of Columbia Mayor of the District of Columbia — General Election · November 3, 2026
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District of Columbia Board of Elections - November 3, 2026 General Election
Office: Mayor of the District of Columbia
Candidate: Janeese Lewis George
Party: Democrat
Date Filed: 3/13/2026
Address: 1323 Shepherd St. NW, 20011
Phone: 202-455-9908
Email: [email protected]
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1323 Shepherd St. NW, 20011
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Phone: 202-455-9908
Email: [email protected]
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DC proved that bold investments work by successfully implementing universal Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4, Birth to Three, and the Pay Equity Fund. Now DC must lead again by adopting universal affordable childcare.
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DC proved that bold investments work by successfully implementing universal Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4, Birth to Three, and the Pay Equity Fund. Now DC must lead again by adopting universal affordable childcare.
I’m Janeese Lewis George, the DC Councilmember for Ward 4. I’m the daughter of a union postal worker and a third-generation Washingtonian who was raised in Ward 4. I’m a proud graduate of DC Public Schools (Cuno H. Rudolph Elementary School, Alice Deal Middle School, and School Without Walls) as well as Howard University School of Law. Starting in 2014, I served as the DC Assistant Attorney General in the Juvenile Section of the Public Safety Division under DC Attorney General Karl A. Racine. I was elected to DC Council in 2020.
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I’m Janeese Lewis George, the DC Councilmember for Ward 4. I’m the daughter of a union postal worker and a third-generation Washingtonian who was raised in Ward 4. I’m a proud graduate of DC Public Schools (Cuno H. Rudolph Elementary School, Alice Deal Middle School, and School Without Walls) as well as Howard University School of Law. Starting in 2014, I served as the DC Assistant Attorney General in the Juvenile Section of the Public Safety Division under DC Attorney General Karl A. Racine. I was elected to DC Council in 2020.
As Councilmember, I’ve made a point to always choose the side of DC residents, workers, and families. I led legislation that raised wages for early childhood educators, created good jobs for construction and retail workers, ended the subminimum wage for restaurant workers, increased SNAP food assistance for families and seniors, and improved traffic safety around schools. As Assistant Attorney General, I fought to secure justice for victims of violent crime and built programs that put young people in DC back on the right track. As Mayor, I’ll always side with working people to make DC safe and affordable, and create a government that listens to and delivers for residents in all eight Wards. I understand the urgency of the moment and the power DC has to make life better for everyone.
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As Councilmember, I’ve made a point to always choose the side of DC residents, workers, and families. I led legislation that raised wages for early childhood educators, created good jobs for construction and retail workers, ended the subminimum wage for restaurant workers, increased SNAP food assistance for families and seniors, and improved traffic safety around schools. As Assistant Attorney General, I fought to secure justice for victims of violent crime and built programs that put young people in DC back on the right track. As Mayor, I’ll always side with working people to make DC safe and affordable, and create a government that listens to and delivers for residents in all eight Wards. I understand the urgency of the moment and the power DC has to make life better for everyone.
The daughter of a union postal worker, Janeese Lewis George is a third-generation Washingtonian who was raised in Ward 4, where she serves as Councilmember and lives with her husband Kyle and son Pierce. Janeese fights for working families in DC because she knows firsthand what working people in DC are up against. As Mayor, Janeese will continue to side with working people to make DC safe and affordable, and a place where government works for residents in all eight Wards.
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The daughter of a union postal worker, Janeese Lewis George is a third-generation Washingtonian who was raised in Ward 4, where she serves as Councilmember and lives with her husband Kyle and son Pierce. Janeese fights for working families in DC because she knows firsthand what working people in DC are up against. As Mayor, Janeese will continue to side with working people to make DC safe and affordable, and a place where government works for residents in all eight Wards.
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Lowering costs for tenants. Janeese will strengthen and expand DC’s rent stabilization program and prioritize truly affordable homes in existing and new housing funds and projects.
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Lowering costs for tenants. Janeese will strengthen and expand DC’s rent stabilization program and prioritize truly affordable homes in existing and new housing funds and projects.
Janeese will implement a comprehensive public safety strategy that addresses prevention, intervention, and enforcement. It’s an approach she took as Ward 4 Councilmember when addressing crime on Kennedy Street and in Petworth. And it’s the approach she took when she was a prosecutor at the DC Office of the Attorney General. As Mayor, the entirety of her government will play a role in public safety, not just one agency.
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Janeese will implement a comprehensive public safety strategy that addresses prevention, intervention, and enforcement. It’s an approach she took as Ward 4 Councilmember when addressing crime on Kennedy Street and in Petworth. And it’s the approach she took when she was a prosecutor at the DC Office of the Attorney General. As Mayor, the entirety of her government will play a role in public safety, not just one agency.
DC’s high rates of truancy and chronic absenteeism are unacceptable. Janeese will simplify the truancy system by unifying it and tasking one agency with the responsibility of navigating truancy referrals. She will expand after-school programming in all eight Wards because she knows firsthand how critical safe, enriching programming is for young people. Janeese will also ensure that students have the support they need to stay in school, including special education services, school-based mental health, and sufficiently staffed schools. She knows quality education starts with people, so it’s important to expand the workforce at schools to ensure there are enough professionals to meet the needs of all students.
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DC’s high rates of truancy and chronic absenteeism are unacceptable. Janeese will simplify the truancy system by unifying it and tasking one agency with the responsibility of navigating truancy referrals. She will expand after-school programming in all eight Wards because she knows firsthand how critical safe, enriching programming is for young people. Janeese will also ensure that students have the support they need to stay in school, including special education services, school-based mental health, and sufficiently staffed schools. She knows quality education starts with people, so it’s important to expand the workforce at schools to ensure there are enough professionals to meet the needs of all students.
Protecting Washingtonians from Pepco and Washington Gas Rate Hikes
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Protecting Washingtonians from Pepco and Washington Gas Rate Hikes
Building more and better homes. Janeese will reform zoning laws, streamline the permitting process, and break down other barriers to building more housing all across the city and particularly near the Metro, schools, and parks. She will launch Dignified Homes DC, a bold commitment to build publicly owned, mixed-income housing with stable and affordable rents that put people ahead of profit.
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Building more and better homes. Janeese will reform zoning laws, streamline the permitting process, and break down other barriers to building more housing all across the city and particularly near the Metro, schools, and parks. She will launch Dignified Homes DC, a bold commitment to build publicly owned, mixed-income housing with stable and affordable rents that put people ahead of profit.
Cover More Families. Every family will be eligible for childcare assistance and will spend no more than 7% of their household income on childcare, with many families paying less and some paying nothing. Families will still apply and choose their childcare setting.
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Cover More Families. Every family will be eligible for childcare assistance and will spend no more than 7% of their household income on childcare, with many families paying less and some paying nothing. Families will still apply and choose their childcare setting.
A key component of Janeese’s public safety platform is the creation of Community Hubs – places to bring people and resources together. We all know that DC is resource rich but coordination poor. Janeese will course correct by building on current infrastructure and resources, developing Community Hubs within all eight Wards. These Hubs, serving families and young people, will be safe, fun and enriching. These spaces will also be centralized locations to connect to city services like job programs and mental health services. The Hubs will partner with community-based organizations, so communities have access to what they need to thrive. Thriving, well-resourced communities are the safest.
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A key component of Janeese’s public safety platform is the creation of Community Hubs – places to bring people and resources together. We all know that DC is resource rich but coordination poor. Janeese will course correct by building on current infrastructure and resources, developing Community Hubs within all eight Wards. These Hubs, serving families and young people, will be safe, fun and enriching. These spaces will also be centralized locations to connect to city services like job programs and mental health services. The Hubs will partner with community-based organizations, so communities have access to what they need to thrive. Thriving, well-resourced communities are the safest.
Create free transit for those who need it. Janeese will make sure inability to pay isn’t a barrier to getting around the city. Buses will be free for DC residents enrolled in the SNAP food assistance program and she’ll explore other ways to expand financial support for transit.
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Create free transit for those who need it. Janeese will make sure inability to pay isn’t a barrier to getting around the city. Buses will be free for DC residents enrolled in the SNAP food assistance program and she’ll explore other ways to expand financial support for transit.
Expanding homeownership. Janeese will prioritize downpayment assistance, foreclosure prevention aid, and support for senior homeowners. She will restore tenants’ purchasing rights by strengthening DC’s powerful anti-displacement law, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA).
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Expanding homeownership. Janeese will prioritize downpayment assistance, foreclosure prevention aid, and support for senior homeowners. She will restore tenants’ purchasing rights by strengthening DC’s powerful anti-displacement law, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA).
Increase Childcare Supply. Janeese will boost investments to expand providers that offer nontraditional hours, create Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care, and create a dedicated facilities grant fund. She will also co-locate programs in underutilized school buildings and District-owned facilities.
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Increase Childcare Supply. Janeese will boost investments to expand providers that offer nontraditional hours, create Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care, and create a dedicated facilities grant fund. She will also co-locate programs in underutilized school buildings and District-owned facilities.
Build a world-class bus system. Janeese will make the buses on DC’s busiest routes faster and more reliable by adding dedicated bus lanes and optimizing bus stops. She will assess and address gaps in the bus network, including transit deserts, and require major development projects to incorporate bus station amenities that are senior friendly and consistent with high-frequency transit service.
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Build a world-class bus system. Janeese will make the buses on DC’s busiest routes faster and more reliable by adding dedicated bus lanes and optimizing bus stops. She will assess and address gaps in the bus network, including transit deserts, and require major development projects to incorporate bus station amenities that are senior friendly and consistent with high-frequency transit service.
Delivering accountability. Janeese will make it easier for tenants to request building inspections and create an ombudsman to support people living in public housing. She will increase penalties for landlords who violate tenants’ rights and ensure that any deals using public dollars are tied to measurable outcomes.
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Delivering accountability. Janeese will make it easier for tenants to request building inspections and create an ombudsman to support people living in public housing. She will increase penalties for landlords who violate tenants’ rights and ensure that any deals using public dollars are tied to measurable outcomes.
Streamline and create more opportunities for students and young people, including expanding vocational, technical, and career-focused programs in schools and neighborhoods.
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Streamline and create more opportunities for students and young people, including expanding vocational, technical, and career-focused programs in schools and neighborhoods.
Invest In Workforce. Janeese will build on the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund to guarantee good wages and partner with our unions to create good, safe jobs. She will also maximize enrollment in affordable, early childhood education degree and certification programs.
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Invest In Workforce. Janeese will build on the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund to guarantee good wages and partner with our unions to create good, safe jobs. She will also maximize enrollment in affordable, early childhood education degree and certification programs.
Designate car-free zones. Janeese will improve safety, spur economic activity, and animate public spaces by establishing car-free areas. She will engage residents and businesses in creating pedestrian-only streets, using the Penn Quarter Holiday Market as a model, as well as multi-use streets, like Adams Morgan’s 18th Street NW and 7th Street SE at Eastern Market, that close periodically for activities.
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Designate car-free zones. Janeese will improve safety, spur economic activity, and animate public spaces by establishing car-free areas. She will engage residents and businesses in creating pedestrian-only streets, using the Penn Quarter Holiday Market as a model, as well as multi-use streets, like Adams Morgan’s 18th Street NW and 7th Street SE at Eastern Market, that close periodically for activities.
Partner with unions and expand registered apprenticeships to build the workforce we need.
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Partner with unions and expand registered apprenticeships to build the workforce we need.
Prioritize safety. Janeese will use proven measures to keep people safe on our roads. She will fully invest in the STEER Act to remove dangerous drivers from our streets; create clear, protected space for deliveries, short-term stops, and other essential roadside activities; and redesign dangerous intersections where high speeds and poor visibility put pedestrians at risk.
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Prioritize safety. Janeese will use proven measures to keep people safe on our roads. She will fully invest in the STEER Act to remove dangerous drivers from our streets; create clear, protected space for deliveries, short-term stops, and other essential roadside activities; and redesign dangerous intersections where high speeds and poor visibility put pedestrians at risk.
Provide intensive job support to residents who aren’t in school and have dropped out of the labor market.
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Provide intensive job support to residents who aren’t in school and have dropped out of the labor market.
Vigorously enforce wage theft laws, expand protections for marginalized workers, and educate workers about their rights.
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Vigorously enforce wage theft laws, expand protections for marginalized workers, and educate workers about their rights.
Require strong labor peace and project labor agreements and First Source standards for DC contracts and development projects.
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Require strong labor peace and project labor agreements and First Source standards for DC contracts and development projects.
Establish a Federal Workforce Transition Center to reskill displaced federal employees and contractors for in-demand jobs.
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Establish a Federal Workforce Transition Center to reskill displaced federal employees and contractors for in-demand jobs.
Improve the Unemployment Insurance program and application platform.
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Improve the Unemployment Insurance program and application platform.
DC proved that bold investments work by successfully implementing universal Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4, Birth to Three, and the Pay Equity Fund. Now DC must lead again by adopting universal affordable childcare.
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DC proved that bold investments work by successfully implementing universal Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4, Birth to Three, and the Pay Equity Fund. Now DC must lead again by adopting universal affordable childcare.
Holding AI Data Centers Accountable
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Holding AI Data Centers Accountable
Increasing Access to Affordable Energy Tools
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Increasing Access to Affordable Energy Tools
Removing Barriers to Energy Assistance for People Who Need It
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Removing Barriers to Energy Assistance for People Who Need It
Stopping Energy Scams and Exploitation
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Stopping Energy Scams and Exploitation
Expand commuter bike lanes. Janeese will make it easier and safer for cyclists to navigate the city. She will implement the community-supported protected bike lanes, prioritize completion of the Shepherd Branch Trail in Wards 7 and 8, and create a northeast-northwest protected bike lane connecting the north-south commuter bikeways.
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Expand commuter bike lanes. Janeese will make it easier and safer for cyclists to navigate the city. She will implement the community-supported protected bike lanes, prioritize completion of the Shepherd Branch Trail in Wards 7 and 8, and create a northeast-northwest protected bike lane connecting the north-south commuter bikeways.
Reduce gridlock. After Janeese said she would release the DDOT Congestion Pricing study within 48 hours of being sworn in, Mayor Bowser released the study herself – a good first step. As mayor, Janeese will carefully review and if necessary update the study and work with community members, District officials, and officials from surrounding jurisdictions to consider implementation.
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Reduce gridlock. After Janeese said she would release the DDOT Congestion Pricing study within 48 hours of being sworn in, Mayor Bowser released the study herself – a good first step. As mayor, Janeese will carefully review and if necessary update the study and work with community members, District officials, and officials from surrounding jurisdictions to consider implementation.
Provide dedicated funding for Metro. Janeese will create certainty for residents and businesses by working with surrounding jurisdictions to maintain sufficient, dedicated, long-term funding for a robust metro system.
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Provide dedicated funding for Metro. Janeese will create certainty for residents and businesses by working with surrounding jurisdictions to maintain sufficient, dedicated, long-term funding for a robust metro system.
Prioritize building grocery stores and retail in Wards 5, 7 and 8.
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Prioritize building grocery stores and retail in Wards 5, 7 and 8.
Provide lease subsidies for small businesses in underserved neighborhoods.
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Provide lease subsidies for small businesses in underserved neighborhoods.
Create a Downtown Development Corporation with bonding authority and foster mixed-use development: less office space and more housing.
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Create a Downtown Development Corporation with bonding authority and foster mixed-use development: less office space and more housing.
Use DC-owned and vacant spaces to house pop-ups, incubators, and small businesses.
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Use DC-owned and vacant spaces to house pop-ups, incubators, and small businesses.
Integrate transportation infrastructure that improves walkability.
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Integrate transportation infrastructure that improves walkability.
Partner with DC’s anchor universities to build innovation districts and a global higher education hub that result in employment opportunities.
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Partner with DC’s anchor universities to build innovation districts and a global higher education hub that result in employment opportunities.
Develop a health innovation program in cooperation with area hospitals.
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Develop a health innovation program in cooperation with area hospitals.
Promote university-based retirement communities that attract older residents.
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Promote university-based retirement communities that attract older residents.
Build out Union Station redevelopment, creating thousands of jobs, and foster transit-oriented housing development.
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Build out Union Station redevelopment, creating thousands of jobs, and foster transit-oriented housing development.
Janeese understands that DC must do more to help small businesses. Right now DC is overregulating streateries and burdening business owners with needless paperwork. Janeese will help businesses open and stay open, just as she has in Ward 4. She will do that by creating a one-stop shop for licensing and permitting to reduce the red tape and streamline the process. Janeese will also provide more help for small businesses struggling with rising rents by expanding tax credits and making more spaces available.
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Janeese understands that DC must do more to help small businesses. Right now DC is overregulating streateries and burdening business owners with needless paperwork. Janeese will help businesses open and stay open, just as she has in Ward 4. She will do that by creating a one-stop shop for licensing and permitting to reduce the red tape and streamline the process. Janeese will also provide more help for small businesses struggling with rising rents by expanding tax credits and making more spaces available.
DC is under attack and we need leaders that stand up and fight back, not shrink in the face of injustice. This starts with Janeese rescinding the MPD order that permits our officers to work with ICE, sharing information and transferring people to ICE custody. Janeese will use every tool we have to build coalitions locally and nationally to defend our community’s rights and values. She will work with DC’s delegate and Attorney General Brian Schwalb to protect Home Rule. She will walk the halls of Congress herself, and build relationships on both sides of the aisle, because that is our path to protecting DC autonomy and passing DC Statehood.
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DC is under attack and we need leaders that stand up and fight back, not shrink in the face of injustice. This starts with Janeese rescinding the MPD order that permits our officers to work with ICE, sharing information and transferring people to ICE custody. Janeese will use every tool we have to build coalitions locally and nationally to defend our community’s rights and values. She will work with DC’s delegate and Attorney General Brian Schwalb to protect Home Rule. She will walk the halls of Congress herself, and build relationships on both sides of the aisle, because that is our path to protecting DC autonomy and passing DC Statehood.
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Janeese Lewis George, Councilmember for Ward 4, was elected to the Council of the District of Columbia in 2020; Time on Council: January 2021 - Present.
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