Complete your basic Candidate profile
Review and maintain the Candidate-controlled information available through your profile.
FOR CANDIDATES
Your Candidate Profile. Your Civic Presence.
City, County & District Candidates — Free for this election
CivicCause includes public Candidate profiles as part of our election coverage, helping residents understand who is running, what office they are seeking, and how Candidates connect to the issues shaping their communities.
Running for local office? CivicCause is free for eligible City, County, and independently governed local or regional District candidates this election.
Claim Your Candidate Profile — Free
Claiming and managing your basic Candidate profile does not require Candidate Participation.
FREE CANDIDATE PROFILE
Claim Your Candidate Profile — Free
Your Candidate profile is part of CivicCause's public election information. Claiming it gives you a verified way to manage the Candidate-controlled information CivicCause supports while keeping your profile current and useful to residents.
After your claim is reviewed and approved, you can:
Manage your public Candidate presence
Keep the information you control current while CivicCause maintains source-backed election information such as your office and election context.
Use your Candidate workspace
Access the tools provided for onboarding and basic Candidate profile management.
Claim Your Candidate Profile — Free
There is no charge to claim and manage your basic Candidate presence.
CANDIDATE PARTICIPATION
Ready to participate more fully?
Your basic Candidate profile remains available at no cost.
Eligible City, County, and local or regional District candidates in the approved November 3, 2026 election receive Candidate access free through December 3, 2026. No payment is required for this election access.
Candidate Participation adds the same deeper civic monitoring and intelligence capabilities available through CivicCause's professional platform, packaged for your election.
CivicCause unifies relevant alerts across fragmented City and County systems and surfaces locally relevant State legislation, so you don’t miss opportunities to participate while they still count.
State and federal candidacies are not included in this local-election offer.
Stay current with the civic landscape around your candidacy.
Included with Candidate Participation.
Candidate Participation helps you follow the public decisions, issues, organizations, and legislation shaping the communities in which you are running.
Get Relevant Alerts
Follow civic activity across fragmented City and County systems without manually checking each source.
Follow Locally Relevant State Bills
See California legislation with local relevance alongside the causes and civic activity already connected through CivicCause.
Follow Causes and Issues
Connect your candidacy to causes and tracked issues and stay current as related civic activity develops.
Candidate Signals
Surface relevant public civic activity connected to the causes and issues associated with your candidacy.
Research the Civic Context
Move from an alert to the underlying meetings, issues, organizations, legislation, and other connected CivicCause information when you need deeper context.
Candidate Signals are generated by CivicCause from civic information. They are not campaign posts, advertisements, Candidate rankings, or promotional placements.
The purpose is to provide civic context—not campaign automation, voter targeting, or persuasion tools.
Know what’s moving across the civic landscape—and where there is still time to participate.
What residents can understand from your Candidate profile
CivicCause brings Candidate information into the same civic landscape residents already use to follow issues, meetings, organizations, public leaders, and elections.
Depending on the information connected to your profile, residents can understand:
- who you are and the office you are running for
- the causes and issues connected to your candidacy
- public statements and stances you have published
- relevant civic meetings and recent public summaries surfaced through Candidate Signals
- the broader civic activity connected to the issues surrounding your candidacy
CivicCause is designed to provide structured civic context—not campaign hype.
Your Candidate profile may already be here.
CivicCause creates Candidate profiles as part of its election coverage. If your profile already exists, you can request access through the Candidate claim process.
Select your ballot level, office, and Candidate profile, sign in or create your CivicCause account, and submit your claim for review.
Claiming your basic Candidate profile is free.
Claim Your Candidate Profile — Free