Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has announced his candidacy for the 2026 California gubernatorial election. Villaraigosa, 71, previously ran for governor in 2018 but finished third in the primaries. The election was won by then-Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.
If elected, Villaraigosa would become just the second Latino governor of the state after José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco occupied the role back in 1875, more than a century ago.
