# Antioch City Clerk

Michael Mandy is running uncontested for Antioch City Clerk. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. Antioch's City Clerk is a separately elected, citywide office. The Mayor and City Treasurer are also elected citywide. Neither of those offices is up this cycle. The Clerk runs city elections and keeps official city records. The term is normally four years. This seat covers only the final two years. The last Clerk resigned in 2025.

- Jurisdiction: City of Antioch
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 7, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 93 out of 100 (Very strong), across 8 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Michael Mandy** — Incumbent

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Incumbent City Clerk Michael Mandy, appointed to the office in September 2025, appears unopposed for the remaining two years of the term -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

Antioch's City Clerk is elected citywide, as a separate office. The Mayor and City Treasurer are also elected citywide, and neither is up this cycle. The Clerk is the city's elections official. The Clerk keeps Council agendas, minutes, ordinances, and Fair Political Practices Commission filings. The Clerk is also secretary to the Board of Administrative Appeals. The job normally runs four years. This seat is on the ballot for the remaining two years of the current term. The previously elected Clerk, Melissa Rhodes, resigned in mid-2025 without public explanation.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose. It is what the officeholder has done and what to watch next. For the next two years, accountability for this seat runs through public records requests and the public. It does not run through the ballot.

## Michael Mandy

Appointed City Clerk by a 4-1 Council vote on September 23, 2025, to fill the vacancy left by Melissa Rhodes' unexplained July 2025 resignation, and now running to keep the seat through the remainder of the term. A 30-plus-year Antioch resident, Mandy previously owned an independent insurance agency in the city from 1995 to 2013; since then he has worked as a Premises Technician for AT&T, installing internet service and upgrading telephone infrastructure, and serves as a union representative for CWA District 9, elected to his local's Executive Board in 2019. His appointment was explicitly framed by the Council as a roughly 14-month bridge to this November's special election.

**Strengths:** About a year already in the office by appointment, plus three decades of Antioch residency. He also ran his own insurance agency for nearly two decades.

**Trade-offs:** He has never won this office in a contested election. His only time in the seat so far came through a Council appointment, not a public vote.

**Keep in mind:** Running unopposed, he has had no occasion to build a public campaign finance record. Antioch's NetFile portal returned no filing data in any case.

## Sources

1. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Positions Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election" (the same PDF used for the county's Board of Education contests above): under "Cities Offices," Antioch lists exactly three offices -- City Clerk (2-year term), District 1 - 1 Councilmember, District 4 - 1 Councilmember -- matching the local-authoring queue's estimate of 3 exactly](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection.pdf)
2. [City of Antioch -- official "City of Antioch Elections" page (antiochca.gov/240/City-of-Antioch-Elections, read directly): confirms the same three offices up Nov. 3, 2026 (City Council District 1, City Council District 4, City Clerk -- Partial-Term, 2 years) and adds that "The Mayor, City Clerk, and City Treasurer positions are at-large seats" and a City Clerk "is elected to a 4-year term," confirming the 2-year figure is a partial/unexpired term rather than Antioch's normal Clerk term; links to the city's Notice of Nomination and FINAL Status documents cited separately below](https://www.antiochca.gov/240/City-of-Antioch-Elections)
3. [City of Antioch -- "FINAL Status of Antioch City Council Candidates - November 3, 2026" (DocumentCenter/View/4845, updated 8/10/2026, read directly as a PDF): the certified qualified-candidate roster with each candidate's documents-issued, documents-filed, and date-qualified dates. District 1: Joyann Motts (qualified 8/3/2026) and *Tamisha Torres-Walker (qualified 8/7/2026) both qualified; Diane Gibson-Gray (documents issued 7/17/2026) has no filed/qualified date and is not on the ballot. District 4: Metty Mathews Alappat, Sandra White, Monica Wilson, and Andrew Becker all qualified (8/4-8/7/2026). City Clerk: only Michael Mandy qualified (8/3/2026)](https://www.antiochca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4845/FINAL-Status-of-Antioch-City-Council-Candidates)
4. [City of Antioch -- "Notice Regarding Nomination Papers" (DocumentCenter/View/4821, read directly as a PDF), signed by City Clerk Michael J. Mandy: confirms the same three offices (Member of the City Council, District 1; Member of the City Council, District 4; City Clerk) shall be filled at the Nov. 3, 2026 election, that nomination papers were issued to incumbents for all offices as of Aug. 4, 2026, and that "Redistricting has not affected the eligibility of the current incumbents to run"](https://www.antiochca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4821/Notice-of-Nomination-and-Offices)
5. [City of Antioch -- official "City Council" roster page (antiochca.gov/738/City-Council, read directly): names Mayor Ron Bernal (at-large), Mayor Pro Tem Donald P. Freitas (District 3), Louie Rocha (District 2), Tamisha Torres-Walker (District 1), and Monica Wilson (District 4) -- independently confirming Districts 1 and 4 (this cycle's two council contests) are held by the current District 1 and District 4 incumbents, and that the Mayor's seat and Districts 2/3 are not up this cycle](https://www.antiochca.gov/738/City-Council)
6. [Wikipedia's Antioch, California article -- "Government" section: council-manager government, a Mayor elected at-large and four Council Members elected by district; "Antioch historically elected its Councilmembers in at-large elections, but in response to threats of a lawsuit alleging violations of state law and underrepresentation of people of color, the Antioch City Council voted to switch to district elections in 2018, holding the first such elections in 2020"; names the same five sitting officeholders as the city's own roster page; gives the city's 2020-census population (115,291)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch,_California)
7. [Antioch Herald -- "Antioch City Council, Clerk races set for November election" (Aug. 7, 2026): the fullest single roundup of all three Antioch races -- names Torres-Walker vs. Motts for District 1 (their third matchup, Torres-Walker having won in 2020 and 2022, the latter by just four votes after a recount); Wilson vs. White, Becker, and Alappat for District 4 (Wilson seeking a fifth term); and Mandy running unopposed for City Clerk's remaining two years, following Melissa Rhodes' unexplained August 2025 resignation](https://antiochherald.com/2026/08/07/antioch-city-council-clerk-races-set-for-november-election/)
8. [Antioch Herald -- "Antioch Council Appoints New City Clerk for 14 Months" (Sept. 24, 2025): Michael Mandy's appointment on a 4-1 Council vote, his 30+ years as an Antioch resident, his prior independent insurance agency (1995-2013), his current work as an AT&T Premises Technician and CWA District 9 union role, and that the vacancy arose when elected Clerk Melissa Rhodes "resigned last month without announcement or explanation" -- with Mandy's appointment explicitly framed as a bridge to the Nov. 2026 special election for the term's remaining two years](https://antiochherald.com/2025/09/24/antioch-council-appoints-new-city-clerk-for-14-months/)

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