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City of Apple Valley · Statewide General Election

Apple Valley Town Council, District 3

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

This person would represent Town Council District 3, one of Apple Valley's four council districts: town ordinances, the budget, and land use for this High Desert town. A 4-year term. Apple Valley elects its Council members by district, not at-large; its Mayor is separately, directly elected town-wide to a 2-year term (also on this November's ballot).

Incumbent Kari Lynn Leon, first elected in 2022, faces challenger Ted Bohanon for Apple Valley Town Council District 3 on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins outright -- there is no primary or runoff.

This person would represent Town Council District 3, one of Apple Valley's four council districts: town ordinances, the budget, and land use for this High Desert town. A 4-year term. Apple Valley elects its Council members by district, not at-large; its Mayor is separately, directly elected town-wide to a 2-year term (also on this November's ballot as its own race).

Leon, elected November 8, 2022, has a real-estate and property-management background in title/escrow management and is President of the High Desert Association of Realtors, per the town's own biography. Bohanon's filed ballot designation is "Retired"; no independent reporting or campaign material about his background or platform was found in this research pass.

Kari Lynn Leon

Kari Lynn Leon is the incumbent District 3 councilmember, elected November 8, 2022 to a 4-year term. She has a background in real estate and property management, specifically title and escrow management, and serves as President of the High Desert Association of Realtors and a delegate to the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District, per the town's own biography. She has received the Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce's "Take Pride in Apple Valley" award. Her filed ballot designation is "Business Owner / Councilwoman."

Strengths

One term already served; a real-estate/title-industry background plus a regional air-quality board role, distinct from her two council colleagues' other backgrounds.

Trade-offs

No independent reporting on her council record was found; financial info could not be retrieved for this race (see note below).

Keep in mind

Her real-estate leadership role (High Desert Association of Realtors) is worth noting as context on land-use votes, not a claim of conflict -- none was found.

Ted Bohanon

Ted Bohanon is a challenger for Apple Valley Town Council District 3. His filed ballot designation is "Retired." He holds no town office and has no page on the town's own website; no independent reporting or campaign material about his background or platform was found in this research pass. A public campaign-finance search under his name turned up only a dormant record from 2010-2012, unrelated to this race (see note below).

Strengths

None could be documented in this research pass.

Trade-offs

No current biographical or platform info beyond his filed designation was found anywhere in this pass -- a documented gap, not an oversight.

Keep in mind

His only public campaign-finance record on file predates this race by over a decade (2010-2012) and appears unrelated to this candidacy -- not evidence of anything about this run, just noted for completeness.

Source review: Very strong (92/100) · 5 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report linked from the county's own November 3, 2026 candidates page: within the San Bernardino County section, only Area B carries any candidates (Rita Fernandez-Loof, Miki R. Inbody, Kimberly L. Watson); Areas A and D, both confirmed expiring this cycle by the county's own Offices Up for Election document, have no candidates anywhere in the report and will not appear on the November ballot
  • uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": lists County Board of Education Areas A, B, and D (under the School category) as the county's only expiring-term seats this cycle -- no Board of Supervisors, row office, or Superior Court seat appears anywhere in the 11-page document
  • applevalley.org (opens in a new tab)Town of Apple Valley -- "Meet Your Government" page: "Apple Valley has an elected Mayor and four Council districts." "The Mayor serves for two years" and "Council members serve for four years." "Each December, the Council picks one member to be Mayor Pro Tem" -- the separate, rotating position, distinct from the directly elected Mayor. Lists the sitting council: Mayor Scott Nassif, and Council Members Art Bishop, Larry Cusack (Mayor Pro Tem), Curt Emick, and Kari Leon
  • applevalley.org (opens in a new tab)Town of Apple Valley -- Council Member Info page for District 3's Kari Leon: a real estate and property-management/title-escrow background; "Elected November 8, 2022, for a 4-year term"; President of the High Desert Association of Realtors and recipient of the Apple Valley Chamber's "Take Pride in Apple Valley" award
  • public.netfile.com (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County -- NetFile public campaign-finance portal (aid=SBD), queried directly by name for all seven 2026 Apple Valley candidates: six return no filer at all; the seventh, Ted Bohanon, has a record, but its only filings are an FPPC Form 501 candidate-intention statement and two Form 470 short-form disclosures, all dated 2010-2012 -- nothing from the 2026 cycle

Last updated August 31, 2026.