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City of Chico · Statewide General Election

Chico City Council, District 4

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On the ballot

This person would represent District 4 on Chico's seven-member City Council. Chico is a charter city, the largest in Butte County with a 2020 Census population of 101,475, governed under the council-manager form: an appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations while a seven-member, district-elected City Council sets policy. The Council chooses one of its own members to serve a two-year term as Mayor -- Kasey Reynolds has held the role since December 2024 -- so there is no separately elected Mayor seat on this ballot. Council seats serve staggered 4-year terms; Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7 are not up again until 2028.

Councilmember Addison Winslow is seeking re-election to his District 4 seat against challenger Tracy Vincent, a retired U.S. Navy Commander.

This person would represent District 4 on Chico's seven-member City Council. Chico is a charter city, the largest in Butte County with a 2020 Census population of 101,475, governed under the council-manager form: an appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations while the district-elected Council sets policy and the budget. The Council chooses one of its own members to serve a two-year term as Mayor, so there is no separately elected Mayor seat on this ballot. Council seats serve staggered 4-year terms; Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7 aren't up again until 2028.

With two names on the ballot for one seat, District 4 is decided by whichever candidate gets more votes on November 3 -- no ranked-choice voting or runoff.

Addison Winslow

The incumbent, seeking another term; per his own council-provided biography, he was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, and moved to Butte County at 10 days old. He was a first-year student at Inspire High School and, in his own account, is the only Fair View High School graduate elected to public office so far. He lived in Texas, central Mexico, and Montreal in early adulthood before settling in Chico's West Aves neighborhood in 2019. Prior to taking office, he worked and volunteered for the Chico Housing Action Team, Safe Space Winter Shelter, and Butte Environmental Council. He was elected as District 4's first-ever representative in 2022.

Strengths

Direct pre-council experience with local housing and homelessness-services organizations, plus a full term already served as District 4's inaugural representative.

Trade-offs

This dataset found no independent news coverage of his record in office this pass beyond his own council-provided biography.

Keep in mind

As the district's first-ever elected representative, his tenure has no direct predecessor to compare against.

Tracy Vincent

A challenger; filed ballot designation "Small Business Owner." Per her own campaign site, she was born and raised in Chico and graduated from Pleasant Valley High School before a nearly 40-year career in the U.S. Navy, serving in dual roles as an enlisted sailor and a nurse and retiring at the rank of Commander, with a background in emergency medicine and disaster response. She is married to Robert Vincent, and they have raised four children. Her campaign priorities are neighborhood safety, essential community services, fiscal responsibility, and direct resident engagement, under the tagline "Your voice. Your vote. Our Chico."

Strengths

A long, decorated military and medical-service career with direct disaster-response and leadership experience.

Trade-offs

As a non-incumbent she has no council voting record, and this dataset found no independent news coverage corroborating her campaign-site biography.

Keep in mind

Her ballot designation, "Small Business Owner," was not further detailed on her campaign site in the material this dataset reviewed.

Source review: Strong (83/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: Tracy Vincent's own campaign site (vincentforchico.com), fetched directly: born and raised in Chico, a Pleasant Valley High School graduate who served nearly 40 years in the U.S. Navy in dual roles as an enlisted sailor and a nurse, retiring at the rank of Commander, with a background in emergency medicine and disaster response; married to Robert Vincent, with four children; campaign priorities of neighborhood safety, essential community services, fiscal responsibility, and direct resident engagement, under the tagline "Your voice. Your vote. Our Chico." may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

  • buttevotes.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Butte County -- "Final Qualified Candidate List" for the Nov. 3, 2026 General Election (report CFMR009, contest IDs 4002-6806, print date 8/27/2026), fetched and read directly as a PDF: names three City of Chico contests as "On Ballot: Yes," "Vote For: 1" -- Contest 4112 (District 2, incumbent Kasey Reynolds vs. Shelby Hebert), Contest 4114 (District 4, incumbent Addison Winslow vs. Tracy Vincent), and Contest 4116 (District 6, incumbent Tom van Overbeek vs. Megan Thomas Petty). No other City of Chico contest appears anywhere in the document.
  • chicoca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Chico -- official City Council Directory page: confirms Mayor Kasey Reynolds (District 2, term 2022-2026, Mayor since Dec. 4, 2024, elected 2018 and 2022), Addison Winslow (District 4, term 2022-2026, elected Nov. 8, 2022), and Tom van Overbeek (District 6, term 2022-2026, elected Nov. 8, 2022) as the three councilmembers whose terms expire this cycle, and links each sitting member's own self-provided biography PDF.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Chico, California": 2020 Census population 101,475; a charter city with a council-manager government; "Chico's city council consists of seven nonpartisan council members each elected from one of the seven districts in November of even-numbered years. The districts were officially created in February 2020." Used narrowly for this background, not for any 2026 election content.
  • netfile.com (opens in a new tab)A negative-result local campaign-finance check: Chico's NetFile public portal returns only a bare, client-rendered "Public Portal" shell with no server-side filer or committee content on direct fetch, the same access gap documented dataset-wide for other NetFile jurisdictions.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result access check: California's statewide Cal- Access campaign-finance filer/candidate search returned an Incapsula bot-detection challenge page instead of results on direct fetch, the same recurring block documented elsewhere in this dataset.
  • d16k74nzx9emoe.cloudfront.net (opens in a new tab)City of Chico -- Councilmember Addison Winslow's own council- provided biography PDF: born in Alexandria, LA, moved to Butte County at 10 days old; a first-year student at Inspire High School and, per his own account, the only Fair View High School graduate elected to public office so far; lived in Texas, central Mexico, and Montreal before settling in Chico's West Aves neighborhood in 2019; worked and volunteered for the Chico Housing Action Team, Safe Space Winter Shelter, and Butte Environmental Council before taking office; elected as District 4's first-ever representative in 2022.
  • vincentforchico.com (opens in a new tab)Tracy Vincent's own campaign site (vincentforchico.com), fetched directly: born and raised in Chico, a Pleasant Valley High School graduate who served nearly 40 years in the U.S. Navy in dual roles as an enlisted sailor and a nurse, retiring at the rank of Commander, with a background in emergency medicine and disaster response; married to Robert Vincent, with four children; campaign priorities of neighborhood safety, essential community services, fiscal responsibility, and direct resident engagement, under the tagline "Your voice. Your vote. Our Chico."

Last updated September 2, 2026.