# Chino City Council, District 3

Compare records and positions simply between M S Alam or Marc Lucio for Chino City Council, District 3 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold your district's seat on Chino's five-member City Council. A mayor elected citywide holds the fifth seat. Members vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. The four-year term is staggered, so only two districts vote each cycle. Districts 2 and 3 vote now, and Districts 1 and 4 vote in 2028.

- Jurisdiction: City of Chino
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 91 out of 100 (Very strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **M S Alam** — Transportation Project Manager
- **Marc Lucio** — Chino City Councilmember, District 3 · Incumbent

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

Chino's District 3 seat is on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Incumbent Marc Lucio faces a single challenger, M S Alam. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins outright. There is no primary or runoff.

This person would hold District 3's seat on Chino's 5-member City Council, alongside a separately, at-large elected Mayor. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, under a council-manager government where an appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. The term is four years, staggered so only two of Chino's four council districts are up in any given November: Districts 2 and 3 this cycle, and Districts 1 and 4 in 2028.

Lucio, a councilmember since November 2018, previously served as Mayor Pro Tem from 2020 to 2022 and is a retired police captain with 26 years in law enforcement. Alam, whose filed ballot designation is "Transportation Project Manager," has no prior city board, commission, or elected-office record found in this pass.

## M S Alam

M S Alam is a candidate for Chino's District 3 council seat. Their filed ballot designation is "Transportation Project Manager." No further independent record of their employer, civic involvement, or platform was found. They have filed a Form 501 candidate intention statement with the city's campaign-finance portal. They have also filed a Form 410 statement of organization. No itemized financial activity is on record. No campaign website, news coverage, or civic-board record turned up in research.

**Strengths:** None independently confirmed beyond their filed designation.

**Trade-offs:** No news coverage, campaign website, civic-board record, or itemized financial filing was found.

**Keep in mind:** Filing a Form 410 signals an intent to raise or spend over $2,000. District 2's Alexandris has not filed one. Alam discloses no itemized contributions yet. This is a difference in campaign organization, not evaluated further here.

## Marc Lucio

Marc Lucio is Chino's District 3 councilmember. He was first elected in November 2018 and previously served as Mayor Pro Tem from 2020 to 2022. He is a retired police captain with 26 years in law enforcement. He holds a criminology degree from the University of La Verne. He also holds a master's in executive leadership from USC. He represents the city on regional bodies including the Southern California Association of Governments. He also represents it on the League of California Cities' Inland Empire Division, per the city's own biography.

**Strengths:** Nearly eight years on the council, including two as Mayor Pro Tem. A 26-year law-enforcement career and two degrees. The only District 3 candidate with a financial filing.

**Trade-offs:** No independent news coverage of his specific council record was found.

**Keep in mind:** His committee's only itemized 2026 contribution was $3,000. It came from the same firefighters' PAC that gave Burton's committee its largest 2026 contribution. One filing page prints a stale prior-year date. It is treated as a clerical slip, not a second period.

## Sources

1. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report (the same document as sb-candidate-list-2026, a different section): its "City of Chino" section (pp. 124-126 of 249) lists exactly two contests, each "Number to be elected: 1" -- Member, City Council District 2 (Curtis Burton, flagged Incumbent, vs. Jimmy D. Alexandris) and District 3 (M S Alam vs. Marc Lucio, flagged Incumbent). No Mayor, District 1, or District 4 contest appears anywhere in this section, distinct from the separate "City of Chino Hills" section immediately following it.](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_CandidateList.pdf)
2. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_OfficesUpForElection.pdf" (the same document as sb-offices-up-2026, a different row): lists "City of Chino, Member, City Council, District 2" and "... District 3," each 1 seat / 4-year term -- independently confirming the candidate-list report and ruling out any Mayor or District 1/4 contest for Chino this cycle.](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_OfficesUpForElection.pdf)
3. [City of Chino -- City Clerk's "Elections" page: states the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election "will determine representation for two city council seats" -- District 2 and District 3, each a full four-year term -- plus Measure F (a business-license ballot measure, not authored in this dataset); gives the nomination period (July 13 - August 7, 2026) and candidate filing requirements.](https://www.cityofchino.org/371/Elections)
4. [City of Chino -- "City Council" roster page: names the current 5 members -- Mayor Eunice M. Ulloa (elected at-large), Mayor Pro Tem Curtis Burton (District 2), Christopher Flores (District 1), Marc Lucio (District 3), and Karen Comstock (District 4) -- and states directly that the Mayor is "elected at-large" while Council Members are "elected by geographically defined districts," confirming Chino's Mayor is a separately elected office, not rotated among the council the way some neighboring San Bernardino County cities' are.](https://www.cityofchino.org/369/City-Council)
5. [City of Chino -- Council Member Marc Lucio's own official bio page: elected to the City Council in November 2018 representing District 3, current term through 2026, previously served as Mayor Pro Tem 2020-2022; a retired police captain with 26 years in law enforcement, a criminology bachelor's degree and an executive-leadership master's degree; multiple committee, board, and regional-liaison roles.](https://www.cityofchino.org/517/Marc-Lucio)
6. [City of Chino's own NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (aid=CHINO), queried by candidate name for both District 3 candidates: incumbent Marc Lucio's committee has filed an itemized FPPC Form 460 for January-June 2026, showing $3,000 in itemized monetary contributions this period (entirely from the Chino Valley Professional \[firefighters\] PAC), $75.50 in expenditures (a single U.S. Bank fee), and a $5,891.14 ending cash balance with no outstanding debt; M S Alam has filed a Form 501 and a Form 410, with no itemized Form 460.](https://netfile.com/public/CHINO/campaign)

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