# Citrus Heights City Council, District 5 Porsche Middleton is running uncontested for Citrus Heights City Council, District 5. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of three Citrus Heights City Council seats this cycle. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed City Manager runs daily operations. The term is four years. The five-member council picks one member to serve as Mayor for a year. This is a district council seat, not a separate mayor's office. - Jurisdiction: City of Citrus Heights - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/citrus-heights-council-5 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 84 out of 100 (Strong), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Porsche Middleton** — 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 Vice Mayor Porsche Middleton runs unopposed for another term -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. Citrus Heights' City Council has five members, each elected from one of five districts, under a council-manager government with an appointed City Manager. Councilmembers set city ordinances, the budget, and land-use decisions. The term is four years. The council itself selects one member to serve a rotating, one-year term as Mayor. The only other person who attempted to run for this seat, David Anderson, failed to submit a valid nomination petition and did not qualify for the ballot, leaving Middleton unopposed. This is the second consecutive cycle a Citrus Heights council seat has drawn no opposition, after Tim Schaefer's unopposed District 3 race in 2024. ## Porsche Middleton The incumbent Vice Mayor, unopposed for another term; her filed ballot designation is "Incumbent." She was first elected to the council at-large in Nov. 2018, after serving on the city's Planning Commission in 2017, and was re-elected in Nov. 2022 to represent the newly drawn District 5 -- a genuinely close race that year, narrowly won by 26 votes out of nearly 4,000 cast against challenger Natalee Price (the two tied at one point during counting). She is a Governor's appointee to the California Housing Partnership board and represents Citrus Heights on the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission, the Sacramento Transportation Authority, and three council 2x2 committees (Education & Community Programs, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, Arts & Cultural). **Strengths:** Eight years on the council, a full term representing this district, current service as Vice Mayor, and a state-level board appointment (California Housing Partnership). **Trade-offs:** This dataset found no independent (non-official, non-campaign-finance) reporting evaluating her current term's record. **Keep in mind:** State law lets the council appoint an unopposed candidate directly rather than hold an election -- but the county's own live roster, re-checked for this pass, still lists this seat as on the ballot, so it is authored here as a real contest. ## Sources 1. [Sacramento County Voter Registration & Elections — Roster of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election](https://elections.saccounty.gov/content/vre/us/en/campaign-services/candidate-report.html) 2. [Citrus Heights Sentinel — "Interested in serving on Citrus Heights' City Council? Candidate filing begins July 13" (2026-07-07): names the three seats up this cycle (Districts 2, 4, 5) and each sitting holder, the July 13–Aug. 7 filing window, and candidate eligibility rules.](https://citrusheightssentinel.com/2026/07/07/interested-in-serving-on-citrus-heights-city-council-candidate-filing-begins-july-13/) 3. [Citrus Heights Sentinel — "Five candidates to run for Citrus Heights City Council" (2026-08-07): names all five qualified candidates across the three districted races, distinguishing the three incumbents from the two first-time challengers.](https://citrusheightssentinel.com/2026/08/07/six-candidates-to-run-for-citrus-heights-city-council/) 4. [Citrus Heights Sentinel — "Citrus Heights Vice Mayor running for reelection unopposed" (2026-08-11): reports Vice Mayor Porsche Middleton's District 5 seat drew only one attempted challenger, David Anderson, who failed to submit a valid nomination petition, plus her 2022 race margin and background.](https://citrusheightssentinel.com/2026/08/11/citrus-heights-vice-mayor-running-for-reelection-unopposed/) 5. [City of Citrus Heights — official biography page for Vice Mayor Porsche Middleton (District 5): first elected 2018, prior Planning Commission service, Governor's appointee to the California Housing Partnership board, and city board/authority assignments.](https://www.citrusheights.net/Directory.aspx?EID=2) ## The rest of the ballot Citrus Heights City Council, District 5 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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