# Claremont City Council, District 2 Ed Reece is running uncontested for Claremont City Council, District 2. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Claremont's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. - Jurisdiction: City of Claremont - 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/claremont-council-2 - 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: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 86 out of 100 (Strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Ed Reece** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Vice Mayor Ed Reece is the only candidate who qualified for Claremont's District 2 council seat, so this contest is settled — the City Council may appoint him directly rather than hold the election. Claremont's council elections run directly in November with no primary. The winner holds one of five district seats on the Claremont City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. With no opponent, the useful question is what the officeholder has done, not who to choose. Reece is a two-term incumbent whose council career has centered on regional transportation leadership — chairing the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority and, since June 2025, presiding over the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments. ## Ed Reece The incumbent Vice Mayor and two-term District 2 councilmember, first elected in 2018 and previously Mayor in 2022-23. Outside the council he is founder and CEO of ISN Global Enterprises, a technology firm, and has chaired the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority and, as of June 2025, the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments. He is the sole qualified candidate for this seat — no opponent filed by the August 10, 2026 nomination deadline. **Strengths:** Two terms in the seat, the vice mayor's chair, and a run of regional transportation leadership — the Gold Line extension authority and, since June 2025, the county-region council of governments. **Trade-offs:** Running unopposed means his record faces no organized counter-argument this cycle, and eight years in, that record is what a voter is extending for four more. **Keep in mind:** An uncontested seat is not the same as a settled one — it means nobody chose to challenge him this cycle, which is itself worth weighing alongside his record. ## Review notes - Ed Reece for Claremont City Council may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [City of Claremont — "November 3, 2026 General Election" (City Clerk's own page: offices to be filled, nomination-period dates, and the ballot-order candidate roster for Districts 2, 3, and 4, retrieved via a live browser session after automated fetches were blocked)](https://www.claremontca.gov/Government/Elections/November-3-2026-General-Election) 2. [City of Claremont — "Candidate Filing Status Final (in order of appearance on ballot)" (City Clerk's certified roster for Districts 2, 3, and 4 with each candidate's incumbent flag and nomination-paper dates)](https://www.claremontca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/city-clerk/documents/elections/candidate-filing-status-final-in-order-of-appearance-on-ballot.pdf) 3. [City of Claremont — "Notice That There Are Not More Candidates Than Offices to Be Elected in District 2" (City Clerk's formal Elections Code Section 10229 notice, dated Aug. 11, 2026: Ed Reece is the sole nominee for District 2)](https://www.claremontca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/city-clerk/documents/public-notices/notice-that-there-are-not-more-candidates-than-offices-district-2.pdf) 4. [City of Claremont — City Council (official directory: each councilmember's district, term, and biography, including Vice Mayor Ed Reece and Councilmember Jed Leano)](https://www.claremontca.gov/Government/City-Council) 5. [Ed Reece for Claremont City Council — "About Ed" (candidate's own campaign site: business and civic-leadership biography)](https://www.edreece.com/about) 6. [California Cities LGBTQ Caucus — Board of Directors (Vice President Ed Reece, Vice Mayor, City of Claremont)](https://www.calcitieslgbtqcaucus.org/about) 7. [Los Angeles Blade — "Los Angeles County 2022 Midterm results updated" (Nov. 9, 2022): Claremont City Council District 2 result, Ed Reece 54.61% to Peter S. Yao's 45.39%](https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/11/09/los-angeles-county-2022-midterm-results-updated/) ## The rest of the ballot Claremont City Council, District 2 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. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Claremont City Council, District 2 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/claremont-council-2 (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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