# Coalinga City Council, District 3

Nathan Vosburg is running uncontested for Coalinga City Council, District 3. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of Coalinga's five district-elected City Council seats. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. Coalinga is a Fresno County city of about 17,600 residents. The term is four years. This cycle's District 2 seat has a shorter, two-year term. Coalinga's Council picks a Mayor and a Mayor Pro Tem after each election. It picks them from its own members. Voters do not choose either office directly. Coalinga has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer.

- Jurisdiction: City of Coalinga
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 87 out of 100 (Strong), across 11 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Nathan Vosburg** — Business Owner · 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 Mayor Nathan Vosburg appears unopposed -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

This person holds Coalinga's District 3 seat on a five-member, district-elected City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Fresno County city of about 17,600 residents. The term is four years. The Council selects a Mayor and a Mayor Pro Tem from among its own members after each election rather than voters choosing either office directly -- Vosburg currently holds the Mayor title -- and Coalinga has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what's known about the officeholder and what to watch next. An unopposed return means accountability for this seat over the next four years runs through public records and the next election rather than through this ballot.

## Nathan Vosburg

The incumbent Mayor, unopposed for another term; their filed ballot designation is "Business Owner." Their own campaign site describes them as a "public servant, technology consultant" who was sworn onto the Council in December 2014 and ran Vosburg Technology Center LLC, an internet-and-computer-repair business, from 2008 to 2020 -- the only business the site names, and by its own account no longer operating, so this dataset could not confirm what current business their 2026 ballot designation refers to. Their site says they are married to Claudia, principal of Coalinga-Huron's alternative-education high school, and they have three children. Vosburg states priorities of economic development and debt reduction, infrastructure modernization, rural broadband access, and government transparency. The California Republican Assembly's own 2026 endorsement list names Vosburg "Coalinga City Council, District 3 Incumbent."

**Strengths:** More than a decade of Council service (since December 2014) and current selection by their Council colleagues as Mayor.

**Trade-offs:** Their platform and biography come entirely from their own campaign site; no independent reporting evaluates their record, and the business behind their "Business Owner" designation is unconfirmed.

**Keep in mind:** Running unopposed, Vosburg has had little occasion to generate contested-campaign coverage or disclosure.

## Review notes

- California Republican Assembly -- "November 2026 General Election Endorsements" (updated 8/26/2026, PDF fetched and read directly): names "Coalinga City Council, District 2 Incumbent - Jeremy Lowder," "...District 3 Incumbent - Nathan Vosburg," and "...District 5 Incumbent - Abel Arroyo" -- a partisan club's own endorsement list, independently corroborating incumbency for three of the four but not evidence of anything else about the candidates. and Nathan Vosburg's own campaign site, "About" page: describes him as a "public servant, technology consultant" who ran Vosburg Technology Center LLC (an internet-and-computer-repair business) 2008-2020 -- the only business the site names, and by its own account no longer operating; sworn onto the Council in December 2014; married to Claudia, principal of Coalinga-Huron's alternative-education high school; three children; states priorities of economic development and debt reduction, infrastructure and rural-broadband access, and government transparency. may have more bias because they are advocacy or endorsement sources compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

## Sources

1. [City of Coalinga -- "City Council Elections" page: states the four elected City positions open for nomination this cycle -- Council Districts 1, 2 (a short 2-year term), 3, and 5 -- and the July 13-Aug. 7, 2026 filing period (extendable to Aug. 12 for an unfiled incumbent)](https://www.coalinga.com/498/City-Council-Elections)
2. [City of Coalinga -- "Council Districts" page: confirms Coalinga moved from an at-large system to five geographic Council districts in 2018, each electing one Councilmember, with boundary lines last redrawn in April 2022](https://www.coalinga.com/335/Council-Districts)
3. [City of Coalinga -- "City Council" page: names the sitting Council -- Nathan Vosburg (Mayor, District 3), Roger Schindler (Mayor Pro-Tem, District 1), Jeremy Lowder (District 2), Jose Manny Ramirez (District 4, not up this cycle), and Abel Arroyo (District 5) -- plus an appointed City Clerk (Shannon Jensen) and City Treasurer (Dawn Kahikina), neither an elected office](https://www.coalinga.com/233/City-Council)
4. [Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR009 "Candidate List" for the Nov. 3, 2026 Consolidated Statewide General Election (printed 8/12/2026 5:37:13PM, post-filing-deadline): lists Coalinga's four City Council district contests (5008, 5011, 5012, 5017), each Vote For 1 with exactly one qualified candidate -- Roger Schindler (District 1, "Incumbent"), Jeremy Lowder (District 2, "Appointed Incumbent"), Nathan Vosburg (District 3, "Business Owner"), and Abel Arroyo (District 5, "Appointed Incumbent")](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/CandidateList.pdf)
5. [Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR001 "Contest/Candidate Proof List," filtered to Contests on Ballot, for the Nov. 3, 2026 election (printed 8/18/2026 8:39:55AM): independently confirms the same four Coalinga City Council district contests, each flagged ON BALLOT despite having only one qualified candidate apiece -- not cancelled under Elections Code Section 10229 -- and separately lists each seat's incumbent-of-record, including "Appointed to Vacancy" for Lowder (District 2) and Arroyo (District 5) and "Elected" for Schindler (District 1) and Vosburg (District 3)](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/Contests%20on%20Ballot%20with%20Qualified%20Candidates.pdf)
6. [Wikipedia's Coalinga, California article: population 17,590 (2020 census), incorporated April 3, 1906](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalinga,_California)
7. [California Government Code Section 36801 (via the Legislature's own leginfo site): the default rule for a city without a charter provision otherwise -- after each general municipal election, "the city council shall... choose one of its number as mayor, and one of its number as mayor pro tempore"](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&sectionNum=36801)
8. [City of Coalinga -- Special City Council meeting minutes, November 13, 2025 (fetched and read directly as a PDF): lists Vosburg presiding as Mayor and Horn as the then-Mayor Pro-Tem; records Mayor Pro-Tem Jim Horn's District 2 seat as vacated and three candidates (Jeremy Lowder, Ron Lander, James Horn II) addressing the Council; Councilmen Hedgecock, Schindler, and Ramirez each nominated Lowder, and the Council "approved the appointment of Jeremy Lowder to serve as the District 2 City Council representative" by a 5/0 roll-call vote](https://coalinga.novusagenda.com/AgendaPublic/DisplayAgendaPDF.ashx?MinutesMeetingID=1154)
9. [City of Coalinga -- Special City Council meeting minutes, January 8, 2026 (fetched and read directly as a PDF): refers throughout to "Mayor Pro-Tem Schindler," confirming the Council had reassigned that title to Roger Schindler; recognizes outgoing Councilman Lonnie Hedgecock's service and records his District 5 seat as vacated, with three candidates (Ron Ramsey, Pedro Garcia, Abel Arroyo) addressing the Council; Hedgecock, Lowder, and Mayor Pro-Tem Schindler each nominated Arroyo, and the Council "approved the appointment of Abel Arroyo to serve as the District 5 City Council representative" by a 4/0 roll-call vote (Ramirez absent)](https://coalinga.novusagenda.com/AgendaPublic/AttachmentViewer.ashx?AttachmentID=8781&ItemID=6293)
10. [Nathan Vosburg's own campaign site, "About" page: describes him as a "public servant, technology consultant" who ran Vosburg Technology Center LLC (an internet-and-computer-repair business) 2008-2020 -- the only business the site names, and by its own account no longer operating; sworn onto the Council in December 2014; married to Claudia, principal of Coalinga-Huron's alternative-education high school; three children; states priorities of economic development and debt reduction, infrastructure and rural-broadband access, and government transparency](https://www.nathanvosburg.com/about)
11. [California Republican Assembly -- "November 2026 General Election Endorsements" (updated 8/26/2026, PDF fetched and read directly): names "Coalinga City Council, District 2 Incumbent - Jeremy Lowder," "...District 3 Incumbent - Nathan Vosburg," and "...District 5 Incumbent - Abel Arroyo" -- a partisan club's own endorsement list, independently corroborating incumbency for three of the four but not evidence of anything else about the candidates](https://cragop.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PDF-November-2026-General-Election-Endorsements-08-26-26.pdf)

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