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City of Cypress · Statewide General Election

Cypress City Council, District 2

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

This person holds your district's seat on Cypress's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Cypress has no separately elected mayor -- the council chooses one of its own members as Mayor and another as Mayor Pro Tem. Only Districts 1, 2, and 5 have terms expiring this cycle; Districts 3 and 4 are not on the ballot. A 4-year term.

Incumbent Bonnie Peat faces Helen Le for Cypress City Council District 2. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff.

This person holds District 2's seat on Cypress's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Cypress has no separately elected mayor -- the council chooses one of its own members as Mayor and another as Mayor Pro Tem. Only Districts 1, 2, and 5 have terms expiring this cycle. A 4-year term.

Peat is a sitting Cypress councilmember, per her own filed ballot designation ('Council Member') and independently confirmed by Wikipedia's current roster for the city. Beyond that, no independent profile, platform statement, or news coverage was found for either candidate in this pass despite a real, time-boxed search effort -- documented below as a gap, not filled in with speculation.

Bonnie Peat

A sitting Cypress City Councilmember, per her own filed ballot designation and confirmed by the city's current council roster. No campaign site, official city biography, or news coverage describing her background, prior election date, or platform could be reached in this pass -- Cypress's own city site returned an access error on every attempt, and neither the Orange County Register nor Voice of OC turned up coverage of her.

Strengths

Sitting-councilmember experience, so a known quantity to the extent her prior council votes are on the public record.

Trade-offs

No independently sourced platform for this specific campaign -- this dataset only confirms that she currently holds a council seat, not what she has prioritized in it or intends to next term.

Keep in mind

CAL-ACCESS's filer-search tool returned no usable content on a direct fetch attempt -- see Financial info.

Helen Le

Filed her candidacy under the ballot designation "Community Volunteer." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing her background or platform could be found in this pass despite a real search effort.

Strengths

A community-volunteer background suggests direct familiarity with local civic and neighborhood needs.

Trade-offs

No campaign statement or platform was found in this pass, so voters have no confirmed sense of her priorities beyond her listed occupation, and no record of prior elected office was found either.

Keep in mind

CAL-ACCESS's filer-search tool returned no usable content on a direct fetch attempt -- see Financial info.

Source review: Strong (82/100) · 2 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with a narrow source base.

  • ocvote.gov (opens in a new tab)OC Registrar of Voters — Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 (169 contests, 430 candidates filed)
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia — Cypress, California article: cited only for the current City Council roster (Mayor Leo Medrano, Mayor Pro Tem Kyle Chang, Council Members David Burke, Bonnie Peat, and Rachel Strong Carnahan) confirming which three of the county's Nov. 2026 candidates are sitting incumbents; not relied on for the article's own prose description of the city's election method, which appears to predate the county's Nov. 2026 candidate document's by-district contests

Last updated August 31, 2026.