- 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.
City of Cypress
Cypress City Council, District 2
This person holds your district's seat on Cypress's five-member City Council. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed city manager runs daily operations. Cypress has no separately elected mayor. The council picks one member as Mayor. It picks 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. The term is four years.
Incumbent Bonnie Peat faces Helen Le for Cypress City Council District 2. Whoever gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright, with no runoff.
This person holds District 2's seat on Cypress's 5-member City Council. They vote on 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. The term is four years.
Peat is a sitting Cypress councilmember, per their 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
Bonnie Peat is a sitting Cypress City Councilmember, according to their ballot title and the city's council roster. No campaign website, city biography, or news coverage about their background or platform could be found.
Helen Le
Helen Le filed their candidacy under the ballot designation "Community Volunteer." No campaign website, news coverage, or other source describing their background or platform could be found.
Your pick
A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.