# City of Dixon — City Clerk

Lupe Ruiz is running uncontested for City of Dixon — City Clerk. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person is Dixon's City Clerk, elected citywide rather than appointed by the council. The Clerk runs city elections and keeps public records, such as agendas and contracts. The term is four years.

- Jurisdiction: City of Dixon
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 89 out of 100 (Strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Lupe Ruiz** — Administrative City Clerk

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Only one candidate qualified for Dixon's elected City Clerk seat: Lupe Ruiz, the city's current Administrative City Clerk. Incumbent elected City Clerk Kristin M. Janisch did not file for re-election. Ruiz was the last candidate citywide to complete their filing, on Aug. 12, 2026 -- the day the extended nomination period closed -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

Dixon's City Clerk is elected citywide, on its own ballot line. The council does not appoint the clerk. The clerk is the city's elections official. The clerk also keeps its public records. Those include agendas, minutes, contracts, and campaign disclosure filings. The term is four years.

With no opponent, the useful question is who is stepping into the role. It is not who to choose between. Ruiz already runs the office's day to day work as Dixon's Administrative City Clerk. That staff job is not the same as the elected City Clerk seat they are now filling. So their election keeps an existing arrangement in place. It does not put someone new in the office's work.

## Lupe Ruiz

Lupe Ruiz is Dixon's Administrative City Clerk, a staff role in which they already manage the office's day-to-day work, and ran unopposed for the separately elected City Clerk seat. Their ballot designation is "Administrative City Clerk." No campaign website or social-media presence could be found for their candidacy, and this dataset found no coverage of them beyond the county's own filing record, the Daily Republic's coverage of the qualified field, and their listing on the city's own council-and-staff roster.

**Strengths:** Direct, existing familiarity with the office's day-to-day work as the sitting Administrative City Clerk.

**Trade-offs:** Running unopposed means their transition into the elected seat faces no organized counter-argument this cycle, and this dataset found no independent profile of them beyond their current staff role.

**Keep in mind:** Incumbent elected City Clerk Kristin M. Janisch did not file for re-election, per the county's own candidate log -- this is an open-seat transition, not a re-election.

## Sources

1. [Solano County Registrar of Voters -- official "Candidate Filed Log - November 3, 2026 General Election" (as of 8/20/2026, print timestamp 8/27/2026 9:31 AM) -- City of Dixon section, page 10 of 15](https://content.solanocounty.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/CANDIDATE_FILED_LOG_Nov_3_2026_7.13.26.pdf)
2. [City of Dixon -- its own City Council page: names the current Mayor, all four district councilmembers, and the Administrative City Clerk](https://www.cityofdixonca.gov/citycouncil)
3. [Wikipedia -- "Dixon, California": 2020 census population, a 2025 population estimate, and the district-based City Council / at-large Mayor structure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon,_California)
4. [Daily Republic -- "Voters have plenty of city, education choices across Solano County" (Todd R. Hansen, Aug. 13, 2026, updated Aug. 18, 2026)](https://www.dailyrepublic.com/news/voters-have-plenty-of-city-education-choices-across-solano-county/article_5130bf97-f784-4b59-8c03-e684f643a6d4.html)
5. [Daily Republic -- "Nomination period still open for nearly half of offices up for election" (Todd R. Hansen, Aug. 8, 2026)](https://www.dailyrepublic.com/news/nomination-period-still-open-for-nearly-half-of-offices-up-for-election/article_0407902c-ce8c-489e-a870-25ffe4604c4f.html)
6. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer searches for all five Dixon candidates (Jim Ernest, Emily Schroeder, Thom Bogue, Christina Cerna, Lupe Ruiz): every query returned only an Incapsula bot-detection challenge page, confirmed via both the automated fetch tool and a direct HTTP request -- a documented access failure, not a confirmed absence of filings](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Dixon+City+Council)

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