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City of Eastvale · Statewide General Election

Eastvale City Council, District 1

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 Eastvale's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use. A 4-year term. The council selects one of its own members to serve as Mayor and another as Mayor Pro Tem -- the titles rotate rather than being separately elected -- and day-to-day operations run through an appointed city manager.

Incumbent Todd Rigby faces challenger Rana Saba-Hekman for Eastvale's District 1 City Council seat, per the city's own candidate-filing notice. Eastvale elects its council directly in November, with no primary.

The winner holds one of five district seats on Eastvale's City Council, elected to staggered four-year terms: city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The council selects one of its own members to serve as Mayor and another as Mayor Pro Tem -- the titles rotate rather than being separately elected -- and day-to-day operations run through an appointed city manager.

Rigby is a sitting councilmember completing his current term; Saba-Hekman is a first-time challenger. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for either beyond the city's own filing-notice record -- a documented gap: automated fetches of the city's own site returned HTTP 403 on every attempt, and a browser session that briefly reached the city's content disconnected before a fuller read was possible. A social-media post separately claimed a third candidate filed for this seat; it could not be verified against the city's own roster and is not included here.

Todd Rigby

The incumbent District 1 councilmember, seeking another term. Wikipedia's Eastvale, California article independently confirms he currently sits on the council; no independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for him beyond that and the city's own filing record.

Strengths

Already serving in the seat, which gives him institutional continuity and name recognition if reelected.

Trade-offs

No independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for him in this research pass.

Keep in mind

With no public record of his priorities beyond his incumbency, this is a vote on continuity itself rather than on any specific plan.

Rana Saba-Hekman

A challenger, not a sitting officeholder. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for her beyond the city's own filing-notice record.

Strengths

None could be independently confirmed in this research pass.

Trade-offs

No incumbency, and no independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for her.

Keep in mind

With no public record to evaluate, voters weighing this race have only the choice between continuity (the incumbent) and change (her candidacy) to go on.

Source review: Strong (85/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • eastvaleca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Eastvale -- "Upcoming Elections" / Election Notices table: candidate filings by name, district and filing date for the Nov. 3, 2026 General Municipal Election (Clint Lorimore (incumbent), District 3, filed 7/13/26; Rana Saba-Hekman, District 1, filed 7/21/26; Raul Gutierrez, District 4, filed 7/28/26; Todd Rigby (incumbent), District 1). Read via Google's indexed text snippet of the page, not a direct fetch -- every WebFetch attempt at eastvaleca.gov returned HTTP 403, and a browser session disconnected before the page could be reloaded through it. The snippet cuts off mid-row after Rigby's district figure, so this roster is not confirmed complete -- flagged for re-check against a direct read before certification.
  • eastvaleca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Eastvale -- "Previous Elections" page: states "Districts 1, 3, and 4 will be voted upon in 2026," matching Riverside County's own Nov 2026 candidate document. Also read via Google's indexed snippet rather than a direct fetch, for the same access-gap reason as the Election Notices source above.
  • eastvaleca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Eastvale -- "City Council" government page: "The five Councilmembers are elected by district and serve four-year staggered terms, and the Mayor is selected by the Council to serve a one-year term" -- confirms the 5-member, by-district structure and that the Mayor is not a separately elected office. Also read via Google's indexed snippet rather than a direct fetch, for the same access-gap reason as the sources above.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Eastvale, California": lists the current City Council (Christian Dinco, Michael McMinn, Clint Lorimore, Todd Rigby, Jocelyn Yow), independently corroborating Lorimore's and Rigby's incumbency; no biographical or occupational detail is given for either beyond their names and at-large election status -- a claim this dataset treats as stale/wrong, since the city's own pages above confirm district, not at-large, elections.

Last updated August 31, 2026.