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City of Eureka · Statewide General Election

Eureka City Council, Ward 1

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On the ballot

This person would hold one of Eureka's five City Council seats, elected by the voters of Ward 3 to a 4-year term. Eureka (2020 population 26,512) is the county seat of Humboldt County and runs under a council-manager government: the five-member Council sets policy, adopts the budget, and approves contracts; a City Manager runs day-to-day operations. The Mayor, elected separately and citywide, presides over Council meetings but doesn't sit as a sixth ward vote.

Eureka City Council, Ward 1 is published from the authoritative post-filing candidate roster. Every name below is included because the election authority identified that person as qualified for this ballot.

The office and selection rule are shown in the ballot record. The candidates’ official designations and incumbent status are reproduced only where the election authority supplied them.

Public information is uneven across this field. A shorter profile means the cited sources did not establish more—not that the candidate lacks experience, positions, support, or campaign activity.

Audra Sisson

Audra Sisson is a qualified candidate. The ballot designation is “Small Business Owner.” No additional biography or 2026 platform is inferred from unverified namesakes.

Strengths

The candidacy and ballot status are verified by the election authority.

Trade-offs

The available cited record does not support a fuller, independently reported 2026 platform summary.

Keep in mind

This information gap is a limitation of the published sources, not evidence for or against the candidate.

Jason McCutcheon

Jason McCutcheon is a qualified candidate. The official post-filing roster confirms this candidacy but supplies no ballot designation used here. No additional biography or 2026 platform is inferred from unverified namesakes.

Strengths

The candidacy and ballot status are verified by the election authority.

Trade-offs

The available cited record does not support a fuller, independently reported 2026 platform summary.

Keep in mind

This information gap is a limitation of the published sources, not evidence for or against the candidate.

Victor E. Garcia Jr.

Victor E. Garcia Jr. is a qualified candidate. The ballot designation is “Permit Technician.” No additional biography or 2026 platform is inferred from unverified namesakes.

Strengths

The candidacy and ballot status are verified by the election authority.

Trade-offs

The available cited record does not support a fuller, independently reported 2026 platform summary.

Keep in mind

This information gap is a limitation of the published sources, not evidence for or against the candidate.

Source review: Strong (82/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • humboldtgov.org (opens in a new tab)Humboldt County Office of Elections -- "Qualified Candidate List - City Contests": the certified, signature-qualified roster for Eureka's Mayor and Council Wards 1, 3, and 5, each candidate's filed occupation/designation, and incumbency.
  • humboldtgov.org (opens in a new tab)Humboldt County Office of Elections -- "2026 [General Election] Candidate Openings" (7-page pre-filing PDF): confirms Ferndale Mayor is a 1-seat, 2-year term (2027-2029) and Ferndale City Council is a 2-seat, 4-year term (2027-2031); separately confirms Eureka's four seat openings (Mayor plus Council Wards 1, 3, and 5, each a 4-year term), with Wards 2 and 4 not up this cycle.
  • eurekaca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Eureka -- its own "Meet the Mayor and Council" page: Kim Bergel as Mayor, G Mario Fernandez as Ward 3 Councilmember, and Renee Contreras-DeLoach (not a 2026 candidate) as sitting Ward 5 Councilmember, confirming that race is an open seat.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result access check: California's statewide Cal-Access campaign-finance filer/candidate search returned no usable content on direct fetch for any of the seven built Eureka candidates; no City of Eureka campaign-finance/FPPC-filings page could be located this pass either.

Last updated September 2, 2026.