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City of Fairfield · Statewide General Election

Fairfield City Council, District 3

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On the ballot

This person would hold one of Fairfield's six district-elected City Council seats: city ordinances, the budget, and land use for Solano County's largest city and county seat (119,881 residents, 2020 Census). Fairfield uses a council-manager government -- the Council sets policy while an appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations -- and first elected its council by district in November 2020, replacing citywide at-large elections. Seats serve staggered 4-year terms; three of the six districts (1, 3, and 5) are up this cycle, alongside the separately elected, at-large Mayor.

Fairfield City Council, District 3 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.

Doug Carr

Doug Carr is a qualified candidate. The official filing record identifies this candidate as an incumbent or appointed incumbent. 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.

Robert Marin

Robert Marin 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.

Susan Bush

Susan Bush is a qualified candidate. The ballot designation is “Independent Contractor / Homemaker.” 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: Very strong (90/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • content.solanocounty.gov (opens in a new tab)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), re-downloaded fresh 2026-09-01 directly from the county's own elections page (no newer version has been published): within the City of Fairfield's own section (pages 10-11), four contests appear -- Mayor At Large (Vote for 1: Pam Bertani, Scott Tonnesen, Nikila Walker Gibson, George Kennedy; incumbent Rick Vaccaro listed with no filing dates, i.e. did not file), Councilmember District 1 (Vote for 1: incumbent K. Patrice Williams vs. Nora Dizon), Councilmember District 3 (Vote for 1: incumbent Doug Carr, Robert Marin, Susan Bush), and Councilmember District 5 (Vote for 1: incumbent Doriss Panduro vs. Lynda Davis-Robinson) -- 11 candidates total, correcting the authoring queue's preliminary '4 candidates' estimate
  • dailyrepublic.com (opens in a new tab)Daily Republic -- "Election picture has not changed after 2nd week of nomination period" (July 26, 2026): confirms Nora Dizon filed her District 1 papers as a second challenge to incumbent K. Patrice Williams; that Councilman Doug Carr, Susan Bush, and Robert Marin had all pulled District 3 papers; and that Councilwoman Doriss Panduro and Lynda Davis-Robinson had pulled District 5 papers; also confirms Pam Bertani, Scott Tonnesen, Kam Holzendorf, and Nikila Walker Gibson had pulled (not yet filed) Mayor papers as of that date
  • dailyrepublic.com (opens in a new tab)Daily Republic -- published Fairfield City Council meeting agenda, Sept. 1, 2026: its roll-call section independently cross-checks the entire sitting council roster by name and role in one document -- Councilmembers Doug Carr, Doriss Panduro, Manveer Sandhu, Scott Tonnesen, and K. Patrice Williams, Vice Mayor Pam Bertani, and Mayor Rick Vaccaro
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result campaign-finance search: California's Cal-Access campaign-finance search (cal-access.sos.ca.gov) returned only an Incapsula bot-detection challenge page for a direct filer search on each of the six built candidates' surnames this session (Bertani, Tonnesen, Walker Gibson, Kennedy, Williams, Dizon), tried both as a direct request and with full browser headers. Cal-Access covers only state-level committees in any case, not local city-council candidates. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for these contests, not any candidate's actual finances

Last updated September 1, 2026.