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City of Folsom · Statewide General Election

Folsom City Council, District 5

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 Folsom's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, plus appointing the city manager who runs day-to-day government. Folsom's council elects its own Mayor and Vice Mayor from among its five district members each year rather than voters choosing a separate citywide mayor -- there's no 'Mayor of Folsom' contest on this ballot. A 4-year term.

Incumbent Anna Rohrbough faces challenger Justin Hurst for Folsom City Council District 5. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff.

This person holds District 5's seat on Folsom's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, plus appointing the city manager who runs day-to-day government. Folsom's council elects its own Mayor and Vice Mayor from among its five district members each year rather than voters choosing a separate citywide mayor. A 4-year term.

Rohrbough is running on a term's worth of specific initiatives -- a Homeless Outreach Team, fire-department restructuring, budget-oversight measures -- with a message of following data over public pressure. Hurst, a first-time candidate for this office who already sits on the city's Planning Commission, is running on housing affordability and rebuilding city fiscal reserves, with a platform explicitly tied to the progressive Project Plenty organizing network.

Anna Rohrbough

The incumbent Vice Mayor as of the city's own directory snapshot in February 2026; her own ballot designation is simply "Incumbent." She points to a term built around public-safety initiatives -- championing a Homeless Outreach Team, supporting increased police staffing, adding traffic-safety enforcement, and restructuring the fire department's training and paramedic staffing -- alongside fiscal-oversight work she says she "raised ... early, before it was popular," crediting it with keeping the city within its adopted budget and exceeding its reserve targets. She also cites work on parks and trails, the Castle Park rebuild, ADA accessibility, and e-bike safety. Her stated approach: "I don't follow the loudest voices in the room. I follow the data, the budget and the long-term interests of the people who live here."

Strengths

A term's worth of named initiatives -- the Homeless Outreach Team, fire-department restructuring, budget oversight -- gives concrete, checkable accomplishments.

Trade-offs

Her campaign site doesn't describe her pre-council occupation, so her profile here rests mainly on her council record.

Keep in mind

No Cal-Access committee could be verified for her in this pass -- see Financial info.

Justin Hurst

A lifelong resident of the Folsom area with degrees from UC Davis and CSU Sacramento, currently a government-relations and advocacy manager at the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) and a sitting Folsom Planning Commissioner. His platform centers on "missing middle" housing (expanding affordable middle-class housing options through developer collaboration), fiscal responsibility (prioritizing one-time funds and rebuilding city reserves), dedicated funding for deferred infrastructure and parks maintenance, and expanded community engagement through town halls and outreach staffing. His campaign is affiliated with Project Plenty, a progressive grassroots organizing effort built around what it calls California's "Affordability Agenda."

Strengths

A current Planning Commission seat gives him direct, recent exposure to Folsom's land-use process, plus a government-relations career in public-sector budgeting.

Trade-offs

No prior elected office; his campaign's explicit tie to a named organizing network (Project Plenty) is a clearer ideological signal than most challengers here.

Keep in mind

His own site lists an FPPC filer ID (#1487158) but no dollar figures -- see Financial info.

Source review: Mixed (77/100) · 5 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: Anna Rohrbough's own campaign site for Folsom City Council District 5: her framing of her record as the incumbent Vice Mayor and Justin Hurst's own campaign site for Folsom City Council District 5: a CSAC government-relations manager and sitting Folsom Planning Commissioner, his platform, and his Project Plenty affiliation may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

  • elections.saccounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Sacramento County Voter Registration & Elections — Roster of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election
  • web.archive.org (opens in a new tab)City of Folsom — City Councilmembers directory (archived via Wayback Machine, Jan. 1, 2025 snapshot; folsom.ca.us itself 403s direct fetches): District 1 Councilmember Mike Kozlowski, District 2 Vice Mayor Justin Raithel, District 3 Mayor Sarah Aquino, District 4 Councilmember Barbara Leary, District 5 Councilmember Anna Rohrbough
  • web.archive.org (opens in a new tab)City of Folsom — City Councilmembers directory (archived via Wayback Machine, Feb. 15, 2026 snapshot; folsom.ca.us itself 403s direct fetches): names, districts, terms ("Current Term ends November, 2026" for Kozlowski/D1, Aquino/D3, and Rohrbough/D5; "...2028" for Raithel/D2 and Leary/D4), and contact info for all five sitting councilmembers, with Raithel shown as Mayor and Rohrbough as Vice Mayor
  • annarohrbough.com (opens in a new tab)Anna Rohrbough's own campaign site for Folsom City Council District 5: her framing of her record as the incumbent Vice Mayor — public safety, fiscal stewardship, and quality-of-life/infrastructure priorities
  • justinhurst.org (opens in a new tab)Justin Hurst's own campaign site for Folsom City Council District 5: a CSAC government-relations manager and sitting Folsom Planning Commissioner, his "missing middle" housing and fiscal-responsibility platform, and his Project Plenty affiliation

Last updated September 1, 2026.