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City of Fullerton · Statewide General Election

Fullerton City Council, District 3

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

This is one contest. Enter your address to see every race on your November ballot, and keep track of your picks.

On the ballot

This person holds your district's seat on Fullerton's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Fullerton is a general-law city with no separately, citywide-elected Mayor -- the council elects a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from among its own members each year. Not all five council districts are elected the same year; only Districts 3 and 5 are up in 2026. A 4-year term.

Incumbent Shana Charles is running for a second term against one challenger, Daniel Kim. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff.

This person holds District 3's seat on Fullerton's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Fullerton is a general-law city with no separately, citywide-elected Mayor -- the council elects a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from among its own members each year. Not all five council districts are elected the same year; only Districts 3 and 5 are up in 2026. A 4-year term.

Beyond each candidate's own filed occupation, no campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source could be found for either despite a real, per-candidate search effort -- the city's own site is bot-gated against direct fetch, Ballotpedia and Voice of OC returned no usable content for this race, OC Register was unreachable, and this session's WebSearch budget was already exhausted before any query-based search for this city could run. Documented below as a gap, not filled in with speculation.

Shana Charles

The sitting District 3 councilmember, Charles is seeking a second term. Her filed ballot designation is "City of Fullerton Councilmember/Professor." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing her platform, record on the council, or the subject she teaches could be found in this pass despite a real search effort -- Wikipedia's Fullerton, California article confirms her current council seat only, and a guessed CSUF faculty-page URL 404'd.

Strengths

One full term of council experience, running as District 3's incumbent.

Trade-offs

No campaign statement or platform was found in this pass beyond her ballot designation, so voters have no confirmed sense of what she'd prioritize in a second term.

Keep in mind

No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for her campaign in this pass -- see Financial info.

Daniel Kim

Filed his candidacy under the ballot designation "Fullerton Commissioner/Businessman," indicating current service on one of the city's boards or commissions. No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source confirming which commission or describing his business background or platform could be found in this pass despite a real search effort.

Strengths

His filed designation indicates current city-commission service, suggesting some existing familiarity with Fullerton's governance and processes.

Trade-offs

No campaign statement or platform was found in this pass, so voters have no confirmed sense of his priorities beyond his listed designation.

Keep in mind

No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for his campaign in this pass -- see Financial info.

Source review: Strong (84/100) · 2 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with a narrow source base.

  • ocvote.gov (opens in a new tab)OC Registrar of Voters -- Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 -- City of Fullerton section (pages 92-94 of 188): confirms City Council District 3 (2 qualified candidates) and District 5 (3) as the city's two November 2026 races, each Vote for 1, with incumbent flags and every candidate's filed ballot designation
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia's Fullerton, California article, government section: confirms Fullerton is a general-law, council-manager city with a 5-member, non-partisan City Council on staggered 4-year terms and no directly elected Mayor -- the council elects a chair who serves as Mayor (currently Fred Jung, with Nick Dunlap as Mayor Pro Tem) -- and that the city moved from at-large to five-district council elections after voters approved Measure II in 2016; also confirms Ahmad Zahra and Shana Charles as sitting councilmembers, corroborating the county document's incumbency flags for Districts 5 and 3

Last updated August 31, 2026.