# Galt City Council, District 1 Mark A. Jackson is running uncontested for Galt City Council, District 1. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of five district seats on the Galt City Council. The council sets the budget, city laws, and land-use decisions. Galt is a Sacramento County city of about 25,000 people. This is Galt's first council election by district. The city adopted district elections in March 2025. This followed a California Voting Rights Act demand letter from August 2024. It replaced Galt's previous at-large system. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Galt - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/galt-council-1 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 84 out of 100 (Strong), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Mark A. Jackson** — Small Business Owner A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for this open seat. Mark A. Jackson, a small business owner with no prior Galt council candidacy on file, appears unopposed -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. This is one of five district seats on the Galt City Council, which sets the city's budget, ordinances, and land-use decisions. It's a newly created district: Galt elected its Council entirely at-large until a 2024 California Voting Rights Act demand letter pushed the city to adopt district-based elections (Ordinance No. 2025-04, March 27, 2025), so no one has ever previously held this specific seat by direct election to it. The term is four years. The sitting Council Member whose term also expires this cycle, Shawn Farmer, did not file for reelection to any district -- so District 1 opens with no incumbent in the running at all. ## Mark A. Jackson The only candidate to qualify for District 1. Their filed ballot designation is "Small Business Owner." This dataset searched the city's own site, Wikipedia, Ballotpedia, and general web search and found no campaign website, news coverage, or further biographical detail beyond that self-declared occupation. Their campaign has filed only an FPPC Form 501 (candidate intention statement, filed July 22, 2026) -- no earlier Galt candidacy and no Form 460 fundraising report is on file. **Strengths:** not established in the sourcing found for this race. **Trade-offs:** as a first-time candidate with no located public record, voters have little beyond Jackson's name, their occupation, and that they are the only person who qualified for this open seat. **Keep in mind:** this is a documented sourcing gap, not evidence against them -- a real, multi-method search turned up nothing further to report, and running unopposed for an open seat, they have had no occasion to file a fundraising disclosure. ## Sources 1. [Sacramento County Registrar of Voters -- unified countywide Nov 2026 candidate report, queried directly for Galt's three City Council contests (Districts 1, 3, 5), all flagged "On Ballot: Yes": District 1, Mark A Jackson ("Small Business Owner", Incumbent: No); District 3, Bonnie Rodriguez ("Contract Analyst", Incumbent: No); District 5, Paul Sandhu ("City Council Member", Incumbent: Yes) and Tom Silva ("Retired Master Sergeant", Incumbent: No).](https://elections.saccounty.gov/content/vre/us/en/campaign-services/candidate-report.html) 2. [City of Galt -- live "City Council" roster page (read via a Google Translate proxy after cityofgalt.org itself returned HTTP 403 to direct fetches in this pass; content is the city's own official page, not a translation of substance): names Mayor Bonnie Rodriguez, Vice Mayor Tim Reed, and Council Members Shawn Farmer, Paul Sandhu, and Mathew Pratton, with per-member term-expiration years of 2026 for Rodriguez, Farmer, and Sandhu and 2028 for Reed and Pratton -- confirming three of Galt's five Council seats are up this cycle, matching the county's three-contest count.](https://www.cityofgalt.org/government/city-council-62) 3. [City of Galt -- "District Elections Overview" page (read via the same Google Translate workaround): the city received an Aug. 24, 2024 CVRA demand letter from Shenkman & Hughes, PC; the Council adopted Resolution No. 2024-89 (Oct. 1, 2024) declaring intent to move from at-large to district elections, then Ordinance No. 2025-04 (March 27, 2025) establishing the district boundaries, with the district system "debuting in the 2026 election" -- this is Galt's first-ever district-based Council election.](https://www.cityofgalt.org/government/clerk-administrator-and-elected-city-clerk/district-elections) 4. [City of Galt -- "Campaign Financial Disclosure and Statements of Economic Interests Filings" page (read via the same Google Translate workaround), listing every FPPC filing on record for all four 2026 Council candidates: Mark A. Jackson (Form 501 only, filed July 22, 2026 -- no earlier Galt candidacy on file); Bonnie Rodriguez (2026 Form 501 Aug. 3 and Form 470 July 27, plus a continuous filing history back to a Form 410 committee opened Aug. 14, 2024 and terminated via Form 460 Dec. 30, 2024 -- an active 2024 candidacy under the same name with the City of Galt); Paul Sandhu (2026 Form 470 July 20 stepped up to a Form 410 committee Aug. 5, amended Aug. 24, plus a full 2022 campaign -- Form 410 through Form 460 termination -- matching his 2022 Council election); Tom Silva (2026 Form 501 only, filed Aug. 6, 2026, plus a full but ultimately unsuccessful 2022 Council campaign -- Form 410 through a Jan. 2023 termination, and he does not appear on the city's current Council roster).](https://www.cityofgalt.org/government/clerk-administrator-and-elected-city-clerk/elections/campaign-financial-disclosure-and-statements-of-economic-interests-filings-1441) 5. [Wikipedia's Galt, California article -- 2020 census population 25,383; incorporated Aug. 16, 1946; Sacramento County. Its government infobox lists Shawn Farmer as Mayor and Paul Sandhu as Vice Mayor, at odds with the city's own live roster page naming Bonnie Rodriguez as Mayor and Tim Reed as Vice Mayor -- this dataset treats the city's own live page as authoritative over Wikipedia's evidently stale infobox for current leadership titles, using Wikipedia here only for population and incorporation facts.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galt,_California) ## The rest of the ballot Galt City Council, District 1 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Galt City Council, District 1 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/galt-council-1 (sources last retrieved September 1, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.