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City of Galt · Statewide General Election

Galt City Council, District 3

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 would hold one of five district seats on the Galt City Council, which sets the budget, ordinances, and land-use decisions for this Sacramento County city of about 25,000. This is Galt's first council election by district: after an Aug. 2024 California Voting Rights Act demand letter, the city adopted district-based elections in March 2025, replacing its previous at-large system. A 4-year term.

Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Bonnie Rodriguez 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 this is the first time this specific seat has been filled by direct election to it. A 4-year term.

A person named Bonnie Rodriguez currently serves as Galt's Mayor (chosen by her Council colleagues), with a Council term the city's own roster lists as expiring in 2026 -- the same year as this race. Sacramento County's own candidate roster does not flag this District 3 candidate as an incumbent, but this dataset treats that specific field as unreliable this cycle (the same field misfired for several confirmed sitting officeholders in a comparable race this session) rather than as proof she is a different person. The stronger signal: this candidate's campaign-finance filings run continuously under the same name with the City of Galt back to an active 2024 candidacy, on the same 2026 disclosure roll as the other three council candidates. No source states outright that the sitting Mayor and this candidate are the same person -- this dataset treats it as highly likely, not certain, and flags the gap rather than asserting it as settled fact.

Bonnie Rodriguez

The only candidate to qualify for District 3. Her filed ballot designation is "Contract Analyst." The City of Galt's own live roster page lists a Mayor Bonnie Rodriguez with a Council term expiring in 2026, and this dataset's review of the city's own campaign-disclosure filings found a continuous filing history under this name with the City of Galt dating to an August 2024 campaign committee (opened Aug. 14, 2024, terminated via Form 460 on Dec. 30, 2024) -- consistent with, though not certain proof of, the same person now seeking a first term under Galt's new district system. Beyond that, this dataset found no independent biographical detail: no campaign website, no news coverage, and the city's own linked bio page for her is a bare contact card with no further text.

Strengths

if this is indeed the sitting Mayor, as the city's own filings and roster suggest but do not confirm outright, she'd bring current officeholder experience to a newly created seat.

Trade-offs

no independent source states plainly that the District 3 candidate and the sitting Mayor are the same person; the county's own candidate list does not flag her as an incumbent here.

Keep in mind

with no opponent and no press coverage of this race, there's little beyond her filed paperwork and the circumstantial case above -- treat the incumbency question as a documented gap, not a resolved fact.

Source review: Strong (84/100) · 5 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • elections.saccounty.gov (opens in a new tab)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).
  • cityofgalt.org (opens in a new tab)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.
  • cityofgalt.org (opens in a new tab)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.
  • cityofgalt.org (opens in a new tab)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).
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)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.

Last updated September 1, 2026.