# Grand Terrace Mayor William "Bill" Hussey is running uncontested for Grand Terrace Mayor. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person is Grand Terrace's directly elected, citywide Mayor. They preside over City Council meetings. The Mayor also votes as a full member of the five-person council. That council is the Mayor plus four at-large Council Members. It sets city laws, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. An appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. Grand Terrace is a general law city, incorporated in 1978. - Jurisdiction: City of Grand Terrace - 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/grand-terrace-mayor - 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: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 86 out of 100 (Strong), across 10 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **William "Bill" Hussey** — Mayor Grand Terrace · Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for Grand Terrace's directly elected Mayor seat. Incumbent Mayor William "Bill" Hussey appears unopposed for another term on the November 3, 2026 ballot -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. This person is Grand Terrace's directly elected, citywide Mayor. They preside over City Council meetings and vote as a full member of the 5-person council (Mayor plus four at-large Council Members) that sets city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years; day-to-day operations run through an appointed City Manager. Grand Terrace is a general law city, incorporated in 1978. With no opponent, the useful question is what Hussey has done in office rather than who to choose. They were previously a Grand Terrace councilmember before winning a two-candidate race for Mayor in November 2022 and being seated as the new Mayor that December, per San Bernardino Sun reporting -- they're now seeking a second term. ## William "Bill" Hussey William "Bill" Hussey is Grand Terrace's incumbent Mayor, filed ballot designation "Mayor Grand Terrace." They previously served as a Grand Terrace councilmember before winning a two-candidate mayoral race in November 2022 -- San Bernardino Sun headlines from that cycle describe Hussey as "a councilman" who "takes lead in mayoral race," and confirm Hussey was seated as the city's new Mayor that December. No independent news coverage of their record specifically as Mayor was found in this pass. **Strengths:** Nearly four years as Mayor plus prior council experience; won a real, contested two-candidate race in 2022 rather than an appointment. **Trade-offs:** No independent news coverage of Hussey's record as Mayor was found; their most recent filings came in a single overdue batch and can't be read for dollar totals. **Keep in mind:** An unopposed race means this contest won't change who holds the office -- the value here is understanding who's already there and how they got there, not weighing alternatives. ## Sources 1. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election" (the same document as sb-offices-up-2026, a different section): the "City of Grand Terrace" section lists exactly two offices, each a 4-year term with no district breakdown -- Mayor (1 seat) and Member, City Council (1 seat).](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_OfficesUpForElection.pdf) 2. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report (the same document as sb-candidate-list-2026, a different section): the "City of Grand Terrace" section (pp. 142-144 of 249) names one qualified 2026 Mayor candidate -- William "Bill" Hussey (flagged Incumbent) -- and two qualified City Council candidates for the one open seat -- Doug Wilson (Incumbent) and Jeremy Cecil Briggs -- each with their filed ballot designation, "Last Updated: 8/28/2026."](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_CandidateList.pdf) 3. [City of Grand Terrace -- City Clerk's Elections page: states directly this is "a general law city consisting of five members, one Mayor and four Council Members," all elected at-large to 4-year terms, and that the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election "will fill the Mayor's seat and one Council seat" -- matching the county's own documents.](https://www.grandterrace-ca.gov/departments/city_clerk_s_office/elections) 4. [City of Grand Terrace -- its own /government overview page: "Grand Terrace is a General Law City incorporated in 1978," corroborating the elections page's general-law-city claim and giving the incorporation year (this pass's official-site source outranks Wikipedia's own prose claim elsewhere that the city is a charter city).](https://www.grandterrace-ca.gov/government) 5. [City of Grand Terrace -- City Council roster page: lists the sitting five-member council by title -- Mayor Bill Hussey, Council Member Michelle Sabino, Council Member Doug Wilson, Council Member Jeff Allen, and Council Member Matt Brown -- confirming the other three non-Mayor seats aren't this cycle's open seat.](https://www.grandterrace-ca.gov/government/elected_officials/city_council) 6. [Wikipedia -- "Grand Terrace, California": names Bill Hussey as the sitting Mayor and Konrad Bolowich as City Manager, independently corroborating the city's own roster; cited only for names, not for its (contradicted) charter-city claim.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Terrace,_California) 7. [City of Grand Terrace's own city-specific NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (aid=CGT), queried directly by name for all three 2026 candidates via the portal's own QuickNameSearch and filings/byFiler JSON APIs: Hussey's committee filed Form 460s on a regular schedule from 2020 through mid-2024, then filed four consecutive overdue reports (July 2024-June 2026) all on the same day, July 21, 2026 -- one such filing was downloaded directly and found to be a scanned image PDF with no extractable text layer, so no dollar total could be read. Wilson's committee has only a short-form FPPC Form 470 (Feb. 2026) and a Form 501 on file for this cycle; Briggs's committee has only a Form 470 (Aug. 2026). Neither Form 470 itemizes, so no dollar total is on record for either.](https://www.netfile.com/agency/CGT/index.html) 8. [San Bernardino Sun -- "New Grand Terrace Mayor Bill Hussey vows to keep 'well-oiled machine oiled'": headline and date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata; the article body itself could not be read (sbsun.com is not fetchable directly in this pass).](https://www.sbsun.com) 9. [San Bernardino Sun -- "Here are the 2 candidates in the Grand Terrace election for mayor": headline and date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata; the article body itself could not be read (sbsun.com is not fetchable directly in this pass).](https://www.sbsun.com) 10. [San Bernardino Sun -- "Grand Terrace councilman takes lead in mayoral race": headline and date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata -- independent evidence Hussey was a sitting councilman before winning the Mayor's office; the article body itself could not be read (sbsun.com is not fetchable directly in this pass).](https://www.sbsun.com) ## The rest of the ballot Grand Terrace Mayor 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, "Grand Terrace Mayor — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/grand-terrace-mayor (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). 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