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City of Greenfield · Statewide General Election

Greenfield City Council, District 1

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On the ballot

This person would represent one of Greenfield's four council districts on the city's five-member City Council -- the citywide budget, land use, and oversight of city staff for this Monterey County city of 18,937 residents (2020 Census), alongside a directly elected Mayor who is not part of this race. Greenfield moved from at-large to district council elections in 2022; this seat serves a 4-year term.

Only one candidate qualified for Greenfield's District 1 City Council seat: incumbent Belen Leon Garcia. She runs unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

This is one of Greenfield's four City Council districts. Council members set city ordinances, the budget, and land-use policy for this Monterey County city of 18,937 residents (2020 Census), alongside a directly elected Mayor who is not part of this race and a professional city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Greenfield moved from at-large to by-district council elections in 2022; this is only the city's second by-district election. This seat carries a 4-year term.

Garcia first won this seat in a 2024 special election to fill a vacancy for a partial two-year term, defeating Stephanie Garcia, a litigation paralegal, with more than 50 percent of the vote. No other candidate filed nomination papers for a full term this cycle, so the seat goes to the ballot uncontested rather than by council appointment -- Garcia is on the county's own candidate list for a November election, and does not appear on Monterey County's separate list of seats needing an extended filing period for lack of an incumbent filing, which confirms the seat was not headed for a Section 10229 cancel-and-appoint. Voters still cast a ballot to formally elect her to a full term.

Belen Leon Garcia

Belen Leon Garcia is the district's incumbent, a retired educator first elected to the seat in a 2024 special election. In her filed candidate statement, quoted by Monterey County Weekly, she says: "In 2024, [voters] trusted me with the honor of representing District 1 and I've embraced that responsibility wholeheartedly. I'm running for four more years to continue supporting our youth, families and seniors while keeping the City of Greenfield a safe, healthy and welcoming home sweet hometown."

Strengths

A partial term's record as sitting Councilmember to run on, plus a career background as an educator relevant to her stated focus on youth and families.

Trade-offs

With no opponent, this pass found no comparative reporting on her record; the priorities in her statement are her own account, not an audited record of her votes.

Keep in mind

An uncontested race still appears on the ballot and still requires a vote to formally elect her to a full term; there is no mechanism on this ballot to vote against her.

Source review: Strong (89/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • countyofmonterey.gov (opens in a new tab)Monterey County Elections -- official "Candidate List" page for the November 3, 2026 General Election: within the City section, exactly three Greenfield rows appear -- "CITY OF GREENFIELD MAYOR," "MEMBER, CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1," and "MEMBER, CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3" -- confirming Districts 2 and 4 are not up this cycle. Like the county's own BOE rows used elsewhere in this dataset, the page's DOM renders office titles only, never per-seat candidate names.
  • greenfieldca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Greenfield -- official City Council page: lists the sitting five-member Council -- Robert White (Mayor), Ariana Rodriguez (Mayor Pro-Tem, District 4), Belen Garcia (District 1), Marcy Moreno-Mares (District 2), and Rachel Ortiz (District 3) -- confirming the current officeholders in both council races up this cycle.
  • greenfieldca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Greenfield -- "Greenfield District Voting" page: documents the city's California Voting Rights Act process that moved City Council elections from at-large to by-district voting.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Greenfield, California": 2020 Census population (18,937); confirms a directly elected Mayor (first directly elected in 1986) rather than a council-selected one.
  • kingcityrustler.com (opens in a new tab)The King City Rustler -- "Extended filing period opens for unfilled seats in Monterey County" (Aug. 10, 2026): lists every Monterey County office where an eligible incumbent did not file for reelection by the regular Aug. 7 deadline. Greenfield's only line item is two openings on the Greenfield Fire Protection District board -- Mayor, District 1, and District 3 appear nowhere on the list, confirming White, Garcia, and Ortiz all filed for reelection by the regular deadline (ruling out a Section 10229 cancellation for any of the three seats).
  • montereycountynow.com (opens in a new tab)Monterey County Weekly / Salinas Valley Now (montereycountynow.com) -- "Greenfield City Council District Races Set for November Election" (Royvi Hernandez, Aug. 17, 2026): names every candidate in both council races -- District 1's Belen Leon Garcia running unopposed for a full term after winning a 2024 special election over Stephanie Garcia, and District 3's incumbent Rachel Ortiz against challenger David Hernandez Godoy, a maintenance supervisor who filed no candidate statement and did not respond to the paper's request for comment -- and quotes Garcia's and Ortiz's filed candidate statements directly. Independently confirms Mayor White is unopposed and that this is Greenfield's second by-district council election (the first was 2022).
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer searches for Robert White, Belen (Leon) Garcia, Rachel Ortiz, and David Hernandez Godoy: every query returned no extractable content via WebFetch; no live-browser fallback was available this session either.

Last updated September 1, 2026.