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City of Gustine · Statewide General Election

Mayor of Gustine

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On the ballot

This person is Gustine's directly elected Mayor -- one seat on a five-member City Council (the Mayor plus four Council Members, all elected at large citywide) that sets the budget, land use, and city ordinances for this Merced County city of 6,110 residents (2020 Census). The Mayor serves a two-year term, half the length of a Council Member's four-year term.

Only Patrick Nagy qualified for Gustine Mayor. He is running unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

Gustine's Mayor is one seat on a five-member City Council -- the Mayor plus four Council Members, all elected citywide at-large rather than by district -- that sets the budget, land use, and municipal ordinances for this Merced County city of 6,110 residents (2020 Census). The Mayor's term is 2 years, half the length of a Council Member's 4-year term.

The county's own certified candidate roster, independently corroborated by The Merced FOCUS's own filing-deadline reporting, confirms Nagy was the only person who qualified for Mayor by the close of the filing period. Voters still cast a ballot to formally elect him to another term.

Patrick Nagy

Patrick "Pat" Nagy is Gustine's incumbent Mayor, confirmed as the sitting Mayor by the city's own official website. The county's candidate list gives his printed ballot designation as "Incumbent" rather than an occupation. No independent news profile or biography page for Nagy was found this pass -- his individual city-bio page has never been captured by the Wayback Machine, and a search of The Merced FOCUS's and Merced County Times' own article archives turned up no dedicated coverage of him beyond the shared filing-deadline roundup.

Strengths

Sitting incumbency, confirmed by the city's own site.

Trade-offs

Little beyond his name, incumbency, and unopposed status could be confirmed this pass -- no news profile, campaign site, or captured biography page was found for him.

Keep in mind

With no opponent, this is a referendum on his tenure rather than a choice between platforms -- there is no mechanism on this ballot to vote against him, only to formally elect him to another term.

Source review: Strong (88/100) · 5 cited sources

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

  • countyofmerced.com (opens in a new tab)Merced County -- own "November 3, 2026 General Election -- All Contests -- Final Qualified Candidate List" (CFMR009 report, printed 8/25/2026): names Gustine's two city contests (Mayor, Councilmember) and every candidate's printed ballot designation and candidate-statement-filed status, read directly from the source PDF's Gustine section.
  • themercedfocus.org (opens in a new tab)The Merced FOCUS -- "Key city races take shape in Merced County. See who made the filing deadline" (Victor A. Patton, Aug. 9, 2026): independently confirms "In Gustine, incumbent Patrick Nagy is running unopposed. Residents will vote for two city council seats, and there are two candidates: incumbent Rich Ford and business owner Sherri Marsigli."
  • cityofgustine.com (opens in a new tab)City of Gustine -- own "City Council" page, via a Wayback Machine snapshot (captured 2026-08-31; the live site returns HTTP 403 to every direct fetch attempted this pass): "The City Council is comprised of five members, elected by the electorate in Gustine: Four City Council Members are elected for four year terms while the Mayor is elected for two year terms." The same-day homepage snapshot names the current roster: Mayor Patrick "Pat" Nagy, and Council Members Blake Giles, Mark Melville, Rich Ford, and Sherri Marsigli.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Gustine, California": used narrowly for the dated 2020 Census population figure (6,110, up from 5,520 in 2010), the November 11, 1915 incorporation date, and state/federal district placement -- does not cover the 2026 election.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer searches attempted for all three Gustine candidates (Patrick Nagy, Rich Ford, Sherri Marsigli): every query returned only Cal-Access's own Incapsula bot-detection challenge page, not usable results, the same block documented elsewhere in this dataset -- and Cal-Access's documented scope covers state-level filings only, which excludes local candidates in any case. A NetFile public campaign-finance portal exists for Gustine (agency ID "GUST") but is a client-rendered single-page app that returns only an empty HTML shell to a direct fetch, and no browser tool was available this pass to query it interactively. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source, not any candidate's actual finances.

Last updated September 2, 2026.