# Hesperia City Council, District 4 Compare records and positions simply between Leticia "Letty" Cisneros and 2 more for Hesperia City Council, District 4 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold your district's seat on Hesperia's City Council. The council has five members, all elected by district. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. Terms are four years and staggered. Districts 2, 3, and 4 are up this cycle. Districts 1 and 5 are next up in 2028. Hesperia has no separate, citywide elected Mayor. Instead, two council members hold the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem titles. The council picks them from among its own members. - Jurisdiction: City of Hesperia - 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/hesperia-council-district-4 - 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: 74 out of 100 (Mixed), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Leticia "Letty" Cisneros** — Real Estate Agent - **Darrel A. Sauceda Jr.** — Small Business Owner - **Erin Baum** — Retired City Administrator A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Three candidates -- Erin Baum, Darrel A. Sauceda Jr., and Leticia "Letty" Cisneros -- are running for Hesperia's open District 4 council seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot. It's open because sitting District 4 councilmember Brigit Bennington -- who also currently holds the council-selected title of Mayor -- did not file nomination papers and is not seeking reelection, per the city's own election-information page. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins outright; there is no primary or runoff. This person would hold District 4's seat on Hesperia's 5-member, fully district-elected City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, under a council-manager government where an appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. The term is four years, ending in November 2030. Hesperia has no separately elected, citywide Mayor -- the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem titles are instead held by two of the five district councilmembers themselves, chosen from among their own ranks. District 4's outgoing member, Brigit Bennington, currently holds the Mayor title; her departure from the council means that title's future is unsettled along with the seat itself, though this dataset does not speculate on how the council will resolve either. Baum's filed designation, "Retired City Administrator," is the most specific occupational claim among the three -- though no independent record naming which city or agency she administered was found in this pass. Sauceda's designation is "Small Business Owner"; Cisneros's is "Real Estate Agent." None of the three has a current city board, commission, or prior elected-office record found in this pass. ## Erin Baum Erin Baum is a candidate for Hesperia's open District 4 council seat. Their filed ballot designation is "Retired City Administrator." No independent record identifying which city or public agency they administered, or when, was found in this pass -- the designation comes from their own filing, not from independent confirmation. **Strengths:** A specific, relevant-sounding occupational designation (city administration), if accurate. **Trade-offs:** This dataset could not confirm where or when they served as a city administrator; no news coverage was found; their committee has organized but filed no itemized financial report. **Keep in mind:** An unconfirmed but specific self-reported credential is worth asking about directly -- it isn't evidence either way on its own. ## Darrel A. Sauceda Jr. Darrel A. Sauceda Jr. is a candidate for Hesperia's open District 4 council seat. Their filed ballot designation is "Small Business Owner." No further independent record of their business, civic involvement, or platform was found in this pass. **Strengths:** None independently confirmed beyond their filed designation. **Trade-offs:** No news coverage, campaign website, or civic-board record was found in this pass; their committee has filed only a candidate-intention statement, with no financial disclosure. **Keep in mind:** Filing minimal paperwork is a legitimate, low-spend way to run and not itself a red flag. ## Leticia "Letty" Cisneros Leticia "Letty" Cisneros is a candidate for Hesperia's open District 4 council seat. Their filed ballot designation is "Real Estate Agent." No further independent record of their business, civic involvement, or platform was found in this pass. **Strengths:** None independently confirmed beyond their filed designation. **Trade-offs:** No news coverage, campaign website, or civic-board record was found in this pass; their committee has filed only a candidate-intention statement, with no financial disclosure. **Keep in mind:** A real-estate background is directly relevant to a council that oversees land use -- worth weighing alongside the lack of other confirmed detail. ## Review notes - No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap. ## Sources 1. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": the City of Hesperia section lists exactly three offices -- Member, City Council, Districts 2, 3, and 4 -- each a single seat with a 4-year term, and no Mayor contest.](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 City of Hesperia section (pages 144-150) names all nine qualified 2026 candidates across Districts 2, 3, and 4 with their filed ballot designations and incumbency flags, and shows Jacqueline Maheata "Chaplian" Tahauri as the only one of the nine who did not file a candidate statement.](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_CandidateList.pdf) 3. [City of Hesperia -- City Clerk's "Election Information" page: states the nomination period, the three offices up for election (Districts 2, 3, and 4, each a 4-year term ending November 2030), the full key-dates calendar, that "the incumbent candidate in District 4 has not pulled papers, and is not seeking reelection" (hence the 5-day filing extension), and that Hesperia moved from at-large to by-district elections in 2017 with district lines last redrawn April 5, 2022 -- Districts 2, 3, and 4 are up this cycle, Districts 1 and 5 next in 2028.](https://www.hesperiaca.gov/143/Election-Information) 4. [City of Hesperia -- City Clerk's own "Certified List of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election": names all nine qualified candidates across Districts 2, 3, and 4 with their filed ballot designations, independently corroborating the county's own candidate-filing report name for name.](https://www.hesperiaca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32398) 5. [City of Hesperia -- "City Council" page: lists all five current councilmembers by district -- confirming Allison Lee (District 2) and Cameron Gregg (District 3) as sitting incumbents, and that the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem titles belong to District 4's Brigit Bennington and District 5's Josh Pullen respectively, rather than to a separately elected citywide office.](https://www.hesperiaca.gov/133/City-Council) 6. [City of Hesperia's own NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (aid=HES), queried by candidate name for the three District 4 candidates: Erin Baum's committee has filed a Form 410 and two Form 501s but no itemized Form 460; Darrel A. Sauceda Jr. and Leticia "Letty" Cisneros have each filed only a Form 501, with no Form 410 and no itemized financial disclosure.](https://netfile.com/public/HES/campaign) ## The rest of the ballot Hesperia City Council, District 4 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, "Hesperia City Council, District 4 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/hesperia-council-district-4 (sources last retrieved August 31, 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.