# Mayor of Hughson Compare records and positions simply between George R Carr, Geoff Powers, or Sam Rush for Mayor of Hughson at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person leads Hughson City Council meetings and represents the city in public. They also vote on the city budget, laws, and land use. Hughson has about 7,900 residents in Stanislaus County. The city elects its Mayor and Council members citywide, not by district. - Jurisdiction: City of Hughson - 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/hughson-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: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 82 out of 100 (Strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **George R Carr** — Incumbent - **Geoff Powers** - **Sam Rush** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Three candidates are running for Hughson's Mayor: incumbent George R Carr against two challengers, Geoff Powers and Sam Rush. Whichever gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright -- no runoff. Hughson's Mayor presides over City Council meetings and represents this small Stanislaus County city (about 7,900 residents) publicly, but votes as one of the council's members on the city budget, ordinances, and land use. Hughson elects its Mayor and Council members at-large, citywide -- there are no council districts. This dataset could not independently confirm the length of Hughson's mayoral term: the city's own site returned a Cloudflare access challenge to every automated fetch attempt in this pass, so no municipal code or elections page could be read. Neither challenger requested a ballot designation from the county -- both appear on the county's own candidate list with "**none" where an occupation or title would otherwise print. That's a data point about what was filed, not about either candidate's background. ## George R Carr George R Carr is Hughson's sitting Mayor, running for reelection. Carr is the only one of the three Mayor candidates who filed a ballot designation, printed simply as "Incumbent" on the county's official candidate list. No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record was found for them in this pass beyond that officeholder status -- Hughson's own site was unreachable throughout this pass (see the financial-info note below). **Strengths:** Sitting officeholder status, the only candidate in this race with a checkable record in the seat. **Trade-offs:** No independent news coverage, campaign website, or record of specific initiatives from their time as Mayor was found in this pass -- only the county's bare candidate list and the fact of incumbency. **Keep in mind:** This dataset could not reach Hughson's own site in this pass, so no fuller account of their record as Mayor -- good or bad -- could be checked beyond what's here. ## Geoff Powers Geoff Powers is challenging incumbent Mayor George R Carr. Powers did not request a ballot designation, so no occupation or title prints next to their name on the county's candidate list. No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record was found for them in this pass. **Strengths:** No independent source describes any record, background, or platform for them beyond their name on the county's certified candidate list -- the same gap for every non-incumbent candidate here. **Trade-offs:** Voters have no statement, platform, or public record to weigh for them beyond that filing. **Keep in mind:** A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass -- Hughson's own site was unreachable throughout -- not a judgment about their candidacy. ## Sam Rush Sam Rush is challenging incumbent Mayor George R Carr. Rush did not request a ballot designation, so no occupation or title prints next to their name on the county's candidate list. No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record was found for them in this pass. **Strengths:** No independent source describes any record, background, or platform for them beyond their name on the county's certified candidate list -- the same gap for every non-incumbent candidate here. **Trade-offs:** Voters have no statement, platform, or public record to weigh for them beyond that filing. **Keep in mind:** A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass -- Hughson's own site was unreachable throughout -- not a judgment about their candidacy. ## Sources 1. [Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters -- "Unofficial Candidate List," General Election, Nov. 3, 2026 (refetched fresh this session; PDF metadata date-stamped 8/31/2026, page footers time-stamped 7:57 AM 8/31/2026): the "CITY OF HUGHSON" block of the "MUNICIPAL OFFICES" section names both Hughson offices -- MAYOR (Vote for 1): *George R Carr (Incumbent), Geoff Powers (**none), Sam Rush (**none); COUNCIL MEMBER (Vote for 2): *Julie Ann Strain (Incumbent), Brian Evans (**none) -- with each candidate's filed ballot designation or the document's own "**none" marker](https://www.stanvote.gov/pdf/candidate-list.pdf) 2. [Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters -- "City Clerks" directory: confirms that Hughson candidate filing runs through the city's own clerk, not the county, and gives the city's official contact information (7018 Pine Street / PO Box 9, Hughson, CA 95326; 209-883-4054; hughson.org)](https://www.stanvote.gov/city-clerks.shtm) 3. [Wikipedia -- Hughson, California: cited narrowly for the 2020 Census population (7,481; ~7,903 estimated as of July 1, 2024) -- its only City Council content is a stale mention of a 2010 recall of three since-departed members, so it is not relied on for any current officeholder, structure, or term-length claim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughson,_California) 4. [A documented site-access gap, not a claim about any candidate's background or fundraising: the City of Hughson's own site (hughson.org, which 302-redirects to cityofhughsonca.gov) and www.cityofhughsonca.gov directly both returned a Cloudflare managed "Just a moment" challenge to every automated fetch attempt in this pass -- WebFetch and a direct curl with a realistic browser User-Agent failed identically -- so this pass could not read the city's own municipal code, elections page, council roster, term lengths, or campaign-finance disclosure location. A direct guess against the same NetFile public infrastructure Modesto and Patterson use (agency id "hughson") returned a 404 from the API and an empty, unpopulated portal shell -- weak evidence against, not proof of the absence of, a NetFile-hosted portal under some other agency id](https://www.cityofhughsonca.gov/) ## The rest of the ballot Mayor of Hughson 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, "Mayor of Hughson — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/hughson-mayor (sources last retrieved September 1, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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