www2.fresnocountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR009 "Candidate List" for the Nov. 3, 2026 Consolidated Statewide General Election (printed 8/12/2026 5:37:13PM, post-filing-deadline): lists Huron's two city-section contests -- City Council (5085), Vote For 3, with Roberto C. Pimentel ("Teacher"), Mike A. Morales ("Incumbent"), Joel Mora ("Administrative Coordinator"), and David Mercado ("Operation Manager") as the four qualified candidates; and City Council Short Term (5088), Vote For 1, with Eduardo Lopez Mendoza ("Business Owner") flagged Not Qualified
www2.fresnocountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR001 "Contest/Candidate Proof List," filtered to Contests on Ballot, for the Nov. 3, 2026 election (printed 8/18/2026 8:39:55AM): independently confirms Huron City Council (5085) as ON BALLOT, Vote For 3, 4 qualified of 4 filed, naming Roberto Pimentel, Mike A. Morales, and Arely Maribel Arellano as incumbents-of-record, each "Elected" (not appointed); and confirms City Council Short Term (5088) as ON BALLOT, Vote For 1, but with 1 candidate filed and 0 qualified -- no "Candidate(s):" line appears for this contest, unlike every other contest in the document -- and names the seat's incumbent-of-record as "Vacant / Vacated"
huronca.gov (opens in a new tab)The City of Huron's own City Council page: names Mayor Rey Leon (directly elected at-large, 2-year term), Mayor Pro-Tem Roberto Pimentel, and Councilmembers Arely Arellano and Mike Morales as the four sitting officials -- no fourth Councilmember is named. States the generic rule that "four Council members serve four-year staggered terms, with two positions up for election every two years"
huronca.gov (opens in a new tab)The City of Huron's own "Notice of City Council Reorganization," dated Dec. 15, 2022, following a Dec. 14, 2022 special meeting -- names all five then-elected offices and each one's term-expiration date: Rey Leon (Mayor, expires Dec. 2024), Roberto C. Pimentel, Arely Arellano, and Mike A. Morales (Councilmembers, each expires Dec. 2026), and Hilda R. Plasencia (Councilmember, expires Dec. 2024). A scanned image PDF with no extractable text layer; read via an image render this session
huronca.gov (opens in a new tab)The City of Huron's own Administration page: names Virginia Penaloza as City Manager, "responsible for making policy recommendations to the City Council and implementing City Council policy directives," and places the City Clerk function inside the City Manager's office rather than as a separately elected office; no City Treasurer is named
en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia's Huron, California article: population 6,206 (2020 census), 95.7% Hispanic or Latino -- the article notes Huron had the highest such share of any U.S. city per the 2000 census; names Rey Leon as Mayor. States no council size or term-length detail
cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result campaign-finance search: California's Cal-Access campaign-finance search returned only an empty, unrenderable page for a direct query against each of Huron's four 2026 City Council candidates this session, the same recurring bot-detection failure mode already documented elsewhere in this dataset (e.g. Kingsburg, Danville, Coalinga, Firebaugh). Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for this contest, not any candidate's actual finances

Last updated September 1, 2026.

City of Huron

Huron City Council

This person would hold one of three City Council seats in Huron. The term is four years. Council members vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Huron's Mayor is directly elected separately, to a two-year term. The Mayor's seat is not up this cycle.

Four candidates are running for three seats on Huron's City Council. Incumbents Roberto Pimentel and Mike Morales are both seeking another term. Challengers Joel Mora and David Mercado are also running. The fourth seat is open. Incumbent Arely Arellano did not file for reelection.

This person would hold one of three City Council seats up this cycle in Huron. Huron is a Fresno County farmworker city in the western San Joaquin Valley. About 6,200 people live there. The city was incorporated on May 3, 1951. Councilmembers vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. They work with the city's appointed City Manager, Virginia Penaloza. She also oversees the City Clerk function. Huron has no separately elected City Clerk or City Treasurer. The term is four years. Huron's Mayor, Rey Leon, is elected at-large to a separate 2-year term. That seat is not up this cycle. Roberto Pimentel, one of this contest's candidates, serves as Mayor Pro-Tem. The Council assigns that title. It is not a separately elected office. Huron's fourth Council seat is vacant, per Fresno County's own filing documents. It was up separately this cycle as a "Short Term" contest. That contest would fill the balance of the seat's unexpired term. Its one filer is flagged "Not Qualified" in the county's own record. That leaves zero qualified candidates, so no contest is built for that seat. One unconfirmed reading traces the vacancy to former Councilmember Hilda R. Plasencia's seat.

Four names appear on the ballot for three seats. This is a plurality race decided in one round. The three highest vote-getters win outright. Two candidates, Pimentel and Morales, are sitting incumbents, per Fresno County's own listing. A third incumbent, Arely Arellano, did not file for reelection. That left her seat open. No independent reporting compares the four candidates or covers the race.

Roberto C. Pimentel

Roberto C. Pimentel is an incumbent. They are seeking another term. Their ballot title is "Teacher." County records show they won their seat by election. They were not appointed. They are also the sitting Mayor Pro Tem. No other background or platform information was found for them.

Mike A. Morales

Mike A. Morales is an incumbent. They are seeking another term. Their ballot title is simply "Incumbent." It lists no occupation. County records show they won their seat by election. They were not appointed. No other background or platform information was found for them.

Joel Mora

Joel Mora is a new candidate. They are running for the seat left open by Arely Arellano. Their ballot title is "Administrative Coordinator." No other background or platform information was found for them.

David Mercado

David Mercado is a new candidate. They are running for the seat left open by Arely Arellano. Their ballot title is "Operation Manager," as filed with the county. No other background or platform information was found for them.

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