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City of Indio · Statewide General Election

Indio City Council, District 2

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

This person holds your district's seat on Indio's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use. A 4-year term. The council selects one of its own members to serve as Mayor and another as Mayor Pro Tem each year -- the titles rotate rather than being separately elected.

Incumbent Mayor Pro Tem Waymond Fermon seeks reelection to the District 2 seat against Gloria Hernandez, a challenger for whom local reporting could not obtain contact information.

This person holds your district's seat on Indio's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use. A 4-year term. The council selects one of its own members to serve as Mayor and another as Mayor Pro Tem each year — the titles rotate rather than being separately elected.

Fermon is the sitting Mayor Pro Tem, one of two incumbents on Indio's ballot this cycle. Hernandez's campaign could not be reached by the Desert Sun for even the basic occupation/background note it obtained for other candidates in this roundup — no independent biography, platform statement, or campaign presence was found for her in the time researched for this profile.

Waymond Fermon

Waymond Fermon holds the District 2 seat on the Indio City Council and currently serves as Mayor Pro Tem, a title the council rotates yearly among its own members. He is seeking reelection to a new term. No independent biography or platform statement beyond his current officeholding, as reported by the Desert Sun and corroborated by Wikipedia's sourced council roster, was found in the time available for this profile.

Strengths

Sitting council experience and the Mayor Pro Tem role, both suggesting standing among his council colleagues.

Trade-offs

No independently reported policy platform beyond his current officeholding was found in the time available for this profile.

Keep in mind

As an incumbent, his record on the council is something voters can look up directly rather than take on faith.

Gloria Hernandez

Gloria Hernandez is running for the District 2 seat on the Indio City Council. The Desert Sun's own Coachella Valley election roundup reports that her contact information could not be obtained, and no independent biography, platform statement, or campaign site was found for her in the time available for this profile — the thinnest record of any candidate in this dataset's Indio races.

Strengths

None independently reported in the time available for this profile.

Trade-offs

No biography, platform, prior public service, or campaign presence was found — even local reporting could not reach her.

Keep in mind

This is an unusually thin public record; voters who want more may need to seek out Hernandez directly before the election.

Source review: Strong (86/100) · 3 cited sources

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

  • voteinfo.net (opens in a new tab)Riverside County Registrar of Voters — 2026 Annual Election Calendar (lists every November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election office by city, including "City of Cathedral City: City Council District 3 / District 4 / District 5 / City Treasurer")
  • desertsun.com (opens in a new tab)The Desert Sun — "See who's running for mayor and city council in Coachella Valley" (Tom Coulter and Sam Morgen, Aug. 13, 2026; names every qualified candidate in each Cathedral City council/treasurer race with a one-line occupation/background note)
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia — "Indio, California" ("Government and politics" section: 5-member, district-elected City Council with a yearly rotating Mayor/Mayor Pro Tem; names the sitting council as of retrieval -- Mayor Elaine Holmes, Mayor Pro Tem Waymond Fermon, and Councilmembers Oscar Ortiz, Benjamin Guitron, Glenn Miller. Used in place of the city's own site, which returned HTTP 403 on every fetch attempt in this pass.)

Last updated August 31, 2026.