# Indio City Council, District 2 Compare records and positions simply between Gloria Hernandez or Waymond Fermon for Indio City Council, District 2 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Indio's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. 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. - Jurisdiction: City of Indio - 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/indio-council-2 - 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 3, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 91 out of 100 (Very strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Gloria Hernandez** - **Waymond Fermon** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. 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. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. 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 them 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. They are seeking reelection to a new term. No independent biography or platform statement beyond their 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 their council colleagues. **Trade-offs:** No independently reported policy platform beyond their current officeholding was found in the time available for this profile. **Keep in mind:** As an incumbent, their 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 their contact information could not be obtained, and no independent biography, platform statement, or campaign site was found for them 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 them. **Keep in mind:** This is an unusually thin public record; voters who want more may need to seek out Hernandez directly before the election. ## Sources 1. [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")](https://voteinfo.net/sites/g/files/aldnop371/files/2026-02/Annual%20Election%20Calendar%202026.pdf) 2. [The Desert Sun — "See who's running for mayor and city council in Coachella Valley" (Tom Coulter and Sam Morgen, Aug. 13, 2026; its own "Who's running in Indio?" section names every qualified Indio council candidate with a one-line occupation/background note)](https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/08/13/election-2026-whos-running-for-mayor-city-council-palm-springs-area/91221615007/) 3. [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.)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indio,_California) 4. [City of Indio NetFile — public campaign-disclosure search](https://netfile.com/public/IND/campaign/search-entities) ## The rest of the ballot Indio City Council, District 2 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. 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