# Indio City Council, District 3 Compare records and positions simply between Elaine Holmes or Andrea Bouchard for Indio City Council, District 3 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-3 - 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 - **Elaine Holmes** — Incumbent - **Andrea Bouchard** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Mayor Elaine Holmes seeks a new term on the District 3 seat against Andrea Bouchard, a criminal defense lawyer. 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. Holmes currently holds Indio's rotating Mayor title, though the office attached to their council seat continues regardless of who holds the mayoralty in a given year; the Desert Sun's reporting notes they'll keep serving their district's seat even after the mayor's chair rotates to someone else in 2027. Bouchard is a first-time candidate for the seat. ## Elaine Holmes Elaine Holmes holds the District 3 seat on the Indio City Council and currently serves in the council's rotating Mayor role. They are seeking 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. The same Desert Sun reporting notes they previously defeated Jonathan Becerra — a candidate in this cycle's separate District 4 race — in a 2022 council contest. **Strengths:** Sitting council experience and the current, if rotating, Mayor title, 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. ## Andrea Bouchard Andrea Bouchard is a criminal defense lawyer running for the District 3 seat on the Indio City Council. No independent biography or platform statement beyond their occupation, as reported by the Desert Sun, was found in the time available for this profile. **Strengths:** A legal background may bring familiarity with the city's regulatory and code-enforcement processes. **Trade-offs:** No prior elected or appointed public service, and no independently reported platform beyond their occupation, was found in the time available for this profile. **Keep in mind:** This is a first run against a sitting incumbent who currently holds the council's rotating Mayor title. ## 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 3 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, "Indio City Council, District 3 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/indio-council-3 (sources last retrieved September 3, 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.