# Indio City Council, District 4 Compare records and positions simply between Felipe Ortiz or Jonathan Becerra for Indio City Council, District 4 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-4 - 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 - **Felipe Ortiz** - **Jonathan Becerra** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. District 4's seat is open: incumbent Oscar Ortiz is not seeking reelection after an unsuccessful run for a California State Assembly seat earlier in 2026. Felipe Ortiz, vice chair of the Indio Planning Commission, and Jonathan Becerra, founder and CEO of events company Palma City Productions, are running to succeed him. 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. With no incumbent in the race, District 4 is guaranteed a new representative. Felipe Ortiz brings prior city-commission service; Becerra is making a second bid for a council seat after losing to now-Mayor Elaine Holmes in 2022. Neither candidate's detailed policy platform was independently reported beyond that background in the time researched for this profile. ## Felipe Ortiz Felipe Ortiz is vice chair of the Indio Planning Commission, running for the open District 4 council seat. (No relation to outgoing District 4 incumbent Oscar Ortiz is stated in the reporting reviewed for this profile.) No independent biography or platform statement beyond their commission role, as reported by the Desert Sun, was found in the time available for this profile. **Strengths:** Prior appointed service on the city's Planning Commission gives them some familiarity with how city government and land-use decisions work. **Trade-offs:** No prior elected office, and no independently reported policy platform beyond their commission role. **Keep in mind:** They share a surname with the outgoing District 4 incumbent, Oscar Ortiz, but no source reviewed for this profile states any relationship between them. ## Jonathan Becerra Jonathan Becerra is founder and CEO of Palma City Productions, an events company, running for the open District 4 council seat. They previously ran for an Indio council seat in 2022 and lost to Elaine Holmes, who now holds the council's rotating Mayor title as the District 3 incumbent. 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 second campaign for a council seat suggests sustained interest in representing Indio, and running a business locally may bring familiarity with the city's permitting and events processes. **Trade-offs:** No prior elected or appointed public service, and no independently reported policy platform beyond their occupation, was found in the time available for this profile. **Keep in mind:** Their prior council run in 2022 was against a different incumbent for a different seat than the one they're seeking now — voters have no direct prior District 4 campaign to compare against. ## 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 4 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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