# Kerman City Council, District 1 Compare records and positions simply between Charles "Charlie" Jones, Mayra Galvez, or Michael Mudgett for Kerman City Council, District 1 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of four district seats on Kerman's City Council. The council has five members, four elected by district and one directly elected Mayor. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. Kerman is a Fresno County city of about 16,000 residents. The term is four years. Kerman has no separately elected City Clerk or City Treasurer. Both are appointed staff positions under the City Manager. - Jurisdiction: City of Kerman - 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/kerman-council-1 - 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 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 90 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 - **Charles "Charlie" Jones** — Retired Bank Officer - **Mayra Galvez** — Family Outreach Liaison - **Michael Mudgett** — Small Business Manager A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. A genuine, contested three-way race for an open seat: Mayra Galvez, Charles "Charlie" Jones, and Michael Mudgett. The sitting District 1 member, Gary Yep, is running for Mayor instead of reelection here. This person would hold Kerman's District 1 seat on a 5-member City Council that also includes a directly elected Mayor. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Fresno County city of about 16,000 residents. The term is four years. Kerman has no separately elected City Clerk or City Treasurer; both are appointed staff positions under the City Manager. This seat is open because its sitting member, Gary Yep, filed for the Mayor's race instead of reelection to District 1 -- see that separate contest on this ballot. None of the three candidates here carries an "Incumbent" designation in the county's own filing records, confirming this is a genuinely open seat rather than an incumbent defending it. ## Mayra Galvez Galvez's filed ballot designation is "Family Outreach Liaison." No independent biographical detail was found for them beyond that designation and the county's own filing record, despite a genuine multi-method search. **Strengths:** A stated professional background in community-facing outreach work, on file with the county. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting evaluates Galvez's record or platform beyond that filed designation. **Keep in mind:** As with all three candidates here, there is no incumbency record to compare them against. ## Charles "Charlie" Jones Jones's filed ballot designation is "Retired Bank Officer." No independent biographical detail was found for them beyond that designation and the county's own filing record, despite a genuine multi-method search. **Strengths:** A stated professional background in banking, on file with the county. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting evaluates Jones's record or platform beyond that filed designation. **Keep in mind:** "Retired" suggests they are not currently employed in that field; this dataset could not confirm their current occupation. ## Michael Mudgett Mudgett's filed ballot designation is "Small Business Manager." No independent biographical detail was found for them beyond that designation and the county's own filing record, despite a genuine multi-method search. **Strengths:** A stated professional background in small-business management, on file with the county. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting evaluates Mudgett's record or platform beyond that filed designation. **Keep in mind:** As with all three candidates here, there is no incumbency record to compare them against. ## Sources 1. [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 Kerman's three city contests -- 5090 Kerman Mayor (Vote For 1; Qualified: Gary K. Yep, "City Council Member"; Yazmine Enriquez, "Small Business Manager"), 5092 Kerman City Council No. 1 (Vote For 1; Qualified: Mayra Galvez, "Family Outreach Liaison"; Charles "Charlie" Jones, "Retired Bank Officer"; Michael Mudgett, "Small Business Manager"), and 5097 Kerman City Council No. 3 (Vote For 1; Qualified: Maria Berber Orozco, "Care Manager")](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/CandidateList.pdf) 2. [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 all three Kerman contests as ON BALLOT and separately lists each seat's incumbent-of-record -- Maria Anita Pacheco (Elected) for Mayor, Gary K. Yep (Elected) for District 1, and Ismael Diaz Herrera (Elected) for District 3 -- none of whom is a qualified candidate for that same seat this cycle; confirms District 3's single-qualified-candidate contest remains ON BALLOT rather than cancelled under Elections Code Section 10229](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/Contests%20on%20Ballot%20with%20Qualified%20Candidates.pdf) 3. [City of Kerman -- "City Council" page: states the Council has five members including the Mayor, with the Mayor directly elected by voters for a 2-year term and Council Members elected for 4-year terms; names the sitting Council -- Maria Pacheco (Mayor), Gary Yep (Mayor Pro Tem, District 1), Berdie Hall (District 2, not up this cycle), Ismael Herrera (District 3), and Raj Dhaliwal (District 4, not up this cycle) -- and lists City Clerk Dalia Santana-Zamudio among the City Manager's departments rather than as a separately elected office; no City Treasurer position appears anywhere on the site](http://www.cityofkerman.gov/245/City-Council) 4. [Wikipedia's Kerman, California article: population 16,016 (2020 census), incorporated July 2, 1946](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerman,_California) ## The rest of the ballot Kerman City Council, District 1 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, "Kerman City Council, District 1 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/kerman-council-1 (sources last retrieved September 1, 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.