# Kerman City Council, District 3 Maria Berber Orozco is running uncontested for Kerman City Council, District 3. Full ballot 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-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 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 - **Maria Berber Orozco** — Care Manager A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Maria Berber Orozco appears unopposed -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. This person would hold Kerman's District 3 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. The sitting District 3 member, Ismael Herrera, did not file for reelection, and Berber Orozco -- whose filed designation carries no "Incumbent" flag -- is the only candidate who qualified. Fresno County's own Contest/Candidate Proof List still flags this contest ON BALLOT rather than cancelled and filled by direct appointment under Elections Code Section 10229, the same non-cancellation pattern already documented in this dataset for Coalinga's single-candidate Council seats. With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what's known about the candidate and what to watch next. ## Maria Berber Orozco The sole qualified candidate, unopposed; Berber Orozco's filed ballot designation is "Care Manager." The candidate is not the sitting District 3 incumbent -- Ismael Herrera, who held the seat, did not file for reelection. 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 care management, on file with the county, and a clear path onto the Council given no opposing filer. **Trade-offs:** This dataset found no independent reporting or biography evaluating Berber Orozco's record or platform beyond that filed designation. **Keep in mind:** Running unopposed for an open seat, they have had no occasion to generate contested-campaign coverage or disclosure, and the outgoing incumbent's reason for not seeking reelection was not stated anywhere this dataset could find. ## 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 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, "Kerman City Council, District 3 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/kerman-council-3 (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.