City of La Verne · Statewide General Election
La Verne City Council, District 4
Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.
This is one contest. Enter your address to see every race on your November ballot, and keep track of your picks.
On the ballot
- Tim Hepburn — Incumbent
This person holds your district's seat on La Verne's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use.
Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Incumbent Tim Hepburn, the council's current mayor and a small-business owner with more than 11 years on the council, appears unopposed for another term — so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.
This person holds the District 4 seat on La Verne's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land-use decisions. A 4-year term. The council chooses one of its own to serve as mayor, a role that presides over meetings and represents the city publicly but carries no extra vote.
With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has done and what to watch next. Hepburn frames his 11-plus years on the council as continuity — listening to residents and employees, and working through this cycle's Measure GG paramedic-fee debate.
Tim Hepburn
Timothy J. Hepburn is the incumbent and the council's current mayor, a small-business owner who has served on the council for more than 11 years. He's running on continuing to respond to resident and employee concerns — transparency, fiscal responsibility, and living conditions in the city's mobile-home communities among them. He also holds a long list of regional committee delegate roles, from transit to county sanitation. He is unopposed, so no vote is needed to keep him in office.
Strengths
More than 11 years of continuous council service, including a current term as the council's chosen mayor.
Trade-offs
Running unopposed means his record faces no organized public counter-argument this cycle.
Keep in mind
He also carries a long list of regional committee assignments — from the Gold Line Phase 2 committee to the county sanitation district — that shape how much time a fifth term leaves for anything new.
Source review: Very strong (91/100) · 4 cited sources
Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.
- laverneca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of La Verne — November 2026 General Municipal Election (qualified candidates for City Council Districts 1, 3, and 4)
- portal.laserfiche.com (opens in a new tab)City of La Verne — 2026 Election Records (City Clerk public document portal: each candidate's filed Affidavit of Nominee, Ballot Designation Worksheet, Candidate's Statement, and FPPC campaign-finance forms)
- laverneca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of La Verne — City Council (official directory: mayor, mayor pro tem, and councilmembers by district, with occupation)
- lavernedaily.org (opens in a new tab)La Verne Daily — 2026 Local Elections for La Verne, California (candidate roster by district, sourced to the city clerk)
Last updated August 31, 2026.