City of Laguna Woods · Statewide General Election

Laguna Woods City Council

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

Sue Quam
Annie McCary — Mayor City of Laguna Woods · Incumbent
Carol Moore — Council Member City of Laguna Woods · Incumbent

This person holds one of two at-large seats up this cycle on Laguna Woods's 5-member City Council, a general-law city government: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. All five seats are elected citywide, not by district, to staggered 4-year terms. The council chooses its own Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from among its members rather than electing either directly.

Two incumbents, Mayor Annie McCary and Councilmember Carol Moore, are seeking re-election to Laguna Woods's City Council against one challenger, Sue Quam, who filed no ballot designation. Whichever two candidates get the most votes on November 3 win the seats outright -- there's no runoff.

Beyond each candidate's filed ballot designation and the city's own roster-page tenure facts, no individual officeholder biography page, campaign site, or news coverage could be found for any of the three candidates despite a real search effort -- the OC Registrar's candidate-statements page, Voice of OC's site search, a direct OC Register fetch, the Laguna Woods Globe, and a general web search all came up empty or unreachable. Documented below as a gap, not filled in with speculation.

Annie McCary

McCary was elected to the City Council in 2022 and currently serves as Mayor, a role the council selects from among its own members rather than by direct citywide election. Her filed ballot designation is "Mayor City of Laguna Woods." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing her occupation, background, or 2026 platform could be found in this pass.

Strengths

Sitting Mayor with a term of council experience already served.

Trade-offs

No independent source describes her specific priorities for a second term beyond her current office; her record as Mayor is itself part of what's being judged.

Keep in mind

No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for her campaign in this pass -- see Financial info.

Carol Moore

Moore was elected to the City Council in 2014 and is seeking a new term; her filed ballot designation is "Council Member City of Laguna Woods." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing her occupation, background, or 2026 platform could be found in this pass.

Strengths

More than a decade on the council, the longest tenure of the three candidates in this race.

Trade-offs

No independent source describes her specific priorities for a new term beyond her current office; her voting record over that tenure is itself part of what's being judged.

Keep in mind

No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for her campaign in this pass -- see Financial info.

Sue Quam

Quam filed for City Council with no ballot designation on record. No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing her occupation, background, or platform could be found in this pass despite a real search effort across multiple sources.

Strengths

A fresh candidacy not tied to the current council's record.

Trade-offs

No ballot designation, campaign statement, or other source describes her occupation or priorities, so voters have essentially no confirmed information about her beyond her name on the ballot.

Keep in mind

No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for her campaign in this pass -- see Financial info.

Source review: Mixed (74/100) · 3 cited sources

Only procedural records are cited (candidate lists, results, finance filings); no source describes the candidates, so the score is capped.

Review note: No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap.

ocvote.gov (opens in a new tab)OC Registrar of Voters -- Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 -- City of Laguna Woods section (pages 117-119 of 188, downloaded directly via curl from the public ocvote.gov URL and parsed locally with pypdf): confirms "CITY OF LAGUNA WOODS Member, City Council" (District ID *525, Laguna Woods) as the city's sole November 2026 race, Vote for 2, 3 qualified candidates, incumbent flags for Carol A Moore and Annie McCary, and every candidate's filing date and filed ballot designation -- no district number and no separate Mayor contest appear anywhere in the Laguna Woods section
lagunawoods.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Laguna Woods -- City Council page: confirms the council "consists of five members who are elected by registered voters to four-year terms" at-large, in alternating groups of two and three at successive elections; that the city "operates as a general law city with a council-manager form of government"; that the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem are chosen from within the council rather than elected directly; and the current roster (Mayor Annie McCary, term ends 2026; Mayor Pro Tem Pearl Lee, term ends 2028; Councilmembers Cynthia Conners and Shari L. Horne, terms end 2028; Councilmember Carol Moore, term ends 2026) -- independently confirming McCary's and Moore's are the two seats up in 2026
lagunawoods.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Laguna Woods -- home page November 2026 election notice: names Sue Quam, Annie McCary (seeking reelection), and Carol Moore (seeking reelection) as the three City Council nominees, "listed in the order they will appear on the ballot" -- independently matching the Secretary of State's drawn randomized surname alphabet applied to the same three names

Last updated August 31, 2026.