# Laguna Woods City Council Compare records and positions simply between Sue Quam, Annie McCary, or Carol Moore for Laguna Woods City Council at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds one of two at-large seats up this cycle. Laguna Woods's City Council has five members and is a general-law government. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed city manager runs daily operations. All five seats are elected citywide, not by district, to staggered four-year terms. The council chooses its own Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from among its members. - Jurisdiction: City of Laguna Woods - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Seats: 2 - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/laguna-woods-council - 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: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 74 out of 100 (Mixed), across 3 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Sue Quam** - **Annie McCary** — Mayor City of Laguna Woods · Incumbent - **Carol Moore** — Council Member City of Laguna Woods · Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. 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. 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. They vote on 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. 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. Their filed ballot designation is "Mayor City of Laguna Woods." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing their 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 McCary's specific priorities for a second term beyond their current office; their record as Mayor is itself part of what's being judged. **Keep in mind:** No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for their campaign in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Carol Moore Moore was elected to the City Council in 2014 and is seeking a new term; their filed ballot designation is "Council Member City of Laguna Woods." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing their 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 Moore's specific priorities for a new term beyond their current office; their voting record over that tenure is itself part of what's being judged. **Keep in mind:** No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for their 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 their 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 Quam's occupation or priorities, so voters have essentially no confirmed information about them beyond their name on the ballot. **Keep in mind:** No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for their campaign in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Review notes - No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap. ## Sources 1. [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](https://ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/data/candlog/GEN2026/candlog.pdf) 2. [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](https://www.lagunawoods.gov/city-council/) 3. [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](https://www.lagunawoods.gov/) ## The rest of the ballot Laguna Woods City Council 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, "Laguna Woods City Council — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/laguna-woods-council (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). 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