# Lake Elsinore City Council, District 3 Timothy J. Sheridan is running uncontested for Lake Elsinore City Council, District 3. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds one of five single-member districts on Lake Elsinore's City Council. They vote on the city budget, zoning, land use, and city laws. The council picks a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from its own members. Voters do not elect the Mayor directly. An appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations. - Jurisdiction: City of Lake Elsinore - 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/lake-elsinore-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 3, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 90 out of 100 (Very strong), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Timothy J. Sheridan** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Timothy J. Sheridan is the only candidate who qualified for Lake Elsinore's District 3 City Council seat, so they run unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot. This seat is one of five single-member districts on Lake Elsinore's City Council — the city switched from at-large to by-district council elections on February 1, 2018. The council sets the city budget, zoning and land-use rules, and municipal ordinances; day-to-day operations run through an appointed city manager. The term is four years. Sheridan filed no Candidate's Statement for this race, so no first-person account of their platform is in the record the city itself publishes; their own filed paperwork (via the clerk's nomination table) confirms only that they qualified. What follows draws instead on the city's own council roster page. Registered D3 voters may still file as write-in candidates through October 20, 2026; a qualified write-in's votes would be counted even though they won't appear on the printed ballot. ## Timothy J. Sheridan The incumbent, first elected to this seat in 2022 and running for a second term. They currently hold the council's Mayor Pro Tem title — one of two rotating leadership roles the council assigns from among its own district-elected members, alongside the (separately designated) Mayor. No Candidate's Statement, campaign site, or independent local reporting on their record was found in the sources checked for this page. **Strengths:** A full term already served, including selection by their council colleagues for the Mayor Pro Tem post — some signal of standing among their fellow members. **Trade-offs:** With no Candidate's Statement filed, there's no first-person account of their priorities or plans for a second term — only the fact of their incumbency and current title. **Keep in mind:** Sheridan is unopposed, and this page's record of them is thinner than District 1's or District 4's simply because they chose not to file a statement — that absence is itself worth noting to a voter, not just a gap in this page. ## Sources 1. [City of Lake Elsinore City Clerk — "Upcoming Elections" page: states Districts 1 and 3 (full terms) and District 4 (partial term) are up Nov. 3, 2026, with Districts 2, 5 and City Treasurer deferred to Nov. 7, 2028; carries the clerk's own nomination table showing exactly one qualified candidate per district -- Brian Tisdale (D1), Timothy J. Sheridan (D3), Michael Carroll (D4) -- and two non-qualifying filers (Adela Gonzales, D1; Adelina Vega-Velasquez, D4); nomination period July 13-Aug. 7, 2026, write-in period Sept. 7-Oct. 20, 2026](https://www.lake-elsinore.org/249/Upcoming-Elections) 2. [City of Lake Elsinore City Clerk — "Election Districts" page: five single-member council districts, adopted Feb. 1, 2018 (switching from at-large elections), updated for the 2021-2022 redistricting cycle](https://www.lake-elsinore.org/243/Election-Districts) 3. [City of Lake Elsinore — "City Government" page: "Lake Elsinore is a General Law city governed by a five-member City Council"; council members "elected by district" and "the City Treasurer is elected at-large for a four-year term" (no City Clerk election -- the Clerk is appointed by the City Manager, per the Clerk's own department page)](https://www.lake-elsinore.org/27/City-Government) 4. [City of Lake Elsinore — City Council page: sitting roster as of Aug. 2026 -- Mayor Robert 'Bob' Magee (D5), Mayor Pro Tem Timothy J. Sheridan (D3), Councilmembers Steve Manos (D2), Michael Carroll (D4) and Brian Tisdale (D1) -- with each member's term-expiration date; Carroll's listed term ("November 2025 to December 2026") is the source for treating D4 as a short/partial term this cycle](https://www.lake-elsinore.org/216/City-Council) 5. [City of Lake Elsinore NetFile — public campaign-disclosure search](https://netfile.com/public/LES/campaign/search-entities) ## The rest of the ballot Lake Elsinore 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, "Lake Elsinore City Council, District 3 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/lake-elsinore-council-3 (sources last retrieved September 3, 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.