City of Lake Elsinore

Lake Elsinore City Council, District 4 (short term)

This person holds Lake Elsinore City Council District 4. They vote on the city budget, zoning, and other laws. This seat is a short term. The district returns to the regular 4-year cycle in November 2028. The Council picks its own Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from among its members. Voters do not elect the Mayor separately. An appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations.

Michael Carroll is the only candidate for Lake Elsinore's District 4 City Council seat. They run unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot. This is a short term.

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 city ordinances. An appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations. Most council seats carry 4-year terms. This one is a short term. Carroll's current term runs only from November 2025 to December 2026. The winner of this election serves a partial term. District 4 then returns to the regular 4-year cycle at the city's November 2028 election.

A second candidate, Adelina Vega-Velasquez, pulled nomination papers for this seat. She did not qualify for the ballot by the August 7, 2026 filing deadline. That comes from the city clerk's own nomination table. So this is a genuinely uncontested race, not just a thin field. Registered District 4 voters may still file as write-in candidates through October 20, 2026. A qualified write-in's votes would be counted. Their name would not appear on the printed ballot. One note on sourcing. The clerk's own nomination table links a "Candidate Statement" for Carroll's row. That link opens the same document, with the same filename, as Brian Tisdale's District 1 statement. It is a copy-paste error on the city's own page, not a real second filing. This page does not treat that broken link as Carroll's own words.

Michael Carroll

Michael Carroll is the incumbent. They have held this seat since November 2025. They now run for a public vote on the rest of the term. No working candidate statement, campaign site, or local news report on their record was found. The city clerk's own table links the wrong document to their name. It links Tisdale's District 1 statement.

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