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City of Los Banos · Statewide General Election

Los Banos City Clerk

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On the ballot

This person is Los Banos's elections official and the custodian of the city's public records -- agendas, minutes, contracts, ordinances, and campaign-disclosure filings. A 4-year term, elected citywide.

Incumbent City Clerk Lucy Mallonee is unopposed for a new 4-year term on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

This person is Los Banos's elections official and the custodian of the city's public records -- agendas, minutes, contracts, ordinances, and campaign-disclosure filings. A 4-year term, elected citywide, separately from the Mayor and City Council.

The Clerk's office has been a fixture of continuity through an otherwise turbulent stretch for city government: a November 2024 recall election and a string of council appointments since have reshaped three of the city's four Council seats, while Mallonee has held the Clerk's office throughout.

Lucy Mallonee

Lucy Mallonee has served as Los Banos's City Clerk since December 2022 and holds the Master Municipal Clerk (MMC) professional certification, per the city's own City Clerk department page. The office runs city elections, keeps the city's official records, administers oaths of office, and processes candidates' and officials' campaign and economic-interest disclosures; Vionna Lin serves as Assistant City Clerk. Her filed ballot designation for this race is "Incumbent."

Strengths

Nearly four years in the office already, plus the MMC professional certification, a marker of specialized municipal-clerking training.

Trade-offs

No opponent qualified, so this election offers no comparison point.

Keep in mind

In August 2024, Los Banos Enterprise sued the city over Public Records Act compliance after requests to Mallonee's office went largely unfulfilled -- the dispute was with the city's formal response, not a claim she personally withheld records.

No committee or disclosure record for Mallonee's 2026 campaign was found this session. Merced County's own campaign-finance portal (eCampaign) requires an interactive, JavaScript-driven session this pass's automated tools could not complete, and California's CAL-ACCESS -- which covers only state-level committees, not local ones -- returned nothing useful either. This documents an absence of a reachable disclosure record, not any claim about Mallonee's actual campaign finances.

Source review: Strong (89/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • countyofmerced.com (opens in a new tab)Merced County Elections -- official "Final Qualified Candidate List" for the November 3, 2026 General Election (22-page PDF, "Candidates flagged with Authority to Release," print-stamped 8/25/2026): confirms five Los Banos offices, each Vote For: 1 -- Mayor (Michael S. Amabile, "Businessman"), Councilmember District 2 (Refugio Morales Llamas, "Councilmember"), Councilmember District 3 (Erasmo Viveros, "Public Affairs Professional"; Marcus Chavez, "Transportation Coordinator"), City Clerk (Lucy Mallonee, "Incumbent"), and City Treasurer (Lucy Lawrence, "Los Banos City Treasurer") -- and gives each candidate's filed ballot designation verbatim.
  • losbanos.org (opens in a new tab)City of Los Banos -- own "Mayor & City Council Members" page: states the City Council is "made up of the Mayor and four Council seats," that "Council Members serve four-year terms while the Mayor serves a two-year term," and that "the City Clerk and City Treasurer are also elected positions and serve four-year terms." Its own "Terms of Office" table gives each current officeholder's exact term: Mayor Michael S. Amabile (Dec. 4, 2024 - Dec. 2026); District 1, vacant (TBD); Refugio Llamas, District 2 (March 9, 2026 - Dec. 2026); Marcus Chavez, District 3 (Jan. 8, 2025 - Dec. 2026); Mayor Pro Tem Deborah Lewis, District 4 (Nov. 5, 2024 - Dec. 2028); City Clerk Lucy Mallonee (Dec. 7, 2022 - Dec. 2026); City Treasurer Lucy Lawrence (Dec. 4, 2024 - Dec. 2026) -- confirming only Mayor, District 2, and District 3 are up in 2026 alongside the separately elected Clerk and Treasurer.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Los Banos, California": used narrowly for the 2020 Census population figure (45,532).
  • losbanos.org (opens in a new tab)City of Los Banos -- own City Clerk department page: names Lucy Mallonee, MMC (Master Municipal Clerk), as City Clerk and Vionna Lin as Assistant City Clerk/Records Coordinator, and describes the office's duties -- recording Council minutes, agenda posting, processing resolutions and the municipal code, administering oaths, managing elections, and serving as the city's official records custodian.
  • losbanosenterprise.com (opens in a new tab)Los Banos Enterprise -- "Enterprise Sues City of Los Banos for Not Complying With State Public Records Law" (Aug. 13, 2024): reports the paper's own lawsuit after Public Records Act requests -- sent to City Clerk Lucy Mallonee's office -- went largely unfulfilled by the response deadline; the city's substantive response came from City Attorney William Vaughn, not Mallonee personally. Included here as relevant context for a records-custodian race, not as a claim that Mallonee personally withheld records.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- its own Power Search scope statement covers state-level campaign-finance filings only, which excludes all six Los Banos candidates' local committees by definition; direct filer-search attempts for each name returned no usable result.
  • southtechhosting.com (opens in a new tab)A negative-result local campaign-finance check: Merced County's own eCampaign portal (hosted by SouthTech) is a client-rendered ASP.NET system requiring an interactive, JavaScript-driven search session; a public document-retrieval mirror (campaigndocs.co.merced.ca.us) exists but likewise requires interactive form postbacks this pass's automated fetch tools could not complete for any of the six Los Banos candidates. Documents an absence of a reachable disclosure source, not any candidate's actual campaign finances.

Last updated September 1, 2026.