City of Los Banos · Statewide General Election

Los Banos City Treasurer

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On the ballot

Lucy Lawrence — Los Banos City Treasurer · Incumbent

This person is Los Banos's elected City Treasurer, a part-time, largely ministerial office (paid $100/month) whose actual cash-management and investment duties are carried out day to day by city Finance Department staff. A 4-year term, elected citywide; state law's only qualifications are being 18, a registered voter, and a Los Banos resident.

Incumbent City Treasurer Lucy Lawrence is unopposed for a new term on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

The office has a history of drawing little competition: nobody ran for City Treasurer at all in the November 2022 election, which is how the council came to fill it by appointment in the first place -- the same pattern that produced this cycle's single qualified candidate.

Lucy Lawrence

Lucy Lawrence has served as Los Banos's City Treasurer since January 2023, when the City Council appointed her to the post after no one filed to run for it in the November 2022 election, per Los Banos Enterprise's report on that appointment process and the city's own account of her tenure. (The city's own materials give her current term as December 2024 to December 2026, a detail this dataset reports rather than reconciles with the January 2023 start date.) Her filed ballot designation for this race is "Los Banos City Treasurer."

Strengths

Roughly three to four years in the office already, having taken it over at a moment (2022) when no one else was willing to run for it.

Trade-offs

No opponent qualified, so this election offers no comparison point; the office's day-to-day work is done by city staff rather than the Treasurer, per the city's own description.

Keep in mind

The 2022 vacancy -- no candidates filed at all -- suggests this office draws little public interest generally, and that pattern held again this cycle, with Lawrence the only qualified candidate.

No committee or disclosure record for Lawrence'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 Lawrence'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 Treasurer department page: names Lucy Lawrence as City Treasurer, stating she "has been serving as the City Treasurer since January 2023" to a four-year term, and describes the office's mission as maintaining the city's cash-management system and investing city funds "to the fullest extent consistent with safety and liquidity." This January 2023 start date is the city's own page, alongside its own, later-dated Terms of Office table's "Dec. 4, 2024 - Dec. 2026" entry for the same office -- an unresolved discrepancy in the city's own materials, reported here rather than silently picked between.
losbanosenterprise.com (opens in a new tab)Los Banos Enterprise -- "Los Banos Now Accepting Applications for City Treasurer Appointment" (Dec. 16, 2022): reports that no candidate ran for City Treasurer in the 2022 election, so the council voted to fill the vacancy by appointment; quotes City Clerk Lucy Mallonee's official notice in full, including that the office pays $100/month, is "a part-time elected official with most duties performed by a full-time city staff member," and requires only that an applicant be 18, a registered voter, and a Los Banos resident.
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.