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City of Marina · Statewide General Election

Marina City Council, District 1

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On the ballot

This person would represent one of Marina's four council districts on the city's five-member City Council -- the citywide budget, land use, and oversight of city staff for this Monterey County city of 22,359 residents (2020 Census), alongside a directly elected, at-large Mayor who is not part of this race. This seat serves a four-year term.

Only one candidate, incumbent Brian McCarthy, qualified for this seat -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

Marina's City Council has five members: a directly elected, at-large Mayor (not part of this race) and four district councilmembers, each serving a four-year term. District 1 elects one of those four. The Council sets the citywide budget, land use, and public-safety funding for this Monterey County city of 22,359 residents (2020 Census).

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has done and what to watch next. McCarthy has held this seat since November 2022 and is seeking a second four-year term unopposed.

Brian McCarthy

Brian McCarthy is the incumbent District 1 councilmember, first elected in November 2022 and now seeking a second term. Neither the city's own City Council page nor his own campaign site describes his occupation, prior public service, or a specific 2026 platform beyond confirming his candidacy; this dataset found no independent 2026 news profile of him either.

Strengths

A completed first term as District 1's representative, which voters can judge directly through Council votes and city records.

Trade-offs

His own campaign site is a bare landing page with only a Facebook link, and no independent news coverage of his first term was found this pass.

Keep in mind

As the only candidate, a vote for him changes nothing about who holds the seat; the real check on him is scrutiny of his first term, not a contested vote.

Source review: Strong (81/100) · 6 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: Brian McCarthy's own 2026 Marina City Council District 1 campaign site (marinabrian.com): a bare landing page naming him as the District 1 candidate with a Facebook link, no biographical or platform content. may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

  • cityofmarina.org (opens in a new tab)City of Marina -- official "Candidate Watch" page for the November 3, 2026 General Election: the City Clerk's own definitive roster of every qualified candidate by seat, with a qualification date and each candidate's own campaign-site link -- Mayor (Mike Moeller, Liesbeth Visscher, Ana Luz Acevedo-Cabrera), City Council District 1 (Brian McCarthy alone), and City Council District 4 (Michael Simmons, Athena Burciaga, Brad Imamura)
  • cityofmarina.org (opens in a new tab)City of Marina -- official "City Council" page: names the sitting five-member Council and each member's current term -- Mayor Bruce Carlos Delgado (at-large, term Nov. 2022-2026), Mayor Pro Tem Liesbeth Visscher (District 4, term Nov. 2022-2026), Brian McCarthy (District 1, term Nov. 2022-2026), Kathy Y. Biala (District 2, term Nov. 2024-2028), and Jenny McAdams (District 3, term Nov. 2024-2028) -- confirming the Mayor, District 1, and District 4 seats are the only three up in November 2026
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Marina, California": used narrowly for the 2020 Census population (22,359) and to independently corroborate Bruce Delgado as the sitting Mayor; it does not describe the city's council-district structure and does not cover the 2026 election
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- direct filer searches for "Visscher," "Moeller," "Acevedo-Cabrera," "McCarthy," "Simmons," "Burciaga," and "Imamura" each returned a blank result page, no committee or candidate filer registered under any of the seven names. Cal-Access covers only state-level campaign finance and excludes local government filings in any case, so this documents an absence of a reachable disclosure source for all seven candidates, not a claim about any of their actual finances
  • montereycountynow.com (opens in a new tab)Monterey County Weekly (montereycountynow.com) -- "Marina candidates in the race for the District 4 seat talk housing and Measure Q" (Erik Chalhoub, Aug. 31, 2026): profiles all three District 4 candidates -- Athena Burciaga, Brad Imamura, Michael "Mike" Simmons -- on housing and Measure Q, and independently confirms both the Mayor's race field (Visscher, Moeller, Acevedo-Cabrera) and that Brian McCarthy is running unopposed for reelection in District 1
  • marinabrian.com (opens in a new tab)Brian McCarthy's own 2026 Marina City Council District 1 campaign site (marinabrian.com): a bare landing page naming him as the District 1 candidate with a Facebook link, no biographical or platform content

Last updated September 1, 2026.