City of Monterey Park

Monterey Park City Council, District 1

This person holds your district's seat on Monterey Park's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Council members choose one of their own to serve as mayor and mayor pro tem, presiding over meetings but casting only one vote like any other member.

Only one candidate qualified for this seat, so your vote does not change the outcome. Incumbent Thomas Wong has served on the council since 2022 and was mayor in 2024. They are running unopposed for a second term.

This person holds the District 1 seat on Monterey Park's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land-use decisions. The term is four years, ending in November 2030. Council members choose one of their own to serve as mayor and mayor pro tem, presiding over meetings but casting only one vote like any other member.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has done and what to watch next. Wong is campaigning on continuity: a current push behind the city's newly enacted data-center ban and this cycle's two ballot measures on housing overlays and hotel tax, building on a decade of prior water-district and environmental-commission service before they joined the council.

Thomas Wong

Thomas Wong is the incumbent, first elected to the council in November 2022. They became mayor in 2024 after ten years on a regional water district board. They also chaired the city's Environmental Commission and worked for former State Controller Betty Yee.

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A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

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