contracostavote.gov (opens in a new tab)Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Positions Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": lists Moraga's only office this cycle as "2 Councilmembers" under Cities Offices -- no Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, or other town-section line item for Moraga appears anywhere in the document
contracostavote.gov (opens in a new tab)Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Contest/Candidate Proof List" (8-27-26_candidatelist_detail_final.pdf), the county's post-certification ON-BALLOT export: shows contest 5801 "MoragaCouncil," Town of Moraga Member, Town Council, Vote For 2, with 4 filed and 4 qualified candidates, ON BALLOT status, and both current incumbents (Steven Paul Woehleke, Kerry Michael Hillis) named as this seat's incumbents; each of the four qualified candidates' filed ballot designation and qualification date is listed individually
contracostavote.gov (opens in a new tab)Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Candidate List" (8-14-26_candidatelist_summary_final.pdf), the county's complete qualified-candidate roster: independently confirms the same four-candidate field for Moraga's 2-seat Council contest (Alexis I. Mapel, Kerry Hillis, Bill Carman, Steven Woehleke) with matching qualification timestamps
moraga.ca.us (opens in a new tab)Town of Moraga -- Town Clerk's own "Town Council Elections" page: states two Town Council seats are up Nov. 3, 2026, names the same four qualified candidates and their qualification dates, gives the filing-period window (July 13-Aug. 7, 2026, extendable to Aug. 12 if no incumbent files), and names Town Clerk Amy Heavener as the elections contact
moraga.ca.us (opens in a new tab)Town of Moraga -- "Town Council" page: confirms the 5-member, at-large council ("made up of five members of the community elected at-large") on 4-year terms, a Mayor/Vice Mayor rotation chosen annually by the council from among its own members rather than by direct election, and the sitting roster -- Mayor Kerry Hillis, Vice Mayor Brian Dolan, and Councilmembers Steve Woehleke, Lisa Maglio, and Graham Thiel
moraga.ca.us (opens in a new tab)Town of Moraga -- Kerry Hillis's own Town Council bio page: names him the sitting Mayor (term ending Dec. 2026), elected to the council in 2022 after serving on the Planning Commission 2019-2022 and as Vice President of the Moraga Community Foundation 2020-2022; his own account of his career as Public Affairs Manager (Western/Central U.S.) at Alstom and Chief Strategy Officer of Stella Pearl Consulting, with earlier roles at BART, utility companies, the San Jose Police Officers' Association, and the California State Senate; a B.A. in political science from Santa Clara University and an M.P.P. from Johns Hopkins; and that he moved to Moraga in 2017 with his wife and three children
moraga.ca.us (opens in a new tab)Town of Moraga -- Steven Woehleke's own Town Council bio page (published under "Steve Woehleke"): names him a Councilmember first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2022 (term ending Dec. 2026), a Moraga resident since 1987; his own account of a 33-year career at Chevron in technical, project-management, and worldwide-leadership roles, a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Rhode Island and an MBA from Seton Hall, and over 20 years of town volunteer service including the Design Review Board (5 years), Planning Commission (10 years), the Hacienda Foundation Board, and past presidency of the Kiwanis Club of Moraga Valley
en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia's Moraga, California article -- independently names Kerry Hillis as the town's sitting Mayor, confirms the 1974 incorporation (uniting Moraga Town, Rheem, and Rheem Valley), and reports February 2019 voter-registration figures (43% Democratic, 25.1% Republican, 28.2% independent) for the town
contracosta.news (opens in a new tab)Contra Costa News -- "November Ballot Taking Shape in Contra Costa County" (Aug. 7, 2026): independent local-news roundup of the county's own candidate filings, naming the identical four-candidate Moraga Town Council field (Kerry Hillis, Alexis Mapel, Bill Carman, Steve Woehleke) from outside government and any campaign
cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)This dataset's own documented record of a dedicated, unsuccessful attempt to retrieve Moraga Town Council campaign-finance filings: California's Cal-Access filer search (cal-access.sos.ca.gov) returned only an Incapsula bot-detection interstitial for every query attempted for Kerry Hillis, Steven Woehleke, Bill Carman, and Alexis Mapel in this pass (via both WebFetch and direct curl), with no live browser session available in this worktree to work around it. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for this contest, not any candidate's actual finances

Last updated September 7, 2026.

City of Moraga

Moraga Town Council

This person would hold one of two seats up this cycle. The seat is an at-large seat on Moraga's Town Council. The council has five members. They vote on town ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. The Mayor and Vice Mayor rotate annually among council members. They are not separately elected. Moraga also has no separately elected Town Clerk or Town Treasurer.

Four candidates qualified for two of Moraga's five at-large Town Council seats. Both sitting incumbents, Mayor Kerry Hillis and Councilmember Steven Woehleke, are seeking reelection. They face two challengers, Bill Carman and Alexis Mapel, on the November 3 ballot.

The two winners each serve a four-year term on Moraga's five-member, at-large Town Council. They vote on town ordinances, the budget, and land-use decisions townwide. Moraga doesn't directly elect a Mayor — the five councilmembers rotate the Mayor and Vice Mayor titles among themselves annually, and the town has no separately elected Town Clerk or Town Treasurer.

Both seats up this cycle already belong to sitting councilmembers who filed for another term, so this reads less as an open contest than a referendum on the current council — Hillis's and Woehleke's combined 8 years in office — with each challenger needing to beat an incumbent outright to win a seat.

Kerry Hillis

Kerry Hillis is the sitting Mayor, elected to the Town Council in 2022. He works in transportation as Public Affairs Manager at Alstom. He previously served on Moraga's Planning Commission from 2019 to 2022.

Steven Woehleke

Steven Woehleke is a Councilmember first elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022. He retired after a 33-year career at Chevron in technical and management roles. He served a prior term as Mayor that ended in December 2025.

Bill Carman

Bill Carman qualified for the ballot on August 6, 2026. Their ballot designation is "Feeder Driver." No campaign website, news coverage, or prior Moraga service was found for them.

Alexis I. Mapel

Alexis I. Mapel qualified for the ballot on July 24, 2026. They were the first of the four candidates to file, with the ballot designation "Businesswoman." No campaign website, news coverage, or prior Moraga service was found for them.

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