- ocvote.gov (opens in a new tab)OC Registrar of Voters -- Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 -- City of Newport Beach section (pages 134-138 of 188): confirms City Council District 1 (2 qualified candidates), District 3 (3), District 4 (1, unopposed), and District 6 (2) as the city's four November 2026 races, each Vote for 1, with incumbent flags and every candidate's filed ballot designation -- and that no Mayor or other at-large Newport Beach contest appears anywhere in the document
- en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia's Newport Beach, California article, government section: confirms Newport Beach is a council-manager charter city with a 7-member, district-elected City Council (4-year terms) and no directly-elected Mayor -- the council chooses a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem annually from among its own members -- and independently names the sitting Mayor as Lauren Kleiman and Mayor Pro Tem as Noah Blom, plus the full current 7-member roster (Stapleton, Barto, Weigand, Grant, Blom, Kleiman, Weber), cross-checking all four of this cycle's incumbents against the county's Proof List
Last updated August 31, 2026.
City of Newport Beach
Newport Beach City Council, District 3
This person holds your district's seat on Newport Beach's 7-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Newport Beach has no directly-elected Mayor -- the council selects a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem annually from among its own members. Not all seven districts are elected the same year -- only Districts 1, 3, 4, and 6 have terms expiring in 2026. The term is four years.
Incumbent Erik Weigand is running for re-election against two challengers, Tim Stoaks and Walter Stahr. Whoever gets the most votes on November 3 wins. There is no runoff.
This person holds District 3's seat on Newport Beach's 7-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Newport Beach has no directly-elected Mayor -- the council selects a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem annually from among its own members. Not all seven districts are elected the same year -- only Districts 1, 3, 4, and 6 have terms expiring in 2026. The term is four years.
Weigand is the incumbent, confirmed both by the county's own Proof List and independently by Wikipedia's current Newport Beach council roster. A campaign-site domain matching their name resolves instead to a 2024 Orange County Water District campaign for a same-named Newport-Mesa resident -- plausibly the same person given the shared community and name, but not independently confirmed, so it is not relied on here. Walter Stahr's filed "Author" designation matches the real, publicly known historian and biographer of that name (a former lawyer turned biographer of Edwin Stanton, William Seward, and Salmon Chase, among others), but that author's own site makes no mention of a 2026 council campaign, so this dataset treats the match as plausible, not confirmed. No platform information was independently confirmed for any of the three candidates despite a real search effort -- a documented gap, not a claim that no such material exists.
Erik Weigand
Erik Weigand's ballot title is "Newport Beach City Councilmember, District 3." This confirms they hold the council seat. No campaign site, city biography, or news coverage about their record was found.
Tim Stoaks
Tim Stoaks' ballot title is "Retired Construction Executive." No campaign site, news coverage, or other source about their background was found.
Walter Stahr
Walter Stahr's ballot title is "Author." A historian with the same name has written biographies of 19th century American statesmen. That writer's own site does not mention a Newport Beach council campaign. So it is not confirmed that the writer and the candidate are the same person. No campaign site or news coverage about the candidate's background was found.
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A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.