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City of Newport Beach · Statewide General Election

Newport Beach City Council, District 4

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

This is one contest. Enter your address to see every race on your November ballot, and keep track of your picks.

On the ballot

This person holds your district's seat on Newport Beach's 7-member City Council: 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. A 4-year term.

Only one candidate, incumbent Robyn Grant, qualified for this seat, so she is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot -- your vote here does not change the outcome.

This person holds District 4's seat on Newport Beach's 7-member City Council: 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. A 4-year term.

Grant is the incumbent, confirmed both by the county's own Proof List and independently by Wikipedia's current Newport Beach council roster. No independent biography, news coverage, or campaign platform beyond her filed ballot designation could be confirmed in this pass despite a real search effort -- a documented gap, not a claim that no such material exists.

Robyn Grant

Filed her candidacy under the ballot designation "Newport Beach Council Member" -- confirming her current council seat. No independently confirmed campaign site, official city biography (newportbeachca.gov returned an access error on direct fetch), or news coverage describing her record or platform was found in this pass.

Strengths

A sitting councilmember running unopposed, so voters have a known incumbent, even without a detailed record on hand here.

Trade-offs

No independently confirmed platform or voting record for her current term was found in this pass, so this dataset cannot describe what she has actually done in office.

Keep in mind

No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for her 2026 campaign in this pass -- see Financial info.

Source review: Strong (84/100) · 2 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with a narrow source base.

  • 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.