# Newport Beach City Council, District 6 Compare records and positions simply between Lauren Kleiman or Andrew P. Gerken for Newport Beach City Council, District 6 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. 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. - Jurisdiction: City of Newport Beach - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/newport-beach-council-6 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 84 out of 100 (Strong), across 2 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Lauren Kleiman** — Mayor/Businesswoman · Incumbent - **Andrew P. Gerken** — Retired Surgeon A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Lauren Kleiman -- Newport Beach's sitting, council-selected Mayor -- is running for re-election to their District 6 council seat against challenger Andrew P. Gerken. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff. This person holds District 6'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, and the District 6 seat is currently held by the sitting Mayor. 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. Kleiman is the incumbent District 6 councilmember and, per Wikipedia's current Newport Beach government page, the city's sitting Mayor -- an annual leadership role the council chooses from among its own members, not a separately elected office, and independently corroborating their own filed ballot designation of "Mayor/Businesswoman." Beyond that confirmed officeholding, no independent biography, news coverage, or campaign platform was confirmed for either candidate in this pass despite a real search effort -- a documented gap, not a claim that no such material exists. ## Lauren Kleiman Filed their candidacy under the ballot designation "Mayor/Businesswoman" -- independently confirmed as accurate by Wikipedia's current Newport Beach government page, which names them the sitting Mayor. No independently confirmed campaign site, official city biography (newportbeachca.gov returned an access error on direct fetch), or news coverage describing their council record or platform was found in this pass. **Strengths:** Currently serving as Mayor -- chosen for that role by their fellow councilmembers, a marker of standing among their colleagues -- on top of their District 6 council seat. **Trade-offs:** No independently confirmed platform or voting record for their current term was found in this pass, so this dataset cannot describe what they have actually done in office or as Mayor. **Keep in mind:** No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for their 2026 campaign in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Andrew P. Gerken Filed their candidacy under the ballot designation "Retired Surgeon." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing their background or platform could be found in this pass despite a real search effort. **Strengths:** A medical career, including surgical practice, suggests exposure to complex regulated systems and public-health considerations relevant to city governance. **Trade-offs:** No campaign statement or platform was found in this pass, so voters have no confirmed sense of their priorities beyond their listed occupation, and no prior elected office was found either. **Keep in mind:** No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for their campaign in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Sources 1. [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](https://ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/data/candlog/GEN2026/candlog.pdf) 2. [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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Beach,_California) ## The rest of the ballot Newport Beach City Council, District 6 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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