# Norco City Council

Greg Newton and Kevin Bash are running uncontested for Norco City Council. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds one of two at-large seats up this cycle. The seats are on Norco's City Council. The council has five members. They vote on land use, the city budget, and public safety contracts. Norco is a small, equestrian-themed Riverside County city. The term is four years. Norco is a Charter City with no separately elected Mayor. Each December, the five councilmembers choose one of their own to serve as Mayor. Another member serves as Mayor Pro Tem. Both serve one-year terms.

- Jurisdiction: City of Norco
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
- Seats: 2
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- Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026
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## On the ballot

- **Greg Newton** — Incumbent
- **Kevin Bash** — Incumbent

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

Two candidates are running for Norco's two at-large City Council seats: incumbents Kevin Bash and Greg Newton. With exactly two candidates for two seats, both are effectively elected outright on November 3, 2026.

Council seats carry 4-year terms. Norco is a Charter City with a five-member council elected entirely at large — every registered voter citywide picks all five seats, rather than voting only within a geographic district — and no separately elected Mayor: each December, the council chooses one of its own members to serve a one-year term as Mayor and another as Mayor Pro Tem. The council sets city ordinances, land use, and the budget for this small, unincorporated-feeling Riverside County city known for its horse trails and large residential lots, with day-to-day operations run by an appointed city manager.

With no challenger in the field, the practical question is what each incumbent has done in office rather than which of the two to choose — the two seats are not competing against each other. Norco's council has also been weighing a renewed 2024 legal demand to switch from at-large to district-based council elections (after rejecting a similar 2018 proposal), a live structural question for whoever holds these seats over the next four years.

## Kevin Bash

The incumbent, a business owner who describes their family as Norco residents for "over sixty years" (their words). They have served as a Parks and Recreation and Historic Resources Commissioner, and have held the council's rotating Mayor role in the past. They point to attracting new business, improving fire services and emergency preparedness, and diversifying sales-tax revenue and general-fund reserves as accomplishments, and list fighting proposed high-voltage transmission lines, adding sheriff's deputies, and "returning local control" among their goals for a new term (per their own candidate statement).

**Strengths:** Long family roots in Norco, prior service on two city commissions, and past experience in the council's rotating Mayor role.

**Trade-offs:** Running unopposed alongside a fellow incumbent means Bash's record faces no organized counter-argument this cycle.

**Keep in mind:** What's known about Bash comes from their own filed candidate statement, not independent reporting — no outside news coverage of this race was found despite a genuine search across multiple outlets and search engines.

## Greg Newton

The incumbent, a construction manager and Norco resident for "over 30 years" (their words) who previously served as a Planning Commissioner and describes more than 25 years of community volunteering. Newton's statement lists public safety, local control, fiscal responsibility, street and trail maintenance, and preserving "Norco's Animal-Keeping Lifestyle" — a reference to the city's zoning for horses and other livestock on residential lots — as their priorities for a new term (per their own candidate statement).

**Strengths:** A professional construction-management background relevant to overseeing city capital projects and budgets, plus prior Planning Commission service and a long local volunteering record.

**Trade-offs:** Running unopposed alongside a fellow incumbent means Newton's record faces no organized counter-argument this cycle.

**Keep in mind:** What's known about Newton comes from their own filed candidate statement, not independent reporting — no outside news coverage of this race was found despite a genuine search across multiple outlets and search engines.

## Sources

1. [Riverside County Registrar of Voters — 2026 Annual Election Calendar (lists every November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election office by city, including "City of Cathedral City: City Council District 3 / District 4 / District 5 / City Treasurer")](https://voteinfo.net/sites/g/files/aldnop371/files/2026-02/Annual%20Election%20Calendar%202026.pdf)
2. [City of Norco -- "Current Election" page (fetched live via Google's translate.goog English-to-English proxy after norco.ca.us 403'd every direct WebFetch/curl attempt): states "Two City Council seats are up for election" on November 3, 2026, gives the nomination-period dates (July 13-August 6, 2026, extended to August 12 only if no qualified incumbent files by August 6), and links the city's own "Qualified Candidate Information & Documents" civic-web portal.](https://www.norco.ca.us/government/elections/current-election)
3. [City of Norco -- "Local Election Process" page (fetched live via the same translate.goog proxy): states Norco is "a Charter City" with a "City Council/City Manager form of government" in which "Each December, the City Council selects a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from among its members to serve one-year terms" -- confirming no separately elected Mayor -- and that the next municipal election, November 3, 2026, fills "two seats on the City Council."](https://www.norco.ca.us/government/elections/local-election-process)
4. [City of Norco -- "District-Based Elections" page (fetched live via the same translate.goog proxy): states outright that "registered voters from the entire City choose each of the five City Council Members" (at-large, no districts), and recounts that the council rejected a 2018 proposal to switch to district elections and was still assessing a renewed April 2024 demand letter as of this writing.](https://www.norco.ca.us/government/elections/district-based-elections-559)
5. [City of Norco -- City Clerk's own signed "Notice of Election" (dated 2026-07-08, published 2026-07-02; retrieved from the city's norco.civicweb.net document portal): "a General Municipal Election will be held in the City of Norco... for the following Officers: Two (2) Council Member seats currently held by: Kevin Bash \[and\] Greg Newton\[,\] \[e\]ach one to serve a full term of four (4) years," bilingual English/Spanish, signed by City Clerk Dayna Williams-Hunter.](https://norco.civicweb.net/document/215141)
6. [City of Norco -- City Clerk's own "Election Calendar" for the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election (dated 2026-07-08; retrieved from the city's norco.civicweb.net document portal): a statutory day-by-day countdown citing Elections Code SS 1301, 9200, 10002, 10100, 10403.5, and 13307, corroborating the November 3, 2026 date and nomination-period mechanics without adding further seat or candidate detail.](https://norco.civicweb.net/document/215142)
7. [Kevin Bash's own filed Candidate's Statement for the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election (a scanned PDF retrieved from the city's norco.civicweb.net document portal, dated 2026-08-10, read with a local PDF text extractor): identifies him as "Business Owner / Councilman," states "Norco has been home to my family over sixty years," and lists his record as a "past Parks and Recreation and Historic Resources Commissioner, youth sports coach, husband, father, councilman and Mayor," citing accomplishments including "Attracting Significant New Business," "Improving Fire Services and Emergency Preparedness," and "Diversified Sales Tax Revenues," with future goals including fighting high-voltage transmission lines, more sheriff's deputies, and "Return Local Control."](https://norco.civicweb.net/document/215966)
8. [Greg Newton's own filed Candidate's Statement for the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election (a scanned PDF retrieved from the city's norco.civicweb.net document portal, dated 2026-08-10, read with a local PDF text extractor): identifies him as "your current City Council Member, former Planning Commissioner, \[and\] community volunteer for more than 25 years," a "Norco resident for over 30 years" and, per his own statement body, a "construction manager" by occupation, and lists his priorities as public safety, local control, fiscal responsibility, street/trail maintenance, and preserving "Norco's Animal-Keeping Lifestyle."](https://norco.civicweb.net/document/215967)
9. [Kevin Bash's own filed FPPC Form 460 (Recipient Committee Campaign Statement, semi-annual) for his committee, "Committee to Re-Elect Kevin Bash to Norco City Council" (a scanned PDF retrieved from the city's norco.civicweb.net document portal, received by the City Clerk 2026-07-27; read with a local PDF text extractor whose OCR text layer is legible enough to read $0 in both total contributions received and total expenditures made for the period, though some individual fields in the scan remain illegible).](https://norco.civicweb.net/document/215954)
10. [Greg Newton's own filed FPPC Form 460 (Recipient Committee Campaign Statement) on file with the city's norco.civicweb.net document portal -- a pure scanned image with no usable OCR text layer, so this dataset cannot confirm or rule out any filed dollar figures for him from this document.](https://norco.civicweb.net/document/215945)

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