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City of Ontario · Statewide General Election

Ontario City Council, District 3

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

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On the ballot

This person would hold one of Ontario's four district seats on the City Council, alongside the separately, directly elected Mayor: city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Day-to-day operations are run by an appointed City Manager. A 4-year term, staggered so only two of the four districts are up in any given November -- Districts 2 and 3 this cycle, Districts 1 and 4 next in 2028.

Incumbent Alan Wapner, a member of the Ontario City Council for more than 30 years, faces three challengers for the District 3 seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot: D'Andre Lampkin, Michael Rios, and Larry Trinidad. Whoever gets the most votes wins outright; there is no primary or runoff.

This person would hold District 3's seat on Ontario's 4-member, district-elected City Council, alongside the separately, directly elected Mayor: city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Day-to-day operations are run by an appointed City Manager. A 4-year term, staggered so only two of the four districts are up in any given November -- Districts 2 and 3 this cycle, Districts 1 and 4 next in 2028.

The county's own candidate-filing report does not flag Wapner "- Incumbent" the way it flags Mayor Leon in the Mayor's race, but this dataset treats him as District 3's sitting member anyway: his own city bio page shows a term running "December 2022 - December 2026" (the same term dates as Mayor Leon's and fellow councilmember Jim Bowman's, all up this cycle), Ordinance 3224's own December 2022 adoption roll call names him as a sitting councilmember, and district candidates must reside in the district they're filed for. This dataset treats the county's non-flag as a likely data-entry inconsistency rather than evidence otherwise -- but it's a real gap in the official record, not resolved by an even-more-authoritative document, so it's stated plainly here rather than silently assumed away.

Alan Wapner

Alan Wapner has served on the Ontario City Council for more than 30 years (with time away from office earlier in his career). A retired Ontario police sergeant and former Vice President of the Ontario-Montclair School Board, he currently serves as President of the Ontario International Airport Authority and Chair of the Omnitrans Board of Directors, per the city's own biography. His filed ballot designation is "Councilman / Retired Policeman."

Strengths

Three decades of council experience -- longer than any other 2026 Ontario candidate -- plus leadership of the regional airport authority he helped return to local control.

Trade-offs

No independent news coverage of his council record was found; financial info could not be retrieved (see note below); his personal domain redirects to a dead old campaign page.

Keep in mind

The county's own candidate list does not flag him "Incumbent" the way it flags Mayor Leon -- see the note above on why this dataset treats him as the sitting District 3 member anyway.

D'Andre Lampkin

D'Andre Lampkin is a challenger for District 3, filing under the ballot designation "Deputy Sheriff / Businessman." His own professional site (not a campaign site) describes him as Founder/CEO of Care Staffing Professionals, a healthcare staffing company, and founder of The Lampkin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) human-services organization; it states he grew up in South Central Los Angeles and holds degrees in Criminal Justice Administration and Homeland Security & Emergency Management.

Strengths

An established outside career in healthcare staffing and nonprofit work, independent of his candidacy, that voters can look into directly.

Trade-offs

No campaign platform for this specific race was found on his site or elsewhere in this pass; financial info could not be retrieved (see note below).

Keep in mind

His site is a personal/professional page, not a campaign site -- it doesn't say why he's running or what he'd prioritize on the council.

Michael Rios

Michael Rios is a challenger for District 3, filing under the ballot designation "Software Engineer." No independent information about his background or platform was found in this research pass beyond his filed ballot designation.

Strengths

None could be documented in this research pass.

Trade-offs

No campaign site, news coverage, or independent profile was found beyond the filed ballot designation.

Keep in mind

A first-time candidate with no public record yet is not necessarily weaker -- only less documented; weigh the ballot designation on its own.

Larry Trinidad

Larry Trinidad is a challenger for District 3, filing under the ballot designation "Registered Nurse." His own campaign site describes him as a combat-veteran Army servicemember and a lifelong Ontario resident who has raised three children in the city, running on traffic and infrastructure, "responsible growth and development," and public safety.

Strengths

The only challenger in this race with a working campaign site laying out a specific platform voters can weigh directly, plus a stated public-safety and veteran background.

Trade-offs

No independent, non-campaign reporting on his background or platform was found in this pass; financial info could not be retrieved (see note below).

Keep in mind

The platform and biography described above come from his own campaign site, not an independent evaluation of either.

Source review: Strong (84/100) · 9 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: D'Andre Lampkin -- personal/professional site (not a campaign site, but the only independent background found on him): Founder/CEO of Care Staffing Professionals, a healthcare staffing company, and founder of The Lampkin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) human-services organization; degrees in Criminal Justice Administration and Homeland Security & Emergency Management; states he grew up in South Central Los Angeles and was recognized as "California's Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for Community Service" by the American Legion and Larry Trinidad for Ontario City Council District 3 -- campaign site: a combat-veteran Army servicemember, registered nurse, and lifelong Ontario resident who has raised three children in the city; platform priorities are traffic and infrastructure, "responsible growth and development," and public safety may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

  • uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": lists County Board of Education Areas A, B, and D (under the School category) as the county's only expiring-term seats this cycle -- no Board of Supervisors, row office, or Superior Court seat appears anywhere in the 11-page document
  • uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report (the same document as sb-candidate-list-2026, a different section): within its "City of Ontario" section (pp. 158-163 of 249), three contests appear, each "Number to be elected: 1" -- Mayor (4 candidates: Kevin Kizzee, Nicolo Lalama, Paul Leon [flagged Incumbent], Daisy Macias), Member of the City Council District 2 (2 candidates: Ruben Valencia, Stephanie Martinez, neither flagged Incumbent), and District 3 (4 candidates: D'Andre Lampkin, Michael Rios, Larry Trinidad, Alan Wapner, none flagged Incumbent).
  • ontarioca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Ontario -- City Clerk's municipal-elections page: states directly, "City Council Districts 2 and 3 will be up for election in November 2026, along with the office of Mayor... November 2028: Districts 1 and 4," and that "Residents vote for the City Council candidate representing the district in which they live. The Mayor is elected citywide."
  • content.ontarioca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Ontario -- Ordinance No. 3224, "Change the City's Electoral System from At-Large to By-District" (adopted Dec. 20, 2022): establishes 4 single-member City Council districts with an at-large elected Mayor, sets Districts 1 and 4 to first elect by-district in November 2024 and Districts 2 and 3 (with the Mayor) in November 2026, and its own certified adoption roll call reads "AYES: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: LEON, WAPNER, BOWMAN AND DORST-PORADA... ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: VALENCIA" -- direct, dated documentation that Wapner and Bowman were both sitting councilmembers as of Dec. 2022.
  • ontarioca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Ontario -- "City Council" roster page: names the current 5 members -- Paul S. Leon (Mayor), Debra Porada (Mayor Pro Tem), Alan D. Wapner, Jim W. Bowman, and Daisy Macias -- with no Milhiser or Valencia remaining on the current roster; the page's own general intro paragraph still reads "All Council Members serve at large," stale boilerplate contradicted by this page's own district-specific bio pages for Porada and Macias and by the city's separate municipal-elections and districts-archive pages.
  • ontarioca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Ontario -- Council Member Alan D. Wapner's own official bio page: "Current Term December 2022 - December 2026"; over 30 years on the council, a retired Ontario police sergeant, former Vice President of the Ontario-Montclair School Board, President of the Ontario International Airport Authority and Chair of the Omnitrans Board.
  • trinidadforontario.com (opens in a new tab)Larry Trinidad for Ontario City Council District 3 -- campaign site: a combat-veteran Army servicemember, registered nurse, and lifelong Ontario resident who has raised three children in the city; platform priorities are traffic and infrastructure, "responsible growth and development," and public safety.
  • dandrelampkin.com (opens in a new tab)D'Andre Lampkin -- personal/professional site (not a campaign site, but the only independent background found on him): Founder/CEO of Care Staffing Professionals, a healthcare staffing company, and founder of The Lampkin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) human-services organization; degrees in Criminal Justice Administration and Homeland Security & Emergency Management; states he grew up in South Central Los Angeles and was recognized as "California's Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for Community Service" by the American Legion.
  • public.netfile.com (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County's public NetFile campaign-finance portal (public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=SBD), queried directly by name via its own QuickNameSearch API for all ten 2026 Ontario candidates: nine names returned no filer (Kizzee, Lalama, Macias, Wapner, Valencia, Martinez, Lampkin, Rios, Trinidad); a "Leon, Paul" filer exists but its filing history (2013 Assembly and Senate runs, a 2016 OMSD school-board run) never includes an Ontario City Council or Mayor filing, treated as very likely a different, same-named person rather than Mayor Paul S. Leon; a decade-old "Valencia 4 City Council 2016" committee surfaced but names no candidate or city and isn't assumed connected to 2026 District 2 candidate Ruben Valencia.

Last updated August 31, 2026.