# Orange City Council, District 1 Compare records and positions simply between Jonathan St Clair, Brandy Romero, and 2 more for Orange City Council, District 1 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Orange's City Council. The council has six members, all elected by district. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. A citywide-elected mayor also serves on the council. An appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Orange - 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/orange-council-1 - 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 - **Jonathan St Clair** — General Manager - **Brandy Romero** — Orange Business Owner - **Albert "AJ" Ricci** — City of Orange Businessman - **Ernie Glasgow** — Contractor A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Four candidates -- Jonathan St Clair, Brandy Romero, Albert "AJ" Ricci, and Ernie Glasgow -- are running for Orange City Council District 1's open seat. Incumbent Arianna Barrios did not seek re-election here; she's running for Mayor instead. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff. This person holds District 1's seat on Orange's 6-member, district-elected City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the citywide-elected mayor and an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. The term is four years. This is Orange's one open council seat this cycle -- no incumbent is on the ballot, and the county's own candidate filing shows five people originally filed for this seat but only four qualified. The city is also in the middle of a structural budget deficit and a proposed sales-tax increase on the same November ballot; none of the four candidates has a recorded public position on either question in any source found in this pass. ## Jonathan St Clair Filed their candidacy under the ballot designation "General Manager." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing their background or platform was found in this pass -- a documented research gap, not a claim that no such material exists. **Strengths:** Not established in sources found this pass. **Trade-offs:** Without their own statement of why they're running or what they'd prioritize, voters have markedly less to go on for them than an incumbent seeking re-election typically provides. **Keep in mind:** This dataset could not independently verify their campaign-finance filings -- CAL-ACCESS was not checked this pass -- see Financial info. ## Brandy Romero Filed their candidacy under the ballot designation "Orange Business Owner." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing their background or platform was found in this pass -- a documented research gap, not a claim that no such material exists. **Strengths:** Not established in sources found this pass. **Trade-offs:** Without their own statement of why they're running or what they'd prioritize, voters have markedly less to go on for them than an incumbent seeking re-election typically provides. **Keep in mind:** This dataset could not independently verify their campaign-finance filings -- CAL-ACCESS was not checked this pass -- see Financial info. ## Albert "AJ" Ricci Filed their candidacy under the ballot designation "City of Orange Businessman." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing their background or platform was found in this pass -- a documented research gap, not a claim that no such material exists. **Strengths:** Not established in sources found this pass. **Trade-offs:** Without their own statement of why they're running or what they'd prioritize, voters have markedly less to go on for them than an incumbent seeking re-election typically provides. **Keep in mind:** This dataset could not independently verify their campaign-finance filings -- CAL-ACCESS was not checked this pass -- see Financial info. ## Ernie Glasgow Filed their candidacy under the ballot designation "Contractor." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing their background or platform was found in this pass -- a documented research gap, not a claim that no such material exists. **Strengths:** Not established in sources found this pass. **Trade-offs:** Without their own statement of why they're running or what they'd prioritize, voters have markedly less to go on for them than an incumbent seeking re-election typically provides. **Keep in mind:** This dataset could not independently verify their campaign-finance filings -- CAL-ACCESS was not checked this pass -- see Financial info. ## Sources 1. [OC Registrar of Voters -- Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 -- City of Orange section (pages 138-142 of 188): confirms Mayor (2 qualified candidates), City Council District 1 (4 qualified of 5 filed), District 4 (1), and District 6 (1) as the city's four November 2026 races, each Vote for 1, with incumbent flags and every candidate's filed ballot designation](https://ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/data/candlog/GEN2026/candlog.pdf) 2. [Wikipedia -- Orange, California: infobox confirms general-law incorporation (April 6, 1888), a council-manager government, a 6-member district city council, and the sitting officeholders by district, cited only for general civic-structure context, never for a candidate-specific claim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange,_California) ## The rest of the ballot Orange City Council, District 1 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. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Orange City Council, District 1 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/orange-council-1 (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). 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