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City of Orange · Statewide General Election

Orange 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 Orange's 6-member, district-elected City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the citywide-elected mayor and an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. A 4-year term.

Only one candidate qualified for City Council District 4. Incumbent Denis Bilodeau appears unopposed for another term -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

This person holds District 4's seat on Orange's 6-member, district-elected City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the citywide-elected mayor and an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. A 4-year term.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has done and what to watch next. An unopposed return means accountability for this seat over the next four years runs through public meetings and constituent contact rather than through the ballot.

Denis Bilodeau

The incumbent, filing under the ballot designation "Orange City Councilmember, District 4." On the council's 2026 sales-tax vote, he was one of two dissenting members, arguing against alarm over the city's finances: "Throwing around the B word, I think, is a bit much. The city is nowhere close to insolvency." No further independent biographical detail (when he was first elected, his prior career, or a full platform) was found for him in this pass beyond his ballot designation and this recorded position -- a documented gap, not a claim that no such material exists.

Strengths

A recorded, public position on the city's marquee fiscal question -- skeptical of bankruptcy warnings and of the case for new taxes.

Trade-offs

Running unopposed means his record faces no organized counter-argument this cycle.

Keep in mind

This dataset could not independently verify his campaign-finance filings -- CAL-ACCESS was not checked this pass -- see Financial info.

Source review: Strong (89/100) · 3 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • ocvote.gov (opens in a new tab)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
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)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
  • voiceofoc.org (opens in a new tab)Voice of OC -- "Is Municipal Bankruptcy on the Horizon if Orange's Sales Tax Measure Fails?" (Jun 11, 2026): the city's 2026-27 budget, its structural deficit, the November sales-tax measure, and recorded council positions from Arianna Barrios, John Gyllenhammer, Denis Bilodeau, and Jon Dumitru

Last updated August 31, 2026.