# Orange City Council, District 4

Denis Bilodeau is running uncontested for Orange City Council, District 4. Full ballot 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
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- Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 89 out of 100 (Strong), across 3 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Denis Bilodeau** — Orange City Councilmember, District 4 · Incumbent

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

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. 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.

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.

## 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)
3. [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](https://voiceofoc.org/2026/06/is-municipal-bankruptcy-on-the-horizon-if-oranges-sales-tax-measure-fails/)

## The rest of the ballot

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