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City of Oroville · Statewide General Election

Oroville City Council, District B

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On the ballot

This person would hold the District B seat on Oroville's 7-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use in this Butte County city of roughly 20,000, alongside a separately elected, at-large Mayor (also on this ballot) and five other district Council members. A 4-year term.

Incumbent Vice Mayor Eric Smith is running unopposed for re-election to Oroville City Council's District B seat -- he is the only candidate who qualified.

Oroville is Butte County's seat, a general-law city of about 20,042 residents (2020 Census) on the Feather River. Its City Council has seven members: a Mayor elected at-large (also on this ballot) and six councilmembers elected one per lettered district, all four-year terms. Two other district seats (A and F) are also up this cycle, elsewhere on this page; Districts C, D, and E aren't up again until 2028.

District B covers part of the city alongside Districts A, C, D, E, and F; its councilmember votes on the same citywide budget, ordinances, and land-use decisions as every other member, not just matters local to the district. Smith is unopposed both this cycle and in 2022, the last time this seat was on the ballot.

Eric Smith

Eric Smith is the sitting District B councilmember and Vice Mayor, seeking another term unopposed, as he was in 2022. He has served as CEO of the Oroville Chamber of Commerce, works as a general contractor, and founded and served as CEO of a private school; he has also been a PTO president and a school district trustee. In 2022 he described his goal as continuing "to harness local talent to promote economic prosperity."

Strengths

A sitting Vice Mayor with a broad local resume -- Chamber of Commerce leadership, a general-contracting business, private-school founding, and school-board service.

Trade-offs

Running unopposed, he faces no direct comparison this cycle. No dedicated 2026 profile was found beyond his 2022 candidate bio and the city's current roster.

Keep in mind

Unopposed means this is effectively a vote to confirm him for another term, not a comparison between candidates -- his record as Vice Mayor is the relevant question.

Source review: Strong (83/100) · 8 cited sources

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

  • buttevotes.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Butte County -- "Final Qualified Candidate List" for the Nov. 3, 2026 General Election (report CFMR009, contest IDs 4002-6806, print date 8/27/2026): names all four Oroville contests as "On Ballot: Yes," "Vote For: 1" -- 4301 Oroville City Mayor (David Pittman "Incumbent"; Shawn Webber "City Council Member"; Charles Reynolds "Masonry Contractor"), 4401 Oroville City Council DIST A (Trevor Smith "Local Business Owner"; Louise Redden "Realtor"), 4402 Oroville City Council DIST B (Eric Smith "City Council Member," one qualified candidate), and 4406 Oroville City Council DIST F (Natalie Sheard "Small Business Owner"; Gina Garcia "Business Owner"). No Oroville City Treasurer contest ID appears anywhere in the document. Fetched and read directly as a PDF, not converted from HTML.
  • orovilleca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Oroville -- Resolution No. 9461, "A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Oroville, California, Calling and Giving Notice of the Holding of a General Municipal Election to be Held in the City on Tuesday, November 3, 2026" (adopted May 19, 2026, signed by Mayor David Pittman): calls the election for Districts A, B, F, the Mayor, and the City Treasurer. Its own roll call -- "AYES: Council Member(s) Reynolds, Thomson, Goodson, Webber, Vice Mayor Smith, Mayor Pittman"; "ABSENT: Council Member Johnstone" -- independently confirms the sitting seven-member council as of May 2026. Fetched and read in full as a signed DocuSign PDF from the city's own DocumentCenter.
  • orovilleca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Oroville -- official City Council page: current seven-member roster with lettered districts and term-expiration years -- David Pittman (Mayor, at-large, expires 2026), Eric Smith (Vice Mayor, District B, expires 2026), Tracy Johnstone (District A, expires 2026), Chuck Reynolds (District C, expires 2028), Scott Thomson (District D, expires 2028), Janet Goodson (District E, expires 2028), Shawn Webber (District F, expires 2026) -- and states the council is "seven members, including the Mayor. The Mayor is elected at-large and the council members are elected by-district ... each serving four year terms."
  • orovilleca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Oroville -- official General Election Information page: independently lists the same four offices and eight qualified candidates, with the same ballot designations, as the county's certified list -- but repeated fetches of this page's on-page text this session returned inconsistent candidate-to-office table pairings, so this dataset relies on the county's certified PDF and Resolution 9461 for the actual pairing, and cites this page only for the fact that these are the complete eight names and four offices the city itself publishes. Also confirms no candidate filed for City Treasurer.
  • netfile.com (opens in a new tab)A negative-result local campaign-finance check: Oroville's NetFile public portal (agency code "oro") returns only a client-rendered single-page-application shell with no server-side filer or committee content on direct fetch, the same access gap documented dataset-wide for other NetFile jurisdictions.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result access check: California's statewide Cal-Access campaign-finance filer/candidate search returned no usable content on direct fetch, consistent with the bot-wall documented elsewhere in this dataset. Local candidates for seats like these typically file with the city rather than the state in any case.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Oroville, California": 2020 Census population 20,042; incorporated Jan. 3, 1906; the county seat of Butte County, on the Feather River; independently names David Pittman as Mayor and Eric Smith as Vice Mayor, matching the city's own current roster. Used narrowly for this background, not for any 2026 election content.
  • chicoer.com (opens in a new tab)Chico Enterprise-Record -- "9 people run for 5 offices in Oroville government" (Aug. 19, 2022, that cycle's candidate roundup): full candidate-statement-style bios for Mayor (Chuck Reynolds, incumbent: lifelong resident, masonry company owner for 20 years; David Pittman: retired firefighter, fourth-generation resident), District B/uncontested (Eric Smith, incumbent: Chamber of Commerce CEO, general contractor, private school founder), and District F (Shawn Webber: business owner, lifelong resident; Natalie Sheard: senior project estimator). Reached via a Google Translate proxy fetch after chicoer.com refused a direct fetch this session.

Last updated September 2, 2026.