# Oxnard City Council, District 5

Compare records and positions simply between Noemi Corpuz or Gabriela Basua for Oxnard City Council, District 5 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of six district seats on Oxnard's City Council. Oxnard also has a separately, directly elected Mayor. Council members vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Oxnard is Ventura County's largest city, with about 202,000 people. Council terms are four years and staggered. Districts 1, 2, and 5 are up this cycle. Districts 3, 4, and 6 were last elected in 2024 and aren't up now. Mayor Luis McArthur was elected in November 2024. The City Clerk and City Treasurer are also directly elected, but not this cycle. Oxnard runs under a council-manager government with an appointed city manager.

- Jurisdiction: City of Oxnard
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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## On the ballot

- **Noemi Corpuz** — Registered Nurse
- **Gabriela Basua** — City of Oxnard Councilwoman · Incumbent

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

Incumbent Gabriela Basua, one of Oxnard's first two district-elected councilmembers, faces Noemi Corpuz, a registered nurse, for this District 5 seat.

This person would hold one of six district seats on Oxnard's City Council. The city also elects a Mayor directly. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Oxnard is Ventura County's largest city, with about 202,000 residents. Terms are four years. They are staggered, so roughly half the six districts are up every two years. Districts 1, 2, and 5 are up this cycle. Districts 3, 4, and 6 last elected in 2024 are not. Oxnard's Mayor Luis McArthur was elected in November 2024. The City Clerk and City Treasurer are also elected citywide. None of the three is on this cycle's ballot. Neither the county's on-ballot nor its off-ballot Nov. 2026 candidate documents list a contest for any of them. Oxnard runs under a council-manager form of government. Day-to-day work runs through an appointed city manager.

Basua was elected in November 2018 and sworn in that December. Basua joined fellow first-time district councilmember Bert Perello of District 1. That was when Oxnard's council expanded from five to seven seats. They won their first term by about 20 percentage points. The field had three candidates. District 5 covers part of south Oxnard.

## Gabriela Basua

Elected in November 2018 as one of Oxnard's first two district-elected councilmembers when the city moved from at-large to district elections, winning a three-candidate field by about 20 points. They have represented District 5 since, and filed for this cycle under the ballot designation 'City of Oxnard Councilwoman.'

**Strengths:** Roughly eight years of council incumbency and firsthand experience with the district system since its creation.

**Trade-offs:** No independent 2026-specific reporting on their campaign platform or council record was found beyond their ballot filing.

**Keep in mind:** During the city's 2022 redistricting, Basua was quoted saying of the new map, ' Check Council minutes if their votes matter.

## Noemi Corpuz

A registered nurse, per their own ballot designation. No independent news coverage of their candidacy was found despite a real search effort -- Oxnard has no Ballotpedia page for this race, and Google News, Bing, and DuckDuckGo searches for their name turned up nothing further.

**Strengths:** Qualified for the ballot during Oxnard's official filing period; a healthcare background that at minimum signals some familiarity with the county's medical and public-health systems.

**Trade-offs:** No documented platform, prior civic involvement, or public record beyond their name and occupation.

**Keep in mind:** No news coverage, campaign material or financial filings were found for them. Treat the absence of information as a gap, not a comment on them.

## Sources

1. [Ventura County Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters -- November 3, 2026 General Election Contest/Candidate Proof List (filtered to on-ballot contests): the City of Oxnard section carries exactly three contests -- District 1 (three qualified candidates: John Barrick, incumbent Bert E. Perello, Eduardo Huerta), District 2 (three filers shown but only two qualified: Lizanne Nañez, incumbent Gabriel "Gabe" Teran), and District 5 (two qualified candidates: Noemi Corpuz, incumbent Gabriela Basua) -- with each candidate's self-filed ballot designation](https://clerkrecorder.venturacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/cfmcfmr001_contcanddataproof_08-18-2026-on-ballot-alpha-order-applied.pdf)
2. [Ventura County Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters -- November 3, 2026 General Election Contest/Candidate Proof List, off-ballot companion document (single-filer and appointed-in-lieu contests under Elections Code Section 10229): carries no City of Oxnard entry of any kind -- corroborating, by absence, that Oxnard's Mayor, City Clerk, and City Treasurer seats are simply not up this cycle rather than quietly decided by a single filer](https://clerkrecorder.venturacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cfmcfmr001_contcanddataproof_08-17-2026-off-ballot.pdf)
3. [Ventura County Star -- "Who's running for city council, mayor this November? Here's the lineup" (Cheri Carlson, Aug. 17, 2026): independently lists the same seven Oxnard candidates across the same three districts as the county's own document, and lists no Oxnard mayoral race among any city in the county](https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/08/17/whos-running-for-city-council-mayor-in-ventura-county-this-november/91274941007/)
4. [Wikipedia -- Oxnard, California: infobox government section -- council-manager government type, Mayor Luis McArthur, Mayor Pro Tempore Gabe Teran, City Council (Gabriela Basua, Bert Perello, Michaela Perez, Gabriela Rodriguez, Aaron Starr), City Treasurer Phil Molina, City Clerk Luly Lopez, and the 2020 Census population of 202,063](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxnard,_California)
5. [Ventura County Star -- "Some Oxnard neighborhoods are in line for new City Council members. Here's the breakdown" (Brian J. Varela, March 2, 2022): confirms Oxnard has six council districts and, as of that redistricting cycle, that Gabe Teran represented District 2, Bert Perello District 1, and Gabriela Basua District 5 -- the same three seats and, for two of the three, the same incumbents on this cycle's ballot](https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2022/03/02/some-oxnard-neighborhoods-line-new-city-council-members-district-map/6976214001/)
6. [A negative-result campaign-finance check (Cal-Access covers state-level contests only; no filer found for any of the seven District 1/2/5 candidates in this dataset's cached statewide snapshot)](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/)
7. [A negative-result local campaign-finance check: Ventura County's own NetFile public portal (public.netfile.com/pub2/?AID=VCO), linked from the county's own campaign-finance-reports-by-city page, is a client-rendered single-page app with no static content and no reachable public API endpoint found this session; Oxnard's own city-clerk campaign-disclosure page (oxnard.gov/city-clerks-office/election-information/campaign-disclosure-statements) returned a bare Cloudflare 403 on every automated attempt, browser User-Agent included](https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?AID=VCO)
8. [Ventura County Star -- "With Basua and Lopez, Oxnard City Council grows to a seven-member board" (Wendy Leung, Dec. 10, 2018): Gabriela Basua and Vianey Lopez sworn in Dec. 11, 2018 as Oxnard's first two district-elected councilmembers, expanding the body from 5 to 7 seats (Mayor plus six district seats); Basua elected to a full 4-year term representing District 5, alongside sitting councilmember Bert Perello](https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2018/12/10/gabriela-basua-vianey-lopez-oxnard-city-council-seven-member-board/2209563002/)
9. [League of Women Voters -- Vote411 voter guide, 'City of Oxnard City Council Member, District 5' race (statewide All Races list): each candidate's self-submitted ballot designation and campaign contacts, plus answers to the League's questions -- If elected, what are your top 3 priorities?; What background, experience and/or education qualify you for this elected office?; Is there anything else you'd like voters to know? No answers were on file at capture. Capture in data/nov-2026/sources/vote411/oxnard-council-5.json.](https://www.vote411.org/plan-your-vote)

## The rest of the ballot

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