# Parlier City Council, District 4 Compare records and positions simply between Andrew Lopez or Diego Garza for Parlier City Council, District 4 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of Parlier's four district-elected City Council seats. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. Parlier is a Fresno County city of about 14,600 residents. An appointed City Manager runs daily government. The term is four years. Parlier's Mayor is elected directly by voters citywide. Some other small Fresno County cities instead let the council choose the mayor. Parlier has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer. - Jurisdiction: City of Parlier - 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/parlier-council-4 - 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: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 90 out of 100 (Very strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Andrew Lopez** — Patient Care Technician - **Diego Garza** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Diego Garza faces one challenger, Andrew Lopez, for this seat. This person would hold one of Parlier's four district-elected City Council seats. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Fresno County city of about 14,600 residents, under a City Council-City Manager form of government. The term is four years. Parlier's Mayor is elected directly and at-large by voters citywide, rather than chosen by the Council as in some other small Fresno County cities, and the city has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins -- no runoff or ranked-choice voting is used. This dataset found no independent biographical detail for either candidate beyond their filed occupations, despite a genuine multi-method search (Bing web and news search for each candidate's name, Ballotpedia, the city's own site). ## Diego Garza The incumbent Councilmember for District 4, seeking another term; Garza's filed ballot designation is simply "Incumbent," and they did not file a candidate statement for this race. The City of Parlier's own City Council page independently confirms they currently hold this seat. This dataset found no independent biographical detail for them beyond that despite a genuine multi-method search. **Strengths:** Direct incumbency, independently confirmed by the city's own current council roster. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting, campaign site, or platform statement was found for them beyond their role on the Council. **Keep in mind:** See this contest's financial note below. ## Andrew Lopez A first-time candidate challenging the incumbent; Lopez's filed occupation is "Patient Care Technician," and they did not file a candidate statement for this race. This dataset found no independent biographical detail for them beyond that despite a genuine multi-method search. **Strengths:** None independently confirmed beyond their filed occupation. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting, campaign site, or platform statement was found for them. **Keep in mind:** See this contest's financial note below. ## Sources 1. [Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR009 "Candidate List" for the Nov. 3, 2026 Consolidated Statewide General Election (printed 8/12/2026 5:37:13PM, post-filing-deadline): lists Parlier's three city-section contests -- Mayor (5140), City Council District 2 (5142), and City Council District 4 (5144) -- with each qualified candidate's filed ballot designation: Fernando Banuelos ("Retired Instructor"), Lionel Lopez, Jr. ("Licensed General Contractor"), and Alma M. Beltran ("Incumbent") for Mayor; Trinidad "Trino" Pimentel ("Father"), Marcie Villalpando ("Student"), and Yesenia "Yesi" Flores ("Administrative Secretary") for District 2; and Andrew Lopez ("Patient Care Technician") and Diego Garza ("Incumbent") for District 4](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/CandidateList.pdf) 2. [Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR001 "Contest/Candidate Proof List," filtered to Contests on Ballot, for the Nov. 3, 2026 election (printed 8/18/2026 8:39:55AM): independently confirms the same three Parlier contests, each flagged ON BALLOT, and separately names each seat's incumbent-of-record as "Elected" -- Alma M Beltran (Mayor), Juanita Torres Molina (District 2, who did not file for reelection, leaving the seat open), and Diego Guadalupe Garza (District 4, who did file and qualify)](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/Contests%20on%20Ballot%20with%20Qualified%20Candidates.pdf) 3. [City of Parlier -- "City Council" page: states Parlier is "a general law City governed by a five-member City Council" under a "City Council-City Manager form of government," where "Four council members are elected by their respective districts and the Mayor is elected at large"; names the sitting Council -- Alma M. Beltran (Mayor), Sabrina Rodriguez (Mayor Pro Tem, District 1), Juanita "Janie" Molina (District 2), Cathryn "Kathy" Solorio (District 3), and Diego G. Garza (District 4)](https://www.parlier.ca.us/178/City-Council) 4. [Wikipedia's Parlier, California article: population 14,576 (2020 census), incorporated November 15, 1921](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlier,_California) ## The rest of the ballot Parlier City Council, District 4 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, "Parlier City Council, District 4 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/parlier-council-4 (sources last retrieved September 1, 2026). 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