# Patterson City Council, District D

Carlos Roque is running uncontested for Patterson City Council, District D. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Patterson's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the citywide-elected mayor and three other district councilmembers. The term is four years. Districts A and C aren't up again until 2028.

- Jurisdiction: City of Patterson
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 92 out of 100 (Very strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Carlos Roque** — Incumbent

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

Only one candidate qualified for Patterson's District D council seat: incumbent Carlos Roque, who is unopposed for a second four-year term. This contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

This seat is one of Patterson's four district-elected City Council seats -- Districts A, B, C and D -- each a 4-year term, alongside the citywide-elected Mayor. Councilmembers vote on the city's budget, ordinances, and land use; day-to-day operations run through an appointed city manager. Districts A and C aren't up again until 2028.

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 City Council meetings and public records requests rather than through the ballot.

## Carlos Roque

Carlos Roque is Patterson's sitting District D councilmember, first elected in November 2022, now running unopposed for a second four-year term. He filed nomination papers earliest of the District B/D field -- taken out July 30, 2026, verified August 5, ahead of the standard August 7 deadline. No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record beyond his current officeholder status was found in this pass.

**Strengths:** A completed first term already in hand, and the only 2026 Patterson candidate to draw no opponent at all -- a small signal of an uncontested standing in his district.

**Trade-offs:** Running unopposed means his record faces no organized counter-argument this cycle, and no independent source found in this pass describes any specific vote or initiative from his first term.

**Keep in mind:** No independent biography or news profile beyond the city's own page and the Patterson Irrigator's brief mention was found for him in this pass -- his record here rests on official sources plus that one piece of outside corroboration, not a deeper independent profile.

## Sources

1. [City of Patterson -- "Final Nomination List," Consolidated General Municipal Election, Nov. 3, 2026 (posted by the City Clerk with each candidate's written permission): names all 5 qualified candidates across the city's 3 open offices (1 Mayor seat, 2-year term; 1 Council Member District B seat, 4-year term; 1 Council Member District D seat, 4-year term), with each candidate's office sought and exact filing/return/verification dates, all flagged "Qualified: Yes"](https://www.pattersonca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/14634/FINAL-Nomination-List---November-3-2026)
2. [City of Patterson -- "Nominees for Public Office" Legal Notice, published Aug. 20, 2026 (after the Aug. 7/12 filing deadlines): the ballot-facing office/candidate listing -- Mayor At Large (Gabriela Hernandez, Michael S. Clauzel), Council Member District B (Chichi Jack, Carlos E. Ortega), and Council Member District D (Carlos Roque, the only qualified candidate) -- independently confirming the Final Nomination List's roster](https://www.pattersonca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/14660/Legal-Notice---Nominees-for-Public-Office---November-3-2026-Election)
3. [City of Patterson -- "Mayor and City Council" page: names the 5 current officeholders and their term-expiration dates -- Mayor Michael Clauzel (at-large, term expires Nov. 2026), Gabriela Hernandez (District A, term expires Nov. 2028), Chinyere Jack (District B, term listed as running only Aug. 13, 2026-Nov. 2026, i.e. an appointment to complete a vacated term), Kendra Mora (District C, term expires Nov. 2028), and Carlos Roque (District D, term expires Nov. 2026) -- confirming which 3 seats are up this cycle and that Districts A/C are not](https://www.pattersonca.gov/133/Mayor-City-Council)
4. [City of Patterson -- "November 3, 2026 Election - Candidate Information" page: confirms the same 3 open offices (Councilmember District B, Councilmember District D, Mayor At-Large) and the nomination period (July 13-Aug. 7, 2026, extended to Aug. 12 for any office an incumbent doesn't file for); as retrieved, posts no candidate statements or biographical detail for any 2026 candidate](https://www.pattersonca.gov/899/November-3-2026-Election---Candidate-Inf)
5. [Patterson Irrigator (Timothy Benefield) -- "Election season is underway": independently names the same 5-candidate field and adds context found nowhere else in this dataset's Patterson sourcing -- Mayor Clauzel is "seeking a third term"; Gabriela Hernandez is "currently on the Patterson city council ... representing District A" and "was elected to this seat in November 2024"; Chinyere Jack was "recently appointed to complete the term" for District B](https://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/election-season-is-underway/article_541a3def-00b3-41cf-a024-4e4c75ed3c8f.html)
6. [Wikipedia -- Patterson, California: government section confirms a mayor-council system, mayor elected citywide to a 2-year term, four district councilmembers elected to staggered 4-year terms (2 seats plus the mayor up every 2 years), an appointed city manager, and a 2020 Census population of 23,781 -- cited only for this general structure, not for its own (stale) named council roster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson,_California)
7. [A documented financial-info gap, not a claim about any candidate's fundraising: the City of Patterson's own Campaign Finances page (pattersonca.gov/2076) redirects to a NetFile public-disclosure portal (netfile.com/public/ptsn/campaign) that is a client-rendered single-page app; its own env-config.js names a Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA site key guarding the underlying API, and a direct query against that API returned only an authentication error with no static content or discoverable public endpoint reachable to this session's fetch tooling -- the same recurring NetFile failure mode already documented elsewhere in this dataset](https://netfile.com/public/ptsn/campaign)

## The rest of the ballot

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