# Perris City Council, District 1 Compare records and positions simply between Mohammed Rahman, Guadalupe Gomez, or Juan Carlos "JC" Franco for Perris City Council, District 1 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Perris's City Council. The council has four district seats. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. Perris also elects its Mayor directly, at large. The Mayor serves a separate four year term. That term is not up this November. The Mayor is not selected by the council, unlike some neighboring cities. - Jurisdiction: City of Perris - 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/perris-council-1 - 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 3, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 74 out of 100 (Mixed), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Mohammed Rahman** - **Guadalupe Gomez** - **Juan Carlos "JC" Franco** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. District 1 is an open seat: incumbent Marisela Nava is not seeking reelection. Three candidates -- Guadalupe Gomez, Mohammed Rahman, and Juan Carlos "JC" Franco -- are on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the city's own election page. Perris elects its council directly, with no primary. The winner holds one of four district seats on Perris's City Council, elected to four-year terms. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Perris also elects its Mayor directly, at-large, on a separate cycle -- unlike some neighboring Riverside County cities, the Mayor is not selected by the council from among its own members. Day-to-day operations run through an appointed city manager. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for any of the three candidates beyond the city's own filing record. Two PDFs linked from the city's election page -- the Notice of Qualified Candidates and a "Becoming a Candidate" guide, which might carry each candidate's official ballot designation -- redirect to the city's main domain, and every direct fetch of that domain returned HTTP 403. Per-candidate searches for each name returned no relevant independent coverage. ## Guadalupe Gomez A District 1 candidate per the city's own election page, which does not mark Gomez as an incumbent. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for them. **Strengths:** None could be independently confirmed in this research pass. **Trade-offs:** No independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for Gomez. **Keep in mind:** With no incumbent in this race and no public record of their priorities, this is an open seat decided almost entirely on name and ballot order rather than any confirmed record. ## Mohammed Rahman A District 1 candidate per the city's own election page, which does not mark Rahman as an incumbent. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for them. **Strengths:** None could be independently confirmed in this research pass. **Trade-offs:** No independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for Rahman. **Keep in mind:** With no incumbent in this race and no public record of their priorities, this is an open seat decided almost entirely on name and ballot order rather than any confirmed record. ## Juan Carlos "JC" Franco A District 1 candidate per the city's own election page, which does not mark Franco as an incumbent. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for them. **Strengths:** None could be independently confirmed in this research pass. **Trade-offs:** No independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for Franco. **Keep in mind:** With no incumbent in this race and no public record of their priorities, this is an open seat decided almost entirely on name and ballot order rather than any confirmed record. ## Review notes - No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap. ## Sources 1. [City of Perris -- November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election page: office/district roster (City Clerk at-large, City Council Districts 1 and 3), nomination-period dates, and the filed candidates for each -- City Clerk: Nancy Salazar (incumbent); District 1: Guadalupe Gomez, Mohammed Rahman, Juan Carlos "JC" Franco; District 3: David Starr Rabb (incumbent), Jessica Guzman, Jose Osuna-Tisnado. Also names Measure C, a proposed business-license tax on distribution/industrial facilities (not built here; measures are descoped from display). Read via a direct Google Translate website-proxy fetch (translate.goog), not a cached snippet -- every direct WebFetch of cityofperris.org, in this and every other path tried, returned HTTP 403.](https://www.cityofperris.org/city-hall/city-clerk/elections) 2. [City of Perris -- "District Elections & Map" page: "Currently, the City Council consists of a directly elected Mayor and four Council Members who serve in four equally populated districts"; Districts 1 and 3 were elected in November 2022, Districts 2 and 4 in November 2024 (both on 4-year terms, so 1 and 3 are up again this November); the district map was adopted by Ordinance No. 1415 in March 2022. Read via the same Google Translate proxy method as perris-election-2026, for the same access-gap reason.](https://www.cityofperris.org/government/city-council/district-elections-information) 3. [City of Perris -- "Mayor and City Council" staff-directory page: lists Michael Vargas (Mayor, term expires 2028), Malcolm Corona (Mayor Pro Tem, District 4, term expires 2028), Elizabeth Vallejo (District 2, term expires 2028), Marisela Nava (District 1, term expires 2026), and David Starr Rabb (District 3, term expires 2026) -- confirms Nava's and Rabb's incumbency and term-expiration dates, and that Nava is not among District 1's filed candidates (an open seat). No occupation, biography, or platform text is given for any member beyond title, district, and contact info. Read via the same Google Translate proxy method, for the same access-gap reason.](https://www.cityofperris.org/government/mayor-and-city-council) 4. [City of Perris -- "Office of the Mayor" page: confirms Michael Vargas has served as Mayor since 2016 with a current term expiring November 2028 (not up this cycle) -- used only to confirm no Mayor contest belongs on this dataset's Nov 2026 Perris ballot. Read via the same Google Translate proxy method, for the same access-gap reason.](https://www.cityofperris.org/government/city-government/office-of-the-mayor) 5. [Wikipedia -- "Perris, California": describes the city as operating a council-manager government, names Mayor Michael M. Vargas and Mayor Pro Tem David Starr Rabb, and lists Malcolm Corona, Marisela Nava, and Elizabeth Vallejo among current councilmembers -- independently corroborates the city's own roster (perris-city-council-2026) and that Perris's mayor is directly elected, not a rotating council-selected role (Mayor Pro Tem is a separate, lesser title held by a councilmember, not evidence of rotation). No candidate biography or occupational detail given.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perris,_California) 6. [City of Perris NetFile — public campaign-disclosure search](https://netfile.com/public/prs/campaign/search-entities) ## The rest of the ballot Perris City Council, District 1 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, "Perris City Council, District 1 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/perris-council-1 (sources last retrieved September 3, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.