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City of Perris · Statewide General Election

Perris City Council, District 3

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

This person holds your district's seat on Perris's 4-member district City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use. A 4-year term. Perris also elects its Mayor directly, at-large, on a separate 4-year cycle not up this November -- the Mayor is not selected by the council, unlike some neighboring Riverside County cities.

Incumbent David Starr Rabb faces two challengers, Jessica Guzman and Jose Osuna-Tisnado, for Perris's District 3 City Council seat, 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: 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. Rabb, per the city's own roster, currently also holds the title of Mayor Pro Tem -- a role the council assigns to one of its own members, distinct from Perris's separately elected Mayor.

No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for any of the three candidates beyond the city's own filing and roster records (which confirm only Rabb's incumbency and his Mayor Pro Tem title). 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.

David Starr Rabb

The incumbent District 3 councilmember, seeking another term. The city's own roster confirms he currently also holds the Mayor Pro Tem title, a role assigned by the council rather than voted on separately. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for him beyond that record.

Strengths

Already serving in the seat and currently holding the council-assigned Mayor Pro Tem title, which gives him institutional continuity and standing among his colleagues if reelected.

Trade-offs

No independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for him in this research pass.

Keep in mind

With no public record of his priorities beyond his incumbency and current council role, this is in part a vote on continuity itself.

Jessica Guzman

A challenger, not a sitting officeholder. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for her beyond the city's own filing record.

Strengths

None could be independently confirmed in this research pass.

Trade-offs

No incumbency, and no independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for her.

Keep in mind

With no public record to evaluate, voters weighing this race have only the choice between continuity (the incumbent) and change (her candidacy) to go on.

Jose Osuna-Tisnado

A challenger, not a sitting officeholder. No independent biography, occupation, or platform statement was found for him beyond the city's own filing record.

Strengths

None could be independently confirmed in this research pass.

Trade-offs

No incumbency, and no independent biography, professional background, or stated platform was found for him.

Keep in mind

With no public record to evaluate, voters weighing this race have only the choice between continuity (the incumbent) and change (his candidacy) to go on.

Source review: Mixed (74/100) · 5 cited sources

Only procedural records are cited (candidate lists, results, finance filings); no source describes the candidates, so the score is capped.

Review note: No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap.

  • cityofperris.org (opens in a new tab)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.
  • cityofperris.org (opens in a new tab)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.
  • cityofperris.org (opens in a new tab)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.
  • cityofperris.org (opens in a new tab)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.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)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.

Last updated August 31, 2026.