# Pomona City Council, District 2 Compare records and positions simply between Victor Preciado or Jacky Elizalde for Pomona City Council, District 2 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Pomona's 6-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the directly elected Mayor. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Pomona - 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/pomona-council-2 - 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: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 84 out of 100 (Strong), across 12 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Victor Preciado** — Incumbent - **Jacky Elizalde** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. No candidate cleared a majority in the June 2 primary, so the two leading finishers face off on November 3: incumbent Councilmember Victor Preciado, who led with about 45% of the vote, against challenger Jacky Elizalde, who took about 33%. It's a rematch — the same two ran against each other for this seat in 2018, when Preciado won. The winner serves a 4-year term as one of six district councilmembers on Pomona's City Council, voting on the citywide budget, land-use and zoning decisions, and city ordinances alongside the directly elected Mayor. Pomona's Charter requires a majority to win outright in the primary; short of that, the top two advance to November, which is why this seat — and not the city's other two council seats also on June's ballot — is on your November ballot. With an eight-year incumbent on the ballot, the choice is a referendum on their record: continue the district projects and park upgrades Preciado points to, or hand the seat to Elizalde, who argues her multi-level government background — city, county, and federal — is what the district needs next. ## Victor Preciado Victor Preciado is Pomona's incumbent District 2 councilmember, first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2022; they also coach football at Garey High School. They are running on continued park revitalization, street and alley repairs, and youth mentorship. They led the June primary field with about 45% of the vote. **Strengths:** Eight years of District 2 incumbency with a specific project list — every park in the district revitalized, a new skate park, and named street repaving — plus a seat on the Foothill Transit board. **Trade-offs:** Eight years in office means the district's current pace of park and street work is theirs to defend, not promise, and they are the incumbent in a rematch of a race they already won once. **Keep in mind:** Preciado immigrated to Pomona from Guadalajara, Mexico at eight months old and is a cancer survivor (diagnosed at 19) — biographical facts from their own campaign site, offered as background rather than a claim about the office. ## Jacky Elizalde Jacky Elizalde is a longtime Pomona resident and challenger for the District 2 seat, with a decade-plus on city commissions, a current seat on Mt. San Antonio College's Citizens Oversight Committee, and prior work as a district representative for a member of Congress. She is running on affordable housing, public safety, and expanding after-school programs. She finished second in the June primary with about 33% of the vote. **Strengths:** More than a decade of city-commission service plus federal-office experience as a congressional district representative — a government résumé spanning city, county, and federal levels. **Trade-offs:** Her case rests on committee and staff-level government experience rather than elected office — a candidate who has worked inside government, not yet run a piece of it. **Keep in mind:** This is her second run for this seat — she lost to Preciado for the same District 2 seat in the November 2018 general election. ## Review notes - Jacky Elizalde for Pomona City Council and Victor Preciado for Pomona City Council, District 2 may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [LA County RRCC — Certified June 2, 2026 Primary Nominating Election results, City of Pomona (Member of the City Council, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Districts)](https://results.lavote.gov/text-results/4338) 2. [City of Pomona — Elections Information (City Clerk): confirms the November 3, 2026 District 2 pairing (Jacky Elizalde, Victor Preciado) and quotes City Charter Sec. 901(b)'s majority-or-runoff rule verbatim](https://www.pomonaca.gov/government/departments/city-clerk/elections-information) 3. [City of Pomona — Mayor & City Council (official directory, confirming Victor Preciado as sitting District 2 councilmember)](https://www.pomonaca.gov/government/mayor-city-council) 4. [City of Pomona — Councilmember Victor Preciado (official biography page)](https://www.pomonaca.gov/government/mayor-city-council/councilmember-victor-preciado) 5. [Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (SCNG) — Victor Preciado, Pomona City Council District 2 candidate, 2026 primary election questionnaire, by Mercedes Cannon-Tran (2026-05-05)](https://www.dailybulletin.com/2026/05/05/victor-preciado-pomona-city-council-district-2-candidate-2026-primary-election-questionnaire/) 6. [Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (SCNG) — Jacky Elizalde, Pomona City Council District 2 candidate, 2026 primary election questionnaire, by Mercedes Cannon-Tran (2026-05-05)](https://www.dailybulletin.com/2026/05/05/jacky-elizalde-pomona-city-council-district-2-candidate-2026-primary-election-questionnaire/) 7. [Ballotpedia — Victor Preciado (Pomona City Council District 2, California, candidate 2026); a separate Ballotpedia page records his 2018 general-election win over Jacqueline Elizalde for the same seat](https://ballotpedia.org/Victor_Preciado) 8. [Ballotpedia — Jacky Elizalde (Pomona City Council District 2, California, candidate 2026)](https://ballotpedia.org/Jacqueline_Elizalde) 9. [Victor Preciado for Pomona City Council, District 2 — Re-Elect 2026 (candidate's own campaign site: biography, 8-year council record, and 2026 platform)](https://victorforpomona.com) 10. [Jacky Elizalde for Pomona City Council — campaign site (candidate's own biography, prior government experience, and platform)](https://www.jacky4pomona.com/home) 11. [California Secretary of State — CalAccess campaign finance, "PRECIADO FOR CITY COUNCIL 2026; VICTOR" (filer #1403059; active, no Form 460/461/450 electronically filed for this election cycle as of retrieval)](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1403059&view=general) 12. [California Secretary of State — CalAccess campaign finance, "ELIZALDE FOR CITY COUNCIL 2026" (filer #1482395; active, no Form 460/461/450 electronically filed for this election cycle as of retrieval)](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1482395&view=general) ## The rest of the ballot Pomona City Council, District 2 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, "Pomona City Council, District 2 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/pomona-council-2 (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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