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City of Redlands · Statewide General Election

Redlands 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 Redlands' 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, under a council-manager government -- an appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. A 4-year term. Redlands does not directly elect a Mayor: the council selects one of its own members to serve in that role on a rotating basis (currently Mario Saucedo, District 3, since 2024). The city's five districts elect in staggered groups -- Districts 2 and 4 last went before voters in November 2024; Districts 1, 3, and 5 are up this November.

Incumbent Mario Saucedo, Redlands' sitting Mayor, is the only candidate who qualified for the City Council District 3 seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot -- an uncontested race.

This person would hold District 3's seat on Redlands' 5-member, district-elected City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, under a council-manager government -- an appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. A 4-year term. Redlands does not directly elect a Mayor; the council selects one of its own members for that role on a rotating basis, and District 3's own councilmember currently holds it.

Saucedo, first elected in 2022, is seeking a second term unopposed; the city's own qualified-candidates document lists no other filer for District 3.

Mario Saucedo

Mario Saucedo is Redlands' incumbent District 3 councilmember, first elected in 2022, and is currently serving as Mayor for the 2024-2026 term -- a title the council selects from among its own members rather than voters electing directly. A third-generation Redlander, he graduated from Redlands High School in 1975, initially owned and operated a landscaping business, and then spent 30 years working for the City of Redlands itself across public works, the landfill, parks, and water distribution before retiring in 2018. While with the city, he initiated a revitalization strategy for north Redlands that became the North Redlands Vision Plan, securing a $3.5 million grant for property revitalization. He previously served as a Planning Commissioner (2019-2022). His filed ballot designation is "Redlands Council Member."

Strengths

30 years of city staff experience across departments before running for office, plus a named accomplishment (the North Redlands Vision Plan) beyond a general platform.

Trade-offs

No independent news coverage of his council or mayoral record was found; financial info could not be retrieved. No opponent means no comparative choice this cycle.

Keep in mind

Decades on city staff before elected office is a different kind of experience than a career politician's -- worth weighing on its own terms.

Source review: Very strong (90/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_OfficesUpForElection.pdf" (the same document as sb-offices-up-2026 above, a different section): its "City" category lists "City of Redlands, Member, City Council, District 1" / "...District 3" / "...District 5," each "Number to be elected: 1" and "Term (years): 4" -- no Mayor line anywhere for Redlands, and Districts 2 and 4 do not appear
  • uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" (the same document as sb-candidate-list-2026 above, a different section): within its "City of Redlands" section (pp. 169-172 of 249), three contests appear, each "Number to be elected: 1" -- District 1 (3 candidates: Denise Davis - Incumbent, Doug Gonzales, Andrew Hoder), District 3 (1 candidate: Mario Saucedo - Incumbent), and District 5 (1 candidate: Paul Barich - Incumbent), each with ballot designations as filed
  • redlands.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Redlands -- live "Elections" page (redlands.gov/elections/): states the three contested council districts (1, 3, 5), the candidate filing period (July 13 - August 7, 2026), and links both the city's own qualified-candidates document and its Notice of Municipal Election, plus the city's NetFile campaign-disclosure portal
  • redlands.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Redlands -- "Council Member Candidates Qualified for 11/3/26" (as of 8/7/26): names all five qualified candidates across the city's three November 2026 council districts with phone, email, and their intention-statement, papers-pulled, papers-filed, and qualified-for-ballot dates, in agreement with the county's own candidate-filing report
  • redlands.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Redlands -- "City Council District Maps" page: confirms the city's 5-district structure and the staggered election cycle -- Districts 2 and 4 elected November 2024, Districts 1, 3, and 5 this November -- with maps for each district adopted March 15, 2022
  • redlands.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Redlands -- District 3's own official bio page for Mayor Mario Saucedo: first elected to the council in 2022, serving as Mayor for the 2024-2026 term; a third-generation Redlander who spent 30 years working for the city itself before retiring in 2018 and initiating the North Redlands Vision Plan
  • netfile.com (opens in a new tab)A documented financial-info gap, not a claim about any candidate's fundraising: the California Secretary of State's CAL-ACCESS filer search was blocked outright by an Incapsula bot wall on every attempt, including a direct fetch of Denise Davis's own filer-detail URL by the FPPC ID her campaign site discloses; the City of Redlands' own local NetFile portal (agency ID RDL) is a JavaScript single-page app with no static content and no discoverable public API endpoint to this session's automated fetchers

Last updated August 31, 2026.