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City of Riverbank · Statewide General Election

Riverbank City Council, District 1

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On the ballot

This person would represent one of Riverbank's four City Council districts: city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Stanislaus County city of about 24,865 residents (2020 Census). Riverbank operates under a council-manager government, with a professional City Manager running day-to-day operations while the elected council sets policy. The Mayor is elected at-large citywide and isn't on this ballot -- Rachel Hernandez has held the office since her 2024 election; the four council seats are elected by district to staggered 4-year terms, with Districts 1 and 3 up this November.

Four candidates are running for Riverbank's District 1 council seat: incumbent Luis Uribe against three challengers -- Nai Nicholas Sosongkham, Jeannette Reyes, and Sherry Fenn. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright -- no runoff.

This seat is one of Riverbank's four district-elected City Council seats, alongside a citywide-elected Mayor. Councilmembers vote on the city's budget, ordinances, and land use; day-to-day operations run through a professional City Manager. Riverbank's council seats serve staggered 4-year terms -- Districts 2 and 4, and the Mayor, aren't up again until their own terms expire.

Two other people pulled nomination papers for this seat but did not go on to qualify for the final ballot: Daymond Mayfield and George Serna, per the city's own filing record. Only the four names below appear on the City Clerk's certified Notice of Nominees.

Luis Uribe

Luis Uribe is Riverbank's sitting District 1 councilmember, seeking reelection. His filed ballot designation is "Incumbent." He is the only candidate in either of Riverbank's two 2026 council contests with any campaign committee on file -- "Vote Luis Uribe 2026" has an FPPC Form 410 (Initial) on record with the city, though no Form 460 periodic disclosure had been filed as of this retrieval. He was also the first District 1 candidate to both pull and file nomination papers, on July 13 and 14, 2026 respectively. No independent news profile or campaign website was found for him in this pass beyond his own committee filing and his current council service.

Strengths

A sitting term on the council gives him a checkable record voters can directly evaluate, and he's the only candidate in this race who has organized a campaign committee.

Trade-offs

No source in this pass describes a specific 2026 platform or priorities beyond his incumbency and ballot designation.

Keep in mind

As the only incumbent in a four-way field, he starts with name recognition his three challengers don't have -- worth weighing alongside whatever specific case each challenger is making for change.

Nai Nicholas Sosongkham

Nai Nicholas Sosongkham is challenging incumbent Uribe for the District 1 seat. His filed ballot designation is "Non-Profit Program Manager." He was the second candidate to pull nomination papers (July 14, 2026) but among the later ones to file and be verified, both on August 5, 2026. No campaign committee, independent news profile, or campaign website was found for him in this pass beyond his own filing with the city.

Strengths

A non-profit program management background suggests experience running community-facing programs, though no source in this pass specifies which organization or program.

Trade-offs

No committee filing, platform, or independent profile was found for him -- his public paper trail in this pass rests entirely on his own candidacy filing.

Keep in mind

A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass, not a judgment about his candidacy or qualifications.

Jeannette Reyes

Jeannette Reyes is challenging incumbent Uribe for the District 1 seat. Her filed ballot designation is "Community Engagement Coordinator." She pulled nomination papers July 23, 2026, filed August 3, and was verified by the Registrar of Voters August 6 -- the last of the four qualified District 1 candidates to complete filing. No campaign committee, independent news profile, or campaign website was found for her in this pass beyond her own filing with the city.

Strengths

A "Community Engagement Coordinator" designation suggests a background working directly with residents, though no source in this pass specifies which organization or program.

Trade-offs

No committee filing, platform, or independent profile was found for her -- her public paper trail in this pass rests entirely on her own candidacy filing.

Keep in mind

A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass, not a judgment about her candidacy or qualifications.

Sherry Fenn

Sherry Fenn is challenging incumbent Uribe for the District 1 seat. Her filed ballot designation is "Private Investigator." She pulled nomination papers July 20, 2026, filed August 5, and was verified August 6, 2026. No campaign committee, independent news profile, or campaign website was found for her in this pass beyond her own filing with the city.

Strengths

A private investigator background is a distinct, checkable professional credential relative to her opponents.

Trade-offs

No committee filing, platform, or independent profile was found for her -- her public paper trail in this pass rests entirely on her own candidacy filing.

Keep in mind

A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass, not a judgment about her candidacy or qualifications.

Source review: Strong (88/100) · 9 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • stanvote.gov (opens in a new tab)Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters -- official "Unofficial Candidate List," General Election Nov. 3, 2026 (timestamped by the county 7:57 AM 8/31/2026, refetched fresh for this shard): under "CITY OF RIVERBANK," lists exactly two contests -- Council Member, District 1 (Nai N. Sosongkham, Jeanette Reyes, Sherry Fenn, *Luis Uribe) and Council Member, District 3 (Carissa Commons, Sammi Martinez, neither flagged incumbent) -- with no Riverbank Mayor contest anywhere in the document.
  • riverbank.org (opens in a new tab)City of Riverbank -- own "Candidate List" pull-sheet ("Updated: 08/12/2026 @ 5:00 P.M.," the close of the extended nomination period): the City Clerk's real-time filing record showing papers-pulled/filed/verified dates for every person who pulled nomination papers in each district, including the two District 1 filers (Daymond Mayfield, George Serna) who did not go on to qualify for the final ballot, and naming District 3's sitting officeholder as "Appointed Incumbent John Pimentel."
  • riverbank.org (opens in a new tab)City of Riverbank -- own "Notice of Nominees for Public Office" (posted August 13, 2026; published August 19, 2026): the final, post-verification certified roster, listing "For Member of City Council District 1 -- Vote for One: Luis Uribe, Jeannette Reyes, Sherry Fenn, Nai Nicholas Sosongkham" and "For Member of City Council District 3 -- Vote for One: Carissa Commons, Sammi Martinez."
  • riverbank.org (opens in a new tab)City of Riverbank -- own statutory "Notice of Election" (published July 1, 2026, per Elections Code 10224.5): states unambiguously that only two offices are up this cycle -- "One Member of the City Council - District 1" and "One Member of the City Council - District 3," each a full 4-year term -- confirming no Mayor or District 2/4 race exists in Riverbank this November, and that both offices drew more than one nominee, so neither is an Elections Code Section 10229 direct appointment.
  • riverbank.org (opens in a new tab)City of Riverbank -- own live "Elections" page: the City Clerk/Elections Official's index of 2026 election documents, linking the Candidate List, Notice of Nominees, and Notice of Election cited separately above.
  • riverbank.org (opens in a new tab)City of Riverbank -- own live "City Council" page: names the current roster -- Mayor Rachel Hernandez (at-large), District 1 Luis Uribe, District 2 Cindy Fosi, District 3 Vice Mayor John C. Pimentel, District 4 Stacy Call -- the decisive independent confirmation that the county candidate list's Riverbank block (specifically its "*Luis Uribe Incumbent" line) belongs to Riverbank and not a neighboring Stanislaus city.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Riverbank, California": used narrowly for the 2020 Census population figure (24,865); does not mention the 2026 city council races.
  • riverbank.org (opens in a new tab)City of Riverbank -- own live "Campaign Financing" / FPPC Statement Filings page: as of this retrieval, lists exactly one 2026 candidate committee -- Luis Uribe's "Vote Luis Uribe 2026" (Form 410 Initial only, no Form 460 on file) -- and no committee at all for any of Sosongkham, Reyes, Fenn, Commons, or Martinez. A second 2026 committee on the same page, "Voters for Farmland," is tied to Riverbank's Measure M ballot initiative, not to any candidate in these two contests, and is not cited for either candidate profile.
  • riverbank.org (opens in a new tab)"Vote Luis Uribe 2026" FPPC Form 410 (Statement of Organization), filed with the City of Riverbank -- the source PDF itself is a scanned image with no extractable text layer, so only its existence and committee name, per the Campaign Financing page's own index, are cited here; no filing date could be machine-read from the document itself.

Last updated September 1, 2026.