# Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, District 1 Compare records and positions simply between Flojaune Cofer or Eric Guerra for Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, District 1 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person is one of five supervisors who govern Sacramento County. They vote on the county budget. They also oversee public health and social services. They set land use rules for unincorporated areas. - Jurisdiction: County - 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/sacramento-supervisor-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: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 92 out of 100 (Very strong), across 10 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Flojaune Cofer** — Epidemiologist, Public Health - **Eric Guerra** — Clean Air Board A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. No candidate won a majority in June's four-way primary for Sacramento County's 1st Supervisorial District, which covers most of the city of Sacramento's core. Flojaune Cofer, an epidemiologist and former mayoral candidate, led with 45.6% of the vote; Sacramento City Councilmember Eric Guerra followed with 29.4%. The two advance to a November 3 runoff, having outpaced former state Senator Deborah Ortiz (15.3%) and computer programmer Tim Riley (9.7%). The winner joins Sacramento County's five-member Board of Supervisors for a four-year term. The board sets the county budget. It oversees public health and social services countywide. It controls land use in unincorporated areas outside the county's cities. That is separate from, and alongside, the Sacramento City Council. Neither candidate is the incumbent. This is an open seat. The choice is generational and institutional as much as it is ideological. Guerra is a 15-year sitting city councilmember with a City Hall governing record. Cofer is a public-health epidemiologist and first-time county candidate. She nearly won the Sacramento mayor's race two years ago. Both have run and lost countywide before. Guerra ran for state Assembly in 2022, and Cofer for mayor in 2024. Each is trying to turn a runner-up's coalition into a win. ## Flojaune Cofer Cofer holds a bachelor's degree from Spelman College and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and works as an epidemiologist and senior policy director at Public Health Advocates. She ran for Sacramento mayor in 2024, narrowly losing to Kevin McCarty 50.5% to 49.5% after leading the March primary. Her platform centers on three planks: shielding residents from harmful federal policy changes, preventing housing displacement and homelessness, and pairing clean-energy investment with union jobs. **Strengths:** Led the four-way June primary by 16 points. Carries the Sacramento Bee's endorsement and a wide labor coalition. Has near-universal name recognition from her 2024 mayoral run. **Trade-offs:** No experience yet in elected office. Her public-health and advocacy career has been outside of government, unlike Guerra's decade-plus on the city council. **Keep in mind:** She has pledged not to take contributions from corporate PACs, law-enforcement unions, real-estate interests, or fossil-fuel companies. That is a self-imposed limit her opponent has not matched. ## Eric Guerra Guerra has represented District 6 on the Sacramento City Council since a 2015 special election, most recently winning re-election outright in 2024; his current council term runs through 2028; he would give it up if elected supervisor. A Sacramento State engineering graduate and the son of an immigrant farmworker family, he has also served as a governor's appointee to the California Air Resources Board and the CSU Board of Trustees, and previously ran unsuccessfully for state Assembly District 10 in 2022. His campaign centers on housing production, homelessness, and public safety. **Strengths:** More than a decade of city governing experience. Endorsements from Sheriff Jim Cooper and the Metro Chamber of Commerce. Institutional labor support from building trades and firefighters. **Trade-offs:** Finished 16 points behind Cofer in June. Giving up a safe council seat with four years left on it is a real cost if this bid falls short. **Keep in mind:** An independent-expenditure committee funded by IBEW Local 340, Working Families for a Better Sacramento, is separately active on his behalf. That money is outside his own campaign's control. State disclosure rules require it to be reported and labeled as independent. ## Review notes - Eric Guerra for Sacramento County Supervisor and Flo Cofer for Sacramento County Supervisor may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [Sacramento County Voter Registration & Elections — Roster of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election](https://elections.saccounty.gov/content/vre/us/en/campaign-services/candidate-report.html) 2. [Sacramento County Voter Registration & Elections — certified results, June 2, 2026 primary](https://results.saccounty.gov) 3. [Ballotpedia — Flojaune Cofer (Sacramento County Board of Supervisors District 1, California, candidate 2026)](https://ballotpedia.org/Flojaune_Cofer) 4. [Ballotpedia — Eric Guerra (California)](https://ballotpedia.org/Eric_Guerra_(California)) 5. [CapRadio — "Here's what we know about Sacramento's local election results" (published June 2, 2026, updated June 15)](https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/06/02/heres-what-we-know-about-sacramentos-local-election-results/) 6. [Eric Guerra for Sacramento County Supervisor — campaign site](https://www.electericguerra.com) 7. [Flo Cofer for Sacramento County Supervisor — campaign site](https://www.floforsac.com) 8. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS — "COFER FOR SUPERVISOR 2026; FLO" (Filer #1486290), status ACTIVE; no Form 460/461/450 electronically filed for the 2025-2026 cycle as of this retrieval](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1486290&session=2025) 9. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS — "GUERRA FOR SUPERVISOR 2026; ERIC" (Filer #1484751), status ACTIVE; no Form 460/461/450 electronically filed for the 2025-2026 cycle as of this retrieval](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1484751&session=2025) 10. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS — "GUERRA FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR 2026, SPONSORED BY INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 340; WORKING FAMILIES FOR A BETTER SACRAMENTO SUPPORTING ERIC" (Filer #1488725), status ACTIVE — an independent-expenditure committee, not Guerra's own campaign committee](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1488725&session=2025) ## The rest of the ballot Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, 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. 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