Review note: No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap.
- ocvote.gov (opens in a new tab)OC Registrar of Voters -- Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 -- City of San Clemente section (pages 145-148 of 188, downloaded directly and parsed locally with pypdf since a plain fetch returns undecodable PDF stream data): confirms Mayor (3 qualified candidates), Member City Council District 1 (3), and Member City Council District 2 (2) as the city's three November 2026 races, each Vote for 1, with incumbent flags (blank for Mayor and District 2; "No Incumbent Appointed to Vacancy" for District 1) and every candidate's filed ballot designation
- sanclemente.gov (opens in a new tab)City of San Clemente -- City Council page: confirms the sitting 5-member body (Mayor Rick Loeffler; Steve Knoblock, Mayor Pro Tem; Victor Cabral; Mark Enmeier; Zhen Wu), that the city established four council districts in November 2024 on four-year terms, and that the Mayor is newly directly elected at-large for a two-year term beginning in 2026
Last updated August 31, 2026.
City of San Clemente
San Clemente City Council, District 2
This person holds your district's seat on San Clemente's City Council. The council has four district seats. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. San Clemente also has a citywide elected Mayor. An appointed city manager runs day to day operations. The term is four years.
Two sitting San Clemente councilmembers are running against each other for City Council District 2. They are Mayor Pro Tem Steve Knoblock and Councilmember Mark Enmeier. Whoever gets the most votes on November 3 wins, with no runoff.
This person holds District 2's seat on San Clemente's 4-member district City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the citywide-elected Mayor and an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Only Districts 1 and 2 have terms expiring this cycle. The term is four years.
Both candidates are sitting councilmembers, per their own ballot designations and the city's council roster page -- but the county's own record leaves this contest's Incumbent(s) field blank rather than naming either of them. That's consistent with District 2 being a newly drawn district (San Clemente moved from at-large to district elections in November 2024): neither Knoblock nor Enmeier has held District 2 specifically as a district seat before, so this dataset does not assert either is "the" incumbent here, even though both currently sit on the council.
Steve Knoblock
Steve Knoblock is a sitting San Clemente councilmember and the current Mayor Pro Tem. No campaign website or news coverage about their background could be found.
Mark Enmeier
Mark Enmeier is a sitting San Clemente councilmember with the ballot designation Teacher and Councilmember. No campaign website or news coverage about their background could be found.
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A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.