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City of San Clemente · Statewide General Election

San Clemente City Council, District 2

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 San Clemente's 4-member district City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the citywide-elected Mayor and an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. A 4-year term.

Two sitting San Clemente councilmembers -- Mayor Pro Tem Steve Knoblock and Councilmember Mark Enmeier -- are running against each other for City Council District 2. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff.

This person holds District 2's seat on San Clemente's 4-member district City Council: 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. A 4-year term.

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

A sitting San Clemente councilmember and the current Mayor Pro Tem, per his own filed ballot designation ("Mayor Pro Tem") and confirmed by the city's current council roster. The city's own directory page for him lists only his name, title, and contact information -- no career-history or priorities narrative. No campaign site or news coverage describing his background or platform for this race could be reached in this pass.

Strengths

Sitting-councilmember experience plus the Mayor Pro Tem post, so a known quantity to the extent his prior council votes and committee assignments are on the public record.

Trade-offs

No independently sourced platform for this campaign -- this dataset only confirms he holds a council seat and the Mayor Pro Tem post, not what he intends for a full term in District 2.

Keep in mind

CAL-ACCESS's filer-search tool was not checked in this pass -- see Financial info.

Mark Enmeier

A sitting San Clemente councilmember, per his own filed ballot designation ("Teacher/Councilmember") and confirmed by the city's current council roster. The city's own directory page for him lists only his name, title, and contact information -- no career-history or priorities narrative. No campaign site or news coverage describing his background or platform for this race could be reached in this pass.

Strengths

Sitting-councilmember experience, so a known quantity to the extent his prior council votes are on the public record, plus a self-described teaching background.

Trade-offs

No independently sourced platform for this specific campaign -- this dataset only confirms that he currently holds a council seat, not what he has prioritized in it or intends to next term.

Keep in mind

CAL-ACCESS's filer-search tool was not checked in this pass -- see Financial info.

Source review: Mixed (74/100) · 2 cited sources

Only procedural records are cited (candidate lists, results, finance filings); no source describes the candidates, so the score is capped.

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.