# San Clemente City Council, District 2 Compare records and positions simply between Steve Knoblock or Mark Enmeier for San Clemente City Council, District 2 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. 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. - Jurisdiction: City of San Clemente - 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/san-clemente-council-2 - 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: 74 out of 100 (Mixed), across 2 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Steve Knoblock** — Mayor Pro Tem - **Mark Enmeier** — Teacher/Councilmember A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. 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. 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 A sitting San Clemente councilmember and the current Mayor Pro Tem, per Knoblock's own filed ballot designation ("Mayor Pro Tem") and confirmed by the city's current council roster. The city's own directory page for them lists only their name, title, and contact information -- no career-history or priorities narrative. No campaign site or news coverage describing their 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 Knoblock's prior council votes and committee assignments are on the public record. **Trade-offs:** No independently sourced platform for this campaign -- this dataset only confirms Knoblock holds a council seat and the Mayor Pro Tem post, not what they intend 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 Enmeier's own filed ballot designation ("Teacher/Councilmember") and confirmed by the city's current council roster. The city's own directory page for them lists only their name, title, and contact information -- no career-history or priorities narrative. No campaign site or news coverage describing their background or platform for this race could be reached in this pass. **Strengths:** Sitting-councilmember experience, so a known quantity to the extent Enmeier's 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 Enmeier currently holds a council seat, not what they have prioritized in it or intend to next term. **Keep in mind:** CAL-ACCESS's filer-search tool was not checked in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Review notes - No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap. ## Sources 1. [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](https://ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/data/candlog/GEN2026/candlog.pdf) 2. [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](https://www.sanclemente.gov/government/city-council) ## The rest of the ballot San Clemente City Council, District 2 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. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "San Clemente City Council, District 2 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/san-clemente-council-2 (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.