# San Diego County Board of Supervisors, District 5 Compare records and positions simply between Kyle Krahel or Rebecca Jones for San Diego County Board of Supervisors, District 5 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person is one of five supervisors governing San Diego County -- the state's second-most-populous county, home to about 3.3 million residents: the county budget, land use in unincorporated areas, and county health, parks, probation, and social-service departments. The term is four years. - 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/san-diego-supervisor-5 - 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: 96 out of 100 (Very strong), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Kyle Krahel** - **Rebecca Jones** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. San Marcos Mayor Rebecca Jones and Democrat Kyle Krahel advance to a November runoff. The open District 5 seat is at stake. Jones led a five-candidate June primary with 38.3% of the vote. No incumbent is running. Jim Desmond was termed out of the board. He switched into the 48th Congressional District race instead. This person would take one of five seats on the Board of Supervisors representing North County communities including San Marcos and Escondido, deciding the county budget, unincorporated land use, and county health, parks, and social-service departments. The term is four years. Jones is campaigning on nearly two decades leading San Marcos -- the city's lowest crime rate on record, a top-rated fire department, and an internal efficiency office they created -- and wants to bring the same approach countywide. Krahel is campaigning on housing production, climate adaptation, and transit, backed by a long list of Democratic elected officials and labor unions; both frame the race as a test of which North County leadership model scales up to county government. ## Rebecca Jones Rebecca Jones has served as San Marcos's mayor for close to two decades. Before that they served as councilmember and vice mayor. They led June's five-candidate primary field with 38.3% of the vote. **Strengths:** Two decades running San Marcos. The city is near a supervisorial district in size. Under Jones it earned a Class 1 fire rating. It also earned a Fortune top-25 family-friendly ranking. **Trade-offs:** Their own list of accomplishments is framed entirely in San Marcos terms. Their materials do not address how that translates to a larger, more diverse unincorporated-area district. **Keep in mind:** Ballotpedia's endorsement tracker lists one endorser for Jones and eleven for Krahel. Those eleven include members of Congress, state legislators, and labor unions. The tracker is not comprehensive. It is the only third-party accounting available for this race. ## Kyle Krahel Kyle Krahel is a Democrat making their first run for county office. They finished second in June's primary with 22.1%. Krahel is backed by U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff and four San Diego-area members of Congress. Three state senators, two state assemblymembers, and several labor unions also back Krahel. **Strengths:** The deepest institutional backing in the race. A U.S. senator, four members of Congress, and three state senators have endorsed Krahel. So have two state assemblymembers and seven labor unions. **Trade-offs:** Krahel has no prior elected experience at any level. Their platform covers housing, climate, transit, and homelessness. It reads as a policy wish list, not a record of things they have implemented. **Keep in mind:** Their committee is titled "Krahel for San Diego County Supervisor 2026." Cal-Access separately shows an active "Krahel-Frolander for Central Committee 2028" committee under a hyphenated surname. That is worth knowing if that name appears on a future ballot. ## Sources 1. [San Diego County Registrar of Voters — certified June 2, 2026 results](https://sdvote.com/results) 2. [Ballotpedia -- San Diego County Board of Supervisors District 5 (candidate page for Rebecca Jones, with the full certified June 2, 2026 primary field): Jones (San Marcos's mayor) led a five-candidate primary with 38.3% and Kyle Krahel advanced second with 22.1% -- no incumbent, since Jim Desmond did not file for re-election](https://ballotpedia.org/Rebecca_Jones_(California)) 3. [Voice of San Diego -- "Voices of the Voters: National Politics Drives 48th Race" (Tigist Layne, June 2, 2026): identifies Jim Desmond by name as "termed-out County Supervisor Jim Desmond," who Rep. Darrell Issa tapped to run in the 48th Congressional District after Issa's own retirement, confirming Desmond is not on the November District 5 supervisor ballot](https://voiceofsandiego.org/2026/06/02/voices-of-the-voters-national-politics-drives-48th-race/) 4. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- "KRAHEL FOR SAN DIEGO COUNTY SUPERVISOR 2026; KYLE" (Filer #1482450), 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=1482450&session=2025) 5. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- "JONES FOR SUPERVISOR 2026" (Filer #1466228), status ACTIVE; no Form 460/461/450 electronically filed for the 2025-2026 cycle as of this retrieval. The committee name doesn't spell out a first name, but its filer phone number's area code is a San Diego County one, consistent with Rebecca Jones -- flagged here since this identification isn't as airtight as the other candidates'](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1466228&session=2025) ## The rest of the ballot San Diego County Board of Supervisors, District 5 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 Diego County Board of Supervisors, District 5 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/san-diego-supervisor-5 (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). 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