City of San Juan Capistrano · Statewide General Election
San Juan Capistrano 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
- Erin Beyer — Business Operations Manager
- Jeff Moore — City of San Juan Capistrano Planning Commission Chairperson
This person holds District 2's seat on San Juan Capistrano's 5-member district City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. The Mayor is not separately elected -- the council selects one of its own members to serve a 1-year term as Mayor each December. A 4-year term.
Erin Beyer and Jeff Moore are running for San Juan Capistrano City Council District 2, an open seat -- the county's own record names Troy Bourne as the sitting officeholder, but he is not one of the 2 candidates who filed. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff.
This person holds District 2's seat on San Juan Capistrano's 5-member district City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. The Mayor is not separately elected -- the council selects one of its own members to serve a 1-year term as Mayor each December. A 4-year term.
The county's own record lists Troy Bourne as District 2's current Incumbent(s), but he did not file as a candidate for this cycle -- neither Beyer nor Moore is the incumbent, per the county's record. No source found in this pass explains why Bourne isn't seeking re-election. Beyond each candidate's filed occupation, no independent profile, platform statement, or news coverage was found for either in this pass despite a real, time-boxed search effort -- documented below as a gap, not filled in with speculation.
Erin Beyer
Filed her candidacy under the ballot designation "Business Operations Manager." No campaign site, official city biography, or news coverage describing her background or platform could be found in this pass despite a real search effort.
Strengths
A self-described business-operations background, which could be directly relevant to a council seat's budget and administrative oversight work.
Trade-offs
No campaign statement or platform was found in this pass, so voters have no confirmed sense of her priorities beyond her listed occupation, and no record of prior city office was found.
Keep in mind
CAL-ACCESS's filer-search tool was not checked in this pass -- see Financial info.
Jeff Moore
Filed his candidacy under the ballot designation "City of San Juan Capistrano Planning Commission Chairperson." That designation is self-filed with the county and could not be independently corroborated in this pass -- a real, time-boxed search for the city's own Planning Commission roster page did not locate it. No campaign site or news coverage describing his background or platform could be found in this pass despite a real search effort.
Strengths
A self-described Planning Commission chairmanship, which -- if confirmed -- means direct experience with land-use decisions a Council seat also handles.
Trade-offs
That role is sourced only to his own county filing, not the city's roster; no campaign platform was found either.
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 Juan Capistrano section (pages 148-149 of 188, downloaded directly and parsed locally with pypdf since a plain fetch returns undecodable PDF stream data): confirms Member, City Council, District 2 (2 qualified candidates) as the city's sole November 2026 race, Vote for 1, with the Incumbent(s) field naming Troy Bourne -- who is not among the 2 qualified candidates -- and each candidate's filed ballot designation
- sanjuancapistrano.org (opens in a new tab)City of San Juan Capistrano -- City Council page: confirms the 5-member district-elected council on staggered 4-year terms (District 1 Sergio Farias, District 2 Troy A. Bourne, District 3 Mayor John Campbell, District 4 Mayor Pro Tem John Taylor, District 5 Howard Hart), and that the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem are selected each December by a vote of the sitting council rather than separately elected
Last updated August 31, 2026.