# San Juan Capistrano City Council, District 2 Compare records and positions simply between Erin Beyer or Jeff Moore for San Juan Capistrano City Council, District 2 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds the District 2 seat on San Juan Capistrano's City Council. The council has five district seats. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. An appointed city manager runs day to day operations. The Mayor is not separately elected. Each December, the council picks a Mayor from among its own members. That Mayor serves a one year term. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of San Juan Capistrano - 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-juan-capistrano-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 - **Erin Beyer** — Business Operations Manager - **Jeff Moore** — City of San Juan Capistrano Planning Commission Chairperson A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. 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. They vote on 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. The term is four years. 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 their candidacy under the ballot designation "Business Operations Manager." No campaign site, official city biography, or news coverage describing their 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 their priorities beyond their 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 their 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 their 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 their 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. ## 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 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](https://ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/data/candlog/GEN2026/candlog.pdf) 2. [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](https://www.sanjuancapistrano.org/318/City-Council) ## The rest of the ballot San Juan Capistrano 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 Juan Capistrano City Council, District 2 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/san-juan-capistrano-council-2 (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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