# Selma City Council, District 3

Compare records and positions simply between Sarah Guerra or Louis Franco for Selma City Council, District 3 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of four district seats on Selma's City Council. Selma also has a separately, citywide elected Mayor. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. Selma is a Fresno County city of about 24,500 residents. The term is four years. The five-member Council picks a Mayor Pro Tem from its own district members. Voters do not choose that title directly. Selma has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer.

- Jurisdiction: City of Selma
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 86 out of 100 (Strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Sarah Guerra** — Incumbent
- **Louis Franco** — Electronic Technician

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Incumbent Sarah Guerra, Selma's Mayor Pro Tem, faces challenger Louis Franco for the District 3 council seat -- whoever gets the most votes wins.

This person would hold one of four district seats on Selma's City Council, alongside a separately, citywide elected Mayor. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Fresno County city of about 24,500 residents. The term is four years. The five-member Council selects a Mayor Pro Tem from among its own district members rather than voters choosing that title directly, and Selma has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer.

Fresno County's own post-filing records and Wikipedia's own Selma article both independently confirm Guerra currently holds the Council-selected Mayor Pro Tem title. This dataset found no independent reporting comparing the two candidates or covering this race.

## Sarah Guerra

Sarah Guerra is the incumbent and Selma's Mayor Pro Tem, seeking another Council term; the filed ballot designation is "Incumbent." Robertson Insurance's own site names Guerra as Vice President of the same Selma agency where Mayor Scott Robertson -- also on this cycle's ballot -- serves as CEO, a professional connection consistent with Guerra's filed contact email ("RGINSURANCE@SBCGLOBAL.NET"). This dataset found no independent biographical detail beyond the county's own filing record, the city's own Council roster, and this insurance-agency connection.

**Strengths:** Sitting Council experience plus selection by Guerra's Council colleagues as Mayor Pro Tem, confirmed independently by the city's own roster and Wikipedia.

**Trade-offs:** This dataset found no independent reporting or biography evaluating Guerra's Council record, only the fact of Guerra's continued service and title.

**Keep in mind:** Guerra and Mayor Scott Robertson work at the same family insurance agency -- a real professional connection worth knowing, not itself a claim about either officeholder's conduct.

## Louis Franco

Louis Franco filed for the District 3 seat with the ballot designation "Electronic Technician" and qualified for the ballot Aug. 3, 2026, near the close of the nomination period. This dataset found no independent biographical detail (background, platform, or campaign materials) for Franco beyond the county's own candidate filing record.

**Strengths:** A first-time candidacy gives voters a fresh choice against an incumbent Mayor Pro Tem.

**Trade-offs:** No prior elected or appointed public service found in this dataset, and no independent reporting evaluates Franco's background.

**Keep in mind:** Filed near the close of the nomination period; no campaign website or social-media presence was found.

## Review notes

- Robertson Insurance's own site: a family-owned Selma agency "celebrating 20 years of service" at 1948 High St, Suite 100 -- names Scott Robertson as CEO, holding insurance credentials CPCU, ARM, AAI, AU, AIS, and CRIS, and separately names Sarah Guerra, Selma's District 3 incumbent and Mayor Pro Tem, as the agency's Vice President -- an independently found professional connection between the two incumbents, consistent with Guerra's own county filing (contact email "RGINSURANCE@SBCGLOBAL.NET"), reported here as a biographical fact about their shared employer. may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

## Sources

1. [Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR009 "Candidate List" for the Nov. 3, 2026 Consolidated Statewide General Election (printed 8/12/2026 5:37:13PM, post-filing-deadline): lists Selma's three contests -- Mayor (5195), City Council District 2 (5197), and City Council District 3 (5198) -- with each qualified candidate's filed ballot designation: Naripjeet "Narip" Josan ("Business Owner"), Scott Robertson ("Incumbent"), Rosemary Alanis ("Secretary/Chaplain"), and Theresa H. Guzman Salas ("Retired HR Technician") for Mayor; John Trujillo ("Incumbent") and Bryan Ramirez ("Food Service Assistant") for District 2; and Louis Franco ("Electronic Technician") and Sarah Guerra ("Incumbent") for District 3](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/CandidateList.pdf)
2. [Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR001 "Contest/Candidate Proof List," filtered to Contests on Ballot, for the Nov. 3, 2026 election (printed 8/18/2026 8:39:55AM): independently confirms the same three Selma contests, each flagged ON BALLOT with the identical eight-candidate field, and separately names Scott Robertson and Sarah Gallardo Guerra as each reaching their current seats "Elected" (not appointed)](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/Contests%20on%20Ballot%20with%20Qualified%20Candidates.pdf)
3. [City of Selma -- "City Council" page: names the sitting Council with terms -- Mayor Scott Robertson (at-large, term expires Nov. 2026), District 1 Jim Avalos (term expires Nov. 2028), District 2 John Trujillo (term expires Nov. 2026), District 3 Sarah Guerra (Mayor Pro Tem, term expires Nov. 2026), and District 4 Santiago Oceguera (term expires Nov. 2028) -- confirming Selma directly, separately elects its Mayor citywide rather than the Council choosing one of its own members, unlike Coalinga and Kingsburg elsewhere in this dataset](https://www.cityofselma.com/government/city_council)
4. [City of Selma -- homepage: describes Selma as "a rapidly growing community of over 24,000, located in the central San Joaquin Valley," using the tagline "Where Good Things Grow"](https://www.cityofselma.com/)
5. [Wikipedia's Selma, California article: population 24,674 (2020 census), 24,505 (2024 estimate), incorporated March 15, 1893; independently names Scott Robertson as Mayor and Sarah Guerra as Mayor Pro Tem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma,_California)
6. [A negative-result campaign-finance search: California's Cal-Access candidate/filer search returned only an empty, unrenderable page for every one of Selma's eight candidates in every attempt this session -- the same recurring bot-detection failure mode already documented elsewhere in this dataset (e.g. Danville, Coalinga, Kingsburg). City council races of this size are in any case filed with the City Clerk rather than the state, and Selma's own site posts no online campaign-finance disclosure portal. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for this contest, not any candidate's actual finances](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/list.aspx)
7. [Robertson Insurance's own site: a family-owned Selma agency "celebrating 20 years of service" at 1948 High St, Suite 100 -- names Scott Robertson as CEO, holding insurance credentials CPCU, ARM, AAI, AU, AIS, and CRIS, and separately names Sarah Guerra, Selma's District 3 incumbent and Mayor Pro Tem, as the agency's Vice President -- an independently found professional connection between the two incumbents, consistent with Guerra's own county filing (contact email "RGINSURANCE@SBCGLOBAL.NET"), reported here as a biographical fact about their shared employer](https://robertsoninsurance.net)

## The rest of the ballot

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