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City of Selma · Statewide General Election

Selma Mayor

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

This person would serve as Selma's Mayor: one of five seats on the City Council, but elected separately and citywide rather than by district. City ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Fresno County city of about 24,500 residents. A 4-year term. The Council's other four seats are chosen by district, and the sitting Council selects a Mayor Pro Tem from among its own district members rather than voters choosing that title directly; Selma has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer.

Incumbent Mayor Scott Robertson faces challenger Narip Josan plus two candidates this dataset could not independently source, Rosemary Alanis and Theresa H. Guzman Salas, for Selma's directly elected Mayor -- whoever gets the most votes wins.

This person would serve as Selma's Mayor: one of five seats on the City Council, but elected separately and citywide rather than by district. City ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Fresno County city of about 24,500 residents. A 4-year term. The Council's other four seats are chosen by district, and the sitting Council selects a Mayor Pro Tem from among its own district members rather than voters choosing that title directly; Selma has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer.

Robertson is the sitting Mayor, running for another term as CEO of a family insurance agency he leads with the District 3 incumbent, Sarah Guerra, as Vice President -- also on this cycle's ballot. Josan, a 25-year Selma resident with two children in the local school district, is campaigning on a platform he calls JOSAN (Jobs, Opportunities, Safety, Amenities/Affordability, Neighborhoods). This dataset found no independent reporting, campaign website, or stated platform for Alanis or Guzman Salas beyond their filed ballot designations.

Scott Robertson

Scott Robertson is the incumbent Mayor, seeking another term. He is CEO of Robertson Insurance, a family-owned Selma agency marking 20 years in business, holding the insurance industry credentials CPCU, ARM, AAI, AU, AIS, and CRIS per the agency's own site. That same site names Sarah Guerra -- Selma's District 3 councilmember and Mayor Pro Tem, also up for reelection this cycle -- as the agency's Vice President, a genuine professional connection between the two incumbents. Robertson's own campaign site could not be fetched this session (a TLS certificate error), so this dataset could not independently confirm his stated platform beyond his filed ballot designation, "Incumbent."

Strengths

A full term as sitting Mayor, plus a two-decade local business record confirmed by his own company's site.

Trade-offs

This dataset found no independent reporting evaluating his record in office, and his own campaign site was unreachable this session, so his stated platform for a second term is unconfirmed here.

Keep in mind

He and District 3 incumbent Sarah Guerra work at the same family insurance agency -- a real professional connection worth knowing, not itself a claim about either officeholder's conduct.

Naripjeet "Narip" Josan

Naripjeet "Narip" Josan filed for Mayor with the ballot designation "Business Owner." His own campaign site describes him as a 25-year Selma resident whose two children attend Selma Unified schools, holding master's degrees in business administration and public health, serving on the district's School Site Council and in an oversight role for two local bond measures (L and O), and campaigning on a platform he calls JOSAN: Jobs, Opportunities, Safety, Amenities/Affordability, and Neighborhoods.

Strengths

A quarter-century of Selma residency, stated civic roles on the School Site Council and two bond-oversight committees, and dual graduate degrees relevant to municipal finance and public health.

Trade-offs

No prior elected office, and every biographical detail here comes from his own campaign site -- this dataset found no independent reporting to corroborate or evaluate it.

Keep in mind

As a challenger to a sitting Mayor with an established local business, he lacks Robertson's incumbency record but is also untested by four years in the seat.

Rosemary Alanis

Rosemary Alanis filed for Mayor with the ballot designation "Secretary/Chaplain" and qualified for the ballot July 31, 2026. This dataset found no independent biography, campaign website, or news coverage for her beyond Fresno County's own candidate filing record.

Strengths

A stated chaplaincy background could reflect community-facing experience, though this dataset could not independently verify or expand on it.

Trade-offs

No prior elected or appointed public service found in this dataset, and no independent reporting evaluates her background.

Keep in mind

No campaign website or social-media presence was found; this dataset could not confirm any platform beyond her filed occupation.

Theresa H. Guzman Salas

Theresa H. Guzman Salas filed for Mayor with the ballot designation "Retired HR Technician" and qualified for the ballot Aug. 4, 2026, near the close of the nomination period. This dataset found no independent biography, campaign website, or news coverage for her beyond Fresno County's own candidate filing record.

Strengths

A stated human-resources background could bring personnel and administrative experience to city government, though this dataset could not independently verify or expand on it.

Trade-offs

No prior elected or appointed public service found in this dataset, and no independent reporting evaluates her background.

Keep in mind

Filed near the close of the nomination period; no campaign website or social-media presence was found.

Source review: Strong (84/100) · 9 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: Narip Josan's own campaign site for Selma Mayor: describes him as a 25-year Selma resident with a son and daughter in Selma Unified schools, dual master's degrees (business administration and public health), service on the district's School Site Council and in an oversight role for Measures L and O, and a stated "JOSAN" platform (Jobs, Opportunities, Safety, Amenities/Affordability, Neighborhoods). and 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 they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

  • www2.fresnocountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)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
  • www2.fresnocountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)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)
  • cityofselma.com (opens in a new tab)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
  • cityofselma.com (opens in a new tab)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"
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)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
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)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
  • josanforselma.com (opens in a new tab)Narip Josan's own campaign site for Selma Mayor: describes him as a 25-year Selma resident with a son and daughter in Selma Unified schools, dual master's degrees (business administration and public health), service on the district's School Site Council and in an oversight role for Measures L and O, and a stated "JOSAN" platform (Jobs, Opportunities, Safety, Amenities/Affordability, Neighborhoods)
  • robertsoninsurance.net (opens in a new tab)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
  • scott4selma.com (opens in a new tab)A negative-result fetch: Mayor Scott Robertson's own campaign site (scott4selma.com), the website he filed with the county, returns a TLS hostname/certificate mismatch against an unrelated backend (*.secureserversites.net) in every attempt this session -- the same recurring small-city campaign-site failure mode already documented elsewhere in this dataset. Documents the absence of a reachable source for his own stated platform, not any claim about its content

Last updated September 1, 2026.