# Selma Mayor Compare records and positions simply between Naripjeet "Narip" Josan, Rosemary Alanis, Theresa H. Guzman Salas, and 1 more for Selma Mayor at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would serve as Selma's Mayor. The Mayor is one of five City Council seats. Unlike the other four, the Mayor is elected citywide, not by district. The job covers city laws, the budget, and land use. Selma is a Fresno County city of about 24,500 residents. The term is four years. The Council picks a Mayor Pro Tem from its 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 - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/selma-mayor - 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: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 84 out of 100 (Strong), across 9 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Naripjeet "Narip" Josan** — Business Owner - **Rosemary Alanis** — Secretary/Chaplain - **Theresa H. Guzman Salas** — Retired HR Technician - **Scott Robertson** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Mayor Scott Robertson faces challenger Narip Josan for Selma's directly elected Mayor. Two more candidates are also running, Rosemary Alanis and Theresa H. Guzman Salas. This guide could not independently source those two. 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. The job covers city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Fresno County city of about 24,500 residents. The term is four years. 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 they call 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. The agency is marking 20 years in business. Its own site says he holds the insurance industry credentials CPCU, ARM, AAI, AU, AIS, and CRIS. That same site names Sarah Guerra as the agency's Vice President. Guerra is Selma's District 3 councilmember and Mayor Pro Tem. She is also up for reelection this cycle. That is a genuine professional connection between the two incumbents. Robertson's own campaign site could not be fetched because of a TLS certificate error. So his stated platform is unconfirmed beyond his filed ballot designation of "Incumbent." **Strengths:** A full term as sitting Mayor. He also has a two-decade local business record confirmed by his own company's site. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting evaluating his record in office was found. His own campaign site was unreachable. 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. That is a real professional connection worth knowing. It is not itself a claim about either officeholder's conduct. ## Naripjeet "Narip" Josan Naripjeet "Narip" Josan filed for Mayor with the ballot designation "Business Owner." Josan's own campaign site describes them as a 25-year Selma resident. It says their two children attend Selma Unified schools. Josan holds master's degrees in business administration and public health. They serve on the district's School Site Council. They also hold an oversight role for two local bond measures, L and O. Josan is campaigning on a platform they call JOSAN. That stands for Jobs, Opportunities, Safety, Amenities and Affordability, and Neighborhoods. **Strengths:** A quarter-century in Selma, with stated roles on the School Site Council and two bond-oversight committees. Josan's dual graduate degrees are relevant to municipal finance and public health. **Trade-offs:** No prior elected office. Every biographical detail here comes from Josan's own campaign site. No independent reporting was found to corroborate or evaluate it. **Keep in mind:** Josan is a challenger to a sitting Mayor with an established local business. They lack Robertson's incumbency record. They are also untested by four years in the seat. ## Rosemary Alanis Rosemary Alanis filed for Mayor with the ballot designation "Secretary/Chaplain." Alanis qualified for the ballot July 31, 2026. No independent biography, campaign website, or news coverage was found for Alanis. Fresno County's own candidate filing record is the only source. **Strengths:** A stated chaplaincy background could reflect community-facing experience. It could not be independently verified or expanded on. **Trade-offs:** No prior elected or appointed public service was found. No independent reporting evaluates Alanis's background. **Keep in mind:** No campaign website or social-media presence was found. No platform could be confirmed beyond Alanis's filed occupation. ## Theresa H. Guzman Salas Theresa H. Guzman Salas filed for Mayor with the ballot designation "Retired HR Technician." Guzman Salas qualified for the ballot Aug. 4, 2026, near the close of the nomination period. No independent biography, campaign website, or news coverage was found for Guzman Salas. Fresno County's own candidate filing record is the only source. **Strengths:** A stated human-resources background could bring personnel and administrative experience to city government. It could not be independently verified or expanded on. **Trade-offs:** No prior elected or appointed public service was found. No independent reporting evaluates Guzman Salas's background. **Keep in mind:** Guzman Salas filed near the close of the nomination period. No campaign website or social-media presence was found. ## Review notes - 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. ## 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. [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)](https://josanforselma.com) 8. [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) 9. [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](https://scott4selma.com) ## The rest of the ballot Selma Mayor 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, "Selma Mayor — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/selma-mayor (sources last retrieved September 1, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.