# South San Francisco City Council, District 5 Eddie Flores is running uncontested for South San Francisco City Council, District 5. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on South San Francisco's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, plus appointing the city manager. The term is four years. The council selects one of its own to serve as Mayor each year in an annual rotation -- not a separately elected office. - Jurisdiction: City of South San Francisco - 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/south-san-francisco-council-5 - 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 7, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 78 out of 100 (Mixed), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Eddie Flores** — South San Francisco Councilmember, District 5 · Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for South San Francisco's District 5 council seat: incumbent Eddie Flores. This contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. The seat carries a 4-year term on South San Francisco's 5-member City Council: city ordinances, the budget, land use, and appointing the city manager, alongside four other district councilmembers. The council selects one of its own to serve as Mayor each year in a rotation -- not a separately elected office. With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has done and what to watch next. ## Eddie Flores A Salvadoran immigrant and 30-year South San Francisco resident, appointed to the council in January 2021 to fill a vacancy left by Karyl Matsumoto and elected to a full term in November 2022 -- confirmed independently by Wikipedia and by Flores's own campaign site. They served as the council-rotation Mayor in 2025 and hold an MBA from UC Berkeley's Goldman School. Their filed ballot designation, "South San Francisco Councilmember, District 5," is itself confirmation of their incumbency, since California election law only permits a ballot designation naming a current elected office if it's accurate. Their campaign cites hazard pay for grocery and retail workers and gift-card support for small businesses enacted during their term, guaranteed-basic-income advocacy, and youth investment including the $27.3 million Orange Clubhouse Complex. **Strengths:** A completed term, first by appointment and then by election, including a year as Mayor. Flores points to enacted policies like hazard pay and small business relief, not just general goals. **Trade-offs:** Running unopposed means their record faces no organized counter-argument this cycle. **Keep in mind:** They have an active 2026 campaign committee registered with the state. It is the only one among the five South San Francisco candidates. No dollar figures were available from it, so check again closer to Election Day. ## Review notes - Eddie Flores for South San Francisco City Council, District 5 -- campaign site may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [San Mateo County ACRE (Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder-Elections) -- Roster of Candidates, Qualified Candidates Only, November 3, 2026 General Election (CFMR009), dated 2026-08-25: the county's own certified candidate list, confirming both District 5 (Short Term) candidates and their ballot designations, and that Board of Education Trustee Area 2 is the only one of three expiring county trustee areas flagged 'On Ballot: Yes'](https://smcacre.gov/system/files/2026-08/52_candidateroster0825.pdf) 2. [Wikipedia -- South San Francisco, California: 'Government and politics' section names a five-member City Council elected by district to 4-year terms, with the Mayor and Vice Mayor selected by the council itself in an annual rotation rather than directly elected -- confirming why there is no Mayor contest on the November 2026 ballot. Also names the sitting council roster (Mayor Mark Addiego, Vice Mayor Mark Nagales, and Councilmembers James H. Coleman, Eddie Flores, and Buenaflor Nicolas) and dates Eddie Flores's appointment to the council to January 26, 2021, filling a vacancy left by Karyl Matsumoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_San_Francisco,_California) 3. [Eddie Flores for South San Francisco City Council, District 5 -- campaign site: a Salvadoran immigrant and 30-year South San Francisco resident, appointed to the council in 2021 and elected in 2022, served as Mayor in 2025, holds an MBA from UC Berkeley's Goldman School; platform centers on hazard pay and small-business support enacted during his term, guaranteed basic income, and youth programs including the Orange Clubhouse Complex](https://www.eddiessf.com) 4. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer search for "Eddie Flores": an ACTIVE committee, "FLORES FOR SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CITY COUNCIL 2026; EDDIE" (Filer #1492317), alongside his terminated 2022 council and 2018 school-board committees; no Form 460 detail page content was retrievable in this pass](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Eddie%20Flores) 5. [San Mateo County ACRE (Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder-Elections) -- Roster of Candidates, Qualified Candidates Only, November 3, 2026 General Election (CFMR009), dated 2026-08-25: the county's own certified candidate list, confirming South San Francisco's five contests (Council Districts 1, 3, 5; City Clerk; City Treasurer), the qualified candidate in each, and each candidate's filed ballot designation](https://smcacre.gov/system/files/2026-08/52_candidateroster0825.pdf) ## The rest of the ballot South San Francisco City Council, District 5 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. 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