# Tulare City Council, Area 2 Jocelyn Limas is running uncontested for Tulare City Council, Area 2. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would represent one of Tulare's five City Council areas. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use decisions. Tulare is a Tulare County city of about 68,875 residents. The term is four years. The council chooses the Mayor and Vice Mayor from among its own members. Those two roles serve two year terms. They are not elected separately. - Jurisdiction: City of Tulare - 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/tulare-city-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: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 82 out of 100 (Strong), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Jocelyn Limas** — Professional Land Surveyor A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate, Jocelyn Limas, qualified for Tulare City Council Area 2, so she runs unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot. The seat's sitting incumbent, Terry Anne Sayre, had held it by council appointment rather than election and did not file to run. The winner serves a 4 year term as one of five members on Tulare's City Council. The council sets city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Tulare is in Tulare County. It has about 68,875 residents. Tulare uses a council manager government. A city manager runs the day to day work. The elected council sets policy. The council picks the Mayor and Vice Mayor from among its own members every two years. They are not elected to those titles directly. The county's candidate filing document flags this contest as printed and on the ballot. It was not cancelled under the state's direct appointment rule for a single filer. So Limas will still appear before voters this November. No opponent qualified. ## Jocelyn Limas Jocelyn Limas is a Professional Land Surveyor, per the county's own candidate filing. Her own campaign site adds that she is a current City of Tulare Planning Commissioner, an educator, and a Rotary Club member who has lived in Tulare for eight years. **Strengths:** Sitting experience on the city's own Planning Commission, plus a surveying career directly relevant to the land-use decisions the council makes. **Trade-offs:** No prior elected office; her background comes from her own campaign site and the county's filing, not independent reporting. **Keep in mind:** Her stated platform is planning, growth management, public safety, and fiscal stewardship. No candidate filer entry is registered under her name with the state. ## Review notes - Jocelyn Limas's own campaign website: describes her as a Professional Land Surveyor, City of Tulare Planning Commissioner, educator, and Rotary Club member who has lived in Tulare for eight years; states a four-part platform of thoughtful planning for the city's future, responsible growth management, public safety, and financial stewardship may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [Tulare County Elections -- official "Contest/Candidate Proof List" (report CFMR001) for the November 3, 2026 General Election: within its City section, the City of Tulare shows exactly two contests -- Member, City Council Area 2 (1 qualified candidate, Jocelyn Limas; incumbent Terry Anne Sayre listed as "Appointed in Lieu" and not a candidate) and Member, City Council Area 4 (2 qualified candidates, Steve Celentano and Freddie Gonzalez; incumbent Dennis Alan Mederos likewise listed as "Appointed in Lieu" and not a candidate) -- no Mayor, Area 1, Area 3, Area 5, City Clerk, or City Treasurer contest appears anywhere in the 63-page document for the City of Tulare](https://tc-web.widen.net/s/sgnr5sgmjc/novgenuocl) 2. [Wikipedia -- "Tulare, California": used narrowly for the city's council-manager government structure (a five-member City Council; the Mayor and Vice Mayor are selected by the council from among its own members for two-year terms), its current officeholder roster (Mayor Patrick Isherwood, Vice Mayor Stephen C. Harrell, and Councilmembers Jose Sigala, Terry A. Sayre, and Dennis A. Mederos -- independently corroborating which two seats' incumbents are not on this ballot), its 1888 incorporation date, and its 2020 Census population of 68,875; does not cover the 2026 election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare,_California) 3. [A negative-result access attempt: the City of Tulare's NetFile campaign-disclosure portal (netfile.com/public/TULA/campaign) loads (HTTP 200 on direct curl request), but a direct HTML inspection shows a client-side-rendered single-page application with no static filer data anywhere in the served markup -- the same JS-gated pattern documented elsewhere in this dataset for NetFile-hosted portals. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source rather than any candidate's actual finances.](https://netfile.com/public/TULA/campaign) 4. [Jocelyn Limas's own campaign website: describes her as a Professional Land Surveyor, City of Tulare Planning Commissioner, educator, and Rotary Club member who has lived in Tulare for eight years; states a four-part platform of thoughtful planning for the city's future, responsible growth management, public safety, and financial stewardship](https://www.jocelynlimas.com) 5. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer search for "Limas": no results matching Jocelyn Limas; no campaign committee or candidate filer entry registered under her name](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Limas) ## The rest of the ballot Tulare City Council, Area 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, "Tulare City Council, Area 2 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/tulare-city-council-2 (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.