stanvote.gov (opens in a new tab)Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters -- "Unofficial Candidate List," General Election Nov. 3, 2026 (generated 7:57 AM, 8/31/2026): the countywide candidate roster; its City of Turlock block names the same 7 qualified candidates across Mayor, Council District 1, and Council District 3 with matching ballot designations and incumbent flags, independently corroborating the city's own Candidate List -- cited for that cross-confirmation only, since the document's per-city footer labels don't reliably mark block boundaries
turlock.ca.us (opens in a new tab)City of Turlock -- "Elections" page: confirms the 3 open offices this cycle (Mayor, Council District 1, Council District 3), each a full 4-year term, and the July 13-Aug. 7, 2026 nomination period (extendable to Aug. 12 for an incumbent's unfilled seat)
turlock.ca.us (opens in a new tab)City of Turlock -- "Candidate List," Nov. 3, 2026 General Municipal Election (City Clerk, updated 8/7/2026 5:13 PM): the city's own certified, ballot-facing roster with exact papers-pulled/filed/verified dates for all 7 qualified candidates across the 3 open offices, and recording that a fourth District 3 filer, Gurjot Virk, pulled papers July 23 but never filed them ("Candidate Withdrew") and so is not a qualified candidate
turlock.ca.us (opens in a new tab)City of Turlock -- Public Notice, General Municipal Election Nov. 3, 2026: confirms the nomination period for Mayor, Council District 1, and Council District 3 closed Aug. 7, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. with no extension for any of the three offices
turlock.ca.us (opens in a new tab)City of Turlock -- "Turlock City Council" page: names current officeholders and term-expiration dates -- Mayor Amy Bublak (at-large, term expires 2026), Kevin Bixel (District 1, term expires 2026), Rebecka Monez (District 2, term expires 2028), Cassandra Abram (District 3, term expires 2026), Erika Phillips (District 4, term expires 2028) -- confirming which 3 seats are up this cycle and that Districts 2/4 are not, and giving short biographies for Bublak, Bixel, and Abram
turlockjournal.com (opens in a new tab)Turlock Journal -- "Local races set as candidate filing period closes": independently confirms the same 3-office, 7-candidate field, naming Bublak as the Mayor incumbent "seeking a third mayoral term" and having served on council since 2010, and identifying Reape as a health care professional and Planning Commission member
turlockjournal.com (opens in a new tab)Turlock Journal -- "Turlock mayoral race down to 3": profiles all 3 mayoral candidates -- Bublak (first elected to council in 2008, mayor since 2018, seeking a third mayoral term), Reape (nurse practitioner/physician assistant, Air Force veteran, planning commissioner since 2017), and Coelho (private investigator, Army Reserves veteran, county veterans commission) -- and reports that Jeremy Rocha withdrew from the mayoral race to run for the District 1 council seat instead
turlockjournal.com (opens in a new tab)Turlock Journal -- "Rocha joins race for mayoral seat": profiles Jeremy Rocha before his later switch to District 1 -- a bachelor's in political science and a master's in public administration from Stanislaus State, service on the Parks, Arts and Recreation Commission and the Stanislaus Council of Governments' citizen advisory committee, a prior unsuccessful 2010 council campaign, and his "Turlock Horizon" platform proposing the city adopt a charter
en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- Turlock, California: government section confirms a council-manager government, a 5-member council (an at-large Mayor plus 4 district councilmembers, all 4-year terms), and a 2020 Census population of 72,740 -- cited only for this general structure
turlock.ca.us (opens in a new tab)A partial financial-info gap: the City of Turlock's own FPPC campaign-statements page lists, for every 2026 candidate, which Form 410/460/470/497/501 disclosures they've filed and when -- reachable without the NetFile CAPTCHA gate documented elsewhere in this dataset -- but the underlying filings are scanned image PDFs with no extractable text layer, so specific dollar totals (contributions raised, expenditures, cash on hand) could not be confirmed by this session's fetch tooling for any candidate

Last updated September 1, 2026.

City of Turlock

Turlock City Council, District 1

This person holds your district's seat on Turlock's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the citywide-elected mayor and three other district councilmembers. The term is four years. Districts 2 and 4 aren't up again until 2028.

Two candidates are running for Turlock's District 1 council seat. Incumbent Kevin Bixel faces challenger Jeremy Rocha, who first ran for mayor before switching races. Whoever gets the most votes on November 3 wins, with no runoff.

This seat is one of Turlock's four district-elected City Council seats -- Districts 1 through 4 -- each a 4-year term, alongside the citywide-elected Mayor. Councilmembers vote on the city's budget, ordinances, and land use; day-to-day operations run through an appointed city manager. Districts 2 and 4 aren't up again until 2028.

Bixel has held the seat since being elected in 2022 and is a lifelong Turlock resident. Rocha initially filed to run for Mayor in mid-2026, then withdrew from that race and filed for District 1 instead -- his District 1 papers were pulled July 27 and verified August 7, the last day of the standard filing window, well after Bixel's July 14 filing.

Kevin Bixel

Kevin Bixel is Turlock's incumbent District 1 councilmember and a Physician Assistant. Bixel wants to maintain city streets, keep public safety staffing strong, and manage money responsibly. Bixel was elected to the council in 2022 and is now seeking a second term.

Jeremy Rocha

Jeremy Rocha first ran for Mayor before switching to the District 1 race. He is running on a plan called Turlock Horizon to make Turlock a charter city. He ran unsuccessfully for council in 2010.

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