content.solanocounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Solano County Registrar of Voters -- "Candidate Filed Log - November 3, 2026 General Election" (AS OF 8/20/2026; page generated 8/27/2026 9:31 AM; re-downloaded fresh this session, not reused from the county-level shard's own 2026-08-29 retrieval): the "City of Vacaville" section lists Mayor and City Council Districts 2, 4, and 6, each candidate's ballot designation, incumbent flag, and filing dates -- given a jurisdiction-prefixed key distinct from the county-level shard's own "solano-candidate-log-2026" citation of this same document.
solanocounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Solano County Registrar of Voters -- "Current Election Information" page, checked live: links the identical Candidate Filed Log PDF under the same "(as of 08/20/2026)" label, confirming no newer version had been posted since the county-level shard's own 2026-08-29 retrieval of the same file.
en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- Vacaville, California: cited for the city's structure ("a seven-member City Council with six elected by district, and one mayor elected at large," each serving a four-year term, with Mayor and Districts 2, 4, 6 up in gubernatorial-election years and Districts 1, 3, 5 up in presidential-election years), current Mayor John Carli (elected 2022), and the 2020 Census population (102,386) -- its Government section carries no detail on a city manager, charter status, or term limits, so none of that is asserted here.
cityofvacaville.gov (opens in a new tab)A documented site-access gap, not a claim about any candidate's background or the city's actual structure: the City of Vacaville's own site (cityofvacaville.gov) returned HTTP 403 to every automated fetch attempt this session -- the root domain and every guessed elections/city-clerk path -- preventing this dataset from reading the city's own notice of election, council term-limit rule, government form, or campaign-finance disclosure location.
cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result campaign-finance search: California's Cal-Access filer search (cal-access.sos.ca.gov) returned a blank result page for every one of the eight candidates' names queried this session. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for these candidates, not any of their actual finances; Cal-Access also covers only state-level committees, not local city-council or mayoral candidates, in any case.
campaign.solanocounty.com (opens in a new tab)Solano County's own "CampaignDocs eRetrieval" campaign-disclosure portal home page: states directly that its database "does not include state-level filings (directed to Cal-Access) or city filings (requiring contact with individual City Clerks)" -- confirming this county-run portal does not cover any Vacaville city candidate regardless of the access gap documented above.

Last updated September 1, 2026.

City of Vacaville

Vacaville City Council, District 4

Council members vote on Vacaville's budget, ordinances, and land use. The Mayor is elected separately, citywide. This is one of three district seats on this November's ballot. Those seats align with gubernatorial-cycle election years. Districts 1, 3, and 5 align with presidential-cycle years and aren't up now. Vacaville elects six of its seven council seats by district, to four-year terms. Only the Mayor is elected at large. Vacaville's population is 102,386. This dataset could not confirm the city's term-limit rules or its form of government.

Sarah Chapman is the District 4 Councilmember now. She did not file to run again. She is running for the open Mayor's seat instead. Two candidates qualified for her seat. They are John Vogel and Davonna Finley. Whoever gets more votes on November 3 wins. There is no runoff.

Councilmembers vote on Vacaville's city budget, ordinances, and land use. A separately elected citywide Mayor serves with them. This seat is one of three district council seats on this November's ballot. The others are Districts 2 and 6. Those three seats are elected in governor election years. Districts 1, 3, and 5 are elected in presidential years and are not up this November. Vacaville elects six of its seven council seats by district. Each district seat runs for a four-year term. Only the Mayor is at-large. Council term limit rules and the city's form of government could not be confirmed. The City of Vacaville's own site blocked every automated request.

Sarah Chapman is this district's incumbent. She did not file to keep her District 4 seat. The county's Candidate Filed Log lists her as DID NOT FILE here. The same document lists her as a Mayor candidate. So she moved to the open Mayor's race instead. Both remaining District 4 candidates qualified before the extended August 12 nomination deadline. The county's log marks this contest ON THE BALLOT. It is not an uncontested appointment, so the race is settled and truly contested.

John Vogel

John Vogel is one of two candidates for the open District 4 seat. Their ballot title is Public Works Supervisor. No news profile, campaign site, or civic record was found for them.

Davonna Finley

Davonna Finley is one of two candidates for the open District 4 seat. Their ballot title is Community Relations Director. Finley qualified on August 12, 2026. That was the extended nomination deadline. No news profile, campaign site, or civic record was found for them.

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