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City of Vacaville · Statewide General Election

Vacaville City Council, District 4

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On the ballot

Councilmembers vote on Vacaville's city budget, ordinances, and land use, alongside a separately, citywide-elected Mayor. This seat is one of three district council seats (Districts 2, 4, and 6) on this November's ballot -- the half of the council whose elections align with gubernatorial-cycle years, per Wikipedia's independent confirmation of the city's staggered structure. Districts 1, 3, and 5 align with presidential-cycle years instead and are not up this November. Vacaville elects six of its seven council seats by district, to 4-year terms; only the Mayor is at-large. Population 102,386 per the 2020 Census. This dataset could not independently confirm council term-limit rules or the city's form of government (e.g., whether an appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations), since the City of Vacaville's own site returned an access block to every automated fetch attempt in this pass.

Sitting District 4 Councilmember Sarah Chapman did not file for reelection here -- she is running for the open Mayor's seat instead (see the Mayor contest). Two candidates qualified for her open seat: John Vogel and Davonna Finley. Whichever candidate gets more votes on November 3 wins the seat outright -- no runoff.

Councilmembers vote on Vacaville's city budget, ordinances, and land use, alongside a separately, citywide-elected Mayor. This seat is one of three district council seats (Districts 2, 4, and 6) on this November's ballot -- the half of the council whose elections align with gubernatorial-cycle years. Districts 1, 3, and 5 align with presidential-cycle years instead and are not up this November. Vacaville elects six of its seven council seats by district, to 4-year terms; only the Mayor is at-large. This dataset could not independently confirm council term-limit rules or the city's form of government, since the City of Vacaville's own site returned an access block to every automated fetch attempt in this pass.

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

John Vogel

John Vogel is one of two candidates for Vacaville's open District 4 seat; his ballot designation reads "Public Works Supervisor." No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record was found for him in this pass.

Strengths

No independent source describes any record, background, or platform for him beyond his name and ballot designation on the county's certified candidate list.

Trade-offs

Voters have no statement, platform, or public record to weigh for him beyond that filing.

Keep in mind

A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass -- Vacaville's own site was unreachable throughout -- not a judgment about his candidacy.

Davonna Finley

Davonna Finley is one of two candidates for Vacaville's open District 4 seat; her ballot designation reads "Community Relations Director." She qualified on August 12, 2026, the extended nomination deadline. No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record was found for her in this pass.

Strengths

No independent source describes any record, background, or platform for her beyond her name and ballot designation on the county's certified candidate list.

Trade-offs

Voters have no statement, platform, or public record to weigh for her beyond that filing.

Keep in mind

A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass -- Vacaville's own site was unreachable throughout -- not a judgment about her candidacy.

Source review: Strong (85/100) · 6 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • 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.