# Vacaville City Council, District 4 Compare records and positions simply between John Vogel or Davonna Finley for Vacaville City Council, District 4 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. 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. - Jurisdiction: City of Vacaville - 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/vacaville-council-4 - 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: 85 out of 100 (Strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **John Vogel** — Public Works Supervisor - **Davonna Finley** — Community Relations Director A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. 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. 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 Vacaville's open District 4 seat; their ballot designation reads "Public Works Supervisor." No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record was found for them in this pass. **Strengths:** No independent source describes any record, background, or platform for them beyond their name and ballot designation on the county's certified candidate list. **Trade-offs:** Voters have no statement, platform, or public record to weigh for them 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 their candidacy. ## Davonna Finley Davonna Finley is one of two candidates for Vacaville's open District 4 seat; their ballot designation reads "Community Relations Director." Finley qualified on August 12, 2026, the extended nomination deadline. No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record was found for them in this pass. **Strengths:** No independent source describes any record, background, or platform for them beyond their name and ballot designation on the county's certified candidate list. **Trade-offs:** Voters have no statement, platform, or public record to weigh for them 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 their candidacy. ## Sources 1. [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.](https://content.solanocounty.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/CANDIDATE_FILED_LOG_Nov_3_2026_7.13.26.pdf) 2. [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.](https://www.solanocounty.gov/government/registrar-voters/current-election-information) 3. [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.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacaville,_California) 4. [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.](https://www.cityofvacaville.gov/) 5. [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.](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Chapman) 6. [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.](https://campaign.solanocounty.com/CampaignDocsWebRetrieval/) ## The rest of the ballot Vacaville City Council, District 4 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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