# Vallejo City Council, District 2

Diosdado "JR" Matulac is running uncontested for Vallejo City Council, District 2. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of six district seats on Vallejo's City Council. The council has seven members, including a directly elected Mayor. Members vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. The Council picks a Vice Mayor from its own district-elected members. Voters do not elect the Vice Mayor directly.

- Jurisdiction: City of Vallejo
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 92 out of 100 (Very strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Diosdado "JR" Matulac** — Councilmember / Restorative Specialist · Incumbent

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Vice Mayor Diosdado "JR" Matulac is the only candidate who qualified for Vallejo's District 2 council seat -- they're unopposed on the November 3 ballot.

This person would hold the District 2 seat (North Vallejo) on Vallejo's 7-member City Council -- six district councilmembers plus a directly elected, at-large Mayor governing this 126,090-resident North Bay city. The term is four years.

Both the county's own Candidate Filed Log and the City Clerk's own Final Candidate Roster mark this contest ON THE BALLOT despite the single filer -- California still lets a county print a genuinely single-candidate race rather than cancel it, which is what happens here.

## Diosdado "JR" Matulac

Matulac is Vallejo's sitting Vice Mayor and the incumbent District 2 councilmember, filing under the ballot designation "Councilmember / Restorative Specialist." The Vallejo Sun's Aug. 13, 2026 election roundup confirms directly that they "are running unopposed" in North Vallejo. No independent 2026 campaign platform, website, or additional news coverage was found for them beyond their official role and the county's and city's own filing records.

**Strengths:** Sitting Vice Mayor with a full term already served; the only candidate who qualified, confirmed independently by the county log, the city's final roster, and the Vallejo Sun.

**Trade-offs:** No stated 2026 platform, campaign site, or independent news profile was found beyond their role and designation.

**Keep in mind:** An uncontested seat still appears on your ballot -- your vote is recorded, but the outcome doesn't change.

## Sources

1. [Solano County Registrar of Voters -- "CANDIDATE FILED LOG - November 3, 2026 GENERAL ELECTION" (AS OF 8/20/2026, printed 8/27/2026): a materially updated republication, under the same filename already on file for this dataset's county-level Solano shard, of the July version the local-authoring queue's original estimate was drawn from. Its CITY OF VALLEJO section flags all three district contests ON THE BALLOT: District 2 with exactly one qualified candidate, Diosdado "JR" Matulac (Incumbent, "Councilmember / Restorative Specialist"); District 4 with Charles Palmares (Incumbent), Brianna Rogers, and Chris Platzer qualified, plus Roxann Reyes marked "DID NOT COMPLETE FILING"; District 5 with Tara Beasley Stansberry, Tanya Hall, and Rebekah Truemper qualified, plus incumbent Peter Bregenzer marked "DID NOT FILE." No Vallejo Mayor section appears anywhere in the document](https://content.solanocounty.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/CANDIDATE_FILED_LOG_Nov_3_2026_7.13.26.pdf)
2. [City of Vallejo City Clerk -- "FINAL CANDIDATE ROSTER: Candidates for Vallejo Councilmembers in Districts 2, 4 & 5, November 3, 2026" (dated 8/12/26, the close of District 5's extended nomination period): independently corroborates the county log's qualified roster and adds filing-mechanics detail -- Roxann Reyes (District 4) was issued supplemental nomination papers 8/6-8/7/26 but has no corresponding filed date, unlike the other three District 4 candidates, who each show a complete issue-and-file date pair; Tara Beasley Stansberry (District 5) needed and filed a supplemental nomination petition 7/29-7/30/26. Carries no Mayor section at all -- its own title names only Districts 2, 4, and 5](https://www.cityofvallejo.net/UserFiles/Servers/Server_16925367/Image/City%20Clerks%20Office/FINAL%20CANDIDATE%20ROSTER%20081226.pdf)
3. [City of Vallejo -- its own "Mayor & City Council" page: names the sitting seven-member Council by district and term -- Mayor Andrea Sorce (at-large, term expires January 2029), Vice Mayor Diosdado "JR" Matulac (District 2), Alexander Matias (District 1), Tonia Lediju PhD (District 3), Charles Palmares (District 4), Peter Bregenzer (District 5), Helen-Marie Gordon (District 6) -- and confirms Districts 2, 4, and 5 are the three seats with terms expiring January 2027, the seats up this cycle. States councilmembers are "elected by-district" while the Mayor is "directly elected," both to 4-year terms, with a two-consecutive-term charter limit](https://www.cityofvallejo.net/our_city/city_government/mayor_city_council)
4. [Vallejo Sun, Aug. 13, 2026, "Several incumbents decline to run again in November elections for Vallejo, Benicia" (by Ryan Geller and Gretchen Zimmermann): profiles all three Vallejo council races with real, checkable biographical detail for all seven qualified candidates -- confirms Matulac unopposed in District 2; Palmares's Army career and traffic-calming record, Rogers's Georgetown degree and board seats, and Platzer's Coast Guard license and 2020 Planning Commission resignation ("after he was seen drinking beer and threw his cat during a public Zoom meeting") in District 4; and Hall's, Beasley Stansberry's, and Truemper's civic roles, 2022 election results, and platforms in the open District 5 seat](https://www.vallejosun.com/several-incumbents-decline-to-run-again-in-november-elections-for-vallejo-benicia/)
5. [Wikipedia -- "Vallejo, California": used narrowly for the city's 2020 Census population (126,090) and its general district-based council-manager structure; does not cover the 2026 election, and its claim that the Vice Mayor title is "currently held by the District 5 representative" is stale, contradicted by the city's own current roster (District 2's Matulac), so it is not used](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallejo,_California)
6. [A negative-result campaign-finance search: California's Cal-Access campaign-finance search (cal-access.sos.ca.gov) returned only a blocked bot-verification shell for a direct filer search against each of the seven qualified Vallejo candidates this session, the same recurring bot-detection failure mode documented elsewhere in this dataset. Cal-Access also covers only state-level committees, not local city-council candidates, in any case. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for these three contests, not any candidate's actual finances](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Palmares)

## The rest of the ballot

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