# Wasco City Council, District 1 Compare records and positions simply between Aubrey E. Wimberly or Gilberto Reyna for Wasco City Council, District 1 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would represent District 1 on Wasco's five-member City Council. Wasco is a general-law Kern County city. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. The Council picks the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore from its members each year. Voters do not elect those titles directly. Wasco's other seat up this cycle, District 3, was cancelled. Its only candidate was appointed instead under California Elections Code Section 10229. - Jurisdiction: City of Wasco - 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/wasco-council-1 - 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: 91 out of 100 (Very strong), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Aubrey E. Wimberly** — Probation Supervisor - **Gilberto Reyna** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Mayor Pro Tem Gilberto Reyna, first elected to Wasco's District 1 City Council seat in December 2016, faces a single challenger, probation supervisor Aubrey E. Wimberly, on November 3. This person would represent District 1 on Wasco's five-member City Council. Wasco is a general-law Kern County city of roughly 28,000 residents. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. The Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore are not directly elected by voters. The Council picks them from among its own members each year. That is per the city's own Elections and Voter Information page. Wasco's other seat up this cycle, District 3, drew only its sitting incumbent, Valentin Medina, as a filer. The City Council's August 18, 2026 meeting packet shows a staff recommendation to appoint Medina. It would cancel that election under California Elections Code Section 10229. That avoids a vote nobody else is contesting. The outcome was not confirmed as formally adopted. It is treated as resolved given the meeting's sole substantive purpose. Two names are on the ballot for one seat. The candidate with more votes wins. There is no ranked-choice voting and no runoff. No independent reporting comparing the two candidates or covering the race was found. Bakersfield.com's own site search was rate-limited with an HTTP 429 error in the only attempt. ## Gilberto Reyna The incumbent, seeking another term; their filed ballot designation is "Incumbent." They have held the District 1 seat since first being elected in December 2016 and currently serve as the Council's Mayor Pro Tem, per the city's own City Council page. This dataset found no further independent biographical detail (occupation, background, or platform) for them. **Strengths:** They have served nearly a decade on the Council since first being elected in December 2016. Their Council colleagues now pick them as Mayor Pro Tem. The city's own City Council page confirms this. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting or biography evaluating their record in office was found. They state no occupation or platform beyond their incumbency. **Keep in mind:** No campaign site, social-media presence, or local news coverage of their campaign could be found. The certified candidate document shows they did not file a Candidate Statement for this race. ## Aubrey E. Wimberly A challenger to the incumbent; their filed ballot designation is "Probation Supervisor." This dataset found no independent biographical detail (where they work, background, or platform) for them beyond the city's own certified candidate filing. **Strengths:** They state an occupation in probation supervision. That could bring criminal-justice-system experience to the Council. This could not be independently verified or expanded on. **Trade-offs:** No campaign materials, endorsements, or independent coverage were found for them. **Keep in mind:** They are not an incumbent, so they have no council voting record to evaluate. The certified candidate document shows they did not file a Candidate Statement for this race. ## Sources 1. [The City of Wasco's own "Elections & Voter Information" page: states Wasco is a general-law city with a five-member Council, each directly elected by district; the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore are selected by the Council from among its own members each year rather than directly elected. Names District 1 and District 3 (full terms) as the two seats up for the November 3, 2026 election, with Districts 2, 4, and 5 not up until November 2028](https://www.cityofwasco.org/403/Elections-Voter-Information) 2. [The City of Wasco's own "2026 Certified Candidates" document (a PDF whose embedded metadata shows it was created August 12, 2026 by City Clerk Roberta F. Gafford): lists District 1's two qualified candidates -- Gilberto Reyna ("Incumbent") and Aubrey E. Wimberly ("Probation Supervisor") -- and District 3's single qualified candidate, Valentin Medina ("Incumbent"), with no opponent](https://www.cityofwasco.org/DocumentCenter/View/3404) 3. [The City of Wasco City Council's own Regular Meeting agenda packet for August 18, 2026 (97 pages, read with PyMuPDF): New Business item 14b, "Consideration of Adopting a Resolution Appointing Valentin Medina to the Office of City Council Member for District 3 Pursuant to California Elections Code Section 10229, Canceling the Election for District 3, and Directing that the Election for District 1 Proceed as Scheduled." No post-meeting minutes or a signed, adopted resolution confirming the vote's outcome were reachable this session](https://www.cityofwasco.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182026-586) 4. [The City of Wasco's own City Council roster page: names Gilberto Reyna as Mayor Pro Tem, District 1, first elected December 2016, current term expiring November 2026; and Valentin Medina, District 3, first elected November 2022, current term also expiring November 2026](https://www.cityofwasco.org/223/City-Council) 5. [A negative-result campaign-finance search: California's Cal-Access campaign-finance search (cal-access.sos.ca.gov) returned only an empty, unrenderable page for a direct query this session, the same recurring bot-detection failure mode already documented elsewhere in this dataset. Cal-Access covers only state-level committees in any case, not local city-council candidates](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/list.aspx) ## The rest of the ballot Wasco City Council, District 1 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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