# Westminster City Council, District 1 Compare records and positions simply between Amy Phan West, David Johnson, or Mike Fenton for Westminster City Council, District 1 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Westminster's City Council. The council has five members. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Westminster also has a citywide elected Mayor. An appointed city manager runs day to day operations. Not all four council districts are elected the same year. Only Districts 1 and 4 have terms expiring in 2026. Districts 2 and 3 are on the other half of the cycle. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Westminster - 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/westminster-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: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 84 out of 100 (Strong), across 2 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Amy Phan West** — Councilwoman/Businessowner · Incumbent - **David Johnson** — Governing Board Member, Westminster School District - **Mike Fenton** — Educator/Entrepreneur A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Amy Phan West is running for re-election against two challengers, David Johnson and Mike Fenton. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff. This person holds District 1's seat on Westminster's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the citywide-elected Mayor and an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Not all four council districts are elected the same year -- only Districts 1 and 4 have terms expiring in 2026. The term is four years. Phan West is the incumbent, confirmed both by the county's own Proof List and independently by Wikipedia's current Westminster council roster. David Johnson's filed designation, "Governing Board Member, Westminster School District," places Johnson on a separate elected body (the school district, not the city council) -- a real current office, though no further detail on their tenure or platform was independently confirmed. No platform information was independently confirmed for any of the three candidates despite a real search effort -- a documented gap, not a claim that no such material exists. ## David Johnson Filed Johnson's candidacy under the ballot designation "Governing Board Member, Westminster School District" -- a real, separately elected local office (the K-12 school district, not the city council), though no independent source confirming how long Johnson has served or their platform for this council race was found in this pass. **Strengths:** Current experience on an elected governing board (the school district), suggesting some familiarity with public budgets and local governance. **Trade-offs:** No campaign statement or platform for this council race was found in this pass, so voters have no confirmed sense of their priorities beyond their current school-board seat. **Keep in mind:** No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for their campaign in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Amy Phan West Filed Phan West's candidacy under the ballot designation "Councilwoman/Businessowner" -- independently confirmed as accurate by Wikipedia's current Westminster government page, which names Phan West the District 1 councilmember since their 2022 election. No independently confirmed campaign site, official city biography (westminster-ca.gov returned an access error on direct fetch), or news coverage describing their record or platform was found in this pass. **Strengths:** A sitting councilmember completing a term, so voters have a known incumbent rather than an unknown quantity, even without a detailed record on hand here. **Trade-offs:** No independently confirmed platform or voting record for their current term was found in this pass, so this dataset cannot describe what they have actually done in office. **Keep in mind:** No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for their 2026 campaign in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Mike Fenton Filed Fenton's candidacy under the ballot designation "Educator/Entrepreneur." No campaign site, news coverage, or other independent source describing their background or platform could be found in this pass despite a real search effort. **Strengths:** A combined education and entrepreneurial background suggests some experience with both schools and small-business or budget management. **Trade-offs:** No campaign statement or platform was found in this pass, so voters have no confirmed sense of their priorities beyond their listed occupation, and no prior elected office was found either. **Keep in mind:** No CAL-ACCESS record was checked for their campaign in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Sources 1. [OC Registrar of Voters -- Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 -- City of Westminster section (pages 161-166 of 188): confirms Mayor (5 qualified candidates), City Council District 1 (3), and District 4 (4) as the city's three November 2026 races, each Vote for 1, with incumbent flags and every candidate's filed ballot designation -- and that the queue's flagged "5 candidates" belongs to the Mayor's race specifically](https://ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/data/candlog/GEN2026/candlog.pdf) 2. [Wikipedia's Westminster, California article, government section: confirms Westminster is a general-law, council-manager city with a directly-elected, at-large Mayor and a 4-member, district-elected City Council (4-year terms), and names the current officeholders -- Mayor Chi Charlie Nguyen (elected 2022); District 1, Amy Phan West (elected 2022); District 2, Carlos Manzo, Vice Mayor (elected 2020); District 3, Mark Nguyen (elected 2024); District 4, NamQuan Nguyen (elected 2022) -- independently cross-checking all three of this cycle's incumbents against the county's Proof List and explaining why Districts 2 and 3 aren't on this ballot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster,_California) ## The rest of the ballot Westminster 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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