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Wildomar City Council, District 5

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City of Wildomar

Wildomar City Council, District 5

This person holds your district's seat on Wildomar's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. Wildomar has no separately elected Mayor -- the council selects a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from among its own district-elected members each year.

Incumbent Ashlee DePhillippo faces challenger Pedro Magdaleno for Wildomar's District 5 council seat. It is the only contested Wildomar council race on this ballot. Districts 1 and 3 each drew only one candidate, the incumbent, so they are uncontested.

The winner holds one of five district seats on Wildomar's City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, over a four-year term. Wildomar has no separately elected Mayor or City Treasurer -- the council selects a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from among its own district-elected members each year, and an appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations.

Districts 1 and 3 each drew only a single qualified nominee -- incumbents Carlos Marquez and Joseph Morabito, respectively -- triggering a state law (Elections Code Section 10229) that lets a city seat an unopposed nominee without holding an election. The city's own notice said the council would decide by August 18, 2026 whether to appoint them outright or let a token, single-candidate election proceed; this research could not confirm which path the council took, but either way voters in those two districts face no real choice between candidates, so only District 5 appears on this ballot. DePhillippo's record here comes from their own filed Candidate Statement and an independent 2022 news report; Magdaleno filed no statement, and no independent profile of them was found in this research pass.

Ashlee DePhillippo

Ashlee DePhillippo is the incumbent, a small business owner and mother of four. Their record includes removing 94 illegally stored trailers on Palomar Street. They were appointed to the seat in March 2022 and won it outright that November.

Pedro Magdaleno

Pedro Magdaleno is a challenger for the seat. They qualified for the ballot on August 7, 2026, the last filing day. They filed no candidate statement, and no background or platform for them was found.

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

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