# Wildomar City Council, District 5 Compare records and positions simply between Ashlee DePhillippo or Pedro Magdaleno for Wildomar City Council, District 5 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. 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. - Jurisdiction: City of Wildomar - 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/wildomar-council-5 - 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 3, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 92 out of 100 (Very strong), across 8 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Ashlee DePhillippo** — Incumbent - **Pedro Magdaleno** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Ashlee DePhillippo faces challenger Pedro Magdaleno for Wildomar's District 5 City Council seat. It is the only Wildomar council race on this ballot. Districts 1 and 3 each drew just one candidate, the sitting incumbent in both cases. So neither goes before voters as a contested choice. 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 DePhillippo is the incumbent and is seeking re-election. A unanimous council vote appointed them to the District 5 seat in March 2022. They then won it outright that November. That comes from a Valley News report and their own candidate statement. Their statement says they are a small business owner and a mother of four. They are married to a police officer. It cites their council record. That record includes a moratorium on new gas stations, car washes, and storage facilities in commercial corridors. It includes a rollback of industrial cannabis uses. It includes removal of 94 illegally stored trailers on Palomar Street. It includes launching the city's first Old Town Specific Plan. It also includes District 5 street resurfacing. **Strengths:** A confirmed council record dating to 2022. It includes a term as the council selected Mayor. DePhillippo also reports a detailed record of specific votes and initiatives. **Trade-offs:** DePhillippo has their own filed statement and one 2022 news report on their appointment. Beyond those, no independent profile, biography, or news coverage of their 2026 campaign was found. **Keep in mind:** Every specific accomplishment above comes from their own campaign statement. It is not an independent account of the council votes behind it. ## Pedro Magdaleno A challenger who qualified for the ballot on August 7, 2026, the final day of the filing period, per the city's own candidate roster. Magdaleno filed no Candidate Statement with the city, and this research found no independent biography, occupation, or platform for them. **Strengths:** None documented from official sources. Magdaleno filed no candidate statement, and no independent profile of them was found. **Trade-offs:** Magdaleno's only campaign record was a Form 501 candidate intention statement. No financial statement was on file. **Keep in mind:** This is a lack of documentation, not proof that Magdaleno lacks qualifications. A search of news, campaign finance databases, and Ballotpedia turned up nothing further about them. ## Sources 1. [Riverside County Registrar of Voters — 2026 Annual Election Calendar (lists every November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election office by city, including "City of Cathedral City: City Council District 3 / District 4 / District 5 / City Treasurer")](https://voteinfo.net/sites/g/files/aldnop371/files/2026-02/Annual%20Election%20Calendar%202026.pdf) 2. [City of Wildomar -- "November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election" page: originally three City Council seats (Districts 1, 3, 5), each a full 4-year term; lists nomination-qualification dates for all four qualified candidates (Carlos Marquez, D1; Joseph Morabito, D3; Ashlee DePhillippo and Pedro Magdaleno, D5) and links each notice/candidate-statement PDF. Fetched directly, with no bot-blocking.](https://www.wildomar.gov/462/November-3-2026-General-Municipal-Electi) 3. [City of Wildomar -- "Notice of Election," General Municipal Election, Nov. 3, 2026 (dated July 9, 2026, signed by City Clerk Janet Morales Garcia): the original three-seat ballot (Council Districts 1, 3, 5), nomination period July 13 - August 7, 2026, and the Elections Code Section 10229 mechanism for a district that draws no more than one nominee.](https://www.wildomar.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3630) 4. [City of Wildomar -- "Notice That There Are Not More Candidates Than Offices To Be Elected" (Elections Code Section 10229): as of the close of nominations on August 7, 2026, only one person was nominated in each of District 1 (Carlos Marquez) and District 3 (Joseph Morabito); states the City Council would meet August 18, 2026 to either appoint the sole nominees outright or let the election proceed. No record of that meeting's outcome was found in this pass (see local-wildomar.json's editorial note) -- cited here only for the underlying fact that both districts drew a single nominee each, not for an appointment this dataset does not assert took place.](https://www.wildomar.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3705) 5. [City of Wildomar -- "Elected Officials" directory page: names the sitting City Council as of this retrieval -- Carlos Marquez (District 1 / Mayor), Dustin Nigg (District 2 / Mayor Pro Tem), Joseph Morabito (District 3), Bridgette Moore (District 4), Ashlee DePhillippo (District 5) -- confirming Marquez and Morabito are each running for re-election unopposed, and that Wildomar's Mayor/Mayor Pro Tem titles are held by district-elected councilmembers rather than filled by a separate election.](https://www.wildomar.gov/298/Elected-Officials) 6. [City of Wildomar -- Ashlee DePhillippo's filed Candidate Statement, City Council District 5: cites a moratorium on new gas stations/car washes/storage facilities in commercial corridors, an industrial-cannabis-use rollback, removal of 94 illegally stored trailers on Palomar Street, launching the city's first Old Town Specific Plan, and District 5 street resurfacing as her council record; describes herself as a small business owner, a mother of four, and the wife of a police officer.](https://www.wildomar.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3708) 7. [Valley News (myvalleynews.com) -- "Ashlee Dephillippo appointed to Wildomar City Council for District 5 in wake of Marsha Swanson retiring" (published March 17, 2022): the City Council voted 5-0 in a Special Meeting to appoint DePhillippo over a second applicant, Gina Castanon, following Marsha Swanson's resignation; quotes DePhillippo directly on the city's growth and identity as it develops.](https://myvalleynews.com/blog/2022/03/17/ashlee-dephillippo-appointed-to-wildomar-city-council-for-district-5-in-wake-of-marsha-swanson-retiring/) 8. [City of Wildomar NetFile public campaign-disclosure portal — candidate and committee filing search](https://netfile.com/public/WLD/campaign/search-entities) ## The rest of the ballot Wildomar City Council, District 5 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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