Chula Vista: who represents it, and who is running

California General Election (federal and state offices) consolidated with the City of Chula Vista General Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects city: Mayor, City Attorney, Council Districts 1 and 2. U.S. Representative CA-52; Governor (open seat) and other statewide offices; State Senate District 18; State Assembly District 80; San Diego County offices and school/college trustees (not captured). No U.S. Senate seat is up in California in 2026..

Holding office12

the sitting council

On the ballot15

7 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Chula Vista is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): California's 52nd congressional district (City Hall, and the whole city on both the 119th Congress map and the 2026 map) — Juan Vargas (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
John McCann Elected	Mayor → Running	Independent		County of San Diego Registrar of Voters
Francisco Tamayo	Mayor Running	Independent		County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

Councilmember — District 1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Carolina Chavez Elected	Councilmember → Running	Independent	District 1	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters
Greg Martinez	Councilmember Running	Independent	District 1	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

Councilmember — District 2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jose Preciado Elected	Councilmember → Running	Independent	District 2	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters
Angelica S. Martinez	Councilmember Running	Independent	District 2	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

City Attorney

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Marco Verdugo Elected	City Attorney → Running	Independent	city-wide	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

Councilmember

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Cesar Fernandez Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 4	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters
Michael Inzunza Elected	Councilmember	Independent	District 3	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Gavin Newsom Elected	Governor	Democratic	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters
Steve Hilton	Governor Running	Republican	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters
Xavier Becerra	Governor Running	Democratic	County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

State Assembly Member — AD-80

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
David A. Alvarez Elected	State Assembly Member → Running	Democratic		California State Assembly
Alejandro Galicia	State Assembly Member Running	Republican		County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

State Senator — SD-18

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Steve Padilla Elected	State Senator → Running	Democratic		California State Senate
Art Hodges	State Senator Running	Republican		County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Adam B. Schiff Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic		@unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Alex Padilla Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic		@unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)

U.S. Representative — CA-52

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Juan Vargas Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Jeff Belle	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		County of San Diego Registrar of Voters

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

www.chulavistaca.gov answered HTTP 403 (Akamai 'Access Denied') to robots.txt itself with the ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 User-Agent; recorded as blocked, not retried, and no other City page was opened. Sitting city officials therefore come from the San Diego County Registrar of Voters 'Directory of Public Officials' (dated 3/2026): Mayor John McCann (2022-2026), Council District 1 Carolina Chavez (2022-2026), District 2 Jose Preciado (2022-2026), District 3 Michael Inzunza (2024-2028), District 4 Cesar Fernandez (2024-2028), City Attorney Marco Verdugo (2022-2026, elected); City Clerk and City Manager are appointed. Any change since March 2026 would not show. No city photos or official city websites recorded.
City 2026 cycle (ROV directory 'Schedule of Elections'): Chula Vista elects Mayor, City Attorney and Council Districts 1 and 2 at the 2026-06-02 primary and 2026-11-03 general (a race can be decided in June if one candidate passes 50%). All four contests appear on the ROV November candidate list: Mayor McCann vs Francisco Tamayo; District 1 Chavez vs Greg Martinez; District 2 Preciado vs Angelica S. Martinez; City Attorney Verdugo alone (the one unopposed contest). Districts 3 and 4 are next elected in 2028 (next municipal primary/general: June and November 2028). City offices are non-partisan: party null / partyShort 'None'.
Candidates: County of San Diego Registrar of Voters 'Candidate List', November 3, 2026 General Election (report R740.03, run 2026-08-28 4:17 PM; every name used shows Qualified for Ballot = YES). Ballot designations as printed. The list prints a few campaign emails for other contests; none for the contests used here. No addresses or phones copied. The Secretary of State certified list (elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov, dated 2026-08-27) was NOT fetched: that host answered robots.txt with an S3 'AccessDenied' 403, so the county list was used instead; it carries the same federal/state contests for San Diego County.
Districts: Census TIGERweb polygon for Chula Vista city (place 0613392) sampled on a 150x150 grid over its envelope (13,825 points inside the city, ~0.13 km spacing) against the 119th Congress districts (tigerWMS_ACS2025), the 120th Congress districts (2026 map) and the 2026 State Senate and Assembly lines (tigerWMS_Current): every point fell in CA-52, SD-18 and AD-80. City Hall checked by coordinates (32.6401, -117.0842) with the Census geocoder: CD-52, SD-18, AD-80. Slivers narrower than the grid spacing could be missed. tigerweb.geo.census.gov answers robots.txt with a WAF 'Request Rejected' page and geocoding.geo.census.gov with 404; both are public Census query services.
Federal: Juan Vargas from https://www.house.gov/representatives (California 52nd, D); photo linked from clerk.house.gov (not fetched). Senators Alex Padilla (term to 2029) and Adam B. Schiff (term to 2031): www.senate.gov answered robots.txt with Akamai 403 (not bypassed); taken from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json and corroborated by the ROV directory. Vargas (D) vs Jeff Belle (R) on the November ballot.
State: Governor Gavin Newsom (ROV directory, 2023-2027; term-limited) - open seat Xavier Becerra (Democratic) vs Steve Hilton (Republican). State Senate District 18: Steve Padilla (senate.ca.gov lists him as 'Stephen C. Padilla (D) District 18'; on the ballot as PADILLA, STEVE) vs Art Hodges (Republican) - even-numbered Senate seats are up in 2026. Assembly District 80: David A. Alvarez (assembly.ca.gov) vs Alejandro Galicia (Republican). Only City Hall's legislative districts are listed, per the brief; the grid found no other district in the city.
standsFor is null for everyone: candidate statements were not read (the City's site is blocked and the ROV sample-ballot statements were not opened). Robots/terms: sdvote.com robots.txt disallows only /voters/ (not used); house.gov, senate.ca.gov and assembly.ca.gov robots allow the member pages; unitedstates.github.io robots.txt is a 404. No terms accepted, nothing requested, no logins. Write-in candidates and primary losers excluded. No street address recorded anywhere.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.