Lancaster: who represents it, and who is running

California General Election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects no City of Lancaster contest: the city held its own all-mail General Municipal Election on 2026-04-14 (two at-large council seats). On 2026-11-03: U.S. Representative CA-27; Governor (open seat) and other statewide offices; State Assembly District 39 at City Hall (all Assembly seats are up); Los Angeles County, school, college, healthcare and water district offices. No U.S. Senate seat and no State Senate seat (SD-23 is odd-numbered) is up..

Holding office6
the sitting council
On the ballot4
1 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): California's 27th congressional district (City Hall; grid check pending) — George Whitesides (Democratic)

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Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Gavin Newsom Elected Governor Democratic Governor's Proclamation for the November 3, 2026 General Election, via the Secretary of State
Steve Hilton Governor Running Republican California Secretary of State
Xavier Becerra Governor Running Democratic California Secretary of State
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State Assembly Member — AD-39

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Juan Carrillo Elected State Assembly Member Democratic California State Assembly
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State Senator — SD-23

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Suzette Martinez Valladares Elected State Senator Republican California State Senate
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U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Adam B. Schiff Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Alex Padilla Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
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U.S. Representative — CA-27

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
George Whitesides Elected U.S. Representative → Running Democratic U.S. House of Representatives
Jason Gibbs U.S. Representative Running Republican California Secretary of State
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Notes on this record

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

  • MUNICIPAL - NOT REACHED: www.cityoflancasterca.org answered an Akamai 'Access Denied' 403 to the robots.txt request itself (2026-10-29), so robots could not be read and the City's council page, City Clerk election page and candidate list were not fetched. No proxy, other User-Agent or tool was tried. No municipal rows are recorded. Search-engine snippets (not used as a source) indicate a five-member council (Mayor elected at large plus four at-large members) and that the 2026-04-14 all-mail election filled two at-large seats; Jim may want to source the council from the City by hand or try the host later.
  • City election calendar: Lancaster's 2026 General Municipal Election was held 2026-04-14 (all-mail ballot, City-run), not consolidated with 2026-11-03. Next regular municipal election: April 2028 by the City's even-year April cycle, unverified because the City site could not be read.
  • Los Angeles County Registrar candidate list (lavote.gov Candidate List, GENERAL ELECTION - 11/3/2026, id=4348, 'List Last Updated: 10/16/2026', retrieved 2026-10-29) was read. It contains no City of Lancaster contest and no federal, state or Assembly contests; Lancaster-area entries are Lancaster School District, Eastside Union School District, Antelope Valley Community College, Antelope Valley Health Care District and Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency contests, which the brief skips. That list prints candidates' addresses, phones and emails; none were copied.
  • FEDERAL AND STATE CANDIDATES - SECOND-HAND: the SOS Certified List (elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov) was not fetched, as instructed (403 on robots.txt). The Governor rows (Newsom; Becerra, Hilton) and the CA-27 rows (Whitesides, Gibbs), plus Senators Padilla and Schiff, were copied from us-palmdale.json because the office/district is the same; each copied row says so. They were not re-verified against the certified list here.
  • Districts: Census Geocoder address match for City Hall (44933 FERN AVE, LANCASTER, CA, 93534; 34.69788,-118.14464): Lancaster city, 120th Congressional District 27, 2026 State Senate District 23, 2026 Assembly District 39. Grid check: grid check pending. Only City Hall's state legislators are listed, as the brief requires.
  • Federal/state members re-checked 2026-10-29: house.gov/representatives (Whitesides, CA-27); senate.ca.gov/senators (Valladares, SD-23, R); assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers (Carrillo, AD-39, Democrat). Senators come via the sibling record from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json; senate.gov was not fetched.
  • Robots/terms: cityoflancasterca.org 403 (Akamai) on robots.txt - not used. lavote.gov and geocoding.geo.census.gov serve no robots.txt (404). house.gov, senate.ca.gov and assembly.ca.gov robots (User-agent * group, no ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai group) allow the member pages. One plain User-Agent throughout; no terms accepted, no logins, nothing requested. senate.ca.gov and assembly.ca.gov: 'Copyright (c) 2026 State of California', no reuse grant; photos linked, not copied. No street address, phone or personal email in any person row. standsFor is null for everyone. Write-ins and primary losers excluded.
  • DEEPEN PASS 2026-10-31 - MUNICIPAL STILL NOT REACHED: www.cityoflancasterca.org (and cityoflancasterca.org, which 301s to it) again answered robots.txt with an Akamai 'Access Denied' 403. Other City-controlled hosts were tried and also could not be used: lancaster.granicus.com robots.txt is 'User-agent: * Disallow: /'; swagit-attachments.granicus.com answers robots.txt 403 AccessDenied; the City's Form 700 / campaign e-filing portal (public.netfile.com/pub2/?AID=LAN, linked from the FPPC's 'Search Form 700 Local Statements' page) redirects to netfile.com/public/LAN/campaign, a JavaScript app behind a Cloudflare Turnstile challenge - not bypassed. webapi.legistar.com has no Lancaster client. So no council rows are recorded.
  • Lancaster council - search-engine snippets only, NOT used as a source for any row (kept here so the facts are not lost; verify on the City's council page): a City of Lancaster news item of 2026-04-23 (cityoflancasterca.org/Home/Components/News/News/10474/20, as indexed) says voters selected Cedric White and Rocio Castellanos for the City Council, with unofficial final totals 'Cedric White: 3,570 votes, 21.99%' and 'Rocio Castellanos: 3,438 votes, 21.17%'; the City's election page (as indexed) noted that incumbent Marvin Crist did not file; AV Press had described the seats up as those of Vice Mayor Marvin Crist and Councilman Raj Malhi; a Soar citizen-portal summary (cpo.soar.com/articles/7873424) reports the Council certified the 2026-04-14 results and swore in White and Castellanos, with public calls to move municipal elections to November. Ballotpedia lists 2026 at-large candidates including Nicolle Rendon Blackwood, Cynthia R. Hernandez, Rocio Castellanos and Cedric White. Mayor R. Rex Parris's current status was not confirmed from any source in this pass.
  • Lancaster 2026 city candidates: there is NO City of Lancaster contest on the 2026-11-03 ballot (the City's 2026 election was its own all-mail election on 2026-04-14, already held and certified), so no city 'running' rows exist to add; the April candidates are not recorded because the election is over and the City's candidate list could not be read.
  • AD-39 (City Hall) on 2026-11-03: the LA County Registrar candidate list for the 6/2/2026 primary (lavote.gov CandidateList id=4338, retrieved 2026-10-31) shows two names under 'MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 39th District': JUAN CARRILLO (Democratic, incumbent, nomination filed 3/2/2026) and GEORGE A. PARIONA (Republican, nomination papers issued 3/4/2026 but NO filing date - i.e. not shown as qualified). AD-39 also reaches San Bernardino County, where other candidates may have filed, and the general list id=4348 carries no state contests. The top-two general-election pairing therefore cannot be stated from an official list; no AD-39 'running' rows were added. The list prints addresses, phones and emails (one personal yahoo address) - none copied.
  • Still blocked 2026-10-31: elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov (403 AccessDenied on robots.txt) and www.sos.ca.gov (Imperva/Incapsula challenge on robots.txt) - the SOS Certified List of Candidates was not read; results.lavote.gov robots.txt 404 but was not needed. CA-27 and Governor rows are unchanged (still second-hand from sibling records, as their notes say).
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-29. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.