Monday, June 1, 2026

State and Local Elections Up for Grabs on Tuesday

By ANDRÈ COLEMAN, Managing Editor

Local residents will go to the polls on Tuesday and vote in important state and local elections.

California voters will elect all of California’s seats to the House of Representatives, the State Assembly, even-numbered seats of the State Senate, the governor and various statewide offices.

Locally, residents living in council districts 3, 5 and 7 will elect Councilmembers.

In those races, incumbents Justin Jones, Jess Rivas and Jason Lyon are seeking reelection.

Erica Margarita Muñoz and Alethea O’Toole qualified to run against Jones and Lyon, but O’Toole subsequently withdrew, too late to remove her name from the printed ballot.

Rivas is running unopposed.

Muñoz unsuccessfully applied for the city’s rental board recently.

Meanwhile, the incumbents have continued to campaign and reach out to voters.

Jones is a licensed civil engineer and a civil engineer with Los Angeles County Public Works. His current role is to help administer the Safe Clean Water Program, which provides local, dedicated funding to increase our local water supply, improve water quality and protect public health.

He chairs the Municipal Services Committee (MSC) and is a member of the Public Safety Committee and the Housing, Homelessness and Planning Committee.

Despite the lack of campaigning by his opponent, he has continued to knock on doors and engage voters.

“One of the most meaningful parts of this campaign has been going door to door across District 3,” Jones said in an email to residents in District 3. “I have sincerely enjoyed listening to your concerns, hearing your ideas, and speaking directly about the future of Pasadena. Those conversations will continue to guide the work I do every day on the City Council.”

Rivas, an attorney, currently serves as vice mayor and chairs the Public Safety Committee.

According to her bio on the city’s website, she currently works in District 5 as a staff counsel for the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association. She previously served on the city’s Northwest Commission and the Commission on the Status of Women.

Lyon, also an attorney, is a member of the Municipal Services, Economic Development and Technology, and Housing, Homelessness and Planning committees, as well as the ad hoc committee on the development of the former 710 stub. Lyon also serves on the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority and as the mayor’s alternate to the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments.