Camarillo Election: Tennessen Leads District 1, Santangelo Ahead in District 2 as District 5 Stays Close

CAMARILLO, California — November 5, 2026. Three City Council districts were on Camarillo’s November 3 election ballot, but their vote totals tell different stories. In the available early-November-4 count, David Tennessen leads in District 1 with 2,226 votes to Vishnu Patel’s 1,332. In District 2, Susan Santangelo has 1,262, followed by Dan Gober with 944 and Sylvia Garcia with 292. A third district, District 5, is much closer and has already been the subject of a separate California58 report.

District 1: Tennessen and Patel

The Ventura County results tracker carried by NBC Los Angeles shows Tennessen at 62.56% and Patel at 37.44% among reported valid votes. The difference is 894 votes in the District 1 count. This is a district-based office, so voters outside that district did not choose between the two council candidates in this particular race.

District 2: three contenders for one place

In District 2, Santangelo’s 50.52% puts her ahead of Gober’s 37.79% and Garcia’s 11.69% in the current snapshot. The margin between Santangelo and Gober is 318 votes. It would be misleading to sum votes in Districts 1 and 2 to describe turnout for a citywide contest: these are two separate electorates, and eligible voters only cast council ballots for their own district.

District 5: a different, much closer race

David Schlangen has 1,886 votes and Martita Martinez-Bravo 1,843 in the available District 5 tally, a difference of just 43 votes. California58 previously documented a change in the lead in this race. Read the District 5 election-night report. That older article and the newer figures must be compared using their report times; a new blog publication date is not automatically a new county counting event.

What decisions council members make

Camarillo’s council members take part in city budgeting, zoning, infrastructure, transportation and local public-service decisions. District-based elections allow residents of each represented area to choose their own council member. A lead in one area is not evidence about support for the candidates in another district, nor does it imply the winner has been officially certified.

Additional ballots and the canvass

Ventura County is still verifying qualifying votes, including valid mail ballots received near Election Day. The results quoted here are a November 4 snapshot, not a claim that all votes were processed by November 5. The Ventura County official election dashboard is the appropriate source for subsequent batches and the final canvass. State law sets December 3 as the county completion deadline, followed by state certification December 11.

Sources: NBC Los Angeles Ventura County election results, observed November 5; Ventura County Registrar of Voters. All figures unofficial.

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