Herndon Election 2026

November 3, 2026

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Election Day Today! Polls are now open until 7PM.

Herndon Town Council

Josif N. Ezekilov

Status: Challenger


About: Josif N. Ezekilov is a Herndon community organizer and activist focused on immigrant-neighbor advocacy, equity, and justice. His campaign highlights work to make Herndon more affordable, accessible, and inclusive.


Key Positions:

  • Affordable housing
  • Education and workforce development
  • Economic opportunity
  • Accessibility
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Immigrant support and safety
  • Public transit and Metro connectivity
  • Walkability and bike infrastructure
  • Environmental standards and green space
  • Responsive government and community safety


Campaign Website

Cesar A. Del Aguila

Status: Incumbent since 2019


About: Cesar A. Del Aguila has served on the Herndon Town Council since 2019. He is a former chair of the Fairfax County Democratic Committee, an IT-sales professional with more than 35 years of experience, and a Herndon resident since 2007.


Key Positions:

  • Fiscal stability
  • Inclusive government
  • Affordable and workforce housing
  • Housing near Metro and transit-oriented development
  • Commercial and downtown growth
  • Growing the tax base without increasing the residential tax burden
  • Opposition to discrimination and stereotyping
  • Long-term planning for Town services


Campaign Website

Douglas Isaac "Doug" Mejia

Status: Challenger


About: Douglas Isaac “Doug” Mejia is a Herndon native, bilingual registered nurse, and Marymount University nursing graduate. His campaign draws on experience in nursing, community health, and small business.


Key Positions:

  • Opportunity for Herndon families
  • Health-care and service access
  • Affordability
  • Small-business support
  • Community health
  • Resident representation
  • Government responsive to residents rather than special interests


Campaign Website

Sabrina A. Bruce

Status: Challenger


About: Sabrina A. Bruce is a 12-year Air Force and Space Force veteran and former National Reconnaissance Office congressional liaison. A Herndon resident since 2022, she frames her campaign around “transit, transparency, and transformation.”


Key Positions:

  • Transit and Metro connectivity
  • Walkability
  • Bike lanes and safer street crossings
  • Protected pedestrian infrastructure
  • Government transparency
  • Council office hours and clear explanations of votes
  • Affordable housing
  • Redevelopment of vacant properties
  • Safe, accessible neighborhoods
Campaign Website

Kelvin Garcia

Status: Incumbent since 2025


About: Kelvin Garcia is a current Town Councilmember, former Metropolitan Police Department officer, and former Washington, D.C., traffic judge. He coaches girls’ basketball at South Lakes High School and founded a Youth Advisory Committee.


Key Positions:

  • Public safety
  • Fairness and accountability
  • Community engagement
  • Youth mentorship
  • Accessible local government
  • Inclusive representation
  • Responsible decision-making



Campaign Website

Yasmin "Soniya" Shafiq 

Status: Challenger


About: Yasmin “Soniya” Shafiq is a Fairfax County parks employee and election officer, former environmental consultant, former ADAMS Center board member, and SEIU union leader. She is a Virginia Tech graduate and daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants.


Key Positions:

  • Affordable housing
  • Balanced mixed-use growth
  • Parks and open space
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Walkability
  • Bike lanes and trails
  • Metro connectivity
  • Small-business support
  • People-first public safety
  • Privacy protections
  • Accessible and inclusive government
Campaign Website

Meron T. Yohannes

Status: Challenger


About: Meron T. Yohannes is a lifelong Herndon resident and first-generation Eritrean American. She serves as vice chair of the Herndon Planning Commission and previously worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of Commerce and as a policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center.


Key Positions:

  • Affordable and diverse housing
  • Transit-oriented development near Metro
  • Downtown revitalization
  • Small-business growth
  • Reuse of underutilized buildings
  • Equity
  • Community connectivity
  • Affordable-housing policy
  • Transparent local government
Campaign Website

Clark A. Hedrick

Status: Incumbent & Vice Mayor since 2023


About: Clark A. Hedrick is Herndon’s Vice Mayor and a current Town Councilmember. He is a former vice chair of the Herndon Board of Zoning Appeals and an attorney for a federal entity, where he leads a team focused on improving government operations.


Key Positions:

  • Careful budgeting
  • Lower taxes
  • Streamlined town administration
  • Reduced regulatory burdens
  • Support for homeowners and local businesses
  • Pedestrian safety
  • Walkability
  • Transportation funding
  • Youth civic engagement
  • Sustainable community events
  • School-capital advocacy
Campaign Website

Michael T. Lloyd 

Status: Incumbent since 2025


About: Michael T. Lloyd is a current Herndon Town Councilmember and has previously been identified as Arts Herndon treasurer.


Key Positions:

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Justin K. Britt

Status: Challenger


About: Justin K. Britt is a Herndon resident of more than 25 years, business owner, marketing director, and community volunteer. His experience includes more than 30 years of leadership, business, and project-management work, including managing multi-million-dollar budgets.


Key Positions:

  • Downtown revitalization
  • Redevelopment of vacant properties
  • Transparent zoning and development rules
  • Faster permitting
  • Small-business support
  • Targeted property-tax abatements for eligible improvements
  • Affordable and workforce housing
  • Homeownership
  • Metro-to-downtown connections
  • ADA-compliant sidewalks
  • Traffic improvements
  • Outdoor dining and community events
  • Government efficiency
Campaign Website

Alexis "Alex" Reyes

Status: Incumbent since 2025


About: Alexis “Alex” Reyes is a current Town Councilmember, teacher, and former Army Reserve soldier. His campaign describes a goal of empowering residents and strengthening resident-led local government.


Key Positions:

  • Resident-led governance
  • Nonpartisan decision-making
  • Independence from outside political parties and super PACs
  • Community empowerment
  • Responsive local government
Campaign Website

Stevan Michael Porter

Status: Challenger


About:

Stevan Michael Porter has lived in Herndon since 2008 and serves as vice chair of the Herndon Board of Zoning Appeals. He is also a volunteer paramedic and squad officer, a Herndon-Reston Rotary member, and an IT manager.


Key Positions:

  • Community engagement
  • Nonpartisan decision-making
  • Public safety
  • Traffic and parking
  • Smart development
  • Destination businesses and community events
  • Financial stewardship
  • Transparency
  • Fairness
  • Easier Town processes for residents and businesses
Campaign Website

Herndon Mayor

Keven J. LeBlanc, Jr.

Status: Incumbent Mayor; Running Unopposed


About:

Keven J. LeBlanc, Jr. is the Mayor of the Town of Herndon and previously served on the Herndon Town Council from 2023 through 2024. A Herndon resident since 2009, he describes himself as an executive, small-business consultant, volunteer leader for community events and organizations, Historic District resident, and longtime community member.


Key Positions:

  • Nonpartisan local leadership
  • Less politics and more solutions
  • Preserving Herndon’s small-town character and history
  • Balancing growth, redevelopment, and high-tech business development
  • Responsible and inclusive decision-making
  • Land-use and traffic planning
  • Objective leadership
  • Community listening and public engagement
  • Accountability and accessible leadership
  • Collaboration with Town, County, and State partners
  • Strategic planning and practical implementation
  • Support for community events and volunteer organizations
Campaign Website

Write-In

Note: Write-In options are available for both the Herndon Mayor and Town Council elections. 


About:

No named write-in candidate is listed on the official ballot for Mayor of the Town of Herndon. Voters may write in the name of an eligible person in the designated write-in space and fill in the corresponding oval.


Key Information:

  • No declared or named write-in candidate was identified in the official candidate list.
  • Write-in candidates generally do not need to file ballot-access documents in Virginia, though campaign-finance requirements may still apply.
  • Write-in votes are recorded as totals; an individual’s name is reported in official results only under conditions set by Virginia election law.
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Voting in Fairfax County

Fairfax County voters can find official information about the November 3, 2026 General and Special Elections through the Fairfax County Office of Elections. The Office provides ballot information, sample ballots, voter-registration details, early-voting locations and hours, vote-by-mail instructions, polling-place information, and election results.


Key Dates:

  • Election Day: Tuesday, November 3, 2026
  • Early in-person voting: September 18 through October 31, 2026
  • Deadline to register or update voter registration: Friday, October 23, 2026
  • Deadline to apply for a mail ballot: Friday, October 23, 2026


Contact the Fairfax County Office of Elections:

  • Phone: 703-222-0776 (TTY: 711)
  • Email: voting@fairfaxcounty.gov
  • Address: 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 323, Fairfax, VA 22035
Fairfax County Office of Elections
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One More Thing!

Fairfax County Absentee Ballot Return


Voters who receive a mail ballot but cannot vote in person—and prefer not to return their ballot through the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)—may drop their absentee ballot at:



The secure drop box is located outside the front entrance of the Fairfax County Government Center, on the brick plaza to the left of the entrance near the accessible parking spaces. Once early voting begins, the permanent drop box is available 24 hours a day.


On Election Day, ballots must be placed in the drop box by 7 p.m.


Location:

Fairfax County Government Center

12000 Government Center Parkway

Fairfax, VA 22035


Note: If you choose to return your ballot by USPS, then your ballot:

  • Must be postmarked on or before election day
  • Must arrive in the Office of Elections by noon, on Friday following the election


Vote by Mail in Fairfax County