2024 General Municipal Election Canceled

At its regular meeting of Aug. 20, the Diamond Bar City Council voted to cancel the Nov. 5, 2024 General Municipal Election because the number of candidates seeking office does not exceed the number of seats up for election.

The candidate filing period for the November election opened July 15 and closed Aug. 9. At closing, only incumbents, Stan Liu and Ruth M. Low, had filed nomination papers and qualified to run for office for each of the open seats in voting districts 2 and 5.

Since neither Liu nor Low face challengers for their respective seats and there are no other citywide offices or measures on the ballot, California Elections Code Section 10229 allows the City Council to appoint Liu and Low to new four-year terms, and save approximately $53,000 that would have been spent holding an uncontested election.

Liu and Low are currently serving on the City Council at an at-large capacity. When they assume their new terms (2025-2029), Liu will represent voting district 5, and Low will represent voting district 2. Both will be sworn into office during the City Council reorganization meeting in December 2025.

The next General Municipal Election for the City of Diamond Bar will take place Nov. 3, 2026 for voting districts 1, 3 and 4.

City Council Member biographies and contact information is available at www.diamondbarca.gov/citycouncil. Election information and a link to the city's voting district map is available at www.diamondbarca.gov/election.