Tualatin voters will choose a new mayor and fill three council seats on Nov. 3, and with the final filing deadline six days away, most races appear set.

Council President Valerie Pratt and Councilor Octavio Gonzalez remain the only two candidates for mayor, as we reported Aug. 18. Term-limited Mayor Frank Bubenik is stepping down after eight years as mayor and eight years on the council before that.

The down-ballot picture is quieter. Councilors Maria Antonieta Reyes (Position 1) and Bridget Brooks (Position 3) are both running unopposed for reelection. Beth Dittman is the sole filer for Position 5, the seat Gonzalez is vacating to run for mayor.

Who's running

Mayor: Pratt, the council president first elected in 2020 and reelected in 2024, works as chief financial officer at WJR II, LLC and holds a business-accounting degree from Portland State University. Her filing lists service on the Tualatin Budget Committee and advisory committees for downtown revitalization, transportation, climate action, parks and regional transportation.

Gonzalez, elected to his first council term in 2022, works in community homeowners association business development at Pacific Landscape Management and holds an associate degree in landscape management from Clackamas Community College.

Position 5: Dittman has been a small business owner and life coach since 2015 and previously spent nine years as a higher education administrator. She holds a psychology degree from Willamette University and a master of education in college student services administration from Oregon State University. Her filing lists current service on the Tualatin Community Advisory Committee, Tualatin Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee and Tigard-Tualatin School District Budget Advisory Committee.

Position 3: Brooks, first elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022, is a former licensed clinical social worker with bachelor's and master's degrees in social work from Wayne State University in Michigan.

Position 1: Reyes, also first elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022, works for the World Forestry Center in Portland. She previously worked in nonprofit fundraising and studied philanthropy and nonprofit leadership at Indiana State University.

What to watch

If Pratt wins the mayoral race, her council seat would have two years remaining on its term, potentially creating a vacancy the council would need to fill. The city has not addressed how that scenario would be handled.

The filing deadline is Tuesday, Aug. 25. All five positions will appear on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.