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See 2026 November election results in Orange County

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Karla Rendon (via NBC Los Angeles)

What to Know

  • There were several open spots on city councils on local cities across Orange County, including two for county supervisor.
  • Some cities also weighed mayoral changes.
  • The results below will be updated as they become available.
  • Click here for a full list of election results.

A slew of measures for local ballot measures and spots on several city councils were open in Orange County for the 2026 November general election.

See below for updated election results listed by city in Orange County. Click here for a full list of election results.

Orange County

  • Orange County Supervisor, District 4

    • TIM SHAW

      50.32%

      56,727

    • CONNOR TRAUT

      49.68%

      56,006

  • Orange County Supervisor, District 5

    • KATRINA FOLEY

      51.57%

      90,274

    • DIANE DIXON

      48.43%

      84,785

City of Aliso Viejo

  • City of Aliso Viejo City Council, District 2

    • Max Duncan

      58.8%

      1,580

    • Steven Porten

      41.2%

      1,107

  • City of Aliso Viejo City Council, District 3 — Short Term

    • Garrett Dwyer

      50.25%

      1,015

    • Marie Tsaasan

      49.75%

      1,005

City of Anaheim

  • City of Anaheim Mayor

    • Ashleigh Aitken

      57.03%

      32,860

    • Alfredo Rodriguez

      31.77%

      18,307

    • Imran Sharief

      11.2%

      6,452

  • City of Anaheim City Council, District 3

    • Natalie Rubalcava

      63.92%

      5,382

    • Elia Renteria-Garcia

      36.08%

      3,038

City of Brea

  • City of Brea City Council

    • Cecilia Hupp

      24.38%

      6,494

    • Blair Stewart

      23.43%

      6,241

    • Steven Vargas

      20.49%

      5,458

    • Blake Perez

      16.69%

      4,446

    • Andrew Herrera

      15.02%

      4,000

City of Buena Park

  • City of Buena Park City Council, District 2

    • Carlos Franco

      56.88%

      1,170

    • Yong Choi

      43.12%

      887

  • City of Buena Park City Council, District 5

    • Brandon Schooner

      73.05%

      2,339

    • Sharena Walker

      26.95%

      863

City of Costa Mesa

  • City of Costa Mesa Mayor

    • Mike Buley

      54.97%

      11,963

    • Loren Gameros

      45.03%

      9,801

  • Measure C – City of Costa Mesa

    • YES

      70.49%

      15,937

    • NO

      29.51%

      6,673

  • City of Costa Mesa City Council, District 3

    • Daniel Morgan

      50.87%

      1,751

    • Cara Stewart

      49.13%

      1,691

  • City of Costa Mesa City Council, District 4

    • Angely Vallarta

      67.32%

      1,333

    • Fisher Derderian

      32.68%

      647

  • City of Costa Mesa City Council, District 5

    • Kelly Brown

      55.26%

      1,976

    • Steve Smith

      44.74%

      1,600

City of Cypress

  • City of Cypress City Council, District 1

    • David Burke

      60.3%

      1,440

    • Anne Mallari

      39.7%

      948

  • City of Cypress City Council, District 2

    • Bonnie Peat

      50.45%

      839

    • Helen Le

      49.55%

      824

  • City of Cypress City Council, District 5

    • Randy Harper

      63.37%

      1,965

    • Rachel Carnahan

      36.63%

      1,136

City of Fountain Valley

  • City of Fullerton City Council, District 3

    • Shana Charles

      57.83%

      2,485

    • Daniel Kim

      42.17%

      1,812

  • City of Fullerton City Council, District 5

    • Oscar Valadez

      44.29%

      1,978

    • Jozef Maldonado

      39.34%

      1,757

    • David Fischbein

      16.37%

      731

City of Fullerton

  • City of Fullerton City Council, District 3

    • Shana Charles

      57.83%

      2,485

    • Daniel Kim

      42.17%

      1,812

  • City of Fullerton City Council, District 5

    • Oscar Valadez

      44.29%

      1,978

    • Jozef Maldonado

      39.34%

      1,757

    • David Fischbein

      16.37%

      731

City of Garden Grove

  • City of Garden Grove Mayor

    • Stephanie Klopfenstein

      55.19%

      19,289

    • Thu-Ha Nguyen

      44.81%

      15,663

  • City of Garden Grove City Council, District 1

    • Roger Flanders

      49.86%

      3,463

    • Long Nguyen

      34.73%

      2,412

    • William Zylla

      15.41%

      1,070

  • City of Garden Grove City Council, District 3

    • Cindy Tran

      56.4%

      3,125

    • Amanda Nguyen

      32.41%

      1,796

    • Thomas Nguyen

      11.19%

      620

  • City of Garden Grove City Council, District 4

    • Hieu Nguyen

      35.91%

      1,992

    • Patrick Bui

      27.82%

      1,543

    • Joe DoVinh

      25.4%

      1,409

    • Amanda Mohr

      10.87%

      603

City of Huntington Beach

  • City of Huntington Beach City Council

    • Casey McKeon

      12.7%

      28,063

    • Pat Burns

      12.41%

      27,428

    • Andrew Gruel

      11.83%

      26,136

    • Ben Davis

      11.47%

      25,338

    • Erin Spivey

      11.41%

      25,220

    • Brian Thienes

      11.34%

      25,065

    • Taryn Palumbo

      11.23%

      24,811

    • Brenda Glim

      10.43%

      23,048

    • Brian Burley

      4.44%

      9,810

    • Rosalind Price

      1.57%

      3,471

    • Amory Hanson

      1.18%

      2,604

City of Irvine

  • City of Irvine Mayor

    • Larry Agran

      69.54%

      38,014

    • Maksim Egorov

      30.46%

      16,651

  • City of Irvine City Council, District 1

    • John Park

      39.67%

      3,735

    • Melinda Liu

      38.4%

      3,615

    • Sukhee Kang

      21.93%

      2,065

  • City of Irvine City Council, District 5

    • Betty Franco

      34.48%

      3,632

    • Anthony Kuo

      25.94%

      2,732

    • Steven Alves

      25.22%

      2,656

    • Byron Salvatierra

      9.02%

      950

    • Julie Glossbrenner

      5.35%

      563

  • City of Irvine City Council, District 6

    • Kathleen Treseder

      57.15%

      3,379

    • Scotty Hong

      42.85%

      2,534

  • Measure D – City of Irvine

    • YES

      51.36%

      28,343

    • NO

      48.64%

      26,838

City of La Habra

  • City of La Habra City Council

    • Jose Medrano

      36.12%

      7,467

    • James Gomez

      27.82%

      5,751

    • Susan Pritchard

      21.58%

      4,462

    • Miles Matias

      14.48%

      2,994

City of La Palma

  • City of La Palma City Council, District 2

    • Andrew Kim

      52.7%

      479

    • Nitesh Patel

      47.3%

      430

  • City of La Palma City Council, District 4

    • Mary Paningsoro

      70.16%

      630

    • Jonathan Dinwiddie

      29.84%

      268

City of Laguna Beach

  • Measure E – City of Laguna Beach

    • YES

      61.95%

      5,561

    • NO

      38.05%

      3,415

  • City of Laguna Beach City Council

    • Alex Rounaghi

      22.4%

      5,261

    • Sue Kempf

      18.28%

      4,293

    • Mark Orgill

      14.72%

      3,459

    • Nick Aronoff

      12.55%

      2,947

    • Ashley Cintas

      9.58%

      2,251

    • Joy Berry

      9.06%

      2,129

    • Laura Parisi

      7.63%

      1,793

    • Karen Martin

      4.04%

      949

    • Edward Bayuk

      1.74%

      409

  • Measure A – Laguna Beach Unified School District

    • YES

      67.11%

      7,256

    • NO

      32.89%

      3,556

City of Laguna Hills

  • City of Laguna Hills City Council, District 1

    • Harry Huggins

      54.72%

      829

    • Laura Thies

      45.28%

      686

  • City of Laguna Hills City Council, District 4

    • Scott Miller

      46.21%

      889

    • Tiffany Boccieri

      22.04%

      424

    • Michael Caputo

      19.13%

      368

    • Valerie Geller

      12.63%

      243

City of Laguna Woods

  • City of Laguna Woods City Council

    • Annie McCary

      45.44%

      6,254

    • Carol Moore

      28.49%

      3,921

    • Sue Quam

      26.06%

      3,587

City of Los Alamitos

  • Measure G – City of Los Alamitos

    • YES

      66.61%

      1,899

    • NO

      33.39%

      952

  • City of Los Alamitos City Council, District 4

    • Shelley Hasselbrink

      53.11%

      282

    • Joe Hastie

      46.89%

      249

  • City of Los Alamitos City Council, District 5

    • Emily Hibard

      66.72%

      423

    • John Delavigne

      33.28%

      211

City of Lake Forest

  • Measure F – City of Lake Forest

    • NO

      53.45%

      12,212

    • YES

      46.55%

      10,635

  • City of Lake Forest City Council, District 2

    • Benjamin Yu

      39.97%

      1,644

    • Becky Keene

      36.64%

      1,507

    • Brandon Council

      9.46%

      389

    • Brittany Thompson

      9.26%

      381

    • "George" Azer

      4.67%

      192

  • City of Lake Forest City Council, District 3

    • Tom Grable

      60.7%

      2,392

    • Anil Patel

      39.3%

      1,549

  • City of Lake Forest City Council, District 4

    • Shari Rhodes

      50.32%

      2,368

    • Amy Stevens

      49.68%

      2,338

City of Mission Viejo

  • City of Mission Viejo City Council, District 1

    • Robert Ruesch

      66.59%

      3,575

    • Kristen Wilcox

      33.41%

      1,794

  • City of Mission Viejo City Council, District 2 — Short Term

    • Saga Conroy

      54.87%

      3,520

    • Peter Molinari

      45.13%

      2,895

  • City of Mission Viejo City Council, District 3

    • Bryan Zahn

      56.03%

      2,668

    • Cynthia Vasquez

      43.97%

      2,094

  • City of Mission Viejo City Council, District 4 — Short Term

    • James Morrison

      51.86%

      2,402

    • Laura Lacko

      48.14%

      2,230

City of Newport Beach

  • Measure H – City of Newport Beach

    • NO

      67.36%

      18,201

    • YES

      32.64%

      8,821

  • City of Newport Beach City Council, District 1

    • Joe Stapleton

      70.2%

      17,686

    • Tina Babajanians

      29.8%

      7,506

  • City of Newport Beach City Council, District 3

    • Erik Weigand

      59.13%

      14,798

    • Walter Stahr

      28.94%

      7,244

    • Tim Stoaks

      11.93%

      2,985

  • City of Newport Beach City Council, District 6

    • Lauren Kleiman

      56.98%

      14,709

    • Andrew Gerken

      43.02%

      11,106

City of Orange

  • Measure I – City of Orange

    • YES

      54.54%

      16,751

    • NO

      45.46%

      13,960

  • Measure J – City of Orange

    • YES

      58.83%

      18,097

    • NO

      41.17%

      12,667

  • Measure K – City of Orange

    • NO

      63.75%

      18,580

    • YES

      36.25%

      10,567

  • City of Orange Mayor

    • Dan Slater

      59.24%

      17,494

    • Arianna Barrios

      40.76%

      12,035

City of Placentia

  • Measure L – City of Placentia

    • YES

      60.97%

      8,329

    • NO

      39.03%

      5,332

  • City of Placentia City Council, District 2

    • Matt Waugh

      43.63%

      1,321

    • Julie Suchard

      34.61%

      1,048

    • Santosh Sabnis

      21.76%

      659

  • City of Placentia City Council, District 4

    • Chad Wanke

      63.84%

      1,963

    • James Burandt

      36.16%

      1,112

City of Rancho Santa Margarita

  • City of Rancho Santa Margarita City Council, District 1

    • Josh Bastian

      68.84%

      2,435

    • Nicholas Reese

      31.16%

      1,102

  • City of Rancho Santa Margarita City Council, District 2

    • Anne Figueroa

      50.25%

      1,639

    • Natalie Guse

      38.23%

      1,247

    • Rod Ganjifard

      11.53%

      376

City of Seal Beach

  • City of Seal Beach City Council, District 1

    • MATTHEW TERRY

      48.91%

      854

    • PERLA MENDOZA

      38.6%

      674

    • MATT SMITH

      7.45%

      130

    • SCOTT DAVIS

      5.04%

      88

City of San Clemente

  • Measure M – City of San Clemente

    • NO

      63.71%

      13,849

    • YES

      36.29%

      7,888

  • City of San Clemente Mayor

    • Victor Cabral

      56.25%

      11,628

    • Kathy Ward

      23.99%

      4,959

    • Shane Hirschman

      19.76%

      4,085

  • City of San Clemente City Council, District 1

    • Steve Camp

      45.68%

      2,656

    • Donna Vidrine

      30.19%

      1,755

    • Aaron Washington

      24.13%

      1,403

  • City of San Clemente City Council, District 2

    • Steve Knoblock

      55.12%

      2,743

    • Mark Enmeier

      44.88%

      2,233

City of San Juan Capistrano

  • City of San Juan Capistrano City Council, District 2

    • Jeff Moore

      50.78%

      1,235

    • Erin Beyer

      49.22%

      1,197

City of Santa Ana

  • Measure N – City of Santa Ana

    • YES

      67.61%

      28,592

    • NO

      32.39%

      13,695

  • City of Santa Ana Mayor

    • Valerie Amezcua

      46.03%

      18,830

    • Dan Shimell

      40.03%

      16,374

    • Dwayne Shipp

      13.95%

      5,705

  • City of Santa Ana City Council, Ward 2

    • Benjamin Vazquez

      72.13%

      3,608

    • Selica Diaz

      27.87%

      1,394

  • City of Santa Ana City Council, Ward 4

    • Sandra Anda

      53.42%

      4,164

    • Phil Bacerra

      46.58%

      3,631

  • City of Santa Ana City Council, Ward 6

    • Isuri Ramos

      53.46%

      2,929

    • Giovanni Chavez

      46.54%

      2,550

City of Stanton

  • City of Stanton City Council, District 1

    • THOMAS FRAZIER

      56.66%

      880

    • DONALD TORRES

      43.34%

      673

  • City of Stanton City Council, District 3

    • MARLON-RAY VELASCO

      44.43%

      797

    • DEBORA DONATHAN

      28.48%

      511

    • DEWAYNE NORMAND

      27.09%

      486

City of Tustin

  • City of Tustin Mayor

    • Austin Lumbard

      50.58%

      7,910

    • Letitia Clark

      49.42%

      7,730

  • City of Tustin City Council, District 3

    • Ray Schnell

      60.17%

      2,722

    • Thomas Reed

      39.83%

      1,802

City of Westminster

  • Measure O – City of Westminster

    • YES

      62.27%

      12,359

    • NO

      37.73%

      7,489

  • Measure B – Westminster School District

    • YES

      67.37%

      11,991

    • NO

      32.63%

      5,809

  • City of Westminster Mayor

    • CHI NGUYEN

      38.86%

      7,974

    • CARLOS MANZO

      38.3%

      7,860

    • KIMBERLY HO

      17.88%

      3,670

    • CHARLES SHIPP

      3.55%

      728

    • NGUYEN HUNG

      1.41%

      290

  • City of Westminster City Council, District 1

    • DAVID JOHNSON

      50.03%

      2,684

    • AMY WEST

      41.86%

      2,246

    • MIKE FENTON

      8.11%

      435

  • City of Westminster City Council, District 4

    • NAMQUAN NGUYEN

      39.8%

      1,909

    • LOAN NGUYEN

      31.46%

      1,509

    • KELLY DANIELS

      18.93%

      908

    • KHAI DAO

      9.82%

      471

City of Yorba Linda

  • City of Yorba Linda City Council

    • CARLOS RODRIGUEZ

      34.62%

      11,956

    • JANICE LIM

      28.05%

      9,686

    • SEAN PHAYAKAPONG

      17.81%

      6,150

    • ROBERT PEASE

      12.97%

      4,477

    • RAYMOND POTTER

      6.55%

      2,262
Click here for a full list of election results.
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