General election Tuesday, Nov 3, 2026 · Local and district races
Source: Ballotpedia, Orange County, California, elections, 2026 (secondary source, not the official ballot) (accessed Oct 16, 2026) · VoteOrElse, Nov 3, 2026 California contest list (secondary source, not the official ballot) (accessed Oct 16, 2026). Names are shown as listed by the source. Which district races you see depends on where you live; check yours at California voter status lookup (Secretary of State).
| Office | Candidates |
|---|---|
| County offices | |
| Orange County Board of Supervisors, District 4 | Tim Shaw vs. Connor Traut Source for this race: VoteOrElse (secondary; not on Ballotpedia's county page) |
| Orange County Board of Supervisors, District 5 | Diane Dixon vs. Katrina Foley Source for this race: VoteOrElse (secondary; not on Ballotpedia's county page) |
| Schools, colleges & special districts | |
| Buena Park Library District Trustee Board Division 2 | Brian Carver vs. Brenda Estrada |
| El Toro Water District, At-large Vote for 2 | Alfredo Cardenas, Kathryn Freshley, Mike Gaskins |
| Midway City Sanitary District Board At-large Vote for 3 | Sergio Contreras, Donald J. Lank, Michael Liu, Mark Nguyen |
| Moulton Niguel Water District Board At-large Term ends 2028 (Special) | Patricia C. Bates vs. Joel Bishop vs. David Petty |
| Moulton Niguel Water District Board At-large Term ends 2030 Vote for 3 | Michael Cruikshank, Jennifer Engle, Patricia Kelley, Kurt Lind, William Moorhead, Brian Parker, Leena Ray |
| Silverado-Modjeska Recreation and Park District At-large (Special) | Mark Levy vs. Kirsten Rieser |
| Trabuco Canyon Water District Board At-large Vote for 3 | Glenn Acosta, Chad Brown, John Casarietti, Jill Coss, Edward Mandich, Mike Safranski, Brad Weiskittel |
| Anaheim Elementary School District Board of Education Trustee Area 2 | Juan Gabriel Alvarez vs. Jeff Cole |
| Anaheim Elementary School District Board of Education Trustee Area 4 | Alva Álvarez vs. Mark Lopez |
| Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees Trustee Area 1 | Jessica Guerrero vs. Linda Martinez Quijano vs. Germaine Neumann vs. Alfonso Rodriguez |
| Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees Trustee Area 2 | Roberto Garcia vs. Annemarie Randle-Trejo |
| Brea Olinda Unified School District, Area 4 | Wendy Criner vs. Natalie Johnson |
| Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees Trustee Area 4 | Melissa Caldwell vs. Marco Carralero |
| Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees Trustee Area 6 | Mandy Bourne vs. Jeanna Emmons |
| Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees Trustee Area 7 | Ron Ruef vs. Linda Shepard |
| Cypress School District, Area B | Jon Peat vs. Jack Torossian |
| Cypress School District, Area C | Steve Blount vs. Vernon Miller vs. Meghna Parikh |
| Fountain Valley School District, At-large Vote for 3 | Carl Blankenhorn, Dennis Cole, Eugene M. Murray, Rick Nichols |
| Fullerton Joint Union High School District board of trustees Trustee Area 1 | Regina Cuadra vs. Matthew Matias |
| Fullerton Joint Union High School District board of trustees Trustee Area 5 | Marilyn Buchi vs. Amy Dudich |
| Fullerton School District school board Area 3 | Jordan Abushawish vs. Amy Choi-Won |
| Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education Trustee Area 2 | Charlene Cuellar vs. Lan Quoc Nguyen |
| Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education Trustee Area 4 | John Giang Nguyen vs. Tracy La vs. Quan Vuong |
| Huntington Beach City School District, Area 4 | Laura Costelloe vs. Diana Marks |
| Irvine Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 2 | Katie McEwen vs. Ron Scolesdang |
| Irvine Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 4 | Jeff Kim vs. Jane Wood |
| Laguna Beach Unified School District, At-large Vote for 3 | Elizabeth Bates, Joan Malczewski, Dee Namba Perry, Shaheen Sheik-Sadhal, Kimberly Smith |
| La Habra City Elementary School District school board Trustee Area 4 | Bertha Manzanares vs. Adam Rogers |
| Lowell Joint School District, Area 4 | Karen Shaw vs. Yoony Takeuchi |
| Magnolia School District Board of Trustees Trustee Area 5 | Gary Shields vs. Annie Warne |
| Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 2 | Craig Holiday vs. Michelle Murphy |
| Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 7 | Grace Daniño-Hickok vs. Andy Godinez |
| Ocean View Elementary School District (Orange County) school board Trustee Area 5 | David Clifford vs. Jennifer L. Rank |
| Orange Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 1 | Ivan Kokos vs. Andrea Yamasaki |
| Orange Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 4 | Crystal Miles vs. Sara Pelly vs. Armando Perez-Serrato |
| Orange Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 5 | Chip Ahlswede vs. Kris Erickson |
| Orange Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 7 | Jack Chang vs. Stephen Glass |
| Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 4 | Barbara Buckley vs. Todd Frazier vs. Chris Lowe |
| Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 5 | Justin Aguirre vs. Carrie Buck |
| Saddleback Valley Unified School District school board Area 5 | Edgar Montes vs. Kris Spowart |
| Santa Ana Unified School District school board Trustee Area 4 | Katelyn Brazer Aceves vs. Sylvia Iglesias |
| Santa Ana Unified School District school board Trustee Area 5 | Hector Bustos vs. Alejandra Rodriguez |
| Tustin Unified School District school board Trustee Area 3 | Lynn Davis vs. Kelly Felton |
| Tustin Unified School District school board Trustee Area 5 | Jonathan Abelove vs. Ziggy McBride |
| Coast Community College District Governing Board Trustee Area 1 | Austin J. Edsell vs. Joe Kalmick vs. Ashton Kauwe |
| Coast Community College District Governing Board Trustee Area 3 (Special) | James Cameron vs. Kim Carr vs. Conrad Mazeika |
| Coast Community College District Governing Board Trustee Area 5 | Xerxez Megino Calilung vs. Elizabeth Dorn Parker |
| Irvine Ranch Water District Division 5 | Jeffrey Harlan vs. Peer Swan |
| Municipal Water District of Orange County District 2 | Larry Dick vs. Bobby LaPointe vs. Mike Marcus vs. Armando Perez-Serrato |
| North Orange County Community College District, District 1 | Barbara Dunsheath vs. Rama Maline |
| North Orange County Community College District, District 3 | Larry Andre vs. Paul Gonzales vs. Chloe Serrano |
| North Orange County Community College District, District 6 | Jeffrey Brown vs. Paulette Chaffee vs. Jesus Silva vs. Zonya Townsend |
| Rancho Santiago Community College District District 2 | John Hanna vs. Steve Rocco |
| Rancho Santiago Community College District District 4 | Beatriz Mendoza vs. Daisy Xuanha Tong |
| South Orange County Community College District District 4 | John Black vs. Karima Feldhus vs. Gila Jones vs. Narges Rakin |
| City & town offices | |
| Aliso Viejo City Council, District 2 | Max Duncan vs. Steven Von Der Porten |
| Aliso Viejo City Council, District 3 (Special) | Garrett Dwyer vs. Marie Tsaasan |
| Mayor of Anaheim | Ashleigh Aitken vs. Alfredo Rodriguez vs. Imran Sharief |
| Anaheim City Council District 3 | Elia Renteria-Garcia vs. Natalie Rubalcava |
| Brea City Council At-large Vote for 3 | Andrew Herrera, Cecilia Hupp, Blake Perez, Blair Stewart, Steven C. Vargas |
| Buena Park City Council, District 5 | Brandon Schooner vs. Sharena Walker |
| Buena Park City Council District 2 | Yong Choi vs. Carlos Franco |
| Costa Mesa City Council, District 3 | Daniel Morgan vs. Cara Stewart |
| Costa Mesa City Council, District 4 | Fisher Derderian vs. Angely Andrade Vallarta |
| Costa Mesa City Council, District 5 | Kelly Brown vs. Steve Smith |
| Mayor of Costa Mesa | Mike Buley vs. Loren Gameros |
| Mesa Water District, Division 5 | Shawn Dewane vs. Mikelle Fish |
| Cypress City Council, District 1 | David Burke vs. Anne Hertz Mallari |
| Cypress City Council, District 2 | Helen Le vs. Bonnie Peat |
| Cypress City Council, District 5 | Rachel Strong Carnahan vs. Randy Harper |
| Fountain Valley City Council At-large Vote for 3 | Elizabeth Andrade, Kim Constantine, Jim Cunneen, Harrison F. Dibblee, Dan Hay, Mark Leonard, Patricia Odette Neal, John Nguyen, Katy Wright |
| Fullerton City Council District 3 | Shana Charles vs. Daniel Kim |
| Fullerton City Council District 5 | David Fischbein vs. Jozef Maldonado vs. Oscar Valadez |
| Garden Grove City Council District 1 | Roger Flanders vs. Long Nguyen vs. William Zylla |
| Garden Grove City Council District 3 | Amanda Nguyen vs. Thomas Quoc Thai Nguyen vs. Cindy Ngoc Tran |
| Garden Grove City Council District 4 | Patrick Phat Bui vs. Joe Dovinh vs. Amanda Mohr vs. Hieu Nguyen |
| Mayor of Garden Grove | Stephanie Klopfenstein vs. Thu-Ha Nguyen |
| Huntington Beach City Council At-large Vote for 4 | Brian Burley, Pat Burns, Ben Davis, Brenda Glim, Andrew Gruel, Amory Hanson, Casey McKeon, Taryn Taddeo Palumbo, Rosalind Price, Erin Spivey, Brian Thienes |
| Mayor of Irvine | Larry Agran vs. Maksim Egorov |
| Irvine City Council District 1 | Sukhee Kang vs. Melinda Liu vs. John Park |
| Irvine City Council District 5 | Steven Alves vs. Julie Glossbrenner vs. Anthony Kuo vs. Betty Martinez Franco vs. Byron Salvatierra |
| Irvine City Council District 6 | Scotty Hong vs. Kathleen Treseder |
| Laguna Beach City Council At-large Vote for 3 | Nick Aronoff, Edward Bayuk, Joy Berry, Ashley Cintas, Sue Kempf, Karen Martin, Mark Orgill, Laura Parisi, Alex Rounaghi |
| Laguna Hills City Council, District 1 | Harry Huggins vs. Laura Thies |
| Laguna Hills City Council, District 4 | Tiffany Boccieri vs. Michael Caputo vs. Valerie Anne Geller vs. Scott Miller |
| Laguna Woods City Council At-large Vote for 2 | Annie McCary, Carol Moore, Sue Quam |
| La Habra City Council At-large Vote for 2 | James Gomez, Miles C. Matias, Jose Medrano, Susan Pritchard |
| Lake Forest City Council, District 2 | George Giurguis Azer vs. Brandon Council vs. Becky Keene vs. Brittany Thompson vs. Benjamin Yu |
| Lake Forest City Council, District 3 | Tom Grable vs. Anil D. Patel |
| Lake Forest City Council, District 4 | Shari M. Rhodes vs. Amy Stevens |
| La Palma City Council, District 2 | Andrew Kim vs. Nitesh P. Patel |
| La Palma City Council, District 4 | Jonathan Dinwiddie vs. Mary Paningsoro |
| Los Alamitos City Council, District 4 | Shelley Hasselbrink vs. Joe Hastie |
| Los Alamitos City Council, District 5 | John M. Delavigne vs. Emily Hibard |
| Mission Viejo City Council, District 1 | Robert Ruesch vs. Kristen Wilcox |
| Mission Viejo City Council, District 2 (Special) | Saga Conroy vs. Peter Molinari |
| Mission Viejo City Council, District 3 | Cynthia Vasquez vs. Bryan Zahn |
| Mission Viejo City Council, District 4 (Special) | Laura Lacko vs. James Morrison |
| Newport Beach City Council, District 1 | Tina Babajanians vs. Joe Stapleton |
| Newport Beach City Council, District 3 | Walter Stahr vs. Tim Stoaks vs. Erik Weigand |
| Newport Beach City Council, District 6 | Andrew P. Gerken vs. Lauren Kleiman |
| Mayor of Orange | Arianna Barrios vs. Dan Slater |
| Orange City Council, District 1 | Ernie Glasgow vs. Albert Ricci vs. Brandy Romero vs. Jonathan St Clair |
| Serrano Water District, Division 4 | Frederick Fascenelli vs. Patrick O'Hara |
| Placentia City Council, District 2 | Santosh Sabnis vs. Julie Suchard vs. Matt Waugh |
| Placentia City Council, District 4 | James Burandt vs. Chad Wanke |
| Rancho Santa Margarita City Council, District 1 | Josh Bastian vs. Nicholas Reese |
| Rancho Santa Margarita City Council, District 2 | Anne Figueroa vs. Rod Ganjifard vs. Natalie Guse |
| Rossmoor Community Services District Board At-large Vote for 2 | Jody L. Roubanis, Jo Shade, Konya Vivanti |
| Mayor of San Clemente | Victor Cabral vs. Shane Hirschman vs. Kathy Ward |
| San Clemente City Council, District 1 | Steve Camp vs. Donna Vidrine vs. Aaron Washington |
| San Clemente City Council, District 2 | Mark Enmeier vs. Steve Knoblock |
| San Juan Capistrano City Council, District 2 | Erin Beyer vs. Jeff Moore |
| Mayor of Santa Ana | Valerie Amezcua vs. Dan Shimell vs. Dwayne Shipp |
| Santa Ana City Council Ward 2 | Selica Diaz vs. Ben Vazquez |
| Santa Ana City Council Ward 4 | Phil Bacerra vs. Sandra De Anda |
| Santa Ana City Council Ward 6 | Giovanni Chavez vs. Isuri Ramos |
| Seal Beach City Council, District 1 | Scott Davis vs. Perla Mendoza vs. Matt Smith vs. Matthew Terry |
| Stanton City Council, District 1 | Thomas M. Frazier vs. Donald Torres |
| Stanton City Council, District 3 | Debora Donathan vs. Dewayne A. Normand vs. Marlon-Ray Velasco |
| Mayor of Tustin | Letitia Clark vs. Austin Lumbard |
| Tustin City Council, District 3 | Thomas James Reed vs. Ray Schnell |
| Mayor of Westminster | Kimberly Ho vs. Nguyen Phuong Hung vs. Carlos Manzo vs. Chi Charlie Nguyen vs. Charles S. Shipp |
| Westminster City Council, District 1 | Mike Fenton vs. David Johnson vs. Amy Phan West |
| Westminster City Council, District 4 | Kelly Daniels vs. Khai Dao vs. Loan Nguyen vs. Namquan Nguyen |
| Yorba Linda City Council At-large Vote for 2 | Janice Lim, Robert R. Pease II, Sean Phayakapong, Raymond Potter, Carlos Rodriguez |
Also on every Orange County ballot: Governor, the other statewide offices, U.S. House and legislative districts, and the statewide propositions.
California local races are nonpartisan, so no party labels are printed. Most county offices were decided outright in the June 2 primary; only runoffs and November-only contests appear here.
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