Orange County,often known by its initials O.C.,is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 3,186,989,making it the third-most-populous county in California,the sixth-most-populous in the United States,and more populous than 19 American states and Washington,D.C. Although largely suburban,it is the second-most-densely-populated county in the state behind San Francisco County. The county's three most-populous cities are Anaheim,Santa Ana,and Irvine,each of which has a population exceeding 300,000. Santa Ana is also the county seat. Six cities in Orange County are on the Pacific coast:Seal Beach,Huntington Beach,Newport Beach,Laguna Beach,Dana Point,and San Clemente.
Van Thai Tran is a Vietnamese American attorney and politician in California,formerly serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly,representing portions of Orange County. Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo were the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U.S. history until Joseph Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in December 2008. Tran took office one month before Vo did,making him the first Vietnamese American to serve in a state legislature. He served in the Assembly as Assistant Republican Leader.
Thomas George Harman is an American politician. He is a former Republican member of the California State Senate who had previously been a three-term member of the California State Assembly. Both seats represent portions of Orange County. From January 5 –November 30,2012,he served as Senate Republican Caucus Chair,the second-ranking leadership position among Senate Republicans.
Thomas John Umberg is an American politician who serves in the California State Senate. A Democrat,he represents the 34th district,which encompasses parts of northern Orange County and a small portion of Long Beach. Previously,he served in the California State Assembly,representing the 69th District. He is a partner at Umberg Zipser LLP in Orange County.
John Vern Briggs was an American politician in the state of California. A Republican,he served in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate. He is perhaps best known for sponsoring Proposition 6 in 1978,also known as the Briggs Initiative,a failed measure which attempted to remove all gay or lesbian school employees or their supporters from their jobs.
Audra Strickland is an American politician who served as a member of the California State Assembly for the 37th district from December 6,2004 to November 30,2010. She succeeded her then-husband,Tony Strickland,who was term-limited. Before serving in the Assembly,she was a junior high school teacher for a year at Temple Christian School in Ventura,California.
Janet Q. Nguyen is an American politician who serves in the California State Senate. A Republican,she represents the 36th district,which includes coastal Orange County,Little Saigon,and parts of Los Angeles County. She previously was a member of the State Senate for the old 34th district from 2014 to 2018,before narrowly losing reelection to Tom Umberg.
Steven Seokho Choi is an American politician who served as a member of the California State Assembly representing the 68th Assembly District from 2016 to 2022. A Republican from Orange County,California,he previously served two terms as Mayor of Irvine,California. In 1998,he became the first Asian-American elected to the Irvine Unified School Board and served two consecutive terms there before becoming the first Asian American to have been elected to a four-year term on the Irvine City Council and one of two Korean Americans on the council.
Jose Luis Correa is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 46th congressional district since 2017. His district is based in Orange County and includes the communities of Anaheim and Santa Ana,as well as parts of Orange. A member of the Democratic Party,Correa represented the 34th district in the California State Senate from 2006 to 2014.
Bruce Kenneth Nestande was an American politician who served as a Republican California State Assemblyman and Orange County Supervisor.
Kenneth W. Maddox,also known as Ken Lopez-Maddox is a former California State Assemblyman who served from 1998 until 2004,representing part of Orange County. After this term,he entered a State Senate primary,but was defeated by his opponent.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors is the five-member governing body of Orange County,California along with being the executive of the county.
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Cook is an American politician and lawyer from California. She is the former mayor of Huntington Beach,California,and was the Democratic candidate for California's 46th congressional district in 2008. Cook was elected to the Huntington Beach City Council in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. She is president of the board of directors of the Post Carbon Institute.
Johannes Meindert Willem Moorlach is an American politician who served as a member of the California State Senate representing 37th Senate district,which includes portions of Orange County,from 2015 to 2020. He was narrowly defeated for reelection by Dave Min in 2020;he lost a 2021 special election to return to the Orange County Board of Supervisors;he withdrew from the 2022 election for Orange County Auditor-Controller;and he lost the 2022 election for Mayor of Costa Mesa. A Republican,he previously served on the Orange County Board of Supervisors from December 5,2006,to January 5,2015,and as Orange County Treasurer-Tax Collector from March 17,1995,to December 5,2006.
Marian C. Bergeson was an American politician from California. A Republican,she became the first woman to serve in both the California State Assembly and California State Senate,she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1978 to 1995,a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors from 1995 to 1996,and California State Secretary of Education from 1996 to 1999. In 1986,Marian Bergeson Elementary School in Laguna Niguel was named after her.
Lynn Daucher is a United States politician who was a Republican California State Assemblywoman from Orange County from 2000 until 2006 when she was term limited. That year,Daucher ran for the California State Senate seat being vacated by Joseph Dunn,but lost to Orange County Supervisor and former Assemblyman Lou Correa by 1,392 votes. Daucher formerly served as the director of the California Department of Aging.
Matthew Harper served as the 59th Mayor of Huntington Beach,California (2013-2014). Harper was elected to three terms to the Huntington Beach Union High School District Board of Trustees (1998-2010),one term to the Huntington Beach City Council (2010-2014) and two terms to the California State Assembly (2014-2018).
The 2018 California's 39th congressional district election was held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,with a primary election being held on June 5,2018.
The 2018 Orange,County,California District Attorney election took place on June 5,2018 for the first round. Because no candidate received a majority in the first round,a runoff took place November 6,2018,to elect the Orange County,California District Attorney. County-level elections in California are officially nonpartisan. Because no candidate received a majority,a runoff was held on November 6,2018.
The 2022 Orange County Board of Supervisors elections were held on June 7 and November 8,2022. Three of the five seats of the Orange County,California Board of Supervisors were up for election. This was the first set of elections held after the 2020 redistricting cycle. County elections in California are officially nonpartisan. A two-round system was used for the election,starting with the first round in June. Runoffs were held in all three districts,as no candidate managed to reach the 50% + 1 threshold.
