Huntington Beach: who represents it, and who is running

California General Election (federal, state and county offices) consolidated with the City of Huntington Beach General Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects city: four at-large City Council seats (vote for 4; 11 qualified) and City Attorney (one candidate, unopposed). U.S. Representative for CA-42 (2026 map; covers the whole city); Governor (open seat) and other statewide offices; State Senate District 36 and State Assembly District 72 (City Hall; AD-72 open) among the legislative seats; Huntington Beach City School District Trustee Area 4 and other school and special districts. No U.S. Senate seat is up in California in 2026..

Holding office17

the sitting council

On the ballot21

8 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Huntington Beach is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): California's 47th congressional district (City Hall and the whole city) on the 119th-Congress map; California's 42nd congressional district (City Hall and the whole city) on the 2026 (120th, post-Proposition 50) map — Dave Min (Democratic)

City Attorney

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Mike Vigliotta Elected acclaimed	City Attorney → Running	Independent	city-wide	City of Huntington Beach

City Clerk

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Lisa Lane Barnes ✉️ Elected	City Clerk	Independent	city-wide	City of Huntington Beach

City Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Butch Twining ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	At-large	City of Huntington Beach
Chad Williams ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	At-large	City of Huntington Beach
Don Kennedy ✉️ Elected	City Council Member	Independent	At-large	City of Huntington Beach
Andrew Gruel ✉️ Elected	City Council Member → Running	Independent	At-large	City of Huntington Beach
Casey McKeon ✉️ Elected	Mayor → Running for City Council Member	Independent	At-large	City of Huntington Beach
Pat Burns ✉️ Elected	City Council Member → Running	Independent	At-large	City of Huntington Beach
Amory Hanson	City Council Member Running	Independent	At-large	Orange County Registrar of Voters
Ben Davis	City Council Member Running	Independent	At-large	Orange County Registrar of Voters
Brenda Glim	City Council Member Running	Independent	At-large	Orange County Registrar of Voters
Brian Burley	City Council Member Running	Independent	At-large	Orange County Registrar of Voters
Brian Thienes ✉️	City Council Member Running	Independent	At-large	Orange County Registrar of Voters
Erin Spivey	City Council Member Running	Independent	At-large	Orange County Registrar of Voters
Rosalind "Roz" Price	City Council Member Running	Independent	At-large	Orange County Registrar of Voters
Taryn Taddeo Palumbo	City Council Member Running	Independent	At-large	Orange County Registrar of Voters

City Treasurer

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jason Schmitt ✉️ Elected	City Treasurer	Independent	city-wide	City of Huntington Beach

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Gavin Newsom Elected	Governor	Democratic	Office of the Governor of California
Steve Hilton	Governor Running	Republican	Orange County Registrar of Voters
Xavier Becerra	Governor Running	Democratic	Orange County Registrar of Voters

State Assembly Member — AD-72

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Diane B. Dixon Elected	State Assembly Member	Republican		California State Assembly
Gracey Larrea-Van Der Mark ✉️ Elected	City Council Member → Running for State Assembly Member	Independent	AD-72	City of Huntington Beach
Chris Kluwe	State Assembly Member Running	Democratic		Orange County Registrar of Voters

State Senator — SD-36

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Tony Strickland Elected	State Senator → Running	Republican		California State Senate
Chris Duncan	State Senator Running	Democratic		Orange County Registrar of Voters

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Adam B. Schiff Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic		@unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Alex Padilla Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic		@unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)

U.S. Representative — CA-42

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Robert Garcia Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Brian Burley	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Orange County Registrar of Voters

U.S. Representative — CA-47

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Dave Min Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Municipal: seven-member City Council, all elected at large, four-year staggered terms; the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem are chosen annually by the Council. Roster, titles and term-end years from the City Council page (retrieved 2026-10-22): Mayor Casey McKeon (2026), Mayor Pro Tem Butch Twining (2028), Pat Burns (2026), Don Kennedy (2028), Gracey Larrea-Van Der Mark (2026), Chad Williams (2028), Andrew Gruel (appointed March 2025; 2026). Official @surfcity-hb.org emails are the page's own 'Email' links (Cloudflare-obfuscated in the HTML, decoded locally). Other elective city-wide offices: City Attorney (Mike Vigliotta, appointed February 2025, on the 2026 ballot unopposed), City Clerk (Lisa Lane Barnes, elected 2024) and City Treasurer (Jason Schmitt, appointed 2025; Alisa Backstrom won it in 2024). City offices are non-partisan: party null / partyShort 'None'.
City 2026 election: General Municipal Election 2026-11-03 consolidated with the statewide election. The OC Registrar proof list (printed 2026-08-28) gives contest 5092 'City of Huntington Beach, Member, City Council', vote for 4, 11 qualified, incumbents Gruel (Appointed to Vacancy), Van Der Mark, McKeon and Burns; and contest 5095 City Attorney, vote for 1, 1 qualified (Vigliotta). The City Clerk's Nomination Filing Log (updated 2026-08-10) and Ballot Order Listing (Secretary of State randomized drawing of 2026-08-13) agree name for name. McKeon, Burns and Gruel are running again; Van Der Mark did not file and is instead running for AD-72. Ballot designations are as printed on the OC list. Next municipal election after this one: November 2028 (Council seats of Twining, Kennedy and Williams, per their 2028 term ends; City Clerk and Treasurer, elected 2024), inferred from the four-year terms and not separately published.
standsFor quotes the Candidate Statements the OC Registrar publishes on its 'Candidate Filing Log with Statements' page (PDFs under ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/elections/GEN2026/cs/; that page loads its contest and candidate lists from ocvote.gov/bin/voting/, which robots.txt does not disallow). Statements exist for all 11 Council candidates, the City Attorney, both CA-42 candidates and both AD-72 candidates; none was filed for SD-36 or Governor in Orange County. Campaign websites and the one campaign email (Thienes) are as printed in the statements. Hanson's statement prints his age; nothing personal was copied.
Brian Burley (Trustee, Huntington Beach City School District) appears as a qualified candidate in two contests on the same OC proof list, U.S. Representative CA-42 and Huntington Beach City Council, and on the City Clerk's ballot order. Both rows are kept as printed; how that is resolved on the ballot was not checked.
Districts: Census geocoder (geocoding.geo.census.gov) matched City Hall (coordinates 33.677577,-118.001481) to Huntington Beach city, CD-42 (Current_Current vintage: 120th Congress, 2026 map), SD-36 and AD-72. A 0.01-degree grid (240 points, 33.615-33.755 N by 118.095-117.945 W; 69 fall inside Huntington Beach city) queried on both the Current_Current and ACS2025_Current (119th Congress) vintages: every in-city point is CD-42 on the 2026 map and CD-47 on the 119th map, and SD-36 on both; Assembly is AD-72 at 64 points and AD-70 at 5 points in the north-central part of the city (about 33.695-33.735 N, 117.985-118.005 W), the same on both vintages. So one congressional district, one senate district and two assembly districts cover the city; slivers narrower than about 1 km could be missed. Only City Hall's legislators are listed, per the brief (AD-70 not listed).
Federal: sitting Representatives from house.gov/representatives (California rows, retrieved 2026-10-22), bioguide ids from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json; photos linked from clerk.house.gov (each URL checked with one HEAD request). Dave Min (CA-47) currently represents the whole city but his 2026 race is in the new CA-47, which no longer includes Huntington Beach; Robert Garcia (current CA-42, Long Beach) is on the city's ballot in the new CA-42 against Brian Burley. Senators Padilla (term to 2029) and Schiff (term to 2031) from the CC0 dataset; senate.gov not fetched.
State: Governor Gavin Newsom from gov.ca.gov/about (term-limited; Becerra vs Hilton). SD-36 Tony Strickland from senate.ca.gov/senators, running against Chris Duncan. AD-72 Diane B. Dixon from assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers; she is not on the ballot, and the open seat is Chris Kluwe (Democratic) vs Councilmember Gracey Van Der Mark (Republican).
Candidate source: the Orange County Registrar of Voters Contest/Candidate Proof List (Qualified Candidates, printed 2026-08-28), which names each contest's incumbent and prints party preference and ballot designation. The California Secretary of State certified list (2026-08-27) at elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov was NOT fetched in this run: that host answers /robots.txt with 403, which this run treated as not allowed. Its URL is recorded as stateCandidateList for reference only; every candidate here rests on the OC list.
Robots/terms: www.huntingtonbeachca.gov has no robots.txt of its own (it 302-redirects to a 404 on cms3.revize.com/revize/huntingtonbeachca/robots.txt); cms3.revize.com/robots.txt disallows everything for all agents except .pdf/.doc/.docx/.ppt/.pptx files, so only the City's two election PDFs were fetched from that host and the Council headshots (which redirect there) were linked but not fetched. The City's Website Terms of Use (read first) grant no reuse licence and disclaim liability; footer '© Copyright 2026 All rights reserved'. ocvote.gov robots.txt (standard Drupal) allows every path used, and the site links no terms page. house.gov, senate.ca.gov, assembly.ca.gov and gov.ca.gov robots allow these pages; geocoding.geo.census.gov, clerk.house.gov, webapi.assembly.ca.gov and unitedstates.github.io serve no robots.txt (404). One plain User-Agent throughout; no blocks met. No terms accepted, nothing requested, no logins. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; write-ins and primary losers excluded. School and special-district offices skipped per the brief.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.