Irvine: who represents it, and who is running

California General Election (federal and state offices) consolidated with the City of Irvine General Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects city: Mayor (two-year term) and Council Districts 1, 5 and 6 (four-year terms), plus Measure D (ranked-choice voting for Mayor and Council elections after January 1, 2028). U.S. Representatives for CA-47 (2026 map); Governor (open seat) and other statewide offices; State Assembly District 73 (City Hall) among the legislative seats. State Senate District 37 is not up in 2026, and no U.S. Senate seat is up in California in 2026..

Holding office13
the sitting council
On the ballot18
6 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): California's 47th congressional district (City Hall) on both the 119th and the 2026 (120th) maps; districts covering part of the city on the 2026 map: CA-47 — Dave Min (Democratic)

1

Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Larry Agran ✉️ Elected Mayor → Running Independent City of Irvine - City Council
Maksim V Egorov Mayor Running Independent City of Irvine City Clerk - Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order), updated 2026-08-13, with candidate statements
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City Council Member — District 1

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Melinda Liu ✉️ Elected City Council Member → Running Independent District 1 City of Irvine - City Council
John Park City Council Member Running Independent District 1 City of Irvine City Clerk - Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order), updated 2026-08-13, with candidate statements
Sukhee Kang City Council Member Running Independent District 1 City of Irvine City Clerk - Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order), updated 2026-08-13, with candidate statements
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City Council Member — District 5

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Betty Martinez Franco ✉️ Elected City Council Member → Running Independent District 5 City of Irvine - City Council
Anthony Kuo City Council Member Running Independent District 5 City of Irvine City Clerk - Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order), updated 2026-08-13, with candidate statements
Byron Salvatierra City Council Member Running Independent District 5 City of Irvine City Clerk - Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order), updated 2026-08-13, with candidate statements
Julie Glossbrenner City Council Member Running Independent District 5 City of Irvine City Clerk - Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order), updated 2026-08-13, with candidate statements
Steven Alves City Council Member Running Independent District 5 City of Irvine City Clerk - Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order), updated 2026-08-13, with candidate statements
4

City Council Member — District 6

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Kathleen Treseder ✉️ Elected City Council Member → Running Independent District 6 City of Irvine - City Council
Scotty Hong City Council Member Running Independent District 6 City of Irvine City Clerk - Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order), updated 2026-08-13, with candidate statements
5

City Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Mike Carroll ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent District 4 City of Irvine - City Council
William Go ✉️ Elected City Council Member Independent District 2 City of Irvine - City Council
6

Vice Mayor and City Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
James Mai ✉️ Elected Vice Mayor and City Council Member Independent District 3 City of Irvine - City Council
7

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Gavin Newsom Elected Governor Democratic Office of Governor Gavin Newsom - About
Steve Hilton Governor Running Republican California Secretary of State - Certified List of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election (certified 2026-08-27)
Xavier Becerra Governor Running Democratic California Secretary of State - Certified List of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election (certified 2026-08-27)
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State Assembly Member — AD-73

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Cottie Petrie-Norris Elected State Assembly Member → Running Democratic California State Assembly - Assemblymembers
Urson Russell State Assembly Member Running Republican California Secretary of State - Certified List of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election (certified 2026-08-27)
9

State Senator — SD-37

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Steven S. Choi Elected State Senator Republican California State Senate - Senators
10

U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Adam B. Schiff Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Alex Padilla Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0); senate.gov not used (403 to scripts per earlier agents)
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U.S. Representative — CA-47

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Dave Min Elected U.S. Representative → Running Democratic U.S. House of Representatives - Directory of Representatives (California)
Jenny Rae Le Roux U.S. Representative Running Republican California Secretary of State - Certified List of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election (certified 2026-08-27)
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Notes on this record

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

  • Municipal: Mayor (elected at large, two-year term) and six Council Members. Roster from the City Council page (cityofirvine.gov/city-council, retrieved 2026-10-22): Mayor Larry Agran; Vice Mayor James Mai (District 3); Melinda Liu (District 1); William Go (District 2); Mike Carroll (District 4); Betty Martinez Franco (District 5); Kathleen Treseder (At-Large). Official @cityofirvine.org emails from each member's City page. Charter Amendment of March 5, 2024 expanded the Council from five to seven (mayor at large plus six districts); Districts 1-4 were first elected by district on November 5, 2024, District 5 at the April 15, 2025 special election; District 6 is first filled on November 3, 2026, replacing the at-large seat. Irvine offices are non-partisan: party null / partyShort "None". The City Manager, City Clerk and City Attorney are appointed.
  • City 2026 cycle: City Council Resolution No. 26-60 (June 9, 2026) called the General Municipal Election for Mayor and Council Districts 1, 5 and 6. Candidates from the City Clerk's "Qualified Candidates for Mayor and City Council (Ballot Order)", updated 2026-08-13, which also reproduces each candidate's statement; standsFor quotes those statements (no statement for Scotty Hong appears in the PDF). Campaign websites are as printed in the statements; the text layer is OCR, so "41rvine"/"Forlrvine" were read as "4Irvine"/"ForIrvine" (Liu, John Park, Glossbrenner) and those three domains were not opened. John Park's statement prints a phone number, not copied. Mayor and District 1 and 5 incumbents (Agran, Liu, Martinez Franco) are running; Treseder (At-Large) is running in District 6. Write-in candidates (period September 7 - October 20) are excluded. Measure D (ranked-choice voting) is on the same ballot. Elections are held in even-numbered years; next municipal election after this one: November 2028 (Mayor and Districts 2, 3 and 4), date per the Charter rule "first Tuesday following the first Monday in November", not separately published.
  • Congressional and legislative districts covering the city: Census geocoder (geocoding.geo.census.gov, coordinates endpoint) queried on a 0.01-degree grid over the city bounding box (440 points; 166 fall inside Irvine city, place 0636770) for both the Current_Current (2026 map: 120th Congress, 2026 legislative districts) and ACS2025_Current (119th Congress, 2024 legislative districts) vintages. Every in-city point is CA-47, State Senate District 37 and Assembly District 73 on both vintages, so one congressional district, one senate district and one assembly district cover the city. Slivers narrower than about 1 km could be missed. TIGERweb was not used (its robots.txt returned a WAF rejection). City Hall (Census address match, coordinates 33.68752,-117.8263) is CA-47, SD-37, AD-73 on both vintages; only City Hall's legislators are listed per the brief.
  • Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.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 a HEAD request). U.S. Senators Padilla (term to 2029) and Schiff (term to 2031) from the CC0 dataset. No U.S. Senate contest is on the 2026 SOS certified list.
  • Candidates (federal and state): California Secretary of State "Certified List of Candidates for the November 3, 2026, General Election", certified 2026-08-27, retrieved 2026-10-22. The list marks state-office incumbents with "*" (Petrie-Norris) but not federal ones; federal incumbency is from house.gov. Party preference and ballot designation as printed. Governor Newsom from gov.ca.gov/about (term-limited; Becerra vs Hilton). SD-37 Steven S. Choi from senate.ca.gov/senators (no SD-37 contest in 2026). AD-73 Cottie Petrie-Norris from assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers (running; vs Urson Russell).
  • Robots/terms: cityofirvine.gov robots.txt (standard Drupal) allows these pages; its Website Policies PDF states content is copyrighted by the City, download permitted for non-commercial use only, no mirroring without written permission - this restricts reuse of the City's candidate statements and photos (photos are linked only). house.gov, senate.ca.gov, assembly.ca.gov, gov.ca.gov robots allow these pages; geocoding.geo.census.gov, clerk.house.gov and unitedstates.github.io have no robots.txt (404); elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov returns S3 AccessDenied on /robots.txt (the PDF itself is public); tigerweb.geo.census.gov returned an F5 "Request Rejected" page on /robots.txt, so it was not used. Orange County Registrar (ocvote.gov) was not needed and not fetched. No terms accepted, nothing requested, no logins. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded; write-ins and primary losers excluded.
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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.