OC Board of Supervisors Election Night Results 2024

Voters passim Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Westminster and Fountain Valley are picking a caller region supervisor tonight. 

Initial results soon aft 8 p.m connected Election Night show State Senator Janet Nguyen was successful the pb with 60% of the vote, followed by Cypress City Councilwoman Frances Marquez with 39% – a quality of 29,612 votes.

Whoever wins volition beryllium taking implicit for Andrew Do, who precocious resigned and pleaded blameworthy to national bribery charges amidst questions connected what happened to implicit $10 cardinal successful pandemic alleviation funds that were meant to assistance provender the elderly. 

[Read: Former OC Supervisor Andrew Do Pleads Guilty to Bribery Scheme]

His condemnation has not yet been decided, and aggregate audits are presently underway astatine the region to fig retired much of however the wealth was diverted. 

Both candidates person pledged to enactment an independent, extracurricular probe into the region government, on with measures to perchance fto the region auditor-controller reassert oversight of region supervisors that was stripped distant years ago. 

[Read: Santana: The Political Ghost of Andrew Do Haunts 1st District Race]

If Nguyen wins, she’ll beryllium returning to a spot she near a decennary agone amidst questions implicit her starring the region takeover of the nationalist healthcare strategy for the aged and the poor. 

[Read: OC Grand Jury Issues Scathing Report connected CalOptima]

She’s besides faced questions astir her connections to Do, who utilized to beryllium her main of unit and 1 of her tightest governmental allies earlier a nationalist falling retired astir 10 years ago. 

Nguyen massively outraised and outspent Marquez implicit the people of the campaign, raising $880,000 to Marquez’s $225,000 and receiving implicit $600,000 worthy of advertizing enactment from the region sheriff’s deputies union.  

Marquez has promised to spearhead reforms successful the region – calling connected expanding the powers of the region morals committee and eliminating discretionary spending funds for supervisors, similar the ones Do utilized to nonstop immoderate of the wealth that was aboriginal utilized for bribes. 

Noah Biesiada is simply a Voice of OC newsman and corps subordinate with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him astatine [email protected] oregon connected Twitter @NBiesiada.

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