An Early Look at the 2022 Irvine Elections
General Municipal Elections in the City of Irvine will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, for the election of the Mayor and two members of the City Council. These positions are currently elected by Irvine citizens at large and are nonpartisan.
The Mayor serves a term of two years, while City Councilmembers each serve a term of four years. This year, Irvine residents will cast votes for the position of Mayor, currently held by Farrah Khan, and two City Council seats, currently held by Anthony Kuo and Larry Agran.
While the following candidates have already announced and some have been actively campaigning for some time, other candidates may still join the race since the candidate filing deadline is open from July 18, 2022, through August 12, 2022. Therefore, consider the information below to be preliminary and subject to change.
The current candidates for the office of Mayor are:
- Katherine Daigle
- Luis Huang
- Farrah Khan (Incumbent)
- Simon Moon
The current candidates for the City Council are:
- Larry Agran (Incumbent)
- Anshul Garg
- Scott Hansen
- Anthony Kuo (Incumbent)
- John Park
- Navid Sadigh
- Kathleen Treseder
Former Irvine Mayor, Christina Shea has announced in recent social media posts her intent to pull papers to run for City Council today, July 18th.
Irvine Unified School District
There is also an Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) School Board election scheduled for November 8, 2022. The filing period for School Board candidates also begins July 18, 2022, and ends August 12, 2022. In this year’s election, the open seats are for Trustee Areas 2 and 4. The Incumbent in Trustee Area 2 (in green below) is Sharon Wallin, and the Incumbent in Area 4 (in blue below) is Ira Glasky.
Want to participate in the Irvine School Board meetings? IUSD School Board Meetings are typically scheduled on the first and third Tuesday of each month and start at 6:30 p.m. Regular meetings are broadcast live on Cox Channel 39 and IUSD’s live stream. In addition, board meeting agendas and past meeting videos can be accessed here.
Irvine Watchdog Election Coverage
The Irvine Watchdog will publish regular election updates as we have in the past. As a nonpartisan 501(c) 3 organization, we do not endorse, oppose, or support any candidate. We host a candidate’s forum each election cycle where all ballot eligible candidates are invited to participate. This forum is recorded, and the candidate responses to resident-submitted questions are tabulated and reported on by Irvine Watchdog. More information on this year’s event will be forthcoming.
As we have in the past, we will again track candidate campaign finance donations and the “dark money” funneled through various Political Action Committees (PACs) and Independent Expenditures (IE) in our local election. To help with this, we ask Irvine residents to send us pictures of direct mail they receive from candidates that include the PAC committee name or ID number.
[Read: Dark Money in Irvine Elections – Irvine Watchdog]
Stay tuned for more detailed election coverage as this year’s election begins to heat up over the summer months.
2 Comments
Luis4Irvine
July 19, 2022 at 6:22 amIWD will have the easiest time tracking my campaign money:
My campaign will be receiving a total of $0 dark money Super PAC help.
My campaign currently has no plans to raise money for independent expenditures. I will be self-funded, and if anything, I will be crowdfundingmy campaign with $5 or $10 donations from supporters and volunteers. I will refused any and all $575 max contributions.
I am committing to Irvine residents. I will never be bought and paid for by any corporate influence. I only seek to serve the good folx in my community. All 300K of y’all.
For campaign updates, feel free to visit https://www.instagram.com/LuisHuang4Irvine
Dee Fox
July 19, 2022 at 11:31 pmWho is Simon Moon? This should be an easy choice. Farrah Khan has done enough damage. All American Asphalt is still standing and she has done nothing. My heart broke for those kids that came before her and begged her to do something. They spoke about two classmates that died from cancer. We will never know if the toxic fumes that these kids took in every day had anything to do with it, BUT we do know, kids lives are at risk every day that this plant remains open. Obviously, we all are! And what did our Mayor, Farrah Khan say as she spouts about Irvine being the safest city, that there is no proof that these kids got cancer because of the Asphalt Plant. Well, ya know what? There is no proof that they didn’t get cancer because of AAA either. So why take chances with peoples lives when you have the power to shut them down. A public nuisance, hundreds, if not thousands of complaints, what more do you need? Let them take the City to court if they want. This would be one case that the people would have no problem with paying for. But instead, Farrah Khan, Tammy Kim, Anthony Kuo, and the thief Mike Carroll would rather spend over $22 million NOT to put District Elections on the ballot for the people to decide. Something is wrong with our city council. They do not represent us, they certainly do not listen to us, and only recently did they remove the “rule of two” so Larry Agran can now be our voice. Well, we all know if she gets re-elected she will just reinforce it again for another two years. So, this selection for Mayor is quite simple, we need a voice for all of us, a grass roots candidate who will be beholden to nobody but us, no matter political affiliation or her own personal beliefs, if people came before her with concerns, she would act without question, especially concerning AAA! I support KATHERINE DAIGLE for MAYOR, hands down! Irvine has been put through enough these past few years and we need our community to feel safe again, in every way!
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