List of Council, Mayoral Candidates Swells to 260 : Election: Extended filing period comes to close. Another 209 people are attempting to win seats on school boards.

The small army of candidates vying for seats on city councils and school boards throughout Orange County grew even larger on Wednesday.

In all, 260 people will vie for the 73 available council seats and six mayoral posts on Nov. 8, and 209 people will run for election in 30 school districts.

Because eligible incumbents in 20 cities chose not to run for reelection in November, including the mayors of Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Orange and Garden Grove, last Friday’s filing deadline for their council or mayoral races was required by state law to extend through Wednesday.

The deadline for filing in 10 school board races was extended for the same reason.

The filing extension meant that already crowded fields in some cities grew even more crowded. Most notably, in Anaheim 17 candidates are vying for two open seats; in Huntington Beach, 23 candidates are competing for four seats, and in Santa Ana, eight people are seeking the seat vacated by Mayor Daniel H. Young.

The county registrar of voters said Wednesday that it is impossible to know whether a record number of people are running in Orange County races or whether a record number of incumbents are sitting it out.

The only cities not forced to extend the filing deadline were Irvine, Newport Beach, Placentia, Stanton and Westminster.

In Huntington Beach, where there are four open seats, City Clerk Connie Brockway said it is unusual to have two eligible incumbents opting not to run. Mayor Linda Moulton Patterson is running for the 2nd District seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, and Councilman Earle Robitaille chose not to run again.

The changing of the guard is apparent in other cities as well.

In addition to Patterson, other mayors not up for reelection are Santa Ana’s Young, Garden Grove’s Frank Kessler and Orange’s Gene Beyer.

Longtime council members not running again include Yorba Linda’s Henry W. Wedea, Laguna Beach’s Lida Lenney and Robert F. Gentry, and San Juan Capistrano’s Gary L. Hausdorfer.

School Board Candidates

Trustees will be elected Nov. 8 in 30 school and community college districts. Last Friday’s initial filing deadline was extended to Wednesday because some incumbents decided not to seek reelection. Here are the candidates in eight districts who filed campaign papers by the Wednesday deadline:

Anaheim City

(3 seats)

Tonya Castleman

Celia Dougherty *

Norma W. Friese

Herb (Doc) Griffith

Benny Hernandez

Todd E. Kaudy

John Luckett

Basilio Moran

Betty Patterson *

Gregory R. Ramsay

Patrice P. Roggenkamp

Frank Rosales

Michael Valenti

Brea Olinda Unified

(4 seats)

Cliff Berning

Janae Brolin

Brian R. Burt

Teresa Hampson

Kenneth A. Kegel

Willie McMillian

Carol Norum

Barbara Paxton *

Huntington Beach Union High School

(3 seats)

James M. Ball

Bonnie Castrey *

Barbara Johnson

Curt Jones

John R. Malpass

Leon E. McKinney

Kenneth Metro

Ed L. Stencel

Joseph J. Wagner

Laguna Beach Unified

(3 seats)

S. Lee Winocur Field

Ronald C. Harris

Karen Linden *

Susan Mas *

Barbra B. Norton

Catherine L. Smythe

Kathryn A. Turner

Los Alamitos Unified

(2 seats)

Matthew Duggan *

Diane Escalante Gilkenson

Kathi O’Brien

Michael Pintek

Ocean View

(3 seats)

Bryan Bridges

Gordon Busch

Carol Kanode

Karen E. Koelzer

Eugene (Geno) Mulcahy

Tracy Pellman *

Jim Peters

Daniel T. Villella

Pam Walker

Tustin Unified

(2 seats)

Jonathan W. Abelove

Jane Bauer *

Nancy Cast

Nimesh Desai

Robert Louis Douglas

Karen M. Judkin

William Stracker

Gloria Tuchman *

Short term (1 seat)

Hilary J. Baker

Malcolm D. Jones

David A. Lampert

Robert D. Machado

Gail Michelsen

Jon H. Soeder

Westminster

(3 seats)

Lynn Covey

Laurie De Koning

Stephanie Erickson

Lorenzo (Larry) Luerra

Sheryl Neugebauer *

Anthony Powelczak

Sondra D. Rinker

Jeanne Salinas

Michael J. Verrengia

* Indicates incumbent

Source: Orange County Registrar of Voters

Mayoral, Council Candidates

Residents in 28 cities will vote Nov. 8 to elect council members and, in some cases, mayors. In 20 of those cities, the deadline for candidates to return election papers was extended from Friday to Wednesday because an incumbent did not seek reelection. Here are the candidates in those cities:

Anaheim

(2 seats) Paul Bostwick

Phyllis R. Boydstun

Loretta Sanchez Brixey

Sharon A. Ericson

David L. Keeler

Jeff Kirsch

Phillip Knypstra

Leonard Lahtinen

Jason LeVecke

Lou Lopez

Shirley McCracken

Keith Olesen

John Russo

Edward Skinner

Jerry R. Stoces

Mitchell T. Tracy

Bob Zemel

Brea

(3 seats)

Lynn Daucher

Burnie Dunlap *

Sandra Varner Nolte

Glenn G. Parker *

Marty Simonoff

Steven C. Vargas

William M. Vega

William T. Watson

Buena Park

(3 seats)

Larry Barstow

Arthur C. Brown *

Wiley S. Drake

Marilyn Kietzman

Patsy Marshall

Gerald Sigler

Larry T. Wieck

Leslie McAdams

Costa Mesa

(2 seats)

Bob Brady

Peter F. Buffa *

Lynn David Clements

Michael Collier

Libby Cowan

Mark Korando

Gary Monihan

Janet McCammon

Michael Scheafer

Chris Steel

James Wysopal

Cypress

(3 seats)

Walter K. Bowman *

Steven Bradley

Tom Carroll

Reynold Elkin

Charles Hicks Jr.

Mary Ann Jones

Alice Spatz

Garden Grove

Mayor

Bart Blankesley

Bruce A. Broadwater

Ho Chung

Josh McIntosh

Kelly Sherwood

Al Snook

Huntington Beach

(4 seats)

George E. Arnold

Ralph Bauer *

Jonothon M. Cone

Shirley S. Dettloff

Thomas P. Doney

David P. Garofalo

Peter M. Green

Richard A. Henderson

Paul C. Horgan

Edward H. Kerins

Vida L. Martin

Steven M. Matus

Mary Mays-McCaughey

Susie Newman

Roy H. Richardson

Steven A. Sherman

Peter B. Schworer

Daris L. Steen Jr.

Jim W. Thomas

John A. Thomas

Dan A. Traxler

Emil Jinx Varona

Maureen R. Werft

La Habra

(2 seats)

David M. Cheverton *

Rose Hernandez Espinoza

Kent A. Roberts

Dorothy May Rush

Paul G. Thornburg

La Palma

(2 seats)

Christian Basquette

Kenneth A. Blake

Alta E. Duke

Charlene Hatakeyama

Gerald L. Patton Sr.

Laguna Beach

(3 seats)

Wayne Baglin

Ann Cristoph *

Steve Dicterow

Paul Freeman

Ronald Harris

Beth Leeds

Mel Owens

Mark Petersen

John Schug

Laguna Hills

(3 seats)

Cindy Greengold

Saeid R. Hariri

R. Craig Scott *

Randal J. Bressette *

Grant Marcus

Charmane Riggs

Laguna Niguel

(2 seats)

Patricia C. Bates *

Paul Christiansen

Greg Cox

Harvey Holden

Linda Lindholm

Sandra Miller

Mary Ann Malamut

Eddie Rose

Richard Taylor

Lake Forest

(3 seats)

Tom Bokosky

Richard T. Dixon *

David Ferber Jr.

Robert Forsberg

Joseph Hernandez Jr.

Peter Herzog

Mark Malatesta

Kathryn McCullough

Marcia Rudolph *

Venturis Shaw

DeWayne Stark

Thomas Whaling

Los Alamitos

(3 seats)

Victor D’Agostino

Timothy A. Harris

Alice Jempsa *

Kevin McKinney

Marilynn Poe

Frank Varnum

Robert P. Wahlstrom *

Mission Viejo

(3 seats)

Sherri Butterfield

Larry Gilbert

Karen Irvine

Neil Lonzinger

Tom Potocki

Larry Smith

Susan Withrow *

Orange

Mayor

Fred L. Barrera

Joanne Coontz

Juan Pablo Serrano-Nieblas

Council (2 seats)

Michael Alvarez

Mara Brandman

David Johnson

Mark Murphy *

Adolfo Perez Jr.

Gregory M. Reynolds

Corinne Schreck

Dan Slater

Joseph Vanderhoff

James Wronski

San Clemente

(3 seats)

Patrick M. Ahle

Joseph Anderson *

Steve Apodaca

Truman Benedict *

James Dahl

George Moulison

Jamie Rogers

San Juan Capistrano

(3 seats)

Steven Dallas

Philipe Delgado Jr.

John Greiner

Wyatt Hart

Tim Holsten

Gil Jones *

Serge Kohan

Carlos Negrete

Mario Pina

David Swerdlin

Santa Ana

Mayor

Ann Avery Andres

Arthur A. Castro

Sal Mendoza

Miguel A. Pulido

John M. Raya

James Richards

Joseph Wagstaff

Randell Young

Yorba Linda

(2 seats)

John M. Gullixson *

Chris Norris

Todd Tande

Gene Wisner

* Indicates incumbent

Source: Individual cities