Elections ’94 : CONGRESS : County’s All-Republican Delegation Easily Survives Intact : Dornan’s race is closest, and it’s no contest. The other five incumbents win by ratios of two or three to one.

As Republicans across the nation rolled up big gains in the House of Representatives, Orange County’s congressional incumbents were coasting to easy victories Tuesday, with all six expected to retain their seats.

The returns showed the county’s Republican incumbents leading their Democratic and third-party challengers by wide margins. That held true even in the closest race, in the 46th Congressional District, with Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove) comfortably ahead of Democrat Mike Farber, a Santa Ana businessman who had waged a relentless campaign against the pugnacious conservative, and Libertarian Richard G. Newhouse.

Dornan called the nationwide Republican sweep a “great moment in American history.”

Farber attributed Dornan’s apparent easy victory to a “tremendous media blitz,” particularly in the final days of the campaign.

In each of the county’s other congressional districts, the results were even more lopsided, with the congressmen outdistancing their rivals by ratios of two or even three to one.

In the 45th Congressional District, which takes in northwest Orange County, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican incumbent, appeared to have defeated his Democratic opponent, attorney Brett Williamson.

Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) was savoring his victory and that of his fellow Republicans.

“It appears that there’s a wave sweeping across Orange County,” he said, wading into a crowd of GOP celebrants at the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa. “We Republicans in Orange County like to ride the waves. We also like to make waves.”

Williamson, who waged an aggressive, well-organized campaign, had attacked Rohrabacher’s support for Proposition 187 and his voting record on such issues as crime and the environment.

In the 41st Congressional District, which includes a sliver of northern Orange County as well as sections of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, Rep. Jay C. Kim (R-Diamond Bar), the one-term incumbent, easily survived a challenge from Democrat Ed Tessier, an urban redeveloper.

Kim, the first Korean American elected to Congress, ran a low-key campaign and never seemed in danger of losing his seat, despite a continuing investigation into possible violations of federal election, tax and labor laws related to his former engineering firm.

In the 39th Congressional District, which straddles northern Orange and southern Los Angeles counties, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) was well ahead of his opponents, Democrat R.O. (Bob) Davis and Libertarian Jack Dean.

It was the same story in the 47th District in central and coastal Orange County, where Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach) was headed toward a resounding victory over Democrat Gary Kingsbury and Libertarian Victor A. Wagner Jr.

And in the 48th District, which includes parts of southern Orange County and sections of Riverside and San Diego counties, Rep. Ron Packard (R-Oceanside) was easily outpacing his Democratic opponent, Andrei Leschick, as well as Peace and Freedom candidate Donna White.

But it was the 46th District that drew most of the funding and grabbed most of the headlines in the county’s congressional races this year.

Dornan and Farber had waged a heated, highly personal battle for the voters of the central Orange County district, which takes in portions of Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. Together, they papered the district with mailers, although Dornan outspent his opponent by a ratio of nearly 10 to one.