The Irvine Special Election to Replace Mayor-Elect Agran will be District 5 Only
Over the weekend, I got a text message saying that the Irvine special election to replace Mayor-Elect Larry Agran’s council seat must be an at-large election because the district Agran lives in is District 5 which wasn’t a part of this election cycle’s available seats. The argument is the specail election must be from the same electoral territory as the vacancy, which means any of the council or mayor candidates who lost could run for the seat but would have to reside in District 5 to run for election in 2026.
But Irvine seems to have handled this possibility when District elections were formalized. Here’s the ordinance, which the terms of a special election bolded:
https://theliberaloc.com/2024/11/18/the-irvine-special-election-to-replace-mayor-elect-agran-will-be-district-5-only/