2025 Irvine elections
April 15, 2025
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1 of 7 seats on City Council 4 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Party Gains: Democratic gain No election | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Irvine special election was held on April 15, 2025, to fill a vacancy on the Irvine City Council created when Councilmember Larry Agran was elected Mayor of Irvine in the November 2024 election and sworn in the following December.
Although Agran was elected at-large in 2022, the passage of Measure D in March 2024 restructured Irvine's electoral system. The measure expanded the City Council from five to seven members and transitioned elections from at-large to by-district. It also established that any vacancy in an at-large seat held by a councilmember residing in District 5 or 6 would be filled by a special election in that district.
As Agran resided in the newly created District 5, the vacancy was filled through a by-district special election on April 15, 2025. District 5 includes the neighborhoods of Rancho San Joaquin, University Park, Westpark, and Woodbridge.
Municipal elections in California are officially nonpartisan, and candidates' party affiliations do not appear on the ballot.