Editing Brea, California (section)

==Government==
[[Image:Brea cityhall-external.jpg|right|thumb|Brea City Hall, Civic and Cultural Center]]
[[File:Brea City Hall (3127922391).jpg|thumb|right|The old Brea City Hall in the 1940s]]

===Local===
Brea is governed by a [[council-manager]] system. The five-member city council is elected to four-year terms in elections held every two years to fill alternately two and three seats.<ref name=council>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.brea.ca.us/article.cfm?id=36 |title=City Council |publisher=City of Brea |access-date=October 27, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061011075658/http://www.ci.brea.ca.us/article.cfm?id=36 |archive-date=October 11, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The council is made up of the mayor, the mayor pro tem and three councilmembers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.brea.ca.us/section.cfm?id=230 |title=Brea City Council - 2005-2006 |publisher=City of Brea |access-date=October 27, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026033234/http://www.ci.brea.ca.us/section.cfm?id=230 |archive-date=October 26, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The council elects a mayor from the serving councilmembers to serve a one-year term as mayor. The city council hires a city manager to direct the city's departments and advise the council. The council appoints members of the Planning Commission; Parks, Recreation and Human Services Commission; Cultural Arts Commission, and Traffic Committee.<ref name=council/>

===Federal, State, and County Representation ===
In the [[United States House of Representatives]], Brea is split between {{Representative|cacd|45|fmt=district}},<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|35}}</ref> and {{Representative|cacd|40|fmt=district}}.<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|40}}</ref>

In the [[California State Assembly]], Brea resides within the [[California's 59th State Assembly district|59th Assembly District]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=ArcGIS Web Application |url=https://ocvote.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3233540be31b4dd4bb6b114317d7ead4 |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=ocvote.maps.arcgis.com}}</ref> represented by [[Phillip Chen|Republican Phillip Chen]].

In the [[California State Senate]], Brea is split between two districts<ref name=":0" />

* The [[California's 30th senatorial district|30th Senatorial District]], represented by [[Bob Archuleta|Democrat Bob Archuleta]].
* The [[California's 32nd senatorial district|32nd Senatorial District]], represented by [[Kelly Seyarto|Republican Kelly Seyarto.]]

In the [[Orange County Board of Supervisors]], Brea resides within the 4th District<ref name=":0" /> represented by [[Doug Chaffee (politician)|Doug Chaffee.]]

===Politics===
Brea is traditionally a Republican stronghold at the presidential level, Democratic nominee [[Joe Biden]] carried the city in 2020.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} According to the [https://ocvote.com Orange County Registrar of Voters], as of May 14, 2025, Brea has 30,626 registered voters.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Experience |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/cd9f3c5183514912af58b66dc9b37744/page/Map-Central-Main/?views=Daily-Stats%E2%80%8B |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=experience.arcgis.com}}</ref> Of those, 9,991 (40.33%) are registered Republicans, 7,370 (29.75%) are registered Democrats, and 6,466 (26.10%) have declined to state a political party or are independents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-gen-2018/politicalsub.pdf|title=CA Secretary of State – Report of Registration – October 22, 2018|website=ca.gov|access-date=February 16, 2019}}</ref>

=== Crime ===
The Uniform Crime Report (UCR), collected annually by the FBI, compiles police statistics from local and state law enforcement agencies across the nation. The UCR records Part I and Part II crimes. Part I crimes become known to law enforcement and are considered the most serious crimes including homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. Part II crimes only include arrest data.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Offense Definitions |url=https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/offense-definitions |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=FBI |language=en-us}}</ref> The 2023 UCR Data for Brea is listed below:
{| class="wikitable"
|+2023 UCR Data<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crime Data Explorer |url=https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend |website=FBI.gov}}</ref>
!
!Aggravated Assault
!Homicide
!Rape
!Robbery
!Burglary
!Larceny Theft
!Motor Vehicle Theft
!Arson
|-
|Brea
|51
|1
|11
|44
|174
|1,223
|99
|2
|}
{| class="wikitable"  style="float:right; margin:1em; font-size:95%;"
|+ Brea city vote<br /> by party in presidential elections
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Year
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[2020 United States presidential election|2020]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livevoterturnout.com/Orange/LiveResults/precincts_6.pdf|title=Precinct results |date=2020 |website=www.ocvote.com |access-date=November 27, 2020}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''50.52%''' ''12,801''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|47.54% ''12,046''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.95% ''493''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2016 United States presidential election|2016]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF THE VOTES CAST at the PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION November 8, 2016 in the County of Orange, State of California |url=https://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/live/gen2016/sov.pdf}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|44.55% ''8,724''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''48.17%''' ''9,432''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|7.28% ''1,426''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2012 United States presidential election|2012]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF THE VOTES CAST at the GENERAL ELECTION November 6, 2012 in the County of Orange, State of California |url=https://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/live/gen2012/sov-for-web.pdf}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|39.66% ''7,197''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''57.89%''' ''10,504''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|2.45% ''444''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2008 United States presidential election|2008]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Orange County Statement of Votes |url=https://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/user_upload/sov/gen2008/sov.pdf }}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|41.70% ''7,625''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''56.26%''' ''10,287''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|2.05% ''374''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2004 United States presidential election|2004]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Orange County Statement of Votes |url=https://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/user_upload/sov/e13/sov1.pdf}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|33.35% ''5,722''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''65.56%''' ''11,248''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.08% ''186''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2000 United States presidential election|2000]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=ORANGE COUNTY Statement of Votes  GENERAL ELECTION |url=https://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/user_upload/sov/gen2000/gen2000-SOV.pdf}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|34.59% ''5,408''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''61.71%''' ''9,649''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|3.70% ''579''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1996 United States presidential election|1996]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/statementofvote51996cali|title=Statement of vote|last=California. Secretary of State|date=March 30, 1968|publisher=Sacramento, Calif. : The Secretary|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|34.70% ''4,931''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''55.40%''' ''7,872''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|9.90% ''1,407''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1992 United States presidential election|1992]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/statementofvote31992cali|title=Statement of vote|last=California. Secretary of State|date=March 30, 1968|publisher=Sacramento, Calif. : The Secretary|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|28.91% ''4,686''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''48.09%''' ''7,796''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|23.00% ''3,728''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1988 United States presidential election|1988]]<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/statementofvote81988cali | title=Statement of the Vote| publisher=Sacramento, Calif. : The Secretary| year=1968}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|27.82% ''4,061''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''71.06%''' ''10,372''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.12% ''164''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1984 United States presidential election|1984]]<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/statementofvote61984cali | title=Statement of the Vote| publisher=Sacramento, Calif. : The Secretary| year=1968}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|21.26% ''2,976''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''77.96%''' ''10,913''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.79% ''110''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1980 United States presidential election|1980]]<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/statementofvote41980cali| title=Statement of the Vote| publisher=Sacramento, Calif. : The Secretary| year=1968}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|20.79% ''2,660''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''71.03%''' ''9,088''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|8.18% ''1,046''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1976 United States presidential election|1976]]<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/statementofvote1976cali | title=Statement of the Vote| publisher=Sacramento, Calif. : The Secretary| year=1968}}</ref>
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|33.24% ''2,983''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''65.24%''' ''5,855''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.48% ''133''
|}