Editing Garden Grove, California (section)

==Government==
===Local government===
{| class="wikitable"
|+'''[https://ggcity.org/city-council 2024-25 City Council]'''
Mayor: Stephanie Klopfenstein
!District
!Incumbent
|-
|District 1
|George S. Brietigam III
|-
|District 2
|Phillip Nguyen
|-
|District 3
|Cindy Ngoc Tran
|-
|District 4
|Joe DoVinh
|-
|District 5
|Yesenia Muneton
|-
|District 6
|Ariana Arestegui
|}
{{see also|List of mayors of Garden Grove, California}}
Garden Grove uses a [[council-manager]] form of government. In July 2015, the city was sued by a resident who claimed that the longstanding at-large elections had affected the Latino vote and was in violation of the [[California Voting Rights Act]]. On January 26, 2016, the city council voted to settle the lawsuit, and therefore adopted that council members would be voted by district (six districts total) and no longer at-large; the mayor, however, will continue to be elected at-large.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vo|first=Thy|title=Garden Grove Mayor Will Continue to be Elected on At-Large Basis|url=http://voiceofoc.org/2016/01/garden-grove-mayor-will-continue-to-be-elected-on-at-large-basis/|access-date= December 13, 2016|newspaper=The Voice of OC|date=January 27, 2016}}</ref> The [[city council]] consists of [[mayor]] Stephanie Klopfenstein, George S. Brietigam III, Phillip Nguyen, Cindy Ngoc Tran, Joe DoVinh, Yesenia Muneton, and Ariana Arestegui.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City Council {{!}} City of Garden Grove |url=https://ggcity.org/city-council |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=ggcity.org}}</ref> According to the city's most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city's various funds had $206.0 million in revenues, $193.0 million in expenditures, $1,098.9 million in total assets, $251.5 million in total liabilities, and $196.3 million in cash and investments.<ref name="City of Garden Grove CAFR">{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.garden-grove.ca.us/internet/pdf/finance/cafr_08.pdf|title=City of Garden Grove CAFR}}</ref>

===Federal, state, and county representation===
In the [[California State Senate]], Garden Grove is split between two districts<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=ArcGIS Web Application |url=https://ocvote.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3233540be31b4dd4bb6b114317d7ead4 |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=ocvote.maps.arcgis.com}}</ref>:

* [[California's 34th senatorial district]], represented by [[Tom Umberg|Democrat Tom Umberg]] since 2018.
* [[California's 36th senatorial district]], represented by [[Tony Strickland|Republican Tony Strickland]] since 2025.

In the [[California State Assembly]], Garden Grove is in {{Representative|caad|70|fmt=adistrict}}.

In the [[United States House of Representatives]], Garden Grove is in {{Representative|cacd|45|fmt=district}}.

Additionally, in the [[Orange County Board of Supervisors]], Garden Grove is split between two districts<ref name=":0" />:

* Orange County's 1st district, represented by [[Janet Nguyen]] since 2024 
* Orange County's 2nd district, represented by [[Vicente Sarmiento]] since 2023

===Politics===
According to the [https://ocvote.gov/ Orange County Registrar of Voters], as of May 15, 2025, Garden Grove has 94,969 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, 26,604 (36.56%) are registered Democrats, 21,449 (29.48%) are registered Republicans, and 21,941 (30.15%) have declined to state a political party/are independents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Experience |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/cd9f3c5183514912af58b66dc9b37744/page/Map-Central-Main/?views=Daily-Stats%E2%80%8B |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=experience.arcgis.com}}</ref>
Donald Trump won Garden Grove by 2.5 percent in 2024 after voting for Biden by 1 percent in 2020.
Although Democrat [[Kamala Harris]] easily won California and also won Orange County in the [[2016 United States Senate election in California|2016 United States Senate election]], Democrat [[Loretta Sanchez]] easily won Garden Grove by a 67%–33% margin, her widest margin of victory for any city in Orange County.<ref name="Loretta Sanchez Garden Grove">{{cite web|url=https://www.ocvote.com/fileadmin/live/gen2016/sov.pdf |title=SOV.xls |publisher=www.ocvote.com |date=2016 |access-date=May 31, 2020}}</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 Garden Grove is listed below:
{| class="wikitable"
|+2023 UCR Data<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Data |url=https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250512145102/https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/ |archive-date=2025-05-12 |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=cde.ucr.cjis.gov |language=en}}</ref>{{fv|date=May 2025}}
!
!Aggravated Assault
!Homicide
!Rape
!Robbery
!Burglary
!Larceny Theft
!Motor Vehicle Theft
!Arson
|-
|Garden Grove
|189
|2
|25
|88
|474
|1,544
|384
|14
|}