Editing Long Beach, California (section)

==Government==
{{See also|Government of Los Angeles County}}

===Municipal===
{{See also|Long Beach City Council}}
[[File:Long Beach Civic Center.jpg|thumb|Long Beach Civic Center, designed by [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Long Beach Civic Center City Hall and Port Headquarters |url=https://www.som.com/projects/long-beach-city-hall-and-port-headquarters/ |website=SOM}}</ref> and completed in 2019<ref>{{cite web |title=Civic Center Grand Opening |url=https://longbeach.gov/pages/city-news/civic-center-grand-opening/ |website=longbeach.gov |publisher=City of Long Beach |language=en}}</ref>]]
Long Beach is a California [[charter city]] using the [[Mayor–council government|mayor–council form of government]]. It is governed by nine City Council members, who are elected by district, and the [[Mayor of Long Beach|Mayor]], who is elected at-large since a citywide initiative passed in 1988. The City Attorney, City Auditor, and City Prosecutor are also elected positions. The city is supported by a budget of $2.3 billion, and has more than 5,500 employees.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.longbeach.gov | title=City of Long Beach Web Site | access-date=December 10, 2005 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051210194951/http://www.longbeach.gov/ | archive-date=December 10, 2005 | url-status=live }}</ref> Long Beach was first incorporated in 1888 with 59 buildings and a new school. Nine years later, dissatisfaction with [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]] and high taxes led to an abortive and short-lived disincorporation. Before the year 1897 was out, the citizens voted to reincorporate, and the 1897 date of incorporation is shown on the city seal.

Long Beach is a full-service city that provides nearly all of its own [[municipal services]], in contrast with a [[contract city]]. City hall provides a full range of traditional municipal services through the various departments that make up its staff of civil servants. In addition to its own police and fire departments, Long Beach provides:
* Municipal water supply and sewer service through the Long Beach Water Department, which has a water treatment plant within the city and an extensive [[reclaimed water]] system for parks and other landscaping<ref>{{cite web |title=Recycled Water Filling Stations |url=https://lbwater.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LBWDRecycledWaterFillingStations.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018202718/https://lbwater.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LBWDRecycledWaterFillingStations.pdf |archive-date=October 18, 2021 |url-status=live |website=Long Beach Water Department |date=January 4, 2017}}</ref>
* A Gas & Oil Department, which manages consumer natural gas service and infrastructure, as well as crude oil extraction subsidence control<ref name="LBGO">{{cite web |url=http://www.longbeach.gov/lbgo/ |title=Long Beach Gas & Oil |access-date=June 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527214847/http://www.longbeach.gov/lbgo/ |archive-date=May 27, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Health services through the Long Beach Health & Human Services Department, which handles both environmental health (such as restaurant/food inspection) and public health services. This is one of the only four municipal health departments in California (the other three being [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], and [[Vernon, California|Vernon]])
* Sanitation and recycling services through the Environmental Services Bureau in the Public Works Department<ref name="Env Serv Bureau">{{cite web|url=http://www.longbeach-recycles.org/home/index.htm|title=Long Beach Environmental Services Bureau|website=Long Beach Environmental Services Bureau|access-date=June 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618164853/http://longbeach-recycles.org/home/index.htm|archive-date=June 18, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Animal control service that, in addition to serving Long Beach, serves nearby cities including Signal Hill and Seal Beach
* A City Auditor
* A City Prosecutor

Long Beach held its elections for City Council on April (primary) and June (runoff) until the 2018 election. Starting with the 2020 election, primary election is being held in March and runoff election is being held in November.

The major exception to the full range of municipal services is electricity, which is provided by [[Southern California Edison]].

===Federal and state representation===
In the [[California State Senate]], Long Beach is represented by Democrat [[Lena Gonzalez]] who represents the [[California's 33rd State Senate district|33rd district]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = https://sd33.senate.ca.gov/district
 |title        = California Senate District 33}}</ref> In the [[California State Assembly]], it is split between the [[California's 65th State Assembly district|65th district]], represented by Democrat [[Mike Gipson]], and the [[California's 69th State Assembly district|69th district]] represented by Democrat [[Josh Lowenthal]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = https://ceo.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/State-Assembly.pdf
 |title        = Delegates representing Los Angeles County in the State Assembly
 |publisher    = County of Los Angeles
}}</ref>

In the [[United States House of Representatives]], Long Beach is split between [[California's 42nd congressional district]] ([[Robert Garcia (California politician)|Rep. Robert Garcia]]) and [[California's 44th congressional district|44th district]] ([[Nanette Barragán|Rep. Nanette Barragán]]).

===Politics===
According to the [[Secretary of State of California|California Secretary of State]], as of October 19, 2020, Long Beach has 279,735 registered voters. Of those, 147,276 (52.65%) are registered Democrats, 47,615 (17.02%) are registered Republicans, and 66,857 (23.90%) have declined to state a political party/are independents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-gen-2020/politicalsub.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126112521/https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-gen-2020/politicalsub.pdf |archive-date=November 26, 2020 |url-status=live|title=CA Secretary of State – Report of Registration – October 19, 2020|website=ca.gov|access-date=February 8, 2021}}</ref>