Editing Orange Cove, California (section)

== Municipal government ==

Orange Cove's local government includes an elected mayor, mayor pro tem, and a three-member city council.<ref name="City Council - OrangeCove">{{Cite web|url=http://cityoforangecove.com/city-council/|title=City Council - OrangeCove|website=City Council - OrangeCove|access-date=September 27, 2020}}</ref> As of 2020, its current mayor is Victor P. Lopez.<ref name="City Council - OrangeCove"/> Lopez was mayor of Orange Cove for over three decades before being voted out of office in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-jan-06-la-me-orange-cove-20130107-story.html|title=A three-decade mayor, recently ousted, is back in office|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 6, 2013 |access-date=September 27, 2020}}</ref> He was later elected to the city council in 2013 and re-elected as mayor in 2014 in what he claimed would be his last term in office,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abc30.com/politics/victor-lopez-re-elected-as-orange-cove-mayor/383061/|title=Victor Lopez re-elected as Orange Cove mayor|website=Victor Lopez re-elected as Orange Cove mayor|access-date=September 27, 2020}}</ref> but he then went on to win re-election as mayor again in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/departments/county-clerk-registrar-of-voters/election-information/election-results/2018-november-general-election-results|title=2018 November General Election Results|website=2018 November General Election Results|access-date=September 27, 2020}}</ref>