# Huntington Beach City Attorney Mike Vigliotta is running uncontested for Huntington Beach City Attorney. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. Huntington Beach's City Attorney is directly elected, citywide. This office is separate from the City Council. The City Attorney represents the city in lawsuits. The City Attorney also advises the Council on legal matters. - Jurisdiction: City of Huntington Beach - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/huntington-beach-city-attorney - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: October 7, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 82 out of 100 (Strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Mike Vigliotta** — Huntington Beach City Attorney · Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Incumbent City Attorney Mike Vigliotta, appointed to the office in February 2025, appears unopposed for their first elected term — so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. Huntington Beach's City Attorney is a directly elected, at-large legal officer for the city — distinct from the City Council — who represents the city in litigation and advises the council on legal matters. With no opponent, the useful question is what the officeholder has done rather than who to choose. Vigliotta has held the post since a February 2025 council appointment; this November would be their first time winning it directly at the ballot box. ## Mike Vigliotta The incumbent City Attorney, appointed by the council in February 2025 after coming from the neighboring city of Orange (per Wikipedia's sourced government section, citing Orange County Register reporting on the appointment). Vigliotta's filed ballot designation is "Huntington Beach City Attorney." **Strengths:** Already in the role for over a year and a half by Election Day, with prior legal experience in a neighboring Orange County city government before this appointment. **Trade-offs:** This would be their first time winning the office by election rather than council appointment. **Keep in mind:** Running unopposed means their record in the post so far faces no organized counter-argument this cycle. ## Sources 1. [OC Registrar of Voters -- Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 -- City of Huntington Beach section (pages 100-105 of 188): confirms Member, City Council (Vote for 4, 11 qualified candidates -- Andrew Gruel, Casey McKeon, Pat Burns, Brian Burley, Ben Davis, Brenda Glim, Amory Hanson, Taryn Taddeo Palumbo, Rosalind "Roz" Price, Erin Spivey, Brian Thienes) and City Attorney (Vote for 1, 1 qualified candidate -- Mike Vigliotta, appointed incumbent) as the city's only two November 2026 races, with each candidate's filed ballot designation and the council contest's incumbent flags (Gruel, McKeon, Burns, and Gracey Van Der Mark, who does not appear among the 11 qualified council candidates) -- and corrects the local-authoring queue's "11 candidates / uncontested" note, which described two different contests as one: the 11-candidate field is the contested Council race, and the uncontested race is City Attorney](https://ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/data/candlog/GEN2026/candlog.pdf) 2. [Wikipedia's Huntington Beach, California article, government section: describes a council-manager government with a 7-member at-large City Council on staggered 4-year terms, names Casey McKeon as Mayor (appointed by the council Dec. 2025, citing the Orange County Register) and Butch Twining as Mayor Pro Tem, names Mike Vigliotta as City Attorney (appointed Feb. 2025 from Orange, citing the Orange County Register), and documents a June 2026 Orange County Superior Court order requiring proportional ranked-choice voting for all 7 council seats at once -- cited only for structure and officeholder background, never for a candidate-specific claim about this November's ballot mechanics, which follow the county's own Contest/Candidate Proof List instead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Beach,_California) 3. [City of Huntington Beach — its own dedicated NetFile campaign-disclosure portal (netfile.com/public/chb/campaign), distinct from the Orange County Registrar's shared portal, checked by candidate/filer name and by its Campaign Transactions search on 2026-09-03: all eleven City Council candidates and City Attorney candidate Mike Vigliotta have an active 2026 committee on file; Andrew Gruel, Casey McKeon, Pat Burns, Ben Davis, Brenda Glim, Taryn Taddeo Palumbo, Erin Spivey, Brian Thienes, and Vigliotta have itemized real contributions this cycle, including a wave of Form 497 late-contribution reports filed in late August/early September 2026; Brian Burley, Amory Hanson, and Rosalind "Roz" Price have filed only the state's short-form Form 470 for the current cycle](https://netfile.com/public/landing/chb/campaign) 4. [League of Women Voters -- Vote411 voter guide, 'City of Huntington Beach City Attorney' race (statewide All Races list): each candidate's self-submitted ballot designation and campaign contacts, plus answers to the League's questions -- If elected, what are your top 3 priorities?; What background, experience and/or education qualify you for this elected office? No answers were on file at capture. Capture in data/nov-2026/sources/vote411/huntington-beach-city-attorney.json.](https://www.vote411.org/plan-your-vote) ## The rest of the ballot Huntington Beach City Attorney is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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