# Orange County Board of Supervisors, District 5 Compare records and positions simply between Diane Dixon or Katrina Foley for Orange County Board of Supervisors, District 5 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person is one of five supervisors who govern Orange County. They vote on the county budget. They also oversee health and social services. They set land use rules for unincorporated areas. - Jurisdiction: County - 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/orange-supervisor-5 - 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: September 21, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 97 out of 100 (Very strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Diane Dixon** - **Katrina Foley** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Katrina Foley and state Assemblymember Diane Dixon advance to a November runoff for south Orange County's seat on the Board of Supervisors: no candidate reached a majority in June's three-way primary, and the two finished within a fraction of a percentage point of each other (per LAist's results coverage). District 5 runs the coast from Costa Mesa to San Clemente, taking in parts of Irvine, the Laguna cities, Aliso Viejo, San Juan Capistrano, and unincorporated communities like Coto de Caza and Ladera Ranch. The winner holds one of five seats governing Orange County — a board that oversees the county budget, public health and social services, and land use in the unincorporated communities (per LAist). The term is four years. The seat is formally nonpartisan, but the runoff pairs a Democratic incumbent against a Republican legislator on a board where partisan balance is at stake, and June's near-tie means November's turnout decides it. The issues both campaigns name are concrete and local — beach erosion and sand replenishment, housing, mental-health services, and the county's budget strain after the Airport Fire payouts (per LAist). ## Katrina Foley Democrat, the incumbent and the board's vice chair. She won the seat in a 2021 special election and won re-election in 2022, after a long run in Costa Mesa politics — city council from 2004 to 2010, then mayor from 2018 to 2021 — and was the first Democratic woman elected to the board (per LAist). **Strengths:** Five years in the seat and a long municipal record before it — council, mayor, then county vice chair — with two wins in this district behind her. **Trade-offs:** June was nearly a dead heat with her challenger — incumbency did not produce a lead, so her record is contested ground, not a cushion. **Keep in mind:** She has won this district under different conditions (a 2021 special, a 2022 general); the runoff tests whether that coalition holds in a higher-turnout partisan cycle. ## Diane Dixon Republican, the state Assemblymember for District 72 since 2022, and before that eight years on the Newport Beach City Council, including two terms as mayor (per LAist). **Strengths:** Current legislative experience plus eight years of coastal-city governance — and a June result that pulled essentially even with a sitting supervisor. **Trade-offs:** Her record is in Sacramento and Newport Beach, not county government — the board's health, social-services, and unincorporated-area portfolio would be new ground. **Keep in mind:** A sitting Assemblymember running for county office gives up her Assembly seat to do it; her bet is that this district and June's numbers make the trade worth it. ## Financial info - **Diane Dixon** — $584,156 raised (Small donors: $1,611; Individuals: $425,173; PACs & committees: $55,750; Businesses & other orgs: $93,450) - **Katrina Foley** — $635,632 raised (Small donors: $8,283; Individuals: $453,408; PACs & committees: $85,510; Businesses & other orgs: $71,202) Separately, independent committees — not the candidate's campaign — reported $70,264 in spending supporting Diane Dixon: 1962 PAC of the Lincoln Club of Orange County (per Form 496 filings). Separately, independent committees — not the candidate's campaign — reported $27,072 in spending opposing Katrina Foley: 1962 PAC of the Lincoln Club of Orange County (per Form 496 filings). Figures are CA Form 460 filings through 2026-06-30, per the OC Registrar of Voters' e-filed transaction exports, retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Sources 1. [OC Registrar of Voters — Election results, June 2, 2026 primary](https://ocvote.gov/results) 2. [OC Registrar of Voters — certified June 2, 2026 primary results](https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/orangecaenr/23/en/wd9vosg_Index_23.html) 3. [LAist — OC Board of Supervisors District 5 race guide (updated July 1, 2026)](https://laist.com/news/politics/voter-guides/2026-election-california-primary-orange-county-board-of-supervisors-district-5) 4. [OC Registrar of Voters — e-filed campaign-finance transactions (NetFile)](https://netfile.com/public/coc/campaign) ## The rest of the ballot Orange County Board of Supervisors, District 5 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. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Orange County Board of Supervisors, District 5 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/orange-supervisor-5 (sources last retrieved September 21, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.