US Midterms 2026
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Chuong Vo, a Republican former mayor of Cerritos, faces Democratic incumbent Derek Tran for California's 45th congressional district in 2026 after finishing second in the top-two primary.
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Tran, a Democrat and child of Vietnamese refugees, is defending his Orange County seat in a newly redrawn, moderately Democratic district (-about five points more favorable after Prop. 50).
The article covers Orange County’s 45th Congressional District (CA-45), not CA-31.
Derek Tran is the Democratic incumbent representing California’s 45th Congressional District (CA-45), which covers most of Orange County and a small part of southeast Los Angeles County.
TranDistrict context: CA-45 spans most of Orange County with a small portion of southeast L.A. County; registered voters are about 38.6% Democrats, 30.4% Republicans, and 31% independents/no party.
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Chuong Vo, a former mayor of Cerritos, is the Republican candidate in the 2026 election for California's 45th congressional district. The seat is held by Democrat Derek Tran, who flipped the district and was elected with 50.1% of the vote in 2024.
In the top-two primary Vo finished second with 15.34% of the vote, behind Tran's 53.76%, and led a Republican field that included Westminster mayor Chi Charlie Nguyen, realtor Tom Vo, Mark Leonard and Westminster city councilor Amy Phan West.
Vo faces Tran, the incumbent U.S. representative, in the general election on November 3, 2026.
