Long Beach, California

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Long Beach, California
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General information

Mayor of Long Beach Rex Richardson
Nonpartisan
Assumed office: December 20, 2022

Last mayoral election:2022
Next mayoral election:2026
Last city council election:November 5, 2024
Next city council election:November 3, 2026
City council seats:10[1]
City website
Composition data (2019)
Population:466,776
Race:White 51.2%
African American 12.7%
Asian 13.1%
Native American 1.1%
Pacific Islander 0.8%
Two or more 4.7%
Ethnicity:Hispanic 42.6%
Median household income:$63,017
High school graduation rate:80.2%
College graduation rate:31.1%
Related Long Beach offices
California Congressional Delegation
California State Legislature
California state executive offices


Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. The city's population was 466,742 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.

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City government

See also: Council-manager government

The city of Long Beach utilizes a council-manager system. In this form of municipal government, an elected city council, which includes the mayor and serves as the city's primary legislative body, appoints a chief executive called a city manager to oversee day-to-day municipal operations and implement the city council's policy and legislative initiatives.[2]

Mayor

See also: List of current mayors of the top 100 cities in the United States

The mayor presides over city council meetings and official city ceremonies. The mayor also represents the city on the state, national, and international levels.[3] The current Mayor of Long Beach is Rex Richardson (nonpartisan). Richardson assumed office in 2022.

City manager

The city manager is the city's chief executive. The responsibilities of the city manager include overseeing the city's day-to-day operations, planning and implementing the city's operating budget, and appointing departmental directors and other senior-level positions.[2]

City council

See also: List of current city council officials of the top 100 cities in the United States

The Long Beach City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for adopting the city budget, approving mayoral appointees, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances.[2]

The city council is made up of 10 members, including the mayor. Nine members are elected by the city's nine districts, while the mayor is elected at large.[2]

The widget below automatically displays information about city council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local government monitoring service, found in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to see more info and the full agenda:

Other elected officials

Mayoral partisanship

See also: Party affiliation of the mayors of the 100 largest cities

Long Beach has a Democratic mayor. As of March 2025, 65 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 25 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, two are independents, four identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and three mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.

Mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities. However, many officeholders are affiliated with political parties. Ballotpedia uses one or more of the following sources to identify each officeholder's partisan affiliation: (1) direct communication from the officeholder, (2) current or previous candidacy for partisan office, or (3) identification of partisan affiliation by multiple media outlets.

Elections

2024

See also: City elections in Long Beach, California (2024)

The city of Long Beach, California, held general elections for city council on November 5, 2024. A primary was scheduled for March 5, 2024. The filing deadline for this election was December 8, 2023.

2022

See also: City elections in Long Beach, California (2022) and Mayoral election in Long Beach, California (2022)

The city of Long Beach, California, held general elections for mayor, city attorney, city auditor, city prosecutor, and city council on November 8, 2022. A primary was scheduled for June 7, 2022. The filing deadline for this election was March 11, 2022.

2020

See also: City elections in Long Beach, California (2020)

The city of Long Beach, California, held a primary election for city council districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 on March 3, 2020. A general election was scheduled for November 3, 2020, if no candidate received a majority of votes in the primary. The filing deadline for this election was December 6, 2019.[4]

2019

See also: City elections in Long Beach, California (2019)

The city of Long Beach, California, held a special election for the city council's District 1 seat on November 5, 2019. The filing deadline for this election was August 9, 2019.

2018

See also: Municipal elections in Long Beach, California (2018) and Mayoral election in Long Beach, California (2018)

The city of Long Beach, California, held general elections for mayor, city council, city attorney, city auditor, and city prosecutor on June 5, 2018. The primary was on April 10, 2018. The deadline for candidates to file to run in this election was January 12, 2018.

2016

See also: Municipal elections in Long Beach, California (2016)

The city of Long Beach, California, held primary elections for city council on April 12, 2016. The general election was held on June 7, 2016. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was January 15, 2016. Four of the eight city council seats were up for election.[5]

2015

See also Long Beach, California municipal elections, 2015

The city of Long Beach, California, held a special election for city council on April 14, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was January 16, 2015.[6] The city held the election to fill the District 4 seat of former council member Patrick O'Donnell, who won election to the California State Assembly in 2014.[7]

2014

See also Long Beach, California municipal elections, 2014

The city of Long Beach, California held elections for mayor and city council on June 3, 2014, with a primary on April 8, 2014.[8] If a candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the primary election, he or she was declared the outright winner of the election.[9] Five of the nine city council districts were up for election.

Councilman Robert Garcia won election as mayor. Lena Gonzalez, Susan Price, Stacy Mungo, Roberto Uranga, and Rex Richardson won election to the city council. No incumbents ran in any of the races.

Census information

The table below shows demographic information about the city.

Demographic Data for Long Beach
Long Beach
Population 466,742
Land area (sq mi) 50
Race and ethnicity**
White 41.6%
Black/African American 11.9%
Asian 12.8%
Native American 1.4%
Pacific Islander 0.5%
Two or more 13.5%
Hispanic/Latino 43.4%
Education
High school graduation rate 81.6%
College graduation rate 34.8%
Income
Median household income $83,969
Persons below poverty level 15%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2018-2023).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.


Budget

The city's budget process operates by fiscal years running from October 1 through September 30 of the next year. The city manager provides budget instructions to city departments. The city manager then reviews and makes a presentation on the city's financial status. Departments then submit their budget proposals to the city manager, who submits a proposed budget to the mayor no later than July 3. The mayor then transmits the budget to the city council with any changes by August 2. The city council must then approve the budget by September 15. The mayor then has five days to review the adopted budget and concur or exercise any line-item vetoes. The council has until the end of the fiscal year to either agree to the changes or override any vetoes.[10]

Fiscally standardized cities data

The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[11]

FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, independent school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full picture of revenues raised from city residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the city government or a separate overlying government.[12]

—Lincoln Institute of Land Policy[13]

The tables below show estimated finances within city limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city budget.


Revenue in 2021
Revenue type Amount
Total Revenue $5,437,152,694
General Revenue $5,144,169,898
Federal Aid $571,147,538
State Aid $1,622,119,936
Tax Revenue $1,470,438,354
Charges & Misc. General Revenue $1,480,464,070
Utility Revenue $292,982,796
Liquor Store Revenue $0

Expenditures in 2021
Expenditure type Amount
Total Expenditures $4,781,816,421
General Expenditures $4,237,081,303
Education Services Expenditure $1,062,957,789
Health and Welfare Expenditure $968,388,687
Transportation Expenditure $345,066,505
Public Safety Expenditure $613,369,216
Environment and Housing Expenditure $368,064,270
Governmental Administration Expenditure $164,876,424
Interest on General Debt $175,379,555
Miscellaneous Expenditure $538,983,404
Utility Expenditure $532,827,023
Liquor Store Expenditure $0
Intergovernmental Expenditures $11,908,095


Historical total revenue and expenditure

To see the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the bars.[11]

See also

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