Vote count

Each candidate's vote count by day, as Los Angeles County counted the mail-in and provisional ballots through certification. Election-night updates are shown as a single day. These are the certified final counts, official as of June 26, 2026.

Party signals

George Chen

Incumbent

Sharon Kalani

Challenger

Voter registration

Registered Republican with the Los Angeles County Registrar (queried January 2026). LA County Registrar →

Coalition

Endorsers

35 of 55 party-tagged

Donors

222 of 355 matched

Endorsers

80 of 100 party-tagged

Donors

154 of 198 matched

Finance

This chart tracks contributions over time. Campaign loans (see the gift-size cards below) are a separate outstanding balance, not part of this series.

Chen

43% Torrance

City	Dollars	% of total
Torrance	$76k	43%
Rancho Palos Verdes	$8k	4%
Redondo Beach	$5k	3%
Manhattan Beach	$4k	3%
Newport Beach	$4k	2%

$75k from Torrance donors

$100k from outside Torrance

56% of maxed-out donors are non-Torrance

Kalani

73% Torrance

City	Dollars	% of total
Torrance	$56k	73%
Los Angeles	$3k	3%
Redondo Beach	$2k	3%
Palos Verdes Estates	$2k	3%
Santa Ynez	$2k	3%

$56k from Torrance donors

$21k from outside Torrance

38% of maxed-out donors are non-Torrance

When a donor is matched to a voter record, Torrance share goes by voter registration, not mailing address. So Hollywood Riviera donors (Redondo Beach 90277) registered in Torrance now count as Torrance. Unmatched donors fall back to mailing-address city, so a few may still slip through.

Chen

$491

average gift

Kalani

$387

average gift

+ $30k self-loan

Where each candidate's money came from. Bigger segments mean more of the money came from donors at that gift size, smallest on the left.

Loans are money the campaign borrowed (here, every loan is the candidate lending their own committee), reported net of repayments as the outstanding balance on the latest filing. They are separate from donations and are not counted in the donations figure. Loan figures are as of the latest Form 460 filing; donation totals run through the most recent filing date shown above. See our finance data dictionary for how each figure is sourced.

Chen

$46k

+$2k in campaign donations

Team Torrance PAC $46k

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Funded by (money to the PAC, not the candidate):
- California Leadership Today ($38k)
- Atlas PAC ($32k)
- Lincoln Club of Orange County ($23k)
- California Homeowners Assoc ($21k)
- New Majority PAC ($18k)
Scott Baugh & Associates $1k

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Torrance Police Officers' Association PAC $1k

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Kalani

$20k

+$2k in campaign donations

Torrance Firefighters PAC $21k

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Funded by (money to the PAC, not the candidate):
- Torrance Firefighters Association ($125k)
Torrance Police Officers' Association PAC $1k

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The figure shown for each candidate is independent-expenditure spending: money spent by outside committees, which California does not cap. It is separate from the candidate's own donations, so you can add it to their Donations total for a fuller funding picture. Any direct campaign donations from these PACs are listed too and shown in grey; those are capped at $1,000 in Torrance and are already counted in the candidate's donations. Sourced from California Form 460 / 496 / 497 filings via NetFile.

Family bundling past the $1,000 cap

The cap is $1,000 per person, per election. A household of four can legally give $4,000 by writing four checks. Chen has 55 donors who share a last name with another Chen donor and listed no employer¹, a pattern often associated with bundled household gifts. Kalani has 14 such donors on her filings.

Out-of-state donors

Chen received contributions from donors in Maryland, Nevada, New York, and Texas (2% of his donor dollars). Kalani's filings show no out-of-state donors.

Real estate industry donors

Chen received contributions from 16 real estate and property professionals (5% of donor dollars), including Aurelio Mattucci, a real estate broker who is also running for City Treasurer ($750). Kalani received contributions from 7 real estate and property professionals (7% of donor dollars).

Where they stand

George Chen

Incumbent

Sharon Kalani

Challenger

Civil Rights

Issues about civil rights, inclusion, and recognition: proclamations, anti-discrimination measures, community representation.

Voted for a Pride Month proclamation

Voted NO on the May 7, 2024 council resolution to issue a Pride Month proclamation; the proclamation passed 4-3. ⁹

Voted YES on the May 7, 2024 council resolution to issue a Pride Month proclamation; the proclamation passed 4-3. ²¹

Homelessness

Issues about how the city responds to homelessness: enforcement, shelter siting, services balance, encampment policy.

Voted against the homeless-housing site

Voted YES on the May 23, 2025 council resolution opposing the LA County and Weingart project to convert the Extended Stay America hotel on Torrance Blvd. into homeless housing. ⁵

Voted YES on the May 23, 2025 council resolution opposing the LA County and Weingart project to convert the Extended Stay America hotel on Torrance Blvd. into homeless housing. ¹⁷

Voted to allow arrests for refusing shelter

Voted YES on the September 9, 2025 concurrence directing staff to draft an ordinance allowing arrest of people who refuse offered shelter. ⁶

Voted NO on the September 9, 2025 concurrence directing staff to draft an ordinance allowing arrest of people who refuse offered shelter. ¹⁸

City Budget

Issues about the size of the general-fund budget, new program commitments, and major capital spending.

Backs Torrance's overseas-partner program

Says he led the effort to build Sister and Friendship Cities partnerships abroad for cultural exchange and to bring tourism and investment to Torrance. ¹

At the April 23, 2026 League of Women Voters mayoral forum, argued the Sister Cities program has produced no measurable business returns despite consuming city staff time and budget. ²⁰

Wants to annex El Camino Village

Has publicly backed advancing the annexation of the El Camino Village neighborhood at the January 14, 2025 council meeting and at 2026 candidate forums. ¹⁰

Has publicly opposed annexing El Camino Village, citing city staff cost figures and framing her campaign motto "Back to the Business of Torrance" against the project at the April 23, 2026 LWV mayoral forum. ²⁰

Backed Measure SST in 2022

Did not back Measure SST, the ½-cent city sales tax Torrance voters approved on June 7, 2022. Told the Daily Breeze in August 2022 that 'raising sales taxes is the easy knob, because we basically put the onus on everyone else,' adding 'just cranking a sales tax, you'll never end, you're going to keep cranking that because that's the easy way.' ¹³

As District 4 councilmember (elected 2020, re-elected 2024), backed Measure SST, the ½-cent sales tax Torrance voters approved on June 7, 2022. In the 2024 Measure TC debate, per Daily Breeze coverage, argued the proposed council pay raise should not be folded into TC because it came too soon after Measure SST's passage. ²⁴

Other Local Issues

Hyperlocal items that don't share an axis with the topics above.

Voted for the airport practice-landing ban

Voted NO on the January 23, 2024 ordinance restricting touch-and-go landings, back-taxis, and low approaches at Zamperini Field. ⁷

Voted YES on the January 23, 2024 ordinance restricting touch-and-go landings, back-taxis, and low approaches at Zamperini Field. ¹⁹

Footnotes

¹ "Their family" identifies donors who (a) filed a job title of unemployed, housewife, or homemaker and (b) share a last name with at least one other donor to the same candidate. Shared last names do not prove a family relationship -- common surnames may produce false matches. This grouping surfaces a pattern, not an assertion of specific relationships.

The race for mayor

Vote count

Party signals

Finance

Family bundling past the $1,000 cap

Out-of-state donors

Real estate industry donors

Where they stand

Civil Rights

Homelessness

City Budget

Other Local Issues

Sources & footnotes

Sources cited on this page

Footnotes

The race for mayor

Vote count

Party signals

Finance

How much they've raised, week by week.

Where do their donors live?

Big checks, or many hands?

Who's spending in support of them? 2

Money findings

Family bundling past the $1,000 cap

Out-of-state donors

Real estate industry donors

Where they stand

Endorsed by

About

Sources & footnotes

Sources cited on this page

Footnotes

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