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Frances Marquez
Frances Marquez ran for election to the Orange County Board of Supervisors to represent District 1 in California. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Marquez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Frances Marquez was born in California. She earned a high school diploma from Cypress High School, a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, a graduate degree from Claremont Graduate University, and a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Orange County, California (2024)
General election
General election for Orange County Board of Supervisors District 1
Janet Nguyen defeated Frances Marquez in the general election for Orange County Board of Supervisors District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Janet Nguyen (Nonpartisan) | 61.2 | 160,036 |
 | Frances Marquez (Nonpartisan)  | 38.8 | 101,296 | |
| Total votes: 261,332 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Orange County Board of Supervisors District 1
Janet Nguyen and Frances Marquez defeated Van Tran, Kimberly Ho, and Michael Vo in the primary for Orange County Board of Supervisors District 1 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Janet Nguyen (Nonpartisan) | 43.5 | 59,702 |
| ✔ | | Frances Marquez (Nonpartisan) | 26.0 | 35,687 |
 | Van Tran (Nonpartisan) | 18.0 | 24,717 | |
| Kimberly Ho (Nonpartisan) | 6.3 | 8,683 | ||
| Michael Vo (Nonpartisan) | 6.3 | 8,599 | ||
| Total votes: 137,388 | |||
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Endorsements
To view Marquez's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Marquez in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Frances Marquez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Marquez's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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She's running for Orange County Supervisor to bring much-needed accountability and oversight to county government and deliver resources to the communities that need them most.
Throughout Frances' career in public service, she helped create more opportunities for students, working families, small businesses, veterans, and seniors. Elected to the Cypress City Council in November 2020, Frances wasted no time helping families and small businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic. She organized volunteers to help senior citizens with online vaccination appointment registration. When families found it challenging to find vaccine sites close to Cypress, Frances advocated with the County of Orange to bring a mobile vaccination site to the Los Alamitos Racetrack. She voted to provide resiliency grants for small businesses and to support entrepreneurs starting home-based businesses.
Frances has been a watchdog for taxpayers by demanding transparency before voting on spending, whether it be the city budget, the redistricting lawsuit, or trash services.
Professionally, Frances is an Associate Professor of Government teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing students and- Frances Marquez was one of the first elected officials to publicly call out Supervisor Andrew Do's allegations of corruption. Since then, she has spoken out again and again calling for transparency and accountability. She's running for Orange County Supervisor to bring much-needed accountability and oversight to county government and deliver resources to the communities that need them most.
- We must treat housing and homelessness like the humanitarian crisis it is. Orange County has consistently failed to deliver meaningful results. Frances will ensure we do our part: increase housing availability to address this crisis & follow state law to reach our regional housing goals.
She supports adopting a smart growth housing strategy that cuts red tape & outdated zoning laws, incentivizes new construction that benefits & reflects the character of our communities, & empowers renters.
The Board of Supervisors should pass incentives & hold developers accountable to build affordable housing in market rate plans. I’ll work with community partners to rezone single-family neighborhoods so ADUs can be built. - Climate change has direct impacts on Orange County, due to shifting coastlines and more severe wildfires. To address these impacts, she’ll work to allocate funding towards climate resiliency programs & green energy production projects that make our infrastructure more sustainable and this transition more affordable. She’ll work to investigate & fund both immediate & long-term solutions that prioritize residents’ safety, retains our natural habitat, & strengthens our infrastructure to withstand shifting terrain. As a former member of the OC Fire Authority Board of Directors, I’ll continue supporting safe staffing requirements that ensure our firefighters’ effectiveness to combat wildfire.
She's running for Orange County Supervisor to bring much-needed accountability and oversight to county government and ensure a high quality delivery of services to the communities that need them most.
She’ll advocate for an Independent Ethics Commission without political appointees so we can strongly enforce conflict-of-interest laws to end rampant misuse of taxpayer dollars. Additionally, she’ll work to create an Office of Contract Compliance tasked with independently vetting nonprofits and businesses applying for funding from the County.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
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