page_title: 2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election
section_title: Results
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 Orange County, California District Attorney election / Runoff / Results
context_page_description: The 2018 Orange, County, California District Attorney election took place on June 5, 2018, to elect the Orange County, California District Attorney. County-level elections in California are officially nonpartisan. Because no candidate received a majority, a runoff will be held on November 6, 2018.
  Incumbent District Attorney Tony Rackauckas is running for a sixth term. Rackauckas was re-elected in 2014 with 73% of the vote in 2014.
  In July 2017, Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer declared that he will challenge Rackauckas due to scandals within the Orange County District Attorney's office.
  In May of 2018, former mayor of Brea Brett Murdock declared candidacy.
  Rackauckas has faced criticism for allegedly mishandling jailhouse informants, making it more difficult to convict and sentence defendants.
  On September 22, 2017, Scott Dekraai was sentenced to eight terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole, one term for each of his victims and to seven years to life for attempted murder in a Seal Beach salon shooting. The jailhouse informant scandal allegedly involving Rackauckas made it impossible to seek the death penalty for Dekraai.
caption: Runoff results by congressional district  Map legend   Spitzer—50–60%   Rackauckas—50–60%