List of mayors of Garden Grove, California

This is a list of mayors of Garden Grove, California since its incorporation in 1956.^[1]

18th Mayor of Garden Grove,

17th Mayor of Garden Grove, Bao Nguyen

12th Mayor of Garden Grove, W.E. (Walt) Donovan

#	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Louis H. Lake	1956	1960
2	George B. Honold	1960	1968
3	H. Reece Ballard	1968	1969¹
4	Kathryn Barr	1969²	1970
5	Laurence J. Schmit	1970	1970³
6	H. Reece Ballard	1970	1972
7	Bernard C. Adams	1972	1976
8	J. Tilman Williams	1976	1978
9	Elerth (Rick) Erickson	1978	1980
10	Jonathan Cannon	1980	1987⁴
11	J. Tilman Williams	1987	1988
12	W.E. (Walt) Donovan	1988	1992
13	Francis (Frank) Kessler	1992	1994
14	Bruce Broadwater	1994	2004
15	William (Bill) Dalton	2004	2012
16	Bruce Broadwater	2012	2014
17	Bao Nguyen	2014	2016
18		2016^[2]	Incumbent

Elections[]

2016 Garden Grove, California mayoral election^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Steve Jones	42,514	98.8%
	Write-In	Tony Flores	521	1.2%
Total votes			43,055	100%

2018 Garden Grove, California mayoral election^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Steve Jones (incumbent)	33,788	84.4%
	Nonpartisan	Donald Taylor	6,227	15.6%
Total votes			40,015	100%

^{1. Ballard resigned as mayor on April 22, 1969, but remained as a city council member.}
^{2. Barr was appointed mayor upon Ballard's resignation.}
^{3. Schmit served less than seven months as mayor until a motion was voted on by the city council to reorganize, which took place November 3, 1970. Ballard was then re-elected.}
^{4. Cannon resigned on July 17, 1987 due to being appointed a judge for the West Orange County Judicial District by Governor George Deukmejian.^[6] Williams was re-elected mayor in a special election in 1987.}