THE DEADLINE for candidates to file is coming near (Shutterstock).

By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune

With a little over a week to go, candidates for city council, mayor and other city positions are weighing their options, gathering their signatures and hoping for success on Nov. 5.

Candidates for public office in Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Stanton and Westminster must return their completed nomination papers to their respective city clerks by 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9.

If there’s a situation in which an eligible incumbent has chosen not to run for re-election, the filing period deadline is extended to Wednesday, Aug, 14, also at 5 p.m.

Here is the list of candidates – as of our deadline on Tuesday – who have pulled nomination papers and those who have submitted completed forms. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk*. Those who have submitted completed forms are marked with **.

Garden Grove Mayor: Diedre Thu-Ha Nguyen, John O’Neill, Musaag B. Mughal, Phat Bui.

Garden Grove City Council (District 2): Philip Nguyen.

Huntington Beach City Council (three seats):

Amory Hanson**

Natalie Moser*

Don Kennedy

Edward “Butch” Twining

Cody Cleary

Marissa Jackson

Shawn Kirby

Dan Kalmick*

Chad Williams

Rhonda Bolton*

Huntington Beach City Clerk:

Lisa Lane Barnes.

Huntington Beach City Treasurer

No candidates.

Stanton City Council

District 2: Hong Alyce Van*  **

District 4: Mike Montgomery**, John Douglas Warren**, Caroline  Conboy.

Westminster City City Council

District 2: Carlos Manzo*

District 3: K.C. Wolbert,  Mark Nguyen.