Trustee Area D is one of five areas that elect the Torrance Unified School District Board of Education. The Area D seat is on the ballot on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. If you live in Area D, this is the school board race on your ballot.
Torrance Unified is governed by five board members, one from each of five trustee areas.
The district is divided into five trustee areas, labelled A through E, and each area elects its own board member. The practical difference for you is simple: you do not vote on all five seats. You vote on the one seat that covers where you live.
Board members serve four‑year terms, and the five seats are staggered, so they are not all up in the same year. The current Area D term ends in December 2026, which is why Area D is on the ballot this year.
On your ballot the contest is listed as Torrance Unified, Trustee Area D.
There are two official places to get the answer, and both are better than any description we could write here:
The most reliable confirmation of all arrives on its own: your sample ballot. If Torrance Unified, Trustee Area D is printed on it, you are in Area D, and you get a vote in this race.
The district keeps two different maps: trustee areas for elections, and attendance boundaries for enrolment. Your ballot follows your registered address, not your child’s school.
Every active registered voter in Los Angeles County is mailed a ballot. You do not have to request one.
How to vote in Torrance, step by step
Dates, drop box locations and vote center locations all come from the Los Angeles County Registrar‑Recorder/County Clerk, which is the authority for this election. If anything here disagrees with them, they are right.
A school board governs. It sets district policy and direction, adopts the budget, and hires and holds the superintendent accountable. It does not run schools day to day — that is the superintendent and the staff. The distinction matters, because it is the difference between a board that steers and a board that meddles.
No. School board races in California are nonpartisan. No party affiliation appears next to a candidate’s name on the ballot.
No. Torrance Unified elects its board by trustee area, so you vote only on the seat for the area you live in. The other four areas elect their own trustees, on their own schedule.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, the same day as the statewide General Election. Vote centers are open 7 AM to 8 PM that day. Vote centers also open early, from Saturday, October 24, and mail ballots went out from October 5.
Yes. Every registered voter who lives in Trustee Area D votes in this race, with or without children in TUSD. What decides it is your registered address, not where anyone in your household goes to school.
Four years. The five seats are staggered, so they are not all elected in the same year. The current Area D term ends in December 2026, which is why it is on the ballot this year.
Yes. Trustee Area D is the only Torrance Unified board contest on the November 3, 2026 ballot. The Area C and Area E seats, and a special election for the rest of the Area B term, were also up this year, but each drew only one qualified candidate, so under California law they do not appear on the ballot. Source: the Los Angeles County Registrar‑Recorder/County Clerk’s final lists of qualified candidates for this election, both names that appear on the ballot and names that do not.
No. The Area D seat on the Torrance Unified board is currently vacant, and no candidate on the ballot is an incumbent, so whoever wins will be new to the seat. The district’s Board of Education page lists Trustee Area D as “Position Vacant.”
Your official sample ballot lists every candidate and every contest for your address. It is mailed to you, and it is also available from the Los Angeles County Registrar‑Recorder/County Clerk. This page is published by one candidate’s campaign, so please treat the County, not us, as the complete and neutral source.
Jennifer Mak is a candidate for the Torrance Unified School District Board of Education, Trustee Area D. She spent 38 years in public education as a teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, principal and district administrator, and she and her husband have raised three TUSD graduates in Torrance over nearly thirty years.