When was the last time a Democrat carried Orange County, CA in any race?

[Mr.Phips]

I'd assume it would have been Jerry Brown in the 1978 governors race.  Any others?

[TDAS04]

I think that 1978 might have been the last time.  March Fong Eu also carried it that year; she won every California county during her reelection for Secretary of State.  

[socaldem]

Well, Tom Torlakson is a known Democrat and won 50.1% in Orange County to DTS but Republican-backed Larry Aceves' 48.4%.

[tpfkaw]

Kathleen Connell for Controller in 1998: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=6&year=1998&f=0&off=12&elect=0

[Badger]

I assume we're not including county office elections? If we are, there was this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Citron

[ElectionLover]

If you're talking about presidential elections, the last time Orange County went Democratic was in 1936! This was the election where Franklin Roosevelt won by huge landslide. Alf Landon was the loser. 

[stevekamp]

About a dozen statewide D candidates (none for P except FDR 1936) have carried Orange County.

Sheridan Downey for Senate in 1938.

  Attorney General nominee Stanley Mosk in 1958,

Senator Alan Cranston in 1974 and Secretary of State non-incumbent winner March Fong in 1974;

Governor Jerry Brown in the 1978 reelect;

the 1978 reelects of Secretary of State March Fong, Treasurer Jesse Unruh, and Controller Ken Cory;

the 1986 reelects of Secretary of State March Fong Eu, Treasurer Jesse Unruh, and Attorney General John Van de Kamp; and the 1998 reelection of Controller Kathleen Connell);

the BOE candidates were BOE-4 Member Richard Nevins in 1962 and BOE-2 Member John Lynch in 1974). 

In 1914, 1910 Republican Surveyor General W.S. Kingsbury running as a Progressive-Democrat carried Orange County.