‘92 SOUTHEAST ELECTIONS : ELECTIONS / HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES : 4 New Faces to Represent Area in Congress : Results: Steve Horn’s victory is the most surprising. The ethnically mixed delegation includes three Democrats, two Republicans and only one incumbent.

When the 103rd session of Congress convenes next year, for the first time in at least two decades a majority of representatives from the Southeast area will be newcomers to the Hill.

Four new faces are among the five representatives elected Tuesday. The delegation includes a Latina, a Latino and an African-American.

In Tuesday night’s biggest surprise, Cal State Long Beach political science professor Steve Horn defied the odds to beat Long Beach Councilman Evan Anderson Braude.

Horn managed not only to defeat the Democrat in a district dominated by Democrats, he did it without contributions from special interest political action committees or the help of professional consultants. And he succeeded despite his controversial dismissal as president of Cal State Long Beach after a budget crisis.

Horn took an early lead in the race and never lost it.

The 61-year-old professor credited his victory to his vow that he would work with both Democrats and Republicans.

“I’m willing to work with anyone to rebuild the economy,” Horn said. “I made it very clear that I could work with either president . . . President Bush, President Clinton or President Perot.”

With the victories of Horn, Assemblywoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, Compton Mayor Walter R. Tucker III, and the reelection of Rep. Esteban E. Torres, the politics of the Southeast delegation is likely to take a decided shift to the left. Three of the four are Democrats, and all are considered moderates. The only conservative representative from the area is Republican state Sen. Edward R. Royce, who was elected to Congress in the 39th District.

Redrawing of political boundaries, combined with the retirement of Rep. Mervyn Dymally (D-Compton) and Rep. Glenn M. Anderson (D-Long Beach) assured that the Southeast area would have at least four new members in Congress.

The five representatives say it is too soon to tell what their election will mean to the Southeast, but their hopes are high.

“It’s really exciting,” Tucker said. “The winds of change are blowing and I think we have the makings of a team that can really do some things . . . that understands what really concerns the people in this area, most of whom are minorities and people struggling with unemployment, poor education.”

Here is a look at the outcome of the five congressional races:

33rd District

(Bell, Bell Gardens, Commerce, Cudahy, South Gate, Huntington Park, Maywood, Vernon, Florence, Walnut Park; parts of Downey, Los Angeles, East Los Angeles.) Lucille Roybal-Allard, who sailed to the Democratic nomination in the 33rd Congressional District primary, just as easily fended off three opponents to win the new district.

Allard captured twice as many votes as her nearest rival, Republican Robert Guzman. She has represented the district cities of Maywood, Bell Gardens, Commerce and Vernon in the Assembly for five years, and said that once in Congress, she will continue to push her agenda of creating more jobs in the district, which is home to the Southeast area’s poorest minorities.

The daughter of retiring Rep. Edward Roybal (D-Los Angeles), the 51-year-old assemblywoman is making plans to buy her father’s house on Capitol Hill.

34th District

(Montebello, Norwalk, Pico Rivera, Whittier, Santa Fe Springs; parts of Commerce, East Los Angeles, Hacienda Heights.) Rep. Esteban E. Torres once again proved to be an exception to anti-incumbent sentiment.

Torres was reelected to his sixth two-year term despite a strong challenge from Republican businessman J. (Jay) Hernandez, who portrayed Torres as a typical tax-and-spend liberal who had been in office too long. Democrat Torres, however, proved that at least for two more years, it won’t be easy to get rid of him.

“I think the key is constituent service, playing by the rules, working hard and never letting it go to my head,” a jubilant Torres said Tuesday night during a celebration at the United Auto Workers Local 509 headquarters in Pico Rivera. “Oh,” he added. “And not bouncing checks.”

37th District

(Carson, Lynwood, Wilmington, Willowbrook; most of Compton; parts of Athens, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Paramount.) Compton Mayor and Democratic primary winner Walter R. Tucker III did not even wait until the general election before starting his new job as congressman.

Facing no major party opposition, Tucker had begun scouting Washington for a house and had picked his chief of staff before the polls opened Tuesday.

Tucker’s only opponent in Tuesday’s election was Peace and Freedom candidate B. Kwaku Duren, a lawyer and activist who ran a spirited but underfunded campaign. Duren won 14% of the vote, more than any other third party candidate in a Southeast congressional race, but a 76% Democratic voter registration rate in the district helped Tucker win easily.

38th District

(Bellflower, Downey, Lakewood, Paramount, Signal Hill; most of Long Beach.) Cal State Long Beach professor Steve Horn said his victory over Democrat Evan Anderson Braude in a district dominated by Democrats illustrated one thing clearly.

“I think this candidacy with the volunteers and no PAC money proved that it can be done, that you don’t need to be bought lock, stock and barrel by all the special interests and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to win,” Horn said.

The self-styled “Republican for Reform” criticized Braude throughout the campaign for accepting contributions from special-interest political action committees.

Early Wednesday morning, Braude said he could offer no reason why he lost and speculated that he had not done enough to show voters that he is not the career politician Horn made him out to be.

“I really don’t know what went wrong,” he said wearily as the last of the precincts were being counted. “I’m just sort of resigned to the fact that (Horn’s victory) is going to happen and there’s nothing I can do at this point. What happens, happens. There will be a tomorrow.”

39th District

(Artesia, Cerritos, Hawaiian Gardens, La Habra Heights; parts of Hacienda Heights, La Mirada, Long Beach; several Orange County cities.) Fullerton Councilwoman and Democrat Molly McClanahan ran a determined campaign against state Sen. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) for the seat left open when Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) ran in vain for the U.S. Senate.

But voter registration rates that favored Republicans and Royce’s full campaign war chest proved a combination McClanahan could not defeat.

With about $600,000 in his campaign account, Royce outspent his opponent by about 10 to 1, portraying her in several mailers as a free-spending liberal who is soft on crime and opposes the death penalty for “killers who murder our children.”

Royce said his key to victory was his conservative economic policy and hard campaigning.

Community correspondent Emily Adams and Times staff writer Dan Weikel contributed to this report.