"Ben" Allen[1] (born March 13, 1978)[citation needed] is an American attorney and Democratic politician.

[10] Allen was first elected to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.

[7][14][15] His major opponents in the primary included Manhattan Beach Mayor Amy Howorth, former Assemblymember Betsy Butler, and social justice attorney Sandra Fluke.

He secured 77 percent of the vote in the June 2018 primary, defeating Baron Bruno, an unaffiliated realtor, and Mark Matthew Herd, Libertarian candidate and Westwood neighborhood councilman.

In the November 2018 primary election, Allen defeated Bruno again, winning by a margin of 54.4 percent.