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Voters in the South Bay and Long Beach-areas had plenty to decide on Election Day, with dozens of city council, school board, and measures on the ballot across both regions. Here’s where local races — which are currently too close to call — in the South Bay and Long Beach areas stand after the Los Angeles County registrar’s office released its latest update around 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 7. LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: See a chart of the latest vote counts Artesia City Council Four candidates were competing for two open seats on the council, including small business owner Dan Rocha, retired marine William Morante, community health worker Zeel Ahir and incumbent Monica Manalo.
Monalo had the lead, with about 26.84% of the vote, while Ahir trailed with 26.71%.
The two were separated by a mere five votes on Thursday. Rocha and Morante had 24.84% and 21.
57% of the ballots cast in their favor, respectively. The top two candidates will each get a seat on the council. Bellflower City Council, District 1 Appointed councilmember Wendi Morse and law enforcement professional Aaron Drake are running for the District 1 City Council seat in Bellflower.
Morse had 51.38% of the votes. Drake trailed with 48.
62%. Just 108 votes separated the two candidates. Compton City Council In the District 1 race for Compton City Council, voters had to choose between incumbent Deidre Duhart and Jasper Jay Jackson.
The two were nearly tied, with Duhart having 50.96% and Jackson having 49.04%.
Duhart had the lead by just 86 votes. In the race for Compton’s District 4 seat, meanwhile, incumbent Lillie Darden had the lead with 56.75%.
Joel Estrada had 43.25% of ballots cast in their favor. The candidates were separated by 539 votes.
El Segundo City Council There are three open seats on the El Segundo council, with six candidates vying for them. The candidates were incumbents Lance Giroux, Drew Boyles and Carol Pirsztuk, and challenging them were planning Commissioner Michelle Keldorf, national sales director Chris Eidem and collegiate running coach John Pickhaver. Boyles was in the lead with 26.
42% of the votes, while Keldorf had 19.80% — separated by 1,144 votes. Giroux, in third, had 18.
11% while Pickhaver, in fourth, had 16.84% of the votes. Pirsztuk and Eidem followed with 14.
74% and 4.09%, respectively. The top three candidates will win a seat on the council.
Hawaiian Gardens City Council Four candidates were competing for two seats on the Hawaiian Gardens council, including current Councilmembers Victor Farfan and Ernie Vargas, alongside financial educator Jesse Alvarado and Jesus Mendoza. Farfan was in first with 27.15% of the votes.
Vargas, in second, had 26.06% of the votes. The top two candidates were separated by just 42 votes.
Alvarado and Mendoza trailed with 23.64% and 23.03% of the votes, respectively.
The top two candidates will each get a seat on the council. Lawndale Mayor and City Council In Lawndale, three candidates — incumbent Rhonda Hofmann Gorman, Councilmember Sirley Cuevas, and educator Francisco M. Talavera — were competing for two available City Council seats.
And it was razor thin Cuevas led the race with 33.85% of the votes, but Hofmann Gorman was close behind, with 33.36%, as was Talavera, who had 32.
80% of the votes. The top two candidates will win a seat on the council. Lawndale residents also cast their ballots for a new mayor, in a race between incumbent Robert Pullen-Miles, Councilmember Bernadette Lourdes Suarez and businessperson Wanza Tolliver.
Pullen-Miles led the race with 60.10% of the votes. Lourdes Suarez and Tolliver followed with 31.
38% and 8.53% of the votes, respectively. Manhattan Beach City Council Councilmember Joe Franklin was in the lead for the three open seats on the Manhattan Beach City Council, as of Thursday afternoon, with Nina Tarnay and Steve Charelian in the final two spots.
Franklin had 25.96% support, Tarnay had 21.91% and Charelian had 17.
28%. Franklin and Tarnay were separated by 1,530 votes. Karen Komatinsky, meanwhile, had about 15.
85%. The other candidates were further behind. Rancho Palos Verdes City Council Five candidates were in the running to take over two open seats on the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council, including management consultant Steve Perestam, tech professional Jeff Chen, health care consultant Michele Carbone, planning Commissioner David Chura and certified public accountant George Lewis.
The top two candidates will win a seat on the City Council. Perestam and Lewis led the race with 24.52% and 23.
64% of the votes cast in their favor, respectively. Chura followed with 22.72%, separated from second place by just 244 votes.
Chen and Carbone trailed with 18.21% and 11.18% of the votes, respectively.
Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District Four candidates were running for two available seats on the PVPUSD Board of Education, including RPV Councilmember and educator Eric Alegria, fighter pilot Jeremy Vanderhal, PVPUSD board member Ami Gandhi, and retired teacher Alexandria Kay Blumer. Gandhi and Alegria led the race with 31.77% and 26.
99% of the votes, followed by Vanderhal with 24.87% and Blumer with 16.37%.
The top two candidates will get a seat on the school board..
