(April 15, 2015, 7:10 a.m.) -- As carried LIVE (including on-scene VIDEO) by LBREPORT.com on election night (April 14), Daryl Supernaw has won LB's 4th Council district seat.

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Mr. Supernaw led his nearest ballot rival, Herlinda Chico, by double-digit percentages in both early vote-by-mail ballots and polling place precinct ballots (rolling total as they were added to the election night tally; districtwide total; precinct numbers not immediately available.) He waited to make comments (he said out of respect to his opponents) until all election-night tabulated ballots were counted before making brief (very brief) victory-night comments to a crowd gathered at E.J. Malloy's in Los Altos.

Photo by Diana Lejins

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Councilman-elect Supernaw was outspent by Ms. Chico's campaign and its supporters, whose endorsees included Mayor Robert Garcia, seven of eight incumbent City Councilmembers (Mungo took no position) and immediate past Councilman (now Assemblyman) Patrick O'Donnell. Ms. Chico was also backed by five-figure sums spent by the political action committees of the LB Police Officers Ass'n, the LB Firefighters Ass'n, and the L.A. County Fed'n of Labor AFL-CIO (at last report over $40,000 from County Fed'n of Labor for unspecified field work.)

Mr. Supernaw was endorsed by the LB Business Journal, PressTelegram and Beachcomber, longtime former 4th dist. Councilman/LBCC Trustee Dr. Tom Clark, former Councilwoman/LB Mayor Eunice Sato, the LB Area Chamber of Commerce PAC and an independent expenditure committee funded largely by the CA Realtors Ass'n along with a sizable contribution by former 3rd dist. Councilman Gary DeLong (who was among supporters visible on election night.)

Also stopping by Supernaw's election night event were Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal (told LBREPORT.com she was in the area for a family event) and 8th district Councilman Al Austin. Mr. Supernaw told LBREPORT.com he'd also received a congratulatory telephone call from Mayor Garcia.

Councilman-elect Supernaw finished first in April 2012, a race Ms. Chico entered then exited when Councilman O'Donnell withdrew from an Assembly race (when incumbent Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal sought a final Sac'to term.) O'Donnell then pursued a third Council term (with Ms. Chico's endorsement) via an initial April 2012 write-in, finishing second to Supernaw. However with his name on the ballot in a June 2012 runoff, and aided by heavy spending by organized labor (including the POA, Firefighters and County AFL-CIO unions), O'Donnell outpolled Supernaw and won a third Council term. O'Donnell's opponents at the time (including the LB Area Chamber of Commerce leadership) predicted he would exit his Council seat early to pursue the Assembly seat in 2014, requiring a "no runoff" special election...which O'Donnell did and endorsed Ms. Chico. Mr. Supernaw entered the special election...and prevailed.

Following the tabulation of additional provisional ballots and some number of vote-by-mail ballots arriving in the mail in the next few days, the City Clerk will ask the City Council to certify the election results. When sworn in, Mr. Supernaw will take office to complete the last 15 months of former Councilman O'Donnell's term...and will nearly immediately have to begin preparing for re-election to a full four year term in an April 2016 race (coinciding with races in the 2nd, 6th and 8th Council districts.)

Further to follow on LBREPORT.com.