(April 13, 2016. 12:30 a.m.) -- With results carried LIVE on LBREPORT.com and visible below, the results of the April 12 City Council elections mean a June 7 runoff in Council district 2 (Pearce vs. Gray), probably runoff in district 6 (incumbent Andrews vs. Miller) with a cliffhanger remaining in Council district 8:
In unofficial totals (some ballots remaining to be counted but with all precincts reporting), 8th district incumbent Al Austin finished the night with 1,694 votes -- 50.1183% of the vote -- while challengers Turnbow and Angel together received 1,686 votes for 49.8816% of the vote...a difference of eight votes. Austin needs 50% + 1 vote to be re-elected without a runoff...and a number of ballots still remain to be counted: vote by mail ballots received by the City Clerk's office in recent days, plus vote by mail ballots turned in at polling places on election day, plus provisionally cast ballots on election day. The remaining ballots will be counted in the coming days. and we don't yet know their number (the City Clerk will likely provide a figure on Wednesday or shortly thereafter.) The mathematical bottom line: if there aren't sufficient ballots remaining to be counted that could pull Austin below 50%+1 vote, or if Councilman Austin maintains his current lead when the remaining 8th district ballots are counted, he will have avoided a runoff and is re-elected to a second City Council term, outpolling challengers Turnbow and Angel. If Austin's total when all ballots are counted drops below 50%, he will be in a June runoff with Turnbow (who finished second with 33.5% of the vote.) Scroll down for further. |
6th district Incumbent Andrews, who finished first (with 48.1% of the vote) with a write-in campaign seeking a third term, will now have his name printed on the ballot if there's a runoff against Miller in the June runoff (some ballots remain to the counted). 4th district Council incumbent Supernaw had no ballot challenger. In LBCC Board of Trustee races, challenger Malauulu outpolled apponted incumbent Archuletta; veteran incumbent Otto is re-elected over challenger Keiser. In LBUSD races, incumbents Williams and Meyer are both re-elected.
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