Liu, Huff win state senate seats

Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar and Carol Liu, D-La Cañada Flintridge, won state senate seats, according to election results published Wednesday.

Huff gave up his Assembly seat to try for the 21st District Senate seat vacated by Bob Margett, who was termed out. Huff was challenged by Democrat Joe Lyons, a medical researcher at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, and Libertarian Jill Stone of Temple City.

He captured 54.4 percent of the vote, compared to 39 percent for Lyons and 6.6 percent for Stone.

Liu was challenged for the 29th District seat by Republican Teddy Choi, a real estate agent from Pasadena, and Libertarian candidate Steve Myers, a computer programmer from Los Angeles, in her bid to succeed termed-out Sen. Jack Scott, D-Altadena.