David Lau and Betty Tom Chu were in the lead for two Monterey Park City Council seats in Tuesday nights election, with vote-by-mail ballots. They had 1,083 and 995 votes respectively. They were trailed by Sharon Martinez and Luis Estrada with 795 and 663 votes respectively.
Here’s a La Habra Heights update with one precinct and vote-by-mail (absentee ballots) counted. One precinct still remains to be counted. Measure A that would raise the “Gann” spending limit also leads.
Stan Carroll, 549, 26.2 percent
Brian Bergman, 450, 21.5 percent
Carl Westerhoff, 438 20.9 percent
George Edwards, 277, 13.2 percent
Faith Grimm, 221, 10.6 percent
Vincent Gomez, 159, 7.6 percent
Measure A
Yes 533 83.7 percent
No 104 16.3 percent
With
2 of 7 precincts reporting and mail-in ballots counted, Vincent Yu and Tom Chavez were
leading early in the race for two Temple City City Council seats.
Yu had received 785 votes; Chavez, 641; former Councilman Chuck Souder, 534; Councilman Ken Gillanders, 435; Mayor Cathe Wilson, 380; and redevelopment consultant Silenus Ong, 203.
Wilson and Gillanders
are running for re-election, but bribery allegations against Wilson and
frustration over the city’s economic development problems have provided an opening in the race for the four challengers.
Incumbent Susan Tripp and Gabe Garcia, a former Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District Board of Education member, easily won in Tuesday’s City Council election. Measure A that would raise the city’s transient occupancy tax from 7 percento to 10 percent over the next four years also won. Here are the results:
Susan Tripp 2,204 41.4 percent
Gabe Garcia 1,704 32 percent
Thomas Dawson, 754 14.2 percent
Ken Taylor, 659 12.4 percent
Measure A
Yes 1,756 63.6 percent
No 1,004 36.4 percent
With absentee ballots counted, Mayor John Tran had 930 votes, challenger Henry Lo had 819 votes and incumbent Margaret Clark had 761votes in the Rosemead City Council Election.
Three seats are open.
Three other candidates were not far behind. Challenger Steve Ly had 722. And challenger Sandra Armenta and incumbent John Nunez each had 690 votes.
Kevin Stapleton, John King and Kay Manning were ahead in early results for three Covina City Council seats, with 636, 576 and 494 votes respectively. The three were trailed by Thomas Palmeri and Kevin Bowers, with 442 and 406 respectively.
Glendora early City Council results (absentee ballots) (two open seats):
Glen Murabito: 1,298
Karen Davis: 1,301
Brian Pagac: 213
Kristin Parisi: 606
Yousef “Joseph” Tweini: 313
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Measure C, yes : 1266
Measure C, no: 559
If the results hold, it appears there will be no change in the status quo in Glendora. The city Clerk’s office expects updated results about 9:30 p.m.
In early election results Tuesday night, Vincent Yu and Tom Chavez were leading in the race for two Temple City City Council seats.
With only mail-in ballots counted, Yu had received 698 votes, and Chavez 501. Former Councilman Chuck Souder was in third with 458 votes. Councilman Ken Gillanders, Mayor Cathe Wilson and Silenus Ong trailed with 385, 327 and 188 votes, respectively.
Wilson and Gillanders are running for re-election, but bribery allegations against Wilson and frustration over the city’s economic development problems have tightened the race for the four challengers.
Here are election results for La Habra Heights City Council with only vote by mail (absentee) ballots counted.
Stan Carroll, 334, 25.5 percent
Carl Westerhoff, 305, 23.3 percent
Brian Bergman, 289, 22 percent
George Edwards, 182, 13.9 percent
Faith Grimm, 103, 7.9 percent
Vincent Gomez, 98, 7.5 percent
Still to be counted are the votes from election day.
Gene Murabito and Mayor Karen Davis were ahead in early results for seats on Glendora’s City Council.