Garcia poised to win Rio Hondo's Area 1 seat

With 94 percent of precincts reporting, Norma Edith Garcia appears to have won election to the Rio Hondo College board of trustees.

So far, 2,179 ballots -- or nearly 59 percent of the vote -- have been cast for Garcia to fill the Area 1 seat on the Rio Hondo board, which represents the city of El Monte.

Siegrist, a former Rio trustee, had 1,525 ballots, or about 41 percent of the vote.