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(I'm doing blogging and blog outreach for Eric Garcetti's re-election campaign)
Results were just updated at the LA City Clerk's website. Some highlights:
CD-13 (93% reporting):
Eric Garcetti 72.08
Gary Slossberg 27.92
Mayor (89.6% reporting):
Antonio Villaraigosa 55.73
Walter Moore 25.89
Gordon Turner 6.56
Prop B (Solar Initiative - 89.6% reporting):
Yes 49.97
No 50.03
The 5th Council district race, to replace Jack Weiss, is ridiculously close. Weiss looks likely to go to a runoff for City Attorney. More as it comes in.
[UPDATE] Just to clarify, per The LA Times, the above results are only from vote-by-mail. Still waiting for in-person results to come in.
[UPDATE] Results updated as of 10:12pm. With the addition of a fraction of all in-person ballots cast, both Villaraigosa and Measure B have had net increases on 1%. If Villaraigosa can't win 60% in L.A., this flirtation with running for governor may not be long for this world.
[UPDATE] As more in-person ballots get counted, Villaraigosa and Prop B keep gaining steam. All props at the moment are ahead. We're looking at run-offs in the City Attorney race and City Council 5 where Paul Koretz and David Vahedi are currently leading a tight field. All mail-in ballots and just 14.82% of in-person ballots have been counted.
[UPDATE] Updated again as of 12am.
[UPDATE] Update by Dante as of 12:36am: interesting turns with 76% reporting. Measure B is in peril, as it is only leading by a hair at this point: 50.2% to 49.8%, a difference of less than 700 votes.
Meanwhile, Vahedi has actually pulled ahead of Koretz in CD5 by 50 votes, but the only thing that matters for is bragging rights, as those two are far head of the rest of the field.
The closest race right now is LAUSD 6 between Pugliese and Martinez, where Pugliese has a 9-vote lead as of last posting. Martinez has been gaining ground all night, and appears to have won a solid majority of election-day voters.
[UPDATE] by Dante at 1:00am: The bunch of ballots between 76% and 89% must have had a conservative tilt, as Measure B has now fallen behind for the first time tonight, by 100 votes. Meanwhile, Measure E, which would allow individual councilmembers to offer tax incentives and which was opposed by many progressive voter guides, has pulled to a noticeable 4% lead for the first time tonight. One other race has flipped as well: Nury Martinez has taken the lead in LAUSD 6 by 175 votes, or .8%.
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