In the races for three Los Angeles County supervisors, incumbents Holly Mitchell, Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger continued to hold commanding leads, as the first post-election day update was released Wednesday, March 6.
Incumbent supervisors Mitchell and Barger continued to carry large leads over their challengers, which could secure them outright wins. Hahn’s race against former sheriff Alex Villanueva was slightly tighter, though Hahn led by nearly 26 percentage points.
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The L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk added 105,717 more ballots to Wednesday’s update. These represent vote-by-mail ballots and ballots from vote centers. In total, 1,016,574 ballots were processed and counted thus far.
While these latest election returns show that incumbents led in the contests for District 2, District 4 and District 5 — three seats on the powerful, five-person county board — winners won’t be known for several days or even weeks as votes continue to be counted through March 29.
In these races, the candidate with 50% of the votes plus one wins the seat outright. Otherwise, the top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s primary election will face each other in a November runoff. County races are non-partisan.
Here is where the races stood as of Wednesday evening:
In District 2, Supervisor Holly Mitchell led the race with 66.2% of the vote. If that holds Mitchell would be declared the winner.
Daphne Bradford remained in a distant second place with 13.5% of the vote. In third place was Clint Carlton with 12.4%, while Katrina Williams was in fourth place with 7.9%. They are competing to represent a swath of the South Bay’s coastal communities — Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, El Segundo and Redondo Beach as well as Hawthorne, Lawndale, Gardena, Culver City, Inglewood, Compton, Carson and L.A. communities of Watts, Exposition Park and Koreatown.
In District 4, Supervisor Janice Hahn has seen a slight drop in her lead since…
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