As of late Tuesday night, Imelda Padilla leads the field and three other candidates are vying for second place in the special election to replace former Los Angeles City Councilmember Nury Martinez in the San Fernando Valley.
Because no candidate won a majority of the votes in Tuesday’s election for Council District 6, the top two finishers will meet in a June 27 runoff.
Padilla is leading with 25.6% of the vote. Marisa Alcaraz is in second with 19.2%, Rose Grigoryan is third with 18%, and Marco Santana is in fourth place with 17.5%. Alcaraz leads Grigoryan by just 113 votes, and Santana by 155 votes.
Of the remaining candidates on the ballot, Isaac Kim has 11.5% of the vote, Antoinette Scully has 5.5%, and Douglas Sierra has 2.7%.
As of Tuesday night, officials had tallied a bit more than 9,000 votes, less than 8% of the more than 118,000 ballots sent to District 6 voters.
However, “there are still many outstanding ballots to be processed and counted,” County Registrar Dean Logan’s office said in a statement. Those include conditional voter registration ballots, provisional ballots, and mail-in ballots returned by election day. The registrar said the next vote update will be on Friday.
The special election was called to replace Martinez, who resigned in October after she was heard on a secret audio recording making racist, homophobic and anti-indigenous remarks. District 6 stretches nearly 20 miles from Sun Valley west to Lake Balboa. It includes the Sun Valley Power Plant and Van Nuys Airport.
Here are the leading candidates:
Imelda Padilla
Padilla is a Sun Valley resident who has worked in community engagement with the L.A. County’s Women and Girls Initiative, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and environmental justice organization Pacoima…
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