Politics & Government

Hermosa Beach Election Results Still Up in the Air

700 votes still need to be counted.

Tuesday’s election in Hermosa Beach for city council and school board seats is still up in the air due to about 700 provisional and late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots that have yet to be counted, according to the Daily Breeze

Attorney Nanette Barragan, incumbent Councilman Jeff Dulcos and finance executive and controller Carolyn Petty finished Tuesday with the most votes out of the seven candidates seeking three open seats and were unofficially declared winners by several media outlets. 

But... with Barragan being the top vote-getter at 1,584, just ahead of Dulcos (1,501) and Petty (1,480), and fourth-place Hany Fangary (1,478) being only two votes behind Dulcos, much has yet to be officially decided until all the votes are in. Incumbent Mayor Patrick Bobko (1,244), former Police Chief Greg Savelli and former Councilman John Bowler (958) statistically still can get back in the top three. 

The Hermosa Beach Unified School District board election is also still up in the air. Mary Campbell (1,568 votes), Carlene Beste (1,286) and Margaret Rose Bove-LaMonica (1,269) were the top three vote-getters out of eight seeking three seats, but Beste and Bove-LaMonica's victory is far from being assured over several of the other candidates until all the votes are counted, although it does appear Campbell finishing in the top three is assured. 

The county clerk’s office will announce the official winners on Nov. 25, but will update results on the office’s website as they trickle in, the Breeze reported. Hermosa Beach Patch has a live widget of the results, so click here to check in as the vote tallies are updated. 

The results of Measure B will not be impacted by the uncounted votes as it failed by close to 1,500 votes. 


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