Election Update Scheduled for Today

The LA County Registrar’s office is scheduled to release an updated vote tally later today.

According to spokesperson Mike Sanchez there about 493,450 outstanding ballots left to be counted.

The total includes 50,000 conditional voter registration ballots, 15,500 provisional ballots, 400,950 vote by mail ballots, and 27,000 miscellaneous ballots.

District 5 Councilman Victor Gordo still leads Mayor Terry Tornek in the mayor’s race with 46.09 percent (14,176 votes). Tornek has 41.99 percent of the vote, (12,915).

Major Williams is a distant third with 8.28 percent of the vote (2,547) Jason Hardin has garnered 3.64 percent (1,121).

Gordo and Tornek will meet in a runoff in November. The Mayor’s race is the only contest that will continue.

Incumbents Gene Masuda and Steve Madison remain out front with 59.34 percent and 52.49 percent of the vote in District 4 and District 6 respectively.

In District 2, Felicia Williams leads with 52.02 percent of the vote.