Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand and City Attorney Michael Webb have won reelection, Zein Obagi Jr. will be District 4âs new City Council member and Redondo Beach Unified has three new school board members after the second and final vote tally for Redondo Beach elections Friday, March 12.
Redondo Beach on Friday, March 12, released the second and final vote tally from its March 2 election. More than 9,000 votes came during the three days between election night and the deadline for mail-in-ballots marked by March 2 to arrive, said City Clerk Eleanor Manzano. Her staff processed 5,000 ballots on election night.
Ballots will be certified on Tuesday, March 16, Manzano said.
Incumbents ahead in Redondo Beach election
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by Rachel Reeves
If preliminary results hold, only the board of the Redondo Beach Unified School District will change as a result of this week’s citywide election. Less than half of ballots cast were counted before unofficial numbers were announced, at 11:11 p.m. on Tuesday. According to those numbers, incumbents are ahead in the races for mayor and city attorney, as well as council members in Districts 1, 2, and 4. None of the three school board members whose terms expired ran for reelection because they were termed out.
“Other than for District 4, it’s been a blowout for the incumbents,” said Mayor Bill Brand, who captured 68 percent of the preliminary vote in his reelection bid. Council District 1 incumbent Nils Nehrenheim, who received a majority of his district’s votes according to Tuesday’s count, expressed a more measured view.
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Redondo Beach voters have been casting ballots for two weeks now, and on March 2, the city could choose a new mayor and city attorney.
Incumbent Mayor Bill Brand faces three challengers, Shayne T. Hartman, Michael Ian Sachs and Chris Voisey, while longtime City Attorney Michael Webb faces just one: Harden Sooper.
In the mayoral race, Brand believes that a proven leader should oversee the new things coming to Redondo Beach in the next four to five years.
âThereâs a lot of great things on the horizon in Redondo Beach in the next four years,â said Brand, who has been mayor for four years and on the council for eight.
Commercial redevelopment, a controversial powerplant and an aging waterfront remain top concerns among candidates for Redondo Beach mayor and city attorney ahead of the March 2 elections.