By Mary O’KEEFE

This November’s election is finally over – sort of. In California, the counting of ballots continues and results will be updated throughout the next few days – and weeks.

According to Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan, a total of 1,975,855 ballots were processed and counted with 38% of eligible registered voters casting ballots. Out of those ballots, 683,452 were vote-by-mail and 1,292,403 were poll ballots. There were 4,728 precincts within LA County.

“[In LA County] we do a counting process [lasting about] 30 days,” said Brenda Duran, spokeswoman for LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Office.

From this point forward, on every Tuesday and Friday the election results will be updated.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the “semi-official” results for races concerning the Crescenta Valley include: Congressman Adam Schiff at 76.44% of the vote and his challenger Johnny J. Nalbandian at 23.56%. State Assemblymember Laura Friedman received 100% of the vote; she ran unopposed. The yes votes for Glendale’s Measure S, the sales tax increase of ¾%, are 52.94%; no votes are 47.06%. LA Cou
nty Flood Control Measure W are 67.48% yes votes to 32.52% no votes.

The LA County Sheriff’s Dept. race for sheriff is very close. At present, Sheriff Jim McDonnell received 49.85% of the vote and challenger Alex Villanueva received 50.15%.

LA County ballot results for statewide issues include: For the governor’s office, LA County voters gave Gavin Newsom 69.87% of the vote and John H. Cox 30.13%. Statewide results find the difference between the candidates a little narrower with Newsom at 59.3% and Cox at 40.7%.

For Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond has the lead with 55.38% of the vote; Marshall Tuck has, so far, received 44.62% of the vote. Statewide, the preliminary results find Thurmond at 49.3% to Tuck’s 50.7% of the vote.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, as of Wednesday in LA County, had 58.43% of the vote compared to Kevin De Leon at 41.57%; statewide, the numbers were similar with Feinstein at 54.3% to Kevin De Leon’s 45.7%

The results of the LA County on statewide Measures on which voters were asked to decide include: Prop. 1 – Authorizing bonds to fund specified housing assistance programs: 62.34% yes and 37.66% no. Prop. 2 – Authorizing bonds to fund existing housing program for individuals with mental illness: 67.65% yes and 32.35% no. Prop. 3 – Authorizing bonds to fund projects including for water supply and quality: 48.83% yes to 51.17% no. Prop. 4 – Authorizing bonds for construction at hospitals providing children’s health: 67.84% yes to 32.16% no. Prop. 5 – Change requirements for property owners to transfer property tax base: 39.02% yes to 60.98% no. Prop 6 – Known as the “gas tax repeal measure”: 39.95% yes to 60.05% no. Prop 7 – Possible change of Daylight Saving Time: 59.73% yes to 40.27% no. Prop 8 – Regulates amounts that outpatient kidney dialysis clinics charge for treatments: 40.19% yes to 59.81% no. Prop 10 – Known as the “rent control measure”: 47.16% yes to 52.84% no. Prop 11 – Requires private-sector emergency ambulance employees to remain on-call during work breaks: 60.24% yes to 39.76% no. Prop 12 – Establishes new standards for confinement of specified farm animals: 69.89% yes to 30.11% no.

State and County results will continue to come in throughout November. CVW will continue to update as these results are made public.

  Mary Okeefe