Real-Time Election Results 2024: Northridge-Chatsworth
NORTHRIDGE, CA — Will Los Angeles shift away from a district attorney's office with a progressive approach to criminal justice? Will the county expand the board of supervisors and establish an Ethics Commission and a Compliance Officer?
The polls closed across Los Angeles County and the state of California at 8 p.m., with the possible exception of Vote Centers that have lines. Anyone who is in line at 8 p.m. will be allowed to vote.
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Real-Time Race Results For Long Beach/ Los Angeles County: Nov. 5, 2024 General Election:
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Los Angeles City Council
There were three open Los Angeles City Council seats on the Nov. 5 ballot, and the council is guaranteed to get some new blood with Council President Paul Krekorian out of the running in District 2 in the San Fernando Valley.
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District 2 serving the eastern San Fernando Valley: Former Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian was facing optician and community organizer Jillian Burgos for the seat being vacated by Council President Paul Krekorian.
District 10 serving central Los Angeles: Incumbent Heather Hutt, who was appointed to the seat in 2022, attempted to fend off a challenge by attorney Grace Yo after neither garnered majority support in the March primary.
District 14 serving the Eastside: Embattled incumbent Kevin De León faced a challenge from tenants' rights attorney Ysabel Jurado. A fixture in Los Angeles and California politics, De León fell from grace with the release of a secretly recorded conversation between himself and two other council members discussing City Hall power dynamics using racist terms in 2021. De León is the only one of the three who resisted calls to step down, and his re-election was a test of political survival in the aftermath of the scandal. The Los Angeles Times has endorsed Jurado.
Los Angeles Unified School District
District 1, serving Palms. Mid-Wilshire and West Athens To the I-110: Sherlett Hendy Newbill, who led the pack during the March primary with 25 percent of the vote, faced Kahllid A. Al-Alim, who came in second with 20 percent of the vote.
District 3, serving the northwest San Fernando Valley: It was a race between incumbent Scott Mark Schmerelson and challenger Dan Chang. In the March primary involving six candidates, Schmerelson garnered 45 percent of the vote to Chang's 29 percent.
District 5, including Bell, Vernon, Huntington Park, South Gate and parts of Central LA, Hollywood and Northeast LA: It was a race between two LAUSD teachers. Karla Griego and , and Graciela Ortiz bested two other candidates in the March Primary. Griego earned 36.72 percent of the vote and Ortiz got 28.76 percent.
City Ballot Measures
Voters in the city of Los Angeles had their say on five city charter amendments dealing with ethics reform, redistricting, police and fire pensions, government transparency and administrative authority.
The amendments were proposed in the aftermath of the scandal that erupted in 2021 when a secret recording emerged between then-City Council members Nury Martinez and Gil Cedillo and current Councilman Kevin de Leon discussing power dynamics in the city in crude and racist terms. And several city leaders have been convicted of or charged with corruption over the last few years, prompting efforts aimed at increasing transparency and accountability at City Hall.
Amendment DD would create an independent commission to make decisions about City Council district boundaries following each U.S. Census. Currently, the mayor and council make decisions about those districts — if the charter amendment passes, elected officials would no longer be involved in the process.
Amendment HH would require city commission appointees to file financial disclosures in order to be appointed to their roles, clarify the controller's audit authority over city contractors, expand the city attorney's subpoena power and more.
Amendment II would include gender identity in city-employment nondiscrimination rules, allow electronic signatures on certain city documents, allow the city to lease sites in public parks to the Los Angeles Unified School District for park-related purposes and more.
Amendment ER would establish a minimum annual budget for the City Ethics Commission, give the commission more authority over spending and personnel matters, allow the commission to hire its own lawyer under certain circumstances, impose additional qualifications on commission members and the executive director, prohibit the appointment of elected officials' relatives or campaign donors to the commission and increase the maximum penalties the commission may impose.
Amendment FF would implement changes to rules around public retirement fund membership for police, airport, harbor and Recreation and Parks employees.
A detailed overview of the proposed charter amendments is available on the city's website.
LAUSD Ballot Measures
Voters within the Los Angeles Unified School District boundaries were asked to vote on Amendment LL, which would amend the city charter to establish a redistricting commission for the school board.
Currently, district boundaries are determined by the City Council and mayor. The amendment would give that power to a redistricting commission that would be selected without involvement from elected officials.
A detailed overview of the proposed amendment is available on the city's website.
LAUSD voters also weighed in on Measure US, the $9 billion bond measure for school facility improvements. The measure will require support from more than 55 percent of voters to pass.
If approved, the measure would increase property tax rates by about 2.5 cents per $100 of valuation to generate $456,123,000 annually until 2059.
County Ballot Measures
Los Angeles County have cast their votes on measures A and G.
Measure A sought to raise an estimated $1.1 billion annually for homelessness services and affordable housing programs through a sales-tax increase.
If approved, Measure A would repeal the county's existing quarter-cent sales tax for homelessness services — Measure H, passed by voters in 2017 — and replace it with a new half-cent sales tax.
County officials said they want to lock in a larger, dedicated revenue stream to address the region's housing and homelessness crisis: Measure H is set to expire in 2027, while Measure A would never expire.
Measure G would significantly overhaul LA County's government charter, which has remained largely unchanged since 1912 — despite the county's population increasing twentyfold.
The biggest change would be an expansion of the Board of Supervisors from five to nine members, which would reduce the size of each supervisor's consistency. Currently, each board member represents around 2 million people in districts that cover huge swaths of the county.
Measure G would also make the county chief executive officer an elected position. The CEO, who oversees the county's day-to-day operations, is currently appointed by the board.
It would also create an independent ethics commission and two new positions: county legislative analyst and director of budget and management.
District Attorney
Perhaps the most closely watched race in Los Angeles County has been the battle for district attorney. It was the most scrutinized district attorney's race in the country, with incumbent George Gascón a lightning rod for progressive reforms that are hailed by his supporters and characterized as soft on crime by his critics.
He faced former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Nathan Hochman, who pledged to emphasize justice for victims and to reverse Gascón's policies eschewing many sentencing enhancements, the death penalty, and charging juveniles as adults.
Voters faced a choice between two distinct approaches to criminal justice.
The office is nonpartisan. However, Gascón ran as a Democrat, and Hochman as an Independent two years after launching a campaign for state attorney general as a Republican.
Both men emerged from the crowded field of 11 candidates in the March primary, with Gascón garnering about 25 percent of the vote to Hochman's 16 percent.
However, Hochman surged ahead of Gascón with likely voters heading into election day, according to at USC, CSU Long Beach and Cal Poly Pomona survey. The poll had Hochman with a commanding 24-point lead over Gascón. About 44 percent of likely voters said they support Hochman, while only 20 percent said they support Gascón.
SEE ALSO: Meet Nathan Hochman, Candidate For LA County District Attorney
State Measures
Of course, it wouldn't be a major election in California if there were not a slew of proposed propositions on the ballot.
There are 10 statewide propositions on the ballot, including two $10 billion bond measures for school construction and to address climate change. There are also two amendments to the state constitution, one which would repeal the unenforceable ban on same-sex marriage and another that would make it easier for bond measures to pass by lowering the voter threshold from the current supermajority needed to approve bond measures.
However, the most hot-button measure on the ballot is Proposition 36, which seeks to reverse some of the criminal justice reforms passed when voters approved Proposition 47 a decade ago. If Prop 36 passes, it could significantly increase prison time for some drug and theft offenses that are currently misdemeanors.
for Patch's in-depth reporting on all 10 propositions.
U.S. House of Representatives
There are 17 Congressional Districts in Los Angeles County, and all but one of them are currently represented by Democrats in the county where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 2 to 1.
It's that one Republican District that was among the most closely watched congressional races in the naion because it could help determine who wins control of the U.S House. The 27th Congressional District serves the High Desert area, and incumbent Mike Garcia faced Democrat George Whitesides, a former NASA chief of staff looking to unseat a Republican in a district that split the ticket in 2020.
Garcia first took office in 2020 to replace Rep. Katie Hill, who resigned amid a sex scandal. His margin of victory was less than 350 votes. He fared better in the midterms in 2022 with 53 percent of the vote or a margin of nearly 13,000 votes. However, with former president Donald Trump, who remains deeply unpopular in California, at the topic of the ticket, Garcia was expected to have more of a fight on his hands.
Whitesides had blasted Garcia for supporting the overturning of Roe v. Wade and for voting not to certify the results of the 2020 election, calling him a Maga extremist. Garcia's camp, conversely had characterist Whiteside as an out-of-step liberal megadonor.
Both national parties poured millions of dollars into the district with campaign adds to get out the vote.
U.S. Senate
A consequential contest to watch will be the race for the U.S. Senate seat long-held by the late Dianne Feinstein. In fact, voters will cast their ballot twice in this race, Nov. 5. They'll choose a candidate to finish out Feinstein's current term and again for the next term, which will begin in 2025.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey are both vying for the seat . Schiff, a progressive favorite in the Golden State, has served as a Democratic congressman here since 2000, representing the state's 30th Congressional District in Los Angeles County.
Garvey, formerly an All-Star for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, advanced in March to the November ballot as a first-time political candidate. Republicans have failed to advance a candidate in two of the last three U.S. Senate races, making Garvey's defeat of Democratic Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, a rare feat for the GOP in blue California.
According to a recent poll from the Public Policy Institute of California, Schiff holds a 28 point-lead (63 percent to 35 percent) over Garvey. Schiff gained widespread name recognition for his role in Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Read more about that race here .
