Lesser and Howorth Lead Manhattan Beach Council Race: Early Results

MANHATTAN BEACH, CA — Election day has come and gone in Manhattan Beach, and preliminary results show Lesser and Howorth leading the race for Manhattan Beach City Council. (Scroll for real-time results.)

The most recent results from the Los Angeles County Clerk were updated at 3:35 a.m. Wednesday morning and reflect 23.4 percent of the county's votes.

The next ballots counted will be a random selection of batches for the one percent manual tally that will take place on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 10:15 a.m.

According to the County Clerk's office, voters should expect to see more updates between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11. A full timeline for the Canvass Update Schedule is available at this link.

The final results won't be released until December, according to the schedule.

Manhattan Beach City Council Election 2022

There were two Manhattan Beach City Council seats up for grabs and incumbent Suzanne Hadley faced former Councilmembers Mark Burton, Amy Howorth and David Lesser as well as other candidates Frank Chiella, Ria Crabtree-Kampe and Stewart Fournier.

As of 10:15 a.m. Lesser and Howorth led the vote with 4,030 votes and 3,969 votes respectively. Hadley trailed close behind with 3,316 votes. Chiella had 2,163 votes, Burton had 1,782 votes, Crabtree-Kampe had 1,859 votes and Fournier had 490 votes.

Countywide Races

Sheriff

Retired Long Beach Police Department Chief Robert Luna led the race for Los Angeles County Sheriff by a large margin with 687,127 votes. Current LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva had 522,926 votes according to early results from the LA Registrar of voters.

To view full coverage and live results for the LA Sheriff's race click this link.

In the June primary, Villanueva and Luna topped the nine-person field of candidates, leading to today’s runoff.

Over the past century, only one incumbent sheriff in the county has lost a re-election bid. That was four years ago, when Villanueva achieved a stunning upset of Sheriff Jim McDonnell, riding to an election victory with strong backing from reform-minded community groups and Democrats.

He has openly criticized "progressive" policies and politicians, most notably District Attorney George Gascón, and assailed movements to "defund" law enforcement agencies.

Luna argued during the campaign that the sheriff's department is being "mismanaged" by Villanueva and said he will work to restore trust in the agency. He also touted his position as an outsider with no connections to the sheriff's department.

He said he will work to "modernize" the sheriff's department and its jail system and improve the mental well-being of deputies and employees.

Click these links to follow real-time results for the California statewide races of Governor and Controller.

Real-time results are below — use the scroll on the right to get to the race of your choice (they are in alphabetical order). Patch will be updating the results throughout the night as votes are tallied — refresh the page for the latest updates.