Politics & Government
CA Election Results: Palm Desert City Council Races
Palm Desert City Council is a five-member, non-partisan board. Council members are elected by-district to serve four-year terms.
PALM DESERT, CA — In Palm Desert, residents in Districts 1 and 2 chose who they want to represent them for the next four years on city council. (See live election results below.)
In District 1 (downtown area), incumbent Susan Marie Weber was being outrun by challenger Karina Ivonne Quintanilla, who had a comfortable lead of more than 300 votes Wednesday.
In District 2 (all of Palm Desert except downtown), incumbents Kathleen Kelly and Gina Nestande were holding strong leads Wednesday over challengers by Steven Moyer and Evan Trubee.
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Approximately 400,000 vote-by-mail and 25,000 provisional ballots still must be processed in Riverside County. Work on those began Wednesday morning. Ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day also remain to be counted. The next updated results will be posted at 6 p.m. Thursday.
It's unclear how many uncounted ballots remain in each of the city council races.
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SCROLL TO FIND RESULTS for this race in real-time below (They are sorted alphabetically by city and type of race.)
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With the Nov. 3, 2020 election, Palm Desert moved from an at-large election process — where voters across the city vote for all City Council members — to a by-district system in which voters in each district choose their representatives. The candidates must live in the district area for which they're running for election.
For the 2020 election, the city created a new downtown district from which one council member will be elected. The remaining four council members will continue to be elected at-large from the surrounding district.
The boundaries are not permanent and will be revisited in 2021 once data from the 2020 Census is available, according to the city.
"This process will ensure that the districts continue to proportionally represent all Palm Desert residents," according to the city.
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