Anaheim City Council Election Night Results 2024

Initial Election Night tallies successful Anaheim showed leads for Parks and Recreation Commissioner Ryan Balius in the District 1 race, Councilwoman Norma Campos Kurtz successful the District 4 contention and Kristen Maahs in the District 5 race.

The results soon aft 8 p.m. showed Parks and Recreation Commissioner Balius starring their hostile erstwhile Anaheim Housing and Community Development commissioner Ojaala Ahmad by implicit 3,800 votes successful the territory 1 race.

In District 4, Kurtz led her opponent, craft mechanic Francisco Rosas, by implicit 2,500 votes.

In District 5, Culture and Heritage Commissioner Kristen Maahs led 2 opponents, erstwhile La Mirada Mayor and erstwhile bull Andrew Sarega, by adjacent to 1,200 votes and Disneyland edifice worker Cristal Ruiz by implicit 1,700 votes.

The 2024 predetermination comes much than 2 years aft a corruption ungraded archetypal broke successful OC’s largest city, successful which FBI agents and later metropolis hired investigators alleged Disneyland edifice influences clasp outsized power connected metropolis hall. 

The ungraded besides saw erstwhile Mayor Harry Sidhu resign and plead guilty to obstruction of justness for lying to national investigators astir trying to ram done the Angel Stadium merchantability for $1 cardinal successful run support. 

The stadium onshore merchantability itself fell isolated the aforesaid time Sidhu resigned.

Months aft Sidhu’s resignation, voters elected 2 resort-backed metropolis assembly candidates and 2 candidates who campaigned connected bringing betterment to Anaheim.

Last fall, Anaheim officials discussed, debated and implemented a big of reforms.

Some of the overhauls see requiring officials to usage authorities phones, requiring assembly members to station their calendars online truthful residents tin spot who they’re gathering with and mandating Disney’s in-house lobbyists to registry with the city.

Disney again spent heavy connected section elections successful Anaheim this year.

Instead of utilizing their main section governmental spending vehicle, Support Our Anaheim Resort (SOAR) governmental enactment committee, they are spending done different committees targeting antithetic districts.

As of past week, the amusement juggernaut has spent astir $950,000 this acold crossed 3 governmental enactment committees – 1 supporting Kurtz, different supporting Balius and 1 supporting Maahs.

[Read: Disney Spends Nearly $1 Million successful Anaheim 2024 Election]

Hoteliers and hospitality interests similar William O’Connell and the Marriott International arsenic good arsenic the California Association of Realtors person besides spent tens of thousands of dollars successful enactment of those candidates done the aforesaid PACs.

Meanwhile, the Anaheim Police Officers Association has spent astir $192,000 connected Maahs’ hostile connected Sarega arsenic of past week.

Hosam Elattar is simply a Voice of OC newsman and corps subordinate with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him astatine [email protected] oregon connected Twitter @ElattarHosam.

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