Huntington Beach City Council & Clerk Election Night Results 2024

Huntington Beach voters are deciding connected either cementing a blimpish supermajority connected their metropolis assembly oregon reelecting a divided council. 

So far, Chad Williams is starring the battalion with implicit 25,000 votes arsenic of 8:05 p.m., followed by Councilwoman Natalie Moser with 23,977 votes and Councilman Dan Kalmick successful 3rd with 23,567. 

The apical 3 ballot getters volition get a spot connected the dais. 

As of 8:05 p.m., Councilwoman Rhonda Bolton was successful 4th place, with 22,474 votes. 

They’re besides weighing successful connected the aboriginal of the metropolis clerk’s office, which could extremity up moving the city’s elections should metropolis leaders determination to instrumentality elector ID. 

Realtor Lisa Lane Barnes is starring the contention for metropolis clerk with 52.4% of the ballot arsenic of 8:05 p.m., followed by Regina Blankenhorn with 47.5% of the vote, a spread of little than 2,500 ballots. 

While the assembly volition inactive person a blimpish bulk nary substance the result of the election, who gets into bureau could find however agelong it stays that way. 

Councilman Tony Strickland has announced his volition to tally for authorities legislature if existent Senator Janet Nguyen wins predetermination to the OC Board of Supervisors, wherever she’s astir 30,000 votes up of her hostile arsenic of 8:05 p.m. 

[Read: Santana: The Political Ghost of Andrew Do Haunts 1st District Race]

If Nguyen gets elected and Strickland wins her legislature spot portion the metropolis assembly can’t travel to a statement connected who to regenerate him, a peculiar predetermination would determine who gets the seat.  

That peculiar predetermination would besides travel arsenic the city’s grappling with a fund shortfall and discussions connected implementing elector ID for section elections amidst a suit with the California Secretary of State arguing they can’t determination guardant with that – on with an incoming authorities instrumentality expressly banning elector ID for section elections. 

[Read: CA Attorney General Sues Huntington Beach Over Voter ID Law]

Barnes has pledged to determination up with implementing elector ID if she’s elected, portion Blankenhorn says the contented needs much survey earlier it’s enactment successful spot to guarantee votes aren’t ruled invalid. 

Those debates each travel aft 2 years of sweeping changes astatine metropolis hallway led by a blimpish assembly bulk elected successful 2022, who changed however books are purchased astatine the library, sued the authorities implicit mandated zoning laws and changed who prays astatine nationalist meetings on with different shifts. 

Twining, Kennedy and Williams are each endorsed by the council’s majority, portion Kalmick, Moser and Bolton are moving for reelection connected a level aimed astatine disputing astir of the city’s large shifts implicit the past 2 years. 

Noah Biesiada 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 @NBiesiada.

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