After months of campaigning, Christian Anthony Horvath has defeated Candace Allen Nafissi for Redondo Beach’s District 3 City Council seat in a special runoff election. The final totals, as released by Redondo Beach City Clerk Eleanor Manzano Monday morning, had Horvath winning by 12 votes, taking 1422 to Nafissi’s 1410 — or 50.2 percent of the vote to 49.8 percent.
The margin is a near flip of results coming out of May 12’s initial count of the ballots, which gave Nafissi a 16 vote lead over Horvath.
The runoff emerged from a five-person race for the District 3 seat, which will be vacated by Councilman Pat Aust, who is terming out of office. Nafissi won what was essentially a primary at the March 3 General Election by 27 votes over Horvath, and topping the three other challengers to the race, Sam Kartounian, Sandy Marchese and Eric Coleman.
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