Incumbents ahead in Redondo Beach election
by Rachel Reeves If preliminary results hold, only the board of the Redondo Beach Unified School District will change as a result of this week’s citywide election. Less than half of ballots cast were counted before unofficial numbers were announced, at 11:11 p.m. on Tuesday. According to those numbers, incumbents are ahead in the races for mayor and city attorney, as well as council members in Districts 1, 2, and 4. None of the three school board members whose terms expired ran for reelection because they were termed out. “Other than for District 4, it’s been a blowout for the incumbents,” said Mayor Bill Brand, who captured 68 percent of the preliminary vote in his reelection bid. Council District 1 incumbent Nils Nehrenheim, who received a majority of his district’s votes according to Tuesday’s count, expressed a more measured view. “The first set of votes that come in always skews very conservative, toward incumbents,” he said. “The second count usually skews toward the challengers. We track this stuff. … There are a lot of votes that still need to be counted. It will probably be close, a lot closer than we know.” Votes were cast only by mail. Polls were closed because of the…
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