More than 60% of West Hollywood registered voters cast their ballots by mail in the election for two seats on the West Hollywood City Council. And now, a count of those vote-by-mail ballots and ballots cast early today at in-person voting centers shows challenger Sepi Shyne in the lead with 6,528 votes (23.65%), followed by challenger John Erickson with 6,027 votes votes (21.83%).
Incumbent John Heilman ranks third with 5,188 votes (18.79%), followed by challenger Larry Block with 2,752 votes (9.97%). Incumbent John Duran ranks fifth with 2,704 votes (9.79%)
Challenger Noemi Torres has garnered 1,239 votes (4.49%). She is followed by Mark Yusupov 1,081 votes (3.92%), Marco Colantonio with 793 votes (2.87%), and Jerome Cleary with 490 votes (1.77%). Tom DeMille and Christopher McDonald, who are on the ballot although they withdrew their candidacies before the election, got 411 and 395 votes respectively.
Measure M, which would increase the city’s sales tax by 3/4s of 1%, has attracted 11,918 Yes votes and 4,274 No votes.
Vote centers closed at 8 p.m. tonight and ballots are now being processed by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office.
The votes will be updated throughout the night and into the early morning hours. WEHOville will be updating this story during that time.
I can’t believe we would tax ourselves more when our city manager makes $600K a year. His retirement will make him one of the highest paid retired public servants in CA. Limiting top salary at $150K a year for anyone and make retirement benefits on par with the private sector and Bam we don’t need to raise any tax. Imo. I could be wrong. Maybe reduce taxes.
I picked the winners, for once, assuming it holds.
Congratulations, WeHo!
Congratulations to Sepi Shyne and John Erickson! A big win for West Hollywood.
When all state and local elections were moved to major elections [presidential or gubernatorial] my gut was against it. The specialness of a city only election seemed appropriate. If I had only realized what would happen in a 60% turn out. Now, doh, I realize that is exactly why the ‘local’ of the election is what continued The Machine. This is a strong message of slow growth from the voters. WeHo should be proud Big Money lost. $250,000 spend on the incumbents behalf. Speaks well of the citizenry. They are paying attention. Now is the time for West Hollywood to… Read more »
I am elated to say, “Congratulations, Sepi Shyne!” The best is yet to come.
Congrats to Sepi and John you both ran an incredible race.
Voted for you. Please continue to stay invested in West Hollywood. Was very impressed with you!
We vote for you and you caught a good fight
and glad the were two new council members 😇😇😇💕💕💕✌️✌️
Big congratulations to Sepi Shyne and John Erickson. Welcome aboard.