Well, just about final, since there’s one precinct in Council District 9 still left.  But here’s a recap, pending provisionals (which could only seriously risk affecting who participates in a runoff in one race):

• Villaraigosa avoids the embarrassment of a runoff with 55.56%.
• Measure B appears to have failed.
• David Vahedi and Paul Koretz are headed to a runoff in CD5 after being separated by 60 votes; Adeena Bleich took a more distant third.
• Republican attempts to win College Board seats failed, as Santiago and Lowry retain their seats.  The other incumbents, Angela Reddock in seat 2 and Nancy Pearlman in seat 6, fell a few points shy of winning outright and will face a runoff.
• Steve Zimmer and Nury Martinez win their respective LAUSD races.
• Wendy Greuel is the new LA City Controller.

The following campaigns will continue onto the May 19th General Municipal Election:

• City Attorney: Jack Weiss (36.47%) vs. Carmen Trutanich (26.93%)
• City Council District 5: David Vahedi (21.7%) vs. Paul Koretz (21.47%)
• Community College Seat 2: Angela Reddock (47.88%) vs. Tina Park (19.52%)
• Community College Seat 6: Nancy Pearlman (48.7%) vs. Robert Nakahiro (13.33%)

In West Hollywood, incumbent Mayor Prang and Councilmember Duran appear to have coasted to re-election.

(I’m doing blogging and blog outreach for Eric Garcetti’s re-election campaign)

Results were just updated at the LA City Clerk’s website. Some highlights:

CD-13 (93% reporting):

Eric Garcetti 72.08

Gary Slossberg 27.92

Mayor (89.6% reporting):

Antonio Villaraigosa 55.73

Walter Moore 25.89

Gordon Turner 6.56

Prop B (Solar Initiative – 89.6% reporting):

Yes 49.97

No 50.03

The 5th Council district race, to replace Jack Weiss, is ridiculously close. Weiss looks likely to go to a runoff for City Attorney. More as it comes in.

[UPDATE] Just to clarify, per The LA Times, the above results are only from vote-by-mail. Still waiting for in-person results to come in.

[UPDATE] Results updated as of 10:12pm. With the addition of a fraction of all in-person ballots cast, both Villaraigosa and Measure B have had net increases on 1%. If Villaraigosa can’t win 60% in L.A., this flirtation with running for governor may not be long for this world.

[UPDATE] As more in-person ballots get counted, Villaraigosa and Prop B keep gaining steam. All props at the moment are ahead. We’re looking at run-offs in the City Attorney race and City Council 5 where Paul Koretz and David Vahedi are currently leading a tight field. All mail-in ballots and just 14.82% of in-person ballots have been counted.

[UPDATE] Updated again as of 12am.

[UPDATE] Update by Dante as of 12:36am: interesting turns with 76% reporting.  Measure B is in peril, as it is only leading by a hair at this point: 50.2% to 49.8%, a difference of less than 700 votes.

Meanwhile, Vahedi has actually pulled ahead of Koretz in CD5 by 50 votes, but the only thing that matters for is bragging rights, as those two are far head of the rest of the field.

The closest race right now is LAUSD 6 between Pugliese and Martinez, where Pugliese has a 9-vote lead as of last posting.  Martinez has been gaining ground all night, and appears to have won a solid majority of election-day voters.

[UPDATE] by Dante at 1:00am: The bunch of ballots between 76% and 89% must have had a conservative tilt, as Measure B has now fallen behind for the first time tonight, by 100 votes.  Meanwhile, Measure E, which would allow individual councilmembers to offer tax incentives and which was opposed by many progressive voter guides, has pulled to a noticeable 4% lead for the first time tonight.  One other race has flipped as well: Nury Martinez has taken the lead in LAUSD 6 by 175 votes, or .8%.

(I’m doing blog outreach for Eric Garcetti’s re-election campaign)

As Dave noted below, estimates put turnout in Los Angeles today at a sad 15%.

Though city officials were skittish about making predictions on voter turnout, Fernando J. Guerra, director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University who is also a lobbyist, said he expected 15% of voters to show up. In the 5th council district, it could jump to as high as 30%, he said, because of the interest in the wide-open council race, the city attorney’s race and a school board race there.

The 5th council district is made up of the progressive communities of West LA, the Fairfax district and Westwood (home to UCLA) as well as some not so progressive sections of the San Fernando Valley including Encino and Sherman Oaks. On balance though, if one district is going to have a disproportionate impact on the citywide races and props, you could do worse than the 5th. Clearly the single largest determining factor in the low turnout today is the lack of a competitive race at the top of the ticket. Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to sail through to a second term as Mayor.

We’ve been asking folks to chime in with their election day experiences over at Eric’s blog and on Facebook and it will come as no surprise to hear “ghost town”, “had the place to myself” and “fast and easy” were among the descriptors used. Some of the election day on the ground reports over the flip.

Polls close at 8pm. Eric will be doing GOTV until then and then will head over to his election night party at Avalon in Hollywood (details here.) I’ll be tweeting live from the party and if I have access, look for updates at Eric’s blog as well.

[UPDATE]Results will come in here.

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Some on the ground reports from Angelenos:

I voted at the Golden Gate Retirement Hotel on Lockwood (CD13). Parking was difficult- didn’t trust the fact that schoolyard restrictions (No Parking 7am-5pm) would be lifted. The poll worker could barely speak English and could not alphabetize. It was 10 am, they were just installing the counter machine and sadly, mine was the first vote recorded.

Although most elderly voters vote absentee in the future I would recommend polling places without stairs. Still, I take pride in voting and never take it for granted.

Voting at Elysian Heights Elementary went very smooth. In and out in minutes. All polls were filled when I entered, but there was no waiting.

Voted this morning in Valley Glen – it was just me and the poll workers when I was there at 11am, but they said the turnout today has been good. No trouble at all getting the provisional ballot I needed (I’m new to that neighborhood after being a CD13 girl, and haven’t re-registered yet).

I went to vote over on Melrose and Berendo about an hour ago. It had horrible street parking and it was pretty dead in there. No one else was in there voting other than me. The poll worker said I was around the 50th voter.

I voted today in West Hollywood. There was some confusion as to where my polling place was as I have just moved. The polling volunteers were extremely helpful in providing me with a provisional ballot.

I saw 10 others voting while I was there at 8:30AM. The West Hollywood election is rather interesting and I’d be surprised if there wasn’t decent turnout today.

I went around 3pm today. There was 1 other person voting. I was in and out in about 5 min. Trying to encourage more people to vote. Most of my friends didn’t even know voting was happening today.

I voted at 9am at Allesandro Elementary-there were only a handful of people at the poll. There was a larger crowd waiting to leave than there were waiting to vote cause the ballot receptacle (don’t know what it’s called) had a paper jam. Or ballot jam rather. After a few minutes I just handed my ballot over to one of the workers so I could get to work. They were about to call the city when I left, I hope they fixed it….

Really slow at Mayberry Elementary School at 11:30. People at the yoga studio didn’t seem to know there were elections today…Also, alot of changes in polling places and people saying they never got anything in the mail about the election in general.

Too fast, too easy-even though we got displaced from the Silver Lake Recreation Center to St. Teresa’s. Where are all the voters?

I voted on Larchmont and it was a ghost-town-esque situation at the polling spot. You could see the tumbleweeds, and the pollsters (polling people? poll masters?) were just a little too grateful to see me. Kind of a bummer.