{"id":10661,"date":"2009-12-09T08:42:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T08:42:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-09T08:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T08:42:40","slug":"the-musical-chairs-continue-krekorian-appears-to-win-city-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/the-musical-chairs-continue-krekorian-appears-to-win-city-council-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"The musical chairs continue: Krekorian appears to win City Council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that the Assembly will be down a member very soon, as Paul Krekorian from the 43rd District appears to have won election to the Los Angeles City Council.<\/p>\n

The election results at this moment:<\/a><\/p>\n

Krekorian: 9,212 (57.18%)
\n
Essel: 6,898 (42.82%)<\/p>\n

This figure is with 62% of precincts reporting.  The campaign appears to have been won via absentees, as 10,988 absentee ballots were cast in the race, with Krekorian garnering 58% of those votes.  Essel’s mail and field campaign was expected to do better with in-person voters, but there just aren’t enough to go around.  With 62% of precincts reporting, there have only been 5,176 poll votes counted, which means that there should only be about 3,120 left to be counted from the remaining 38% of the precincts.  Krekorian leads by 2,314 votes as of this counting, meaning that Essel would need to have won over 74% of the votes that have yet to be counted.  There’s no way.<\/p>\n

It’s worth pointing out that many prognosticators expected Essel to win this runoff in a low-turnout election with an advantage in spending that totaled somewhere around 4 to 1.  Sometimes, though, it seems like volunteers and dedication can beat massive amounts of independent expenditure money, and this appears to be one of those cases..<\/p>\n

Later this week I’ll take a look at the field for the upcoming special election in AD-43.  Congratulations, Councilmember-elect Paul Krekorian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that the Assembly will be down a member very soon, as Paul Krekorian from the 43rd District appears to have won election to the Los Angeles City Council.<\/p>\n

The election results at this moment:<\/a><\/p>\n

Krekorian: 9,212 (57.18%)
\n
Essel: 6,898 (42.82%)<\/p>\n

This figure is with 62% of precincts reporting.  The campaign appears to have been won via absentees, as 10,988 absentee ballots were cast in the race, with Krekorian garnering 58% of those votes.  Essel’s mail and field campaign was expected to do better with in-person voters, but there just aren’t enough to go around.  With 62% of precincts reporting, there have only been 5,176 poll votes counted, which means that there should only be about 3,120 left to be counted from the remaining 38% of the precincts.  Krekorian leads by 2,314 votes as of this counting, meaning that Essel would need to have won over 74% of the votes that have yet to be counted.  There’s no way.<\/p>\n

It’s worth pointing out that many prognosticators expected Essel to win this runoff in a low-turnout election with an advantage in spending that totaled somewhere around 4 to 1.  Sometimes, though, it seems like volunteers and dedication can beat massive amounts of independent expenditure money, and this appears to be one of those cases..<\/p>\n

Later this week I’ll take a look at the field for the upcoming special election in AD-43.  Congratulations, Councilmember-elect Paul Krekorian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-10661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-436"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2LX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}