3 supervisors jump out to big leads in early vote
Mitchell, Barger and Hahn could achieve outright wins with 50% plus 1 tallies if they maintain their distance from challengers
In the races for three Los Angeles County supervisors, incumbents Holly Mitchell, Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger all jumped out to early leads that could secure the three outright wins, according to early returns released Tuesday in the 2024 presidential primary election.
The L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk released the first round of 672,267 votes, consisting of vote-by-mail ballots received before election day, shortly after polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The second wave of results released around
9 p.m. consisted of ballots cast in-person before election day.
While early returns show the contests for District 2, District 4 and District 5 seats on the powerful five-person board were dominated by the incumbents, winners won't be known for several days or maybe even weeks.
In these races, the candidate with 50% of the votes plus one wins the seat outright. Otherwise,
the top two vote-getters in the primary will face-off in a November runoff. County races are non-partisan.
Here is where the races stood as of 8:40 p.m. on Tuesday.
In District 2, Supervisor Holly
Mitchell led the race with 67.8% of the vote and if that holds, Mitchell would be declared the outright winner.
Daphne Bradford was in second place with 12.8% of the vote. In third place was Clint Carlton with 12%, while Katrina Williams was in fourth place with just 7.5%. They are competing to represent a swath of the South Bay's coastal communities — Hermosa Beach, Manhattan
Beach, El Segundo and Redondo Beach as well as Hawthorne, Lawndale, Gardena, Culver City, Inglewood, Compton, Carson and LA communities of Watts, Exposition Park and Koreatown.
In District 4, Supervisor Janice Hahn was leading the race with 60.6% of the vote. If that holds, Hahn would be declared the outright winner. Hahn is facing two challengers.
In second place was former L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva with 26.3% of the vote. In