Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills Election 2022: Preliminary Results

PALOS VERDES, CA — Election day has come and gone on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and preliminary results show candidates leading their races for City Council in Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills. (Scroll for real-time results.)

The most recent results from the Los Angeles County Clerk were updated at 3:35 a.m. Wednesday morning and reflect 23.4 percent of the county's votes.

The next ballots counted will be a random selection of batches for the one percent manual tally that will take place on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 10:15 a.m.

According to the County Clerk's office, voters should expect to see more updates between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11. A full timeline for the Canvass Update Schedule is available at this link.

The final results won't be released until December, according to the schedule.

Palos Verdes Peninsula City Council Elections 2022

Here is a rundown of which candidates ran for which city's council seats in today's election:

Palos Verdes Estates

Incumbents Michael Kemps, David McGowan and Victoria Lozzi ran against Desiree "Dez" Myers for their City Council seats.

Early results show the incumbents in good spots to retain their seats with Lozzi having 2,529 votes, Kemps having 2,459 votes and McGowan having 2,157 votes. Myers trailed behind them with 1,672 votes.

Rancho Palos Verdes

There were three available seats on the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council that incumbents Barbara Ferraro and David Bradley ran for against Steve Perestam, Michele Carbone, Kevin Yourman and Paul Seo.

As of 10:30 a.m. Bradley led the race for City Council with 5,950 votes. Ferraro trailed close behind with 4,975 votes. Seo and Perestam followed with 4,551 votes and 3,779 votes respectively. Yourman had 2,421 votes and Carbone had 1,396 votes.

Rolling Hills

In Rolling Hills Jim Aichele ran against Councilmembers James Black, Pat Wilson and Lea Mirsch for their seats.

Preliminary results showed Wilson leading the race with 341 votes. Mirsch and Black trailed close behind with 323 votes and 319 votes respectively. Candidate Arun Bhumitra had 276 votes and Aichele had 110.

Countywide Races

Sheriff

Retired Long Beach Police Department Chief Robert Luna led the race for Los Angeles County Sheriff by a large margin with 687,127 votes. Current LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva had 522,926 votes according to early results from the LA Registrar of voters.

To view full coverage and live results for the LA Sheriff's race click this link.

In the June primary, Villanueva and Luna topped the nine-person field of candidates, leading to Tuesday’s runoff.

Over the past century, only one incumbent sheriff in the county has lost a re-election bid. That was four years ago, when Villanueva achieved a stunning upset of Sheriff Jim McDonnell, riding to an election victory with strong backing from reform-minded community groups and Democrats.

He has openly criticized "progressive" policies and politicians, most notably District Attorney George Gascón, and assailed movements to "defund" law enforcement agencies.

Luna argued during the campaign that the sheriff's department is being "mismanaged" by Villanueva and said he will work to restore trust in the agency. He also touted his position as an outsider with no connections to the sheriff's department.

He said he will work to "modernize" the sheriff's department and its jail system and improve the mental well-being of deputies and employees.

Click these links to follow real-time results for the California statewide races of Governor and Controller.

Real-time results are below — use the scroll on the right to get to the race of your choice (they are in alphabetical order). Patch will be updating the results throughout the night as votes are tallied — refresh the page for the latest updates.