April 30 was election day for both our Greater Wilshire and Mid City West Neighborhood Councils. Today, the city posted preliminary (unofficial) results from both elections. The vote totals are recorded below. Final results will be provided after provisional ballots, mail-in ballots postmarked by April 30, and any challenges are reviewed, and any ties resolved.
An asterisk (*) next to a name means that candidate is considered elected, pending final certification of the vote totals. Numbers next to the names indicate how many votes each candidate received.
GWNC Preliminary Election Results
Note that in the GWNC elections, the candidate receiving the most votes for each seat is considered the elected Director for that seat. The candidate with the second highest vote total becomes the official Alternate to that board seat. (The Alternate may sit in and vote at meetings when the elected Director cannot be present.)
Geographic Area 1 (Brookside) Director
* Owen Smith – 3
Geographic Area 2 (Citrus Square) Director
* Jeffry Carpenter – 7
Geographic Area 3 Director (Country Club Heights)
* Selene Betancourt -1
Geographic Area 4 (Fremont Place) Director
* Mark McQueen -4
Geographic Area 5 (Hancock Park) Director
* Jennifer Devore – 56
David Trainer – 21
Geographic Area 6 (La Brea Hancock) Director
* Sixto J. Sicilia – 5
Geographic Area 7 (Larchmont Village) Director
* Charles D’Atri -26
Vincent Cox – 12
Geographic Area 8 (Melrose) Director
* Jesseca Harvey – 5
Jason Wood – 0
Craig Au – 0
Geographic Area 9 Director (Oakwood/Maplewood/St. Andrews) Director
* Tess Paige – 3
Alex Nava – 1
Geographic Area 10 (Ridgewood-Wilton/St. Andrews Square) Director
* Patricia Patti Carroll – 12
Geographic Area 11 (Sycamore Square) Director
* Conrad Starr – 11
Geographic Area 12 (Western-Wilton) Director
(no candidates ran in the election; seat remains vacant)
Geographic Area 13 (Wilshire Park) Director
* John Gresham – 20
Geographic Area 14 (Windsor Square) Director
* Gary Gilbert – 46
David Meister – 16
Geographic Area 15 (Windsor Village) Director
*** Bianca Sparks Rojas – 2 (tie)
*** Julie Kim – 2 (tie)
Claire Ortiz – 0
Renter Representative
* Tommy Atlee -7
MJ Anderson – 2
John Marchesini – 1
Lourdes Gomez – 0
Annah Rose Verderame – 0
Business Representative
* Romi Cortier – 17
John Winther – 15
Michael Knowles – 0
Education Representative
* Scott Appel – 3
Religion Representative
* Benjamin Rosenberg – 11
Suzana Kim – 3
John Halbert – 0
Other Nonprofit Representative
* Brian Curran – 8
Mark Alpers – 3
At Large Representative
* Cindy Chvatal-Keane – 146
Lucy Pinkwater – 22
Diran Yanikian – 12
MCWNC Preliminary Election Results
Zone 1 Representative
* Hunter Burgarella – 10
Zone 2 Representative
* Sam Roseme – 32
Zone 3 Representative
* Amy Goldenberg – 14
Zone 4 Representative
* J. Keith Van Straaten – 28
Zone 5 Representative
* Tedd Cittadine – 24
Zone 6 Representative
* Bob Shore – 46
Zone 7 Representative
* Brent Kidwell – 40
Thao Tran – 20
Youth Representative
* Clark Raustiala – 236
Homeowners (3 Seats)
* Valerie Jaffee Washburn – 232
* Shem Bitterman – 224
* Don Whitehead – 212
Renters (5 Seats)
* Lynda La Rose – 225
* Lauren Borchard – 223
* Ava Marinelli – 215
* Ramiro Castro, Jr. – 211
* Xcevia Zuluaga – 204
Business (6 Seats)
* Sara Griebe – 220
* Henry Mantel – 214
* Craig Brill – 203
* Terence Mylonas – 200
* Danielle Rodriguez-Donovan – 198
* Nick Starr – 197
Frank La – 196
Nonprofit Organizations (6 Seats)
* Cindy Bitterman – 227
* David Mann – 210
* Chris Dower – 208
* Julian Sterm – 204
* Matthew Peskay – 196
* Christina Mondy – 194
Elizabeth Margaret Mason – 135
Members at Large (8 Seats)
* Dre Guttag – 225
* Sandra Sims – 212
* Benjamin Kram – 208
* Christian La Mont – 206
* Aimee Garcia – 206
* Shelby Blecker – 196
* Michael Schneider – 190
* Ellie D. Goralnick – 188
Andrew L. Herman – 186
Charles A. Lindenblatt – 173
