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LaureneWeste

Laurene Weste

Mayor Laurene Weste won an unprecedented fifth term on the Santa Clarita City Council on Tuesday, finishing in first place for the first time.

Councilwoman Marsha McLean finished second and returns for a fourth term.

Newcomer Dante Acosta, a financial advisor and Gold Star father from Canyon Country, held a 46-vote lead for the third open seat on the City Council at the end of Tuesday night’s vote tally.

Councilwoman Marsha McLean

Marsha McLean

There are approximately 950 provisional and “late absentee” ballots yet to be counted.

Dante Acosta

Dante Acosta

Right behind Acosta was Alan Ferdman, followed by Gloria Mercado-Fortine. Sixth and seventh place went to Duane Harte and Maria Gutzeit.

 

 

 

By the numbers (100% of precincts reporting but not final):

Laurene Weste 5822
Marsha McLean 5363
Dante Acosta 4562
Alan Ferdman 4516
Gloria Mercado-Fortine 4355
Duane R. Harte 4198
Maria Gutzeit 4156
Sandra L. Bull 1252
Moazzem H. Chowdhury 1177
Stephen Daniels 1080
Paul J. Wieczorek 1046
Berta Gonzalez-Harper 878
Dennis Hugh Conn 432

 

 

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27 Comments

  1. Linda Morgan says:

    Re-electing those two, so hating the uninformed voters. Too many in this city do not subscribe to the local paper or pay attention to what City Hall is doing. They are stupid and deserve a digital billboard shining in their homes 24/7.

  2. Jim Oge Jr says:

    It’s not harsh she is right THIS CITY NEEDS TERM LIMITS PERIOD

  3. People constantly complain about the actions taken by city council. So what do they do? They put the same people back in the seats. Simply amazing to me!

  4. Kelly Robins says:

    I can honestly say “It’s not my fault!”….and YES I did vote but for NONE OF THE ABOVE! Good Luck SCV we’re gonna need it.

  5. If you can do a better job then why are you not running?

  6. I always say that if you think you can do a better job, drop what your doing and go down and do it ! I’ll be waiting

  7. Dwayne Pine says:

    Come on acosta, we need someone NEW

  8. Jim Oge Jr says:

    John because we don’t have the entire Mormon church voting for us duh!

  9. Lisa Correa says:

    Ppl wouldn’t be calling for term limits if they liked these cats.

  10. Don Ricketts says:

    It would be interesting to see what the results would have been if we had district elections and each candidate had to run in the district where he or she resided. I don’t understand why the anti-incumbent forces don’t understand the relationship between incumbency and districts. The incumbents sure do.

  11. I tried, I voted and not one person I voted for won

  12. Thanks for jumping in Acosta, praying for you.

  13. Jim Oge Jr says:

    If we could get rid of the other votes we could have won.

  14. at our voting location at 7pm they had 1600 people registared to vote at 7pm only 80 had shown up to vote…

    at this point Congrats to Dante Acosta and for all those people who think their vote doesnt count and did not get out because you didnt care, too lazy too busy or whatever your excuse you have no room to voice a complaint.. that voice comes by going to vote~!!!

  15. wth is wrong with this fricken city?? those women should of been gone a longgggg time ago!!!!!! ugh!

  16. Cool now take your signs down thx

  17. Very disappointed. Now the SCV is becoming like the rest of the state.

  18. Joe Nocella says:

    We need run-off elections (15% of the vote is not a mandate) and term limits. A five time council person, no matter who they are, is a joke.

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