CA Election Results: Banning, Beaumont City Council Races

BANNING, BEAUMONT, CA — In Banning and Beaumont, residents chose who they want to represent them for the next four years on their city councils.

Election Night vote counting is complete and, although results are not final, leaders emerged. (See the live tallies below.)

In Banning, Districts 1, 2 and 3 were on the ballot.

As of Wednesday morning, Daniela Andrade, who currently represents District 1, was not running. Instead, voters in the district chose between Alberto A. Sanchez and Nick Fraser. Sanchez was in the lead with just over 30 votes.

In District 2, incumbent Kyle Pingree ran unopposed.

Incumbent Art Welch, District 3, faced challengers Mary Hamlin and George Moyer. Hamlin has taken a significant lead in the ballot count, with 1,006 votes compared to Moyer's 601 and Welch's 599.

In Beaumont, the city still has an "at-large" election process — where voters across the city choose between all candidates on the ballot, regardless of where they live. This year, three candidates vied for two seats on the council. One of those is currently held by Nancy Carroll, who was not running for re-election, and the other is held by Julio Martinez, who was on the ballot. The other two candidates running were Jessica Black and David Fenn.

The Beaumont race is tight. As of Wednesday, Black was leading with 4,303 votes. Fenn has 4,270 and Martinez 4,266.

Approximately 400,000 vote-by-mail and 25,000 provisional ballots still must be processed in Riverside County. Work on those began Wednesday morning. Ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day also remain to be counted. The next updated results will be posted at 6 p.m. Thursday.

It's unclear how many uncounted ballots remain in each of the city council races.

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