Early Interviews Reveal Cacciotti Clear Winner—Putnam, Mahmud in Tight Race

An exit poll conducted by Patch during Tuesday’s elections to the South Pasadena City Council and the South Pasadena Unified School District Board suggests at least two clear winners—Councilmember Michael Cacciotti and School Board Member Michele Kipke.

According to exit interviews Patch conducted with 30 voters at two of the six polling places in the city where ballots were cast for three precincts, Cacciotti will likely be reelected, with 73 percent of the vote, and Kipke with 66 percent.

The interviews revealed further that in elections to the city council incumbent Councilmember Philip Putnam received about 43 percent of the exit votes, Diana Mahmud got 36 percent, and Alan Reynolds slightly more than 3 percent.

For the school board elections, Julie Giulioni got about 60 percent of the exit votes, Board Clerk Elisabeth Eilers got 40 percent, Suzie Abajian got 26 percent, and Reynaldo Ramirez 13 percent.

The interviews were conducted at Oneonta Congregational Church,1515 Garfield Ave., and Monterey Hills Elementary School, 1624 Via Del Rey, where a total of 6,736 voters were registered to vote, according to polling officials.

As of around 3 p.m., 330 voters had cast their ballots at the Oneonta Congregational Church polling place. And as of 3:45 p.m., about 250 people had cast their ballots at the Monterey Hills Elementary School polling place.

Polling ends at 8 p.m. Patch will be posting election results as and when they appear. If you computer browser supports frames, click here to follow the results from the office of the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. If your browser does not support frames, click here for text-based results.