Progressive Long Beach mayor overwhelmingly re-elected tonight

Mayor Robert Garcia will have a second term, so far crushing his sole opponent.

Stacy Mungo, the incumbent in East Long Beach’s District 5, is trying to avoid a June run-off against former Harbor Commissioner Rich Dines. If her current leads hold – City Clerk Monique De La Garza said she thinks it will – Mungo will break the 50 percent-plus-one threshold to avoid that run-off.

“I think Stacy’s could stay true and she will stay in the lead,” De La Garza said. “But when you’re talking 50-52 percent, it could change.”

As of 10:30 p.m., 24,221 mail-in ballots and 2,437 precinct ballots had been counted.

The bulk of vote-by-mail ballots that comprise the early returns usually indicates what the final tally will be.

De La Garza said the incumbents in Districts 3 and 9, Suzie Price and Rex Richardson, respectively, will join Garcia and Mungo on the council again.

“We still have a lot of votes to count,” De La Garza said. “For the most part, VBMs (vote-by-mail) hold true.”

The count will likely not finish until early next week, with the City Council scheduled to certify the election on Wednesday, April 18.rn



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