Luna Leads Villanueva In LA Sheriff Race: Preliminary Results

REDONDO BEACH, CA — Election day has come and gone in Redondo Beach, and voters weighed in on county-wide races like Los Angeles County Sheriff. (Scroll for real-time results.)

Preliminary results from Wednesday morning included 23.4percent of the county's votes.

Countywide Races

Sheriff

Retired Long Beach Police Department Chief Robert Luna led the race for Los Angeles County Sheriff by a large margin with 687,127 votes. Current LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva had 522,926 votes according to early results from the LA Registrar of voters.

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In the June primary, Villanueva and Luna topped the nine-person field of candidates, leading to today’s runoff.

Over the past century, only one incumbent sheriff in the county has lost a re-election bid. That was four years ago, when Villanueva achieved a stunning upset of Sheriff Jim McDonnell, riding to an election victory with strong backing from reform-minded community groups and Democrats.

He has openly criticized "progressive" policies and politicians, most notably District Attorney George Gascón, and assailed movements to "defund" law enforcement agencies.

Luna argued during the campaign that the sheriff's department is being "mismanaged" by Villanueva and said he will work to restore trust in the agency. He also touted his position as an outsider with no connections to the sheriff's department.

He said he will work to "modernize" the sheriff's department and its jail system and improve the mental well-being of deputies and employees.

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Real-time results are below — use the scroll on the right to get to the race of your choice (they are in alphabetical order). Patch will be updating the results throughout the night as votes are tallied — refresh the page for the latest updates.