Final Vote Count for the April 12, 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election

Updated on April 28, 2016 by Michael D. Robbins.

The uncertified final election results are in for the April 12, 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election. They will be certified when the current City Council adopts a City Council Resolution certifying the final election results at the next regular El Segundo City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. The meeting will be held in the City Council Chamber at City Hall, starting at 7:00 PM.

The traditional peaceful transition of power will then be made, with the outgoing City Council members stepping down and the newly elected City Council members being administered their oath of office by the City Clerk, and then stepping up to assume their seats at the dais in the City Council Chamber. The City Clerk will chair the City Council meeting until the new City Council votes to choose the new mayor. The Mayor will then chair the meeting, and the City Council will vote to choose the Mayor Pro Tem.

The final vote counts, campaign spending, and cost per vote for each candidate and for Measure B are provided in the tables below.

The remaining uncounted ballots were canvassed and then counted by machine today, Thursday, April 21, 2016, at City Hall in the West Conference Room near the City council Chamber. City Council candidate Don Brann, the only candidate that could possibly lose the election after winning in the election night preliminary vote count, was present with his campaign staff to observe the counting of the remaining ballots.

As expected, the election outcome has not changed from the election night preliminary vote count. As previously reported, 543 ballots remained to be counted. Those were provisional ballots cast at the polls on election day, and vote-by-mail ballots postmarked by election day and delivered to City Hall before the first Friday after election day or held for delivery until Monday because City Hall is closed every Friday. The uncounted ballots were canvased and counted today, Thursday, April 21, 2016 at City Hall in the West Conference Room near the City council Chamber.

Here are the uncertified final election results for the April 12, 2016 City of El Segundo General Municipal Election for City Council, City Clerk, City Treasurer, and Measure B.

Uncertified final vote count from a PDF file posted on the official City website at ElSegundo.org. Click the image to see a larger image.

The City Clerk’s office posted a PDF file containing this information on the City website at ElSegundo.org. (Local archived copy.)

The following table summarizes the final vote count and campaign spending for each City Council candidate and for Measure B, the 50 percent increase in the Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) from 8 to 12 percent.

NOTES:

1. Union Spending and Total Spending columns are higher than the amounts shown, due to total ESPOA and total ESFA campaign spending being substantially higher than the amounts they itemized in their FPPC Forms for the three City Council candidates and for Measure B.
2. The Union Spending amounts for candidates assign the entire cost of a slate mailer to all three candidates rather than one third of the cost to each candidate, on the basis that each candidate gets all or most of the benefit of the entire cost of the mailer.
3. The incumbent candidates were Marie Fellhauer and Dave Atkinson. Challengers must spend considerably more campaign money than incumbents to level the playing field, due to the many advantages of incumbency, including name recognition and more frequent contact with potential campaign supporters.
4. Challenger candidate Don Brann served on City Council from 2008 to 2012, but he did not run for reelection and he lost name recognition over the following four years. Also, he was recovering from a leg injury and lost considerable time walking door-to-door during the beginning of the campaign, before vote-by-mail ballots are received by voters.
5. The amounts are rounded up or down to the nearest dollar to improve readability.

The following table summarizes the final vote count and cost per vote for each City Council candidate and for Measure B.

NOTES:

1. Union Spending and Total Spending amounts used in calculations, and therefore the Union Cost Per Vote and Total Cost Per Vote columns, are higher than the amounts shown, due to total ESPOA and total ESFA campaign spending being substantially higher than the amounts they itemized in their FPPC Forms for the three City Council candidates and for Measure B.
2. The Union Spending amounts for candidates assign the entire cost of a slate mailer to all three candidates rather than one third of the cost to each candidate, on the basis that each candidate gets all or most of the benefit of the entire cost of the mailer.
3. The incumbent candidates were Marie Fellhauer and Dave Atkinson. Challengers must spend considerably more campaign money than incumbents to level the playing field, due to the many advantages of incumbency, including name recognition and more frequent contact with potential campaign supporters.
4. Challenger candidate Don Brann served on City Council from 2008 to 2012, but he did not run for reelection and he lost name recognition over the following four years. Also, he was recovering from a leg injury and lost considerable time walking door-to-door during the beginning of the campaign, before vote-by-mail ballots are received by voters.
5. The amounts are rounded up or down to the nearest dollar to improve readability.

NOTE:

This post was updated on April 28, 2016 by Michael D. Robbins to include the uncertified final vote count after the manual count (by hand) of Precinct 18 (to audit the machine count from one precinct), as received from the El Segundo City Clerk’s office and posted on the City website.

The original vote counts after counting the provisional ballots and remaining vote-by-mail ballots, but before the manual re-count of Precinct 18, is given below. They were superseded by the new uncertified final vote count information after the manual re-count of Precinct 18, which is given above.

The following vote counts were changed by the manual re-count of Precinct 18: City Council candidate Marie Fellhauer went from 1,451 to 1,450 votes, and unopposed City Clerk candidate Tracy Weaver went from 2,697 to 2,701 votes.

The PDF file pointed to by the link on the City’s website at ElSegundo.org was replaced with an updated file at the same link.

Here is the uncertified final election results for the April 12, 2016 City of El Segundo General Municipal Election for City Council, City Clerk, City Treasurer, and Measure B.

Uncertified final vote count from a PDF file posted on the official City website at ElSegundo.org. Click the image to see a larger image.

The City Clerk’s office posted a PDF file containing this information on the City website at ElSegundo.org. (Local archived copy.)

Note that the 33.4% figure for Overall Voter Turnout in the bottom line of the chart appears to be incorrect, as 3,625 divided by 11,604 is 0.3124, or 31.2%.