{"id":316794,"date":"2022-11-11T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=316794"},"modified":"2022-11-18T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:57:01","slug":"la-mesa-key-statewide-elections-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/la-mesa-key-statewide-elections-determined\/","title":{"rendered":"La Mesa, key statewide elections determined (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

While a number of elections in several states are still awaiting final results several days after Election Day, local and state races paint a clearer picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

With 100 percent of voting precincts reporting (livevoterturnout.com\/ENR\/sandiegocaenr\/16\/en\/Index_16.html<\/a>), La Mesa\u2019s mayoral, council and treasurer race numbers are in.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the race for mayor, incumbent Mark Arapostathis looks to be staying in that position.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to livevoterturnout.com as of Nov. 11, Arapostathis, a teacher, captured 54.12% of the vote (7,008 votes) to challenger Kristine Alessio\u2019s 45.88% (5,942 votes). Alessio is a land-use attorney. Updated numbers a week later show Arapostathis with 11,264 votes (55.92% of the vote) to Alessio’s 8,879 votes (44.08%).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the race for City council (two seats available, four people running), Realtor Laura Lothian (5,722 votes) captured 24.71% of the vote and Patricia Dillard garnered 23.80% of the vote (5,513 votes), respectively to lead the way as of Nov. 11. Updating a week later, it is Dillard with a slim lead at 8,509 votes (23.94% of the vote) to Lothian’s 8,320 votes (23.41%). Mejgan Afshan is right behind Lothian with 8,301 votes (23.36%). Dillard works for a mortgage company and Afshan is a co-founder of the civil rights organization Borderlands for Equity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two contestants ran for the office of treasurer, with Matt Strabone (6,334 votes) tallying 52.30% of the vote and William Exeter (5,776 votes) capturing 47.70%. As of Nov. 18, Strabone had recorded 10,064 votes (54.13%) to 8,529 votes for Exeter (45.87%).<\/span><\/p>\n

In races for La Mesa-Spring Valley School District governing board member trustee area seats, Caitlin Tiffany, Rebecca McRae and Brianna Coston were the respective winners.<\/span><\/p>\n

A pair of statewide props garnered a lot of attention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prop 26 (Allows new types of gambling) went down to defeat 64.80% to 35.20%, with Prop 27 (Allows online and mobile sports wagering) also failing 83.31% to 16.69%.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the race for governor, incumbent Gavin Newsom was re-elected to office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Newsom (349,445 votes) got 54.45% of the vote compared to challenger Brian Dahle\u2019s (292,376 votes) tallying 45.55%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by Kendra Sitton<\/em><\/p>\n

– Reach editor Dave Thomas at: Dave@sdnews.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While a number of elections in several states are still awaiting final results several days after Election Day, local and state races paint a clearer picture. With 100 percent of voting precincts reporting (livevoterturnout.com\/ENR\/sandiegocaenr\/16\/en\/Index_16.html), La Mesa\u2019s mayoral, council and treasurer race numbers are in. In the race for mayor, incumbent Mark Arapostathis looks to be […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":938,"featured_media":316798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"While a number of elections in several states are still awaiting final results several days after Election Day, local and state races paint a much clearer picture.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"3","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11548,11551],"tags":[12363,14494,12421,13135],"class_list":["post-316794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-mesa-courier","category-news","tag-california","tag-election-day","tag-la-mesa","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}