Voters in the South Bay and Long Beach areas had plenty of choices on Election Day, with dozens of city councils, school boards and measures on the ballot in both areas.

Here’s where local races – which are currently too close to call – stand in the South Bay and Long Beach areas after the Los Angeles County Registrar’s Office released its latest update around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday 7 november.

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Artésia Municipal Council

Four candidates were competing for two vacant seats on the council, including small business owner Dan Rocha, retired Marine William Morante, community health worker Zeel Ahir and outgoing President Monica Manalo.

Monalo was in the lead, with around 26.84% of the vote, while Ahir was behind with 26.71%. The two were separated by only five votes on Thursday.

Rocha and Morante obtained respectively 24.84% and 21.57% of the votes cast in their favor.

The top two candidates will each get a seat on the council.

Bellflower City Council, District 1

Appointed council member Wendi Morse and law enforcement professional Aaron Drake are running for the District 1 city council seat in Bellflower.

Morse received 51.38% of the vote. Drake trailed behind with 48.62%. Only 108 votes separated the two candidates.

Compton City Council

In the Compton City Council race in District 1, voters had to choose between incumbent Deidre Duhart and Jasper Jay Jackson.

The two were almost tied, with Duhart having 50.96% and Jackson 49.04%. Duhart was in the lead with just 86 votes.

In the race for Compton’s District 4 seat, incumbent Lillie Darden led with 56.75 percent. Joel Estrada obtained 43.25% of the votes cast in his favor. The candidates were separated by 539 votes.

El Segundo City Council

There are three vacant seats on the El Segundo council, for which six candidates are vying.

The candidates were incumbents Lance Giroux, Drew Boyles and Carol Pirsztuk, and against them were Planning Commissioner Michelle Keldorf, National Sales Director Chris Eidem and collegiate running coach John Pickhaver.

Boyles led with 26.42 percent of the vote, while Keldorf had 19.80 percent, separated by 1,144 votes.

Third-place finisher Giroux had 18.11% while fourth-place finisher Pickhaver had 16.84% of the vote. Pirsztuk and Eidem follow with 14.74% and 4.09% respectively.

The top three candidates will win a seat on the council.

Hawaiian Gardens City Council

Four candidates were competing for two seats on the Hawaiian Gardens board, including current board members Victor Farfan and Ernie Vargas, along with financial educators Jesse Alvarado and Jesus Mendoza.

Farfan comes first with 27.15% of the votes. Second-place finisher Vargas received 26.06% of the vote. The first two candidates were separated by only 42 votes.

Alvarado and Mendoza are at the back of the pack with 23.64% and 23.03% of the votes, respectively.

The top two candidates will each get a seat on the council.

Lawndale Mayor and City Council

In Lawndale, three candidates — incumbent Rhonda Hofmann Gorman, Councilman Sirley Cuevas and educator Francisco M. Talavera — were competing for two available seats on the City Council. And it was very fine

Cuevas led the race with 33.85% of the vote, followed closely by Hofmann Gorman, with 33.36%, as did Talavera, who received 32.80% of the vote. The top two candidates will win a seat on the council.

Lawndale residents also voted for a new mayor, in a race between incumbent Robert Pullen-Miles, Councilwoman Bernadette Lourdes Suarez and businessman Wanza Tolliver.

Pullen-Miles led the race with 60.10% of the vote. Lourdes Suarez and Tolliver follow with 31.38% and 8.53% of the votes respectively.

Manhattan Beach City Council

Councilmember Joe Franklin was leading for the three vacant seats on the Manhattan Beach City Council as of Thursday afternoon, with Nina Tarnay and Steve Charelian in the final two spots.

Franklin had 25.96% support, Tarnay 21.91% and Charélien 17.28%. Franklin and Tarnay were separated by 1,530 votes.

Karen Komatinsky, meanwhile, held approximately 15.85%. The other candidates were further behind.

Rancho Palos Verdes City Council

Five candidates were vying to fill two vacant seats on the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council, including management consultant Steve Perestam, technology professional Jeff Chen, health care consultant Michele Carbone, planning commissioner David Chura and the accountant George Lewis.

The top two candidates will win a seat on the city council.

Perestam and Lewis led the race with 24.52% and 23.64% of the votes cast in their favor, respectively. Chura follows with 22.72%, separated from second place by just 244 votes.

Chen and Carbone are at the bottom of the pack with 18.21% and 11.18% of the votes respectively.

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District

Four candidates were vying for two available seats on the PVPUSD school board, including RPV board member and educator Eric Alegria, fighter pilot Jeremy Vanderhal, PVPUSD board member Ami Gandhi and teacher at Retired Alexandria Kay Blumer.

Gandhi and Alegria came in first with 31.77% and 26.99% of the vote, followed by Vanderhal with 24.87% and Blumer with 16.37%.

The top two candidates will get a seat on the school board.