6:30am | The voting booths open at 7:00am today, and voters should get ready for a heavy ballot book with plenty of elected positions on the line – among them Mayor, five City Council positions, City Prosecutor and City Attorney. lbpost.com will have live results starting around 8:00pm tonight.
Visit the City Clerk’s website here to find your nearest polling place, and congratulations for doing your civic duty. We’ll have much more coverage and up to the minute election news as the ballots begin to roll in.
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Below is the full list of candidates running for office in Long Beach today (names listed alphabetically, asterisks denote incumbents):
Mayor
Bob Foster*
Stevie Merino
1st District City Council
Robert Garcia*
Jana Shields
3rd District City Council
Gary DeLong*
Terry Jensen
Tom Marchese
5th District City Council
Mike Hedges
Gerrie Schipske*
7th District City Council
Jil Hill
James Johnson
Tonia Reyes Uranga* (write-in candidate)
Jack Smith
9th District City Council
Val Lerch* (write-in candidate)
Steve Neal
Brad Shore
City Attorney
Robert Shannon*
Tom Reeves
City Prosecutor
Doug Haubert
Timothy O’Reilly
City Auditor
Laura Doud*
Long Beach City College Area 1
Jeffrey Kellogg*
Luukia Smith
Timothy Tucker
Long Beach City College Area 3
Mark Bowen*
Dave Hall
Long Beach City College Area 5
Tom Clark*
Demirea Perry
Phillip Shrotman
Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education District 1
Jeffrey Price
Mary Stanton*
Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education District 3
John McGinnis
Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education District 5
David Barton*
Demirea Perry
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