Midterm watch: Early returns roll in for coastal O.C. city, county, state races

Orange County voters flooded polling places Tuesday to cast or drop off ballots that will help decide key local, state, and national contests in this year’s high-stakes midterm elections.

And while tallying each and every vote delivered by mail, drop box or in-person will be a lengthy process, the Orange County registrar of voters dropped its initial wave of vote-by-mail results online shortly after 8 p.m.

Additional rounds of unofficial in-person voting results followed later Tuesday night, with daily updates scheduled for each day at 5 p.m. beginning Wednesday during the canvass period until the last official results are posted.

Updates will be posted as counts come in. Here’s a look at the vote counts for races impacting residents in the cities of Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach and Fountain Valley, as of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Huntington Beach City Council (At-large, four seats)

Amory Hanson: 2,604 (1.18%)

Pat Burns*: 27,428 (12.41%)

Ben Davis: 25,338 (11.47%)

Andrew Gruel*: 26,136 (11.38%)

Brenda Glim: 23,048 (10.43%)

Rosaline “Roz” Price: 3,471 (1.57%)

Brian Thienes: 25,065 (11.34%)

Brian Burley: 9,810 (4.44%)

Casey McKeon*: 28,063 (12.70%)

Erin Spivey: 25,220 (11.41%)

Taryn Taddeo Palumbo: 24,811 (11.23%)

Newport Beach City Council

District 1

Joe Stapleton*: 17,686 (70.20%)

Tina Babajanians: 7,506 (29.80%)

District 3

Walter Stahr: 7,244 (28.94%)

Tim Stoaks: 2,985 (11.93%)

Erik Weigand*: 14,798 (59.13%)

District 6

Lauren Kleiman*: 14,709 (56.98%)

Andrew P. Gerken: 11,106 (43.02%)

Newport Beach Measure H (General Plan Amendment)

NO: 18,201 (67.36%)

YES: 8,821 (32.64%)

Laguna Beach City Council (At-large, three seats)

Nick Aronoff: 2,947 (12.55%)

Sue Kempf*: 4,293 (18.28%)

Mark Orgill*: 3,459 (14.72%)

Karen Martin: 949 (4.04%)

Joy Berry: 2,129 (9.06%)

Alex Rounaghi*: 5.261 (22.40%)

Ashley Cintas: 2,251 (9.58%)

Edward Bayuk: 409 (1.74%)

Laura Parisi: 1,793 (7.63%)

Laguna Beach Measure E (Term Limits)

NO: 3,415 (38.05%)

YES: 5,561 (61.95%)

Costa Mesa City Council

Mayor

Mike Buley: 11,963 (54.97%)

Loren Gameros: 9,801 (45.03%)

District 3

Daniel Morgan: 1,751 (50.87%)

Cara Stewart: 1,691 (49.13%)

District 4

Fisher Derderian: 647 (32.68%)

Angely Andrade Vallarta: 1,333 (67.32%)

District 5

Steve Smith: 1,600 (44.74%)

Kelly Brown: 1,976 (55.26%)

Costa Mesa Measure C (Business License Reform)

NO: 6,673 (29.51%)

YES: 15,937 (70.49%)

Fountain Valley City Council (at-large, three seats)

Dan Hay: 7,448 (20.32%)

Katy Wright: 1,795 (4.90%)

Kim Constantine*: 5,938 (16.20%)

Jim Cunneen*: 7,601 (20.74%)

Elizabeth Andrade: 5,207 (14.21%)

Patricia Odette Neal: 2,103 (5.74%)

Harrison F. Dibblee: 1,251 (3.41%)

John Nguyen: 4,090 (11.16%)

Mark Leonard: 1,222 (3.33%)

Orange County Board of Supervisors, District 5

Diane Dixon: (R) 84,785 (48.43%)

Katrina Foley: (D)* 90,274 (51.57%)

U.S. Representative 47th District

Dave Min (D)*: 113,811 (56.74%)

Jenny Rae Le Roux (R): 86,784 (43.26%)

State Assembly 72nd District

Chris Kluwe (D): 79,548 (49.19%)

Gracey Van Der Mark (R): 82,153 (50.81%)

State Assembly 73rd District

Cottie Petrie-Norris (D)*: 62,470 (61.91%)

Urson Russell (R): 38,442 (38.09%)

* Incumbent candidates