PUSD BOE election results

Here are the results from yesterday's election, according to the website of the City Clerk. According to the election rules, a candidate must get 50% or more of the vote to win, so despite a commanding lead, Cooper will have to go up against Mastromatteo in a runoff. As predicted, Bib and Bob will have a rematch as well.

In a result that surprised me, the Stonehill News favorite for a Seat 6 landslide, Roberta Martinez, lost in what turned out to be a close race to the better funded Tom Selinske. I had at first assumed that a disparity in campaign financing might be an explanation, but I just heard from Roberta who informed me that in the end she and Selinske rang in at about $11,000 and $13,000 respectively... so that takes that theory off the table.

Seat 2	Votes	%
George Loew	3,513	24.6%
Mark Mastromatteo	3,674	25.7%
Renatta Cooper	7,083	49.6%
Seat 4	Votes	%
George Lewis	720	4.9%
Bob Harrison	5,238	35.9%
William A. Bibbiani	6,783	46.5%
Milena Albert	1,831	12.5%
Seat 6	Votes	%
Roberta H. Martinez	6,881	48.3%
Tom Selinske	7,357	51.6%

I also find it interesting to look at the total number of votes for each seat.

	Total Votes	Total Abstained	% Abstained
Seat 2	14,270	302	2.1%
Seat 4	14,572	0 (baseline)	0%
Seat 6	14,238	334	2.3%