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Steve Hofbauer leads race for Mayor of Palmdale

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PALMDALE – Incumbent Steve Hofbauer is holding a comfortable lead over five challengers to win his second term as Mayor of Palmdale.

With initial vote-counting from Tuesday’s election completed, Hofbauer had 44.81% of the vote (18,483), more than double that of his closest challenger Laura Bettencourt, who had 19.35% of the vote (7,982).

Eric Andrew Ohlsen was in third place with 13.4% of the vote (5,523); Xavier Flores was fourth with 11.0% (4,516); Tonya Schofield was fifth with 4.3% (1,776); and Richard Norris had 7.2%  of the votes (2,971).

Semi-final election results for other local races are as follows:

Palmdale Council Member – District One

  • Austin Bishop ………… 47.21% (3,980 votes)
  • Juan Blanco …………… 27.16% (2,290 votes)
  • Brittany Wyre …………..16.15% (1,362 votes)
  • Chance Mccrary …………..6.59% (556 votes)
  • Eynelys Vinson …………….2.88% (243 votes)

Palmdale Council Member – District Two

  • Richard Loa ………………..59.98% (8,161 votes)
  • Ollie McCaulley …………………..21.41% (2,913 votes)
  • Glenda Clark ……………………….18.61% (2,532 votes)

Palmdale School District Board (2 seats)

  • Sharon Vega ………………….28.07%  (12,885 votes)
  • Anthony Hunt …………………..19.99% (9,176 votes)  
  • Marcos Alvarez 19.25% …………………(8,837 votes)
  • Dennis Trujillo 14.58%  ………………….(6,691 votes)
  • Enaya Hanbali  9.97% ……………………(4,576 votes)
  • Erika G. Alverdi  8.13% …………………..(3,731 votes)

Palmdale Measure AV to authorize a 3/4-cent sales tax, generating about $12 million annually, to maintain essential services for the city of Palmdale.

  • YES …………….59.37% (24,326 votes)
  • NO …………………. 40.63%    (16,650 votes)

Lancaster Measure LC to authorize a 3/4-cent sales tax, generating about $12 million annually, to maintain essential services for the city of Lancaster.

  • YES …………….53.89%  (23,411 votes)
  • NO …………………. 46.11%   (20,034 votes )

After Election Day there are still many outstanding ballots to be counted. During the Official Election Canvass, all Conditional Voter Registration ballots, Provisional ballots and Vote by Mail ballots received on Election Day are processed. Once the ballots are verified they will be counted. Due to the switch to vote centers instead of voting precincts, there is no way to immediately track how many ballots cast on Tuesday remain to be counted. State law also allows the counting of mail ballots received as late as 17 days after election day. For the latest local election results, visit: https://www.lavote.net/

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26 comments for "Steve Hofbauer leads race for Mayor of Palmdale"

  1. You all like feeding the machine. In a few years they will have their hand out again and you will all blindly vote yes for the good of the community. What a bunch of sheep. Fix potholes, maintain 911 response times, address the homeless issue. How is 12 million a year going do do anything with that? It’s not, just like the last time(s) the sales tax was bumped up for the “good of the community”.

    Shut up and pay us so we can spend you money on whatever we want. No one will ever ask us what we really did with the money anyway. By next month they will have forgotten all those promises.

  3. How long do ya think Kimberly “Screeming banshee” Guilfoyle will stay with Don Jr.?

    Who is next for that witch?

  4. Higher taxes maybe but it’s worth it to not have the incompetent trump continue to destroy the country. With Biden we will now be able to fight the trump virus and save millions of Americans lives and be able to open the country back up
    God bless America

    • DEFUND THE POLICE?
      My family is moving out of the Antelope Valley… Commieforna HELL HOLE.

      If Biden takes office, y to be commies will push him aside and open the flood gates fir illegals.

      • Trebor. No matter where you go, there you are.

        You will take you with you and wonder why everywhere you go it’s a HELL HOLE.

        I’m sure you don’t have the $$$$s to move to Maui, so you’ll end up in some little hole-in-the-wall town full of people like you. That will be HELL. You can count on it.

        Keep in touch.

        • Right? Gotta love these people who post “Commiefornia” and “HELLHOLE”! …Probably looking to move to some little pissant town in Idaho or Arizona where everyone is White, Republican and speaks English….but the food is S*itty and the Medical care is bad, and Ol’Bill likes to screw Ol’Joe’s wife behind his back and Ol’Tom has no issue trying to financially rip off Ol’Bob…but hey…that’s what they like! …As long as they all meet later at the Trump rally with their ‘Q’ signs, their cigarettes, beer cans, bad breath and rotten teeth, and holler, “…screw those communists and their health care plan for all! …Screw Bill Gates! …Screw logic! …Screw science! …Screw masks! …Ain’t nobody gonna tell me what to do!” —- BYE!!!!!!!!!!

  5. I’m a Palmdale resident and a registered Democrat. I wish Steve Hofbauer would quit being such a Trump stooge. The majority of registered voters in Palmdale are Democrats, not Republicans. We voted for him, not the Trumpers who mainly live in Lancaster and Quartz Hill.

  6. Measure AV passed…. I guess people like higher taxes. No worries. I’ll be doing more of my shopping outside of the city. Hope I’m not the only one thinking this way. Higher water prices (and continuing to rise). Pay for plastic bags. Now a HIGHER sales tax? WTF are my fellow residents thinking? Maybe we can use some of this money for mental help for them. Did they know that this will also translate to higher gas prices cause you are charged a sales tax at the pump per gallon or will gas be considered an essential that won’t be taxed? Idiots!

    • Well, you can use your own grocery bags now, but you have to do your own bagging which is fine with me. As far as gas prices, if I can afford to pay for license, registration, car maintenance, etc., I can afford higher gas prices. You can always shop in Lancaster, oops, taxes are going up there too. Please let me know where you will be shopping.

    • ANNON will now have to go to out of town Walmarts and 99 cent Stores to buy his upscale items.