{"id":336529,"date":"2026-05-28T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336529\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:48:10","slug":"elections-2026-long-beach-south-bay-area-voters-to-elect-new-leadership-for-their-cities-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336529\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2026: Long Beach, South Bay area voters to elect new leadership for their cities \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"TheThe vote center at Mary K Giordano Regional Transit Center in Torrance is open for in-person voting for the June 2nd primary election on Sunday May 24, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)<\/p>\n

Voters in some Long Beach and South Bay area cities will elect new mayors and city council members during the June 2 election, with some towns also having races for treasurer and city clerk.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s who\u2019s running for what and where during the upcoming election.<\/p>\n

\"AA view of the famous iconic casino building on Catalina Island. (Photo by David Dickstein)
\nAvalon<\/p>\n

Avalon, on Catalina Island, has four people running for mayor and another four vying for two seats on the City Council.<\/p>\n

Incumbent Mayor Anni Marshall will try to win reelection against former Councilmember Cinde Cassidy, as well as Daniel Felts and\u00a0Grayson Kline.<\/p>\n

As for the City Council race, Michael Ponce is the only incumbent and is trying to win reelection against challengers Donna Lopez, Jessica Romero and Bre Bussard. The top-two vote getters will be elected to the council.<\/p>\n

The mayor serves a two-year term, while council members serve for four years.<\/p>\n

\"CityCity Hall in Compton on Thursday, August 19, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)
\nCompton<\/p>\n

Compton has a packed slate of candidates running for mayor and City Council District 2, while the remaining three races are two-person affairs.<\/p>\n

Mayor Emma Sharif is running for reelection against four challengers:\u00a0Inez Adkins, Omar Bradley, Leroy Guillory, Anthony Moultrie, Andre Spicer and Marlow Wilkerson.<\/p>\n

The northeastern Council District 2, meanwhile, has six candidates \u2014 but no incumbent. The candidates are Darrell Carter, Jace Dawson, Skyy Fisher, Alin Hamade, Anthony Perry and Bennie Tinson.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Jonathan Bowers is running to once again represent District 3, which comprises a large swath of the city\u2019s southwest, against challenger Randall Hooks.<\/p>\n

In two other citywide races, incumbent City Clerk Satra Zurita is running for reelection against Lynne Boone, while Treasurer Brandon Mims is trying to retain his seat against Maxwell Burke.<\/p>\n

All elected officials serve four-year terms.<\/p>\n

Gardena<\/p>\n

In Gardena, there are four elected positions up for grabs \u2014 with the mayoral race pitting the incumbent against a current City Council member.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s who\u2019s on the ballot in Gardena for mayor, two city council seats, city treasurer and city clerk:<\/p>\n

In that race, Mayor Tasha Cerda is vying for reelection against Councilmember Wanda Love.<\/p>\n

The City Council, meanwhile, has one incumbent and four challengers running for two seats. The candidates are Councilmember Rodney Tanaka,\u00a0Valerie Loduem, Alan Chan, Jeff Fukasawa and Julie Nystrom.<\/p>\n

There is no incumbent running for treasurer and only two candidates, Kale Morita and Tahron Jackson.<\/p>\n

The winners will serve four-year terms.<\/p>\n

Paramount<\/p>\n

In Paramount, four candidates are running for two open City Council seats \u2014 with two of them incumbents,<\/p>\n

Councilmembers Annette Delgadillo and Peggy Lemons will try to retain seats on dais against challengers Yesenia Cuarenta and Alfredo Ba\u00f1uelos.<\/p>\n

The winners will serve four years on the council.<\/p>\n

Lakewood<\/p>\n

Lakewood technically has three seats up for grabs during the election \u2014 but District 1 Councilmember Todd Rogers and Mayor Cassandra Chase, who represents District 5, are running unopposed.<\/p>\n

District 2, however, is competitive. Incumbent Councilmember Steve Croft is trying to win reelection against four challengers:\u00a0Carlos Aguilar, Manuel Jimenez, Ahmed Rafi, Laura Sanchez-Ramirez and Rudy Villarreal.<\/p>\n

The winner will serve a four-year term.<\/p>\n

For more information on the June 2 primary election, go to lavote.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The vote center at Mary K Giordano Regional Transit Center in Torrance is open for in-person voting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1400,7,32604,1352,204,989,33071,22251,131,133,132,137,100,6336,13,200],"class_list":["post-336529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-2026-elections","tag-california","tag-catalina-island","tag-compton","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-gardena","tag-lakewood","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-paramount","tag-politics","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}