{"id":345914,"date":"2026-06-04T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345914\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:38:10","slug":"incumbents-have-strong-showing-in-2026-long-beach-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345914\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbents have strong showing in 2026 Long Beach primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is scant change in the air this election season as incumbent candidates hold strong in the June 2 primary election. From mayor and city auditor to city council and school board members, residents may see the same faces representing them for another four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A candidate only needs more than 50% of the votes in their race to win outright and avoid a general election in November. Long Beach\u2019s District 5 councilmember seat is the only race as of now that\u2019s close between the two candidates Megan Kerr and Tara Riggi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Votes are still being counted, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/projects\/elections-2026\/long-beach-california-general-results-mayor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> estimating 62% of the votes for the Long Beach mayoral race have been tallied. It will be weeks before every vote is counted. However, for some races with results already highly skewed in one direction, that may not matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of June 3, the Los Angeles County Registrar estimates 23% of LA County residents voted in the election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Long Beach <a href=\"https:\/\/results.lavote.gov\/#year=2026&amp;election=4338\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">election results<\/a> as of 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3 are as follows: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Auditor<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laura Doud (incumbent): 71.15% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ginny Gonzales: 28.85% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rex Richardson (incumbent): 56.63% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joshua Rodriguez: 19.96% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Sweeney: 10.21% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terri Rivers: 5.21% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee Goldin: 5.18% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oscar Cancio: 2.82% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mary Zendejas (incumbent): 50.86% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony Bryson: 14.85% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deb Kahookele: 13.81% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamika Wagner-Osio: 11.53% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brock Goleman: 4.64% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lori Logan: 4.32% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kristina Duggan (incumbent): 66.47% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rebecca Hinderer: 25.69% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronald Sampson: 5.45% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brian Cochrane: 2.39% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Megan Kerr (incumbent): 51.47% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tara Riggi: 48.53% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vivian Malauulu: 75.52% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dameon Gordon: 17.36% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jameis Shuford: 7.12% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joni Ricks-Oddie (incumbent): 66.49% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sequoia Neff: 33.51% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LBUSD District 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maria Isabel Lopez (incumbent): 75.68% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deborah L. Betance: 24.32% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LBUSD District 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diana Craighead (incumbent): 52.52% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maureen \u201cQuinn\u201d Flaherty: 35.72% of the votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sara Socheata Pol-Im: 11.67% of the votes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buonospizza.com\/\" aria-label=\"IMG_1461\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780544290_91_IMG_1461.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1219\" height=\"904\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is scant change in the air this election season as incumbent candidates hold strong in the June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[37945,23387,131,133,132,45070],"class_list":["post-345914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-2026-election","tag-election-results","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-primary-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345914","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=345914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}