Election 2025: Challenger leads in Ilwaco mayor race; Incumbent port commissioners trailing<\/p>\n
Published 9:51 pm Tuesday, November 4, 2025<\/p>\n
PACIFIC COUNTY \u2014 Voters on the Long Beach Peninsula are raring for change, according to initial election results released on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
With 3,808 ballots having been counted across Pacific County thus far, a host of incumbents are trailing in their re-election contests, including a trio of officials on the peninsula.<\/p>\n
Mike Cassinelli, seeking a fourth four-year term as Ilwaco mayor, currently has just 21.7% of the vote against challenger Eddie Hillard, who leads with 77.3%.<\/p>\n
Two incumbent port commissioners are also well behind their challengers in the initial tally. Bill Derion, seeking another six-year term on the Port of Peninsula Commission, has just 28.7% of the vote compared to 70.5% for challenger John Oakes.<\/p>\n
Butch Smith, the chair and longtime member of the Port of Ilwaco Commission, has just 28.1% of the vote while challenger Guy Glenn, Jr. leads with 70.5%.<\/p>\n
School board<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Ocean Beach School District Board of Directors will welcome at least two new members to its board in January, while the lone incumbent up for election holds a narrow lead over her challenger.<\/p>\n
Carolyne Perez was appointed to the board in early 2024 representing the Ocean Park-based seat, and is seeking election this year to serve out the remaining two years of the seat\u2019s term. She currently leads with 52.3% of the vote against challenger Joan Porter, who holds 47.3%.<\/p>\n
None of the other two board members up for election sought another four-year term. In the race for the seat representing the Long Beach and Seaview area, Erik Svendsen leads with 62.7% of the vote compared to 36.8% for Samantha Hernandez Ortega.<\/p>\n
In the other race, for the seat representing the Ilwaco and Chinook area, Faith Forster leads with 55.2% of the vote compared to 43.7% for MaryAnne Murray.<\/p>\n
The county auditor\u2019s office estimates that the next tabulation update will come by 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 7. At least 1,710 ballots are still left to be counted, which does not include later arriving ballots that were placed in a drop box by 8 p.m. or that were postmarked and sent in the mail by Election Day.<\/p>\n
This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Election 2025: Challenger leads in Ilwaco mayor race; Incumbent port commissioners trailing Published 9:51 pm Tuesday, November 4,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-39306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39306","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=39306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}