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    KREKORIAN, OTHER ANCA-ENDORSED CANDIDATES WIN IN TUESDAY'S ELECTION

    Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

    Newly-re-elected Councilmember Paul Krekorian addresses a victory
    party on Tuesday with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti

    LOS ANGELES--Candidates endorsed by the Armenian National Committee
    of America-Western Region swept to victory in Tuesday's municipal
    elections, with Councilmember Paul Krekorian handily winning a second
    term to represent his constituent in Council District 2.

    Krekorian, the incumbent, received 6,704 votes (74.67 percent) to
    his opponent Eric Preven's 2,273 votes (25.32 percent), according to
    results published in the Los Angeles Times.

    ANCA-WR-endorsed candidates Nuri Martinez and Mitch Englander also won
    their respective city council races, receiving more than 50 percent
    of the votes. Martinez received 5,344 votes (60.93 percent) to secure
    another term representing Council District 6, while Englander ran
    unopposed in the Council District 12 receiving 11,224 votes (100
    percent) securing him re-election, according to the LA Times, , which
    reported that less than 10 percent of registered voters participated
    in the primary elections Tuesday.

    Other ANCA-WR-endorsed candidates who won on Tuesday were Scott
    Svonkin, who received 96,015 (62.16 percent) securing him another term
    in Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees (Seat 5), and Mike
    Fong who won the race for Seat 7 with 91,510 votes (58.22 percent).

    The third ANCA-WR-endorsed candidate for the Community College Board,
    Francesca Vega, will face her opponent Andrea Hoffman in the May
    Run-Off Elections. Vega received 55,440 votes (34.99 percent), while
    Hoffman walked away with 56,377 votes (35.58 percent).

    Incumbent Bennett Kayser, the sole ANCA-WR-endorsed candidate in the
    Board of Education race for District 5, received 7,623 votes (35.84
    percent), ensuring him a spot on the May ballot against Ref Rodriguez
    who received 8,217 votes (38.63 percent), according to results posted
    on latimes.com.

    http://asbarez.com/132695/krekorian-other-anca-endorsed-candidates-win-in-tuesday%E2%80%99s-election/
    http://graphics.latimes.com/la-primary-election-results-2015/

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