BY LINDA BENTLEY | AUGUST 31, 2011
Unofficial Results Phoenix Aug. 30 Election:
11:48 P.M. Update
In unofficial results, the race for Mayor of Phoenix will head to a Nov. 8 runoff election between candidates Wes Gullett and Greg Stanton. Stanton received 37.85 percent of the votes in the mayoral race and Gullett received 20.54 percent.
Incumbent Thelda Williams is leading the District 1 race with 51.07 percent of the vote over Eric Frederick’s 33.23 percent.
In the Council District 2 Special Election race, Jim Waring is leading with 51.83 percent of the vote over Bryan Jeffries’ 38.05 percent.
Incumbent Bill Gates received the majority of the votes in the District 3 race, winning his first full term as Councilmember with 73.29 percent of the total votes.
The Council District 5 race also appears headed to a runoff. Daniel Valenzuela has 42.19 percent of the vote, leading Brenda Sperduti’s 24.84 percent and Eric Sloan’s 24.53 percent of the vote.
In the Council District 7 race, incumbent Michael Nowakowski won a second term with 63.84 percent of the votes.
Phoenix voters overwhelming approved Proposition 1 (Expenditure Limitation), which renewed a measure to set the city’s budget without a state-mandated spending formula.
Voters rejected Proposition 2 (Zoning Referendum), allowing the zoning at 44th Street and Palm Lane to remain residential, rather than allowing a gas station/convenience store to be built.
As of 11:48 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, the updated, unofficial election results are:
- Mayor: Anna Brennan – 4,910 (4.92 percent); Wes Gullett – 20,492 (20.54 percent); Claude Mattox – 12,090 (12.12 percent); Peggy Neely – 12,622 (12.65 percent); Greg Stanton – 37,759 (37.85 percent); Jennifer Wright - 11,442 (11.47 percent); Write-in – 442 (0.44 percent).
- Council District 1: Bill Barker – 1,677 (15.01 percent); Eric Frederick – 3,713 (33.23 percent); Thelda Williams – 5,707 (51.07 percent); Write-in – 78 (0.70 percent).
- Council District 2: Bryan Jeffries – 6,162 (38.05 percent); David Jones – 1,543 (9.53 percent); Jim Waring – 8,394 (51.83 percent); Write-in – 96 (0.59 percent).
- Council District 3: Bill Gates – 10,801 (73.29 percent); Steven Gross – 3,816 (25.89 percent); Write-in – 120 (0.81 percent).
- Council District 5: Charlie Ellis – 703 (8.09 percent); Eric Sloan – 2,133 (24.53 percent); Brenda Sperduti – 2,160 (24.84 percent); Daniel Valenzuela – 3,668 (42.19 percent); Write-in – 31 (0.36 percent).
- Council District 7: Janet Contreras – 2,465 (27.79 percent); Michael Nowakowski – 5,662 (63.84 percent); “El Tudy” Arthur Olivas, Jr. – 674 (7.60 percent); Write-in – 68 (0.77 percent).
- Proposition 1 – Expenditure Limit: Yes – 63,723 (71.44 percent); No – 25,472 (28.56 percent).
- Proposition 2 – Zoning Referendum: Yes – 36,908 (38.51 percent); No – 58,922 (61.49 percent).
A total of 16,781 ballots were cast at the city’s new 26 Voting Centers during a three-day period, which is quadruple the number of ballots cast at the city's polling locations in the last election in 2008 (4,083). This number of votes cast at 26 Voting Centers is very close to the number of votes cast in the last mayoral election (17,389) at 133 polling places.
Approximately 30,000 ballots (from 124,000 received early ballots), along with the 8,485 early ballots dropped off at Voting Centers on Election Day, remain to be counted. City officials will begin the process Wednesday morning and expect to have the remaining ballots counted by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2.
For more election updates, visit phoenix.gov.
