Table 1: Progressive voters made the difference. Only 1 vote per precinct separated the 2nd and 3rd place finishers
and the 3rd and 4th place finishers.
Official City Council Results |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
Vote Margin |
Vote Margin / 34 UA Precincts |
Erik Yassenoff |
6,186 |
23.3% |
717 |
21.1 votes |
Mary Ann Krauss |
5,469 |
20.6% |
31 |
.91 votes |
Ed Seidel |
5,438 |
20.5% |
39 |
1.15 votes |
Dan McCormick |
5,399 |
20.3% |
1,322 |
38.9 votes |
Leslie Heath |
4,077 |
15.3% |
UAPA's endorsed candidates win re-election
After waiting well over a month for certified election results and taking a break for holiday merriment, we can finally announce that UAPA's best-outcome election scenario won the day in UA's City Council race! A belated thank you to the UA progressive community for realizing the importance of this City Council race and coming out to vote. Our endorsed candidates, Mary Ann Krauss and Ed Seidel, were re-elected in a race that was very close.
Election Analysis
1. The progressive vote had a race-determining impact --- only one vote per precinct separated the candidates in 2nd and 3rd place and the candidates in 3rd and 4th place. Table 1 shows the official vote tallies.
2. Kingsdale was arguably the single biggest election issue. The election of Seidel, Krauss and Yassenoff, who all share a common mixed-use vision for Kingsdale, strongly suggests that voters believe the City has a responsibility to UA citizens to negotiate for the best possible use of this scarce, commercial property in the very heart of UA.