Garden Grove voters appear to have re-elected their current mayor and three city council members, according to the latest ballot counts reported by the Orange County Registrar.
Mayor Steve Jones has been winning handily since election night and continued that trend on Thursday against Councilman Phat Bui and two other candidates.
Bui all but conceded Thursday.
“It’s most likely that Steve Jones will win with the big lead that he has,” Bui said.
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Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones. (Photo Courtesy of Steve Jones)
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Garden Grove Councilman Phat Bui. (Photo courtesy of Phat Bui)
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Garden Grove Councilwoman Kim Nguyen. (Photo courtesy of Kim Nguyen)
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Garden Grove Councilwoman Stephanie Klopfenstein. (Courtesy of Stephanie Klopfenstein)
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Garden Grove Council member John O’Neill. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Bui, a councilman since 2014, said he plans to run again in 2022, when he terms out on the council. “I want to serve the residents of Garden Grove,” he said.
Jones, a councilman since 2007 and mayor since 2016, could not be reached Thursday.
Jones, president of a development and property management company, bested Bui, chief executive of his own information technology company, and two other candidates. Trailing in third and fourth place are banker Duy Nguyen, who tried to withdraw his name from the ballot and did not actively campaign, and business owner Donald Taylor.
Jones was one of four incumbents leading in their respective races.
“It’s always difficult to run against an incumbent,” said Bui, a leader in the county’s Vietnamese American community.
In the District 2 council race, Councilman John O’Neill, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Orange County, was ahead of challenger Julie Diep, a speech language pathologist.
In District 5, Councilwoman Stephanie Klopfenstein was far ahead of her opponent, Robert Tucker, a retired California School Employees Association union representative.
So was Councilwoman Kim Nguyen, a medical policy specialist, who also has a commanding lead in District 6 over opponent Huan C. Nguyen, a retired engineer.
It’s unclear how many ballots are left to count in the Garden Grove races. More than 175,000 across Orange County were not yet counted as of Thursday, the Registrar reported. (This year, Orange County moved away from precinct voting and replaced it with ballot centers and mailed ballots to all registered voters.)
The city’s elected leaders will continue to tackle an economy battered by the pandemic, which, among other things, has hit hard the city’s Disney-related tourism industry.
The mayor and council also will be putting their stamp on what will be built on a property it owns in Santa Ana: the 102-acre Willowick Golf Course. That project has generated much interest and debate in both communities.
California extended the deadline to receive postmarked ballots up to Nov. 20. Orange County elections are not expected to be certified until late November.
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