Certified results of 2022 La Palma City Council election

The results reported by the Orange County Registrar of Voters were certified on Friday, December 2.

That said, with 100% of 2,169 precincts reporting, the turnout was 54.7% of 1,817,149 registered voters. Altogether, 994,227 votes were cast. Of that total, the overwhelming number were vote-by-mail ballots: 830,162. That left 164.065 ballots cast at vote centers.

Although the current City Council voted to move to district-based elections, districts are not yet defined and do not feature in this year’s election. Two seats were available, so each La Palma voter could choose two from a list of three candidates:

Candidate # Votes % Vote
Nitesh Patel 3,289 45.85%
Janet K. Conklin 2,273 31.69%
Jonathan Dinwiddie 1,611 22.46%