With all precincts reporting, clear leaders emerge in city races

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L.A. mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti greets supporters at the Hollywood Palladium on Tuesday night. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

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L.A. mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel and some supporters take the stage during an election night gathering at the old Pacific Stock Exchange. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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L.A. mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti greets supporters at his election night party at the Hollywood Palladium. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

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L.A. mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel greets supporters during an election night gathering at the old Pacific Stock Exchange in downtown Los Angeles. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Former L.A. County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti greets supporters of his son, L.A. mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti, at an election night party at the Hollywood Palladium. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

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Mitch O’Farrell, a candidate for Council District 13, greets supporters at his election night party at the St. Felix Bar in Hollywood. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

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Mike Feuer, right, a candidate for city attorney, gets a hug from his friend Leon Alkalai on election night. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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L.A. mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel is flanked by her son Thomas, 9, and her husband, Dean Schramm, as she monitors election returns at the old Pacific Stock Exchange in downtown Los Angeles. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Supporters of L.A. mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel gather at the old Pacific Stock Exchange in downtown Los Angeles for an election night gathering. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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John Choi, a candidate for Council District 13, hugs his mother, Myung Choi, on election night at Mohawk Bend Restaurant. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

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“Yes on D” campaign manager Nam Le, left, claps during an election night gathering at Lucky Strike Lanes in Hollywood as the medical pot measure takes an early lead. John Grant, center, and Rick Icaza, both with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, also show their enthusiasm. The measure would limit the number of pot shops in the city to about 130. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Supporters of Proposition D celebrate its early lead at the Lucky Strikes bowling alley in Hollywood. The measure would limit medical marijuana dispensaries to those that existed before the adoption of a failed 2007 moratorium on new pot shops. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Betsy Richardson casts her ballot at Los Angeles City Fire Station No. 88 in Sherman Oaks. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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John Monahan is the first to cast his vote at the UFCW Local 770 hall in Harbor City. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Barbara Meijers walks out of the Voyager Motor Inn in Van Nuys after casting her ballot Tuesday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Paul Maes walks away from the polling booth to turn in his ballot as he carries his dog, Rocko, next to a leaping dolphin at the Cetacean Society building at Point Fermin Park in San Pedro. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Jay Goldfard of Encino walks past empty voting booths after bringing his mail-in ballot to Los Angeles City Fire Station No. 88 in Sherman Oaks. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Where to hang the flag? Poll workers Esperanza Gaytan, left, Mathew Klempa and Barry Copilow, holding the flag, try to decide on the right spot at Allesandro Elementary School in Silver Lake. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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Deborah Murphy tries to control her dog Fiona while voting at Allesandro Elementary School. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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A sign hangs from the wheelchair of Marcelo Nuno Aceves as he casts his ballot at the Hollenbeck Park Recreation Center in the Boyle Heights. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

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Cindy White casts her vote for Wendy Greuel at Sinai Temple on Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti and wife Amy Wakeland hug before casting their ballots at Allesandro Elementary School in Silver Lake. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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Wendy Greuel watches as her son, 9-year-old Thomas Schramm, submits her ballot at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Studio City. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti, with wife Amy Wakeland, casts his ballot at Allesandro Elementary School in Silver Lake. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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Wendy Greuel watches as her son, Thomas Schramm, places an “I Voted” sticker on her jacket. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Eric Garcetti speaks to reporters after casting his ballot in Silver Lake. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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Wendy Greuel, with husband Dean Schramm, answers questions outside her polling place in Studio City. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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City Atty. Carmen Trutanich jokes with his daughter, Kristin, and her son Nathan, 14 months, before he casts his ballot in Harbor City. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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Esperanza Gonzalez checks her ballot after voting at the Hollenbeck Park Recreation Center in Boyle Heights. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

By Laura J. Nelson

May 22, 2013 4:23 AM PT

The Los Angeles city clerk early Wednesday morning released final vote tallies for the citywide election, leaving only mail-in ballot results standing between candidates’ victory and defeat.

With 100% of precincts reporting just after 3 a.m., clear leaders emerged in citywide races for mayor, city controller, and city attorney, as well as four City Council seats and positions on the Board of Education and the L.A. Community College Board of Trustees.

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City Councilman Eric Garcetti won the mayoral race just before 2 a.m., when City Controller Wendy Greuel called him to concede, a Greuel campaign source told The Times. Current counts say Garcetti led by 8 points with almost 54% of the vote.

Incumbent City Atty. Carmen Trutanich conceded to Mike Feuer just before midnight Tuesday. He trailed by 20 points in early tallies after struggling for months to match Feuer’s fundraising force.

Lawyer Ron Galperin led former City Councilman Dennis Zine 56% to 44% in the race for city controller.

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Galperin, a lawyer and city financial efficiency commissioner, said during the campaign that his expertise in city finance qualified him for the job. Zine, a retired police sergeant and former city ccouncilman, said being a City Hall insider would help him take on the city’s players and bureaucracy.

In the race to replace outgoing City Councilman Ed Reyes in the 1st District, former state legislator Gilbert Cedillo led the race against rival Jose Gardea -- who served as Reyes’ chief of staff -- by about52% to 48%.

Cindy Montanez, formerly in the state Assembly, held 43.5% of the vote in a field of six candidates running in a special election to fill the council’s 6th District seat. Montanez and school board member Nury Martinez will face a runoff July 23.

The position, representing the San Fernando Valley, has been empty since former Councilman Tony Cardenas was elected to Congress in the fall.

In the district that covers much of South Los Angeles, state Sen. Curren Price (D-Los Angeles) led with nearly 53% of the vote, compared with 47% for Ana Cubas, a former aide to Councilman Jose Huizar. Price kept his early lead, although the race narrowed from the 10-point margin he held earlier in the night.

In the 13th District, which spans neighborhoods including Hollywood, Echo Park and Silver Lake, former Garcetti staffer Mitch O’Farrell led rival John Choi 53% to 47%.

About 64% of voters said yes on Measure D, one of three separate measures that would regulate medical marijuana in Los Angeles.

Measure D would shrink the number of pot shops in Los Angeles to about 130, allowing only those operating before a failed 2007 city moratorium on dispensaries to stay open. The measure was backed by a coalition of older shops as well as a labor union that has organized workers at many of them.

In the race for an open seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education, Monica Ratliff led Antonio Sanchez 52% to 48%.

Financial support and union backing had made Sanchez a heavy favorite. A political-action committee spearheaded by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the Coalition for School Reform, threw its full support behind Sanchez mainly because of his unreserved enthusiasm for L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy.

Ratliff, a 43-year-old teacher, countered with a low-visibility grass-roots campaign that made an issue of Sanchez’s big-money backers and relied on support from individual educators and newspaper endorsements.

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