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Community relations manager Imelda Padilla will face council aide Marisa Alcaraz in the June runoff to fill the Los Angeles City Council seat vacated by Nury Martinez. Padilla leads the seven-candidate field with 3,421 votes, 25.69%, according to updated results released Friday, April 7, by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. Alcaraz was second with 2,812 votes, 21.12%, 297 votes ahead of homeless services manager Marco Santana.

Santiago has been an Assemblyman representing Los Angeles since 2014.

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This week, drama over a leaked City Council recording reached an uneasy denouement. Several other scandals have ended in similarly fraught ways.

The race for second place and a spot in a likely runoff to fill the L.A. City Council seat vacated by Nury Martinez remained tight.