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Nury Martinez wins Los Angeles’ 6th City Council district seat

Los Angeles City Council District 6 candidates Nury Martinez, left, and Cindy Montanez, right, are shown during a forum mediated by Judy Daniels, center, at a Valley Alliance Neighborhood Councils meeting at Sherman Oaks Hospital.
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Nury Martinez soundly defeated rival Cindy Montañez on Tuesday in the special election to fill an open east San Fernando Valley seat on the Los Angeles City Council.

Martinez, a former Los Angeles school board member, becomes the only female elected official in the nation’s second-largest city.

Final results from the city clerk’s office showed Martinez received 4,917 votes, or 54.6% of the total, compared with 4,093 votes, or 45.4%, for Montañez. Final tallies of the vote are on the city clerk’s website.

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Just 10.2% of the district’s 89,118 eligible voters cast ballots, according to the preliminary final count. The heavily Latino district includes the communities of Van Nuys, Pacoima and Sun Valley.

The stand-alone election -- to replace Councilman Tony Cardenas, now a congressman -- fell just two months after city voters went to the polls to pick a new mayor, controller, city attorney and six new council members.

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