LOCAL ELECTIONS : Some Races Are Contests, Some Are Walkovers : Filing: 13 will run for 3 Hermosa Beach City Council seats; nobody wants to be on the board of directors in 2 recreation and park districts.

The filing deadline for this fall’s city council, school board and special district elections came and went Wednesday, leaving some South Bay governing boards with well-stocked races and others with no contests at all.

Hermosa Beach, for example, has 13 candidates in the Nov. 2 elections, with only one incumbent among them--Mayor Albert Wiemans--vying for three City Council seats. In other cases, however, incumbents are running unopposed.

And some scheduled elections will be canceled because there are no candidates. That is the case in two recreation and park districts on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Miraleste and Ridgecrest, where nobody filed to run for the boards of directors. It is unclear how new board members will be found.

In Rolling Hills Estates, one incumbent, Jacki McGuire, and one challenger, Susan Seamans, will automatically win City Council terms because they are the only candidates for the two seats up for election. Among the school boards where incumbents are assured of another term is the El Camino Community College District, where Trustees Lila S. Hummel and Stanley L. Dunn face no opposition.

Likewise, in the Lennox School District, the three incumbents, Edward Urrutia, Hector Carrio and James D. Haley, drew no challengers, and in the Hermosa Beach District incumbents Gregory Kelsey, Mary Lou Weiss and Lynne M. Gonzales will also go unchallenged.

In the Wiseburn School District, Dennis A. Curtis will automatically be appointed to serve the remainder of an unexpired term because he is the only candidate who filed for the office. There are four candidates for three other full-term seats.

In Hawthorne, City Treasurer Edelma Campos gets a free ride too.

The real competition this fall will come at the mayoral and city council levels. Hermosa Beach isn’t the only well-stocked race. In Hawthorne, three candidates are vying for mayor: Councilmen Larry Guidi and Charles W. (Chuck) Bookhammer and real estate broker Carol A. Mayer.

In the City Council race, eight candidates are seeking two open seats. Among them is the current mayor, Steve Andersen, who is barred under the City Charter from seeking another mayoral term.

Candidates in Nov. 2 Elections Following is a list of candidates in the three cities, eight school districts and one special district where there will be electoral contests.

CITY ELECTIONS

HAWTHORNE

Mayor

* Charles W. (Chuck) Bookhammer, deputy county supervisor

* Larry Guidi, warehouse distribution executive

* Carol A. Mayer, real estate broker

City Council (2 seats)

* Steve Andersen, attorney

* Martha G. Bails, systems analyst

* Pablo H. Catano, labor union representative

* Mali D. Currington, student

* Ginny Lambert, retired aerospace employee

* James Radek, city maintenance worker

* Frances Klobucar Stiglich, retired county employee

* David York, environmental management consultant

Clerk

* Daniel Juarez, audit manager

* Richard Mansfield, Hawthorne city clerk

HERMOSA BEACH (3 council seats)

* Albert Wiemans, (i)

* John Bowler, restaurateur

* Christian Burke, entrepreneur*

* Roger Carlson, physicist and analyst

* Michael D’Amico, college administrator*

* Joseph DiMonda, architect

* Gene Dreher, small-business owner

* Jeanette Jones, retail business adviser*

* Thomas Loversky, attorney

* Peter Mangurian, retired physician

* Julia Oakes, architect

* Phil Pennington, governmental relations adviser

* Julius Reviczky, electrical supervisor

RANCHO PALOS VERDES (2 council seats)

* Lee Byrd, retired aerospace executive

* Barbara Ferraro, journalist and educator

* Marilyn Lyon, businesswoman

* Kim Wang, property management executive

* Luella Wike, homeowners’ advocate

SCHOOL DISTRICTS

CENTINELA VALLEY UNION HIGH SCHOOL (3 seats)

Area 1

* Pamela Sturgeon (i)

* John Dragon Jr., office manager

* Ann Birdsall, clerk

Area 2

* Mario Chiappe, communications specialist

* Stennis P. Floyd, boilermaker

* Jean J. DeSimone, playground supervisor

Area 5

* Niva Brito, law firm manager

* Sheila Stachowiak, nurse

EL SEGUNDO UNIFIED (3 seats)

* Lorraine L. Loflin,

* Nancy M. Wernick (i)

* Christine M. Sherrill (i)

* Kenneth N. Schofield (i)

HAWTHORNE (3 seats)

* James E. Baker, police officer

* Eleanor Escalante, retired school principal

* Shirley M. Duff, transcriber

* Xavier Frasquillo Uribe, curriculum manager

LAWNDALE (3 seats)

* Bonnie J. Coronado (i)

* Shirely Rudolphs (i)

* Ann M. Phillips, homemaker

* Uffe H.L. Moller, electronics technician

PALOS VERDES PENINSULA (3 seats)

* Cyndi Demboski, school/community volunteer

* Peter C. Gardiner, no occupation listed

* Brenton F. Goodrich, (i)

* Roxanne S. Morse, community volunteer

* Ellen Perkins, estate planning attorney

* Mintra Sharma, educator

TORRANCE UNIFIED (3 seats)

* William R. Blischke (i)

* John L. Eubanks (i)

* Gary S. Kuwahara, accountant

* Robert Fay Thompson

WISEBURN (3 seats)

* A.S. (Ron) Nathanson (i)

* Walter Guerrero (i)

* Walker G. Williams, teacher

* Gloria Gallella

SPECIAL DISTRICTS

PALOS VERDES LIBRARY DISTRICT (3 seats)

* Elliott J. Hahn, (i)

* Harold Jesse, TRW executive

* Alice LaMar, retired dancer and instructor

* Steven Peden, attorney (running for unexpired term)

* Janet C. Smith, (i)

* Teresa Sun, (i) (running for unexpired term)

* Petitions for these candidates have not yet been verified.

(i) Denotes incumbent