Unofficial primary election results for Tempe, March 2010
Courtesy of the Tempe Newsroom: Tempe City Clerk Jan Hort has released unofficial results for the city’s March 9 Primary Election. Incumbents Shana Ellis and Onnie Shekerjian appear to have been re-elected to four-year City Council terms. Candidate Robin Arredondo-Savage also appears to have been elected to the Council and voters passed a bed tax increase.
To be elected in the primary, a candidate must get 50 percent plus 1 of all ballots cast. With an estimated 13,350 ballots currently counted in the primary (through early voting and on Election Day), each candidate had to get 6,676 votes to be elected in the primary. Tempe has 83,778 registered voters. A complete count of votes, including provisional and early ballots not yet counted, will be released Friday evening. A final canvass of the votes is scheduled for March 25.
Voters appear to have passed the 2 percent increase to the city’s hotel bed tax. Unofficial results indicate there were 9,215 votes for the measure (69 percent) and 3,782 votes against (28 percent).
Unofficial tallies for City Council:
Shana Ellis – 8,667 votes (65 percent)
Onnie Shekerjian – 8,284 votes (62 percent)
Robin Arredondo-Savage – 8,199 votes (61 percent)
Mark Ortiz – 5,882 votes (44 percent)
Voter turnout was for the Tempe Primary election was 16 percent, with the majority casting early ballots.
The city’s May 18 General Election will include a question about whether voters want to increase the city’s sales tax from 1.8 percent to 2 percent for four years.
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