LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Outgoing City Councilman Bill Rosendahl’s chief deputy will be replacing his boss on the 15-member council, while a pair of Assembly members appeared to have narrowly earned enough votes to avoid a May runoff and win seats on the panel.

Rosendahl announced last year he was suffering from cancer and announced he would not run for a third term in the council’s 11th District. His chief deputy, Mike Bonin, easily outpaced three opponents to claim the seat.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Two members of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education will be keeping their jobs, but pair of newcomers will be squaring off in a May runoff in the race for an open third seat.

Monica Garcia fended off four challengers in Tuesday’s election to retain her 2nd District seat on the seven-member board, while Steve Zimmer narrowly defeated feisty challenger Kate Anderson, who was heavily funded by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Coalition for School Reform political action committee.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—City Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel, who led the field of mayoral candidates in fundraising, were preparing today for a May 21 runoff in the race to become the city’s next chief executive.

The results of Tuesday’s primary election went pretty much as expected, with Garcetti and Greuel jumping to early leads in the eight-candidate race and never relenting, but both falling short of the 50 percent of the vote needed to avoid a runoff.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The city’s police, fire and other departments are all in danger of being subjected to hefty budget cuts in response to voters’ rejection of a proposed half-cent sales tax, the president of the City Council said today.

Councilman Herb Wesson said that without the tax, things are “going to get ugly” for the police and other city departments.

“There will be some very hard choices,” he said. “Every department will be on the table. Nothing is sacred.”