Voice of San Diego Says “It’s Over” — Aguirre has won with an insurmountable lead.
Voice: The latest count of votes Tuesday night had Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre with an insurmountable lead Tuesday evening in the race to fill a vacant South County seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
Aguirre had a six-point lead over her opponent, Chula Vista Mayor John McCann as of 11 p.m.
It’s done: The county reported 9,500 votes left to count Tuesday night. Aguirre held a lead of 4,519 votes. That means McCann would need more than 7,000 of the remaining votes to go his way, or 73.8 percent of them. The count reported so far had him at more than 46 percent.
That means Aguirre, a Democrat, is on track to become the next County Supervisor representing South San Diego County’s 640,000 residents.
“I’m incredibly grateful,” Aguirre said in a brief interview at a raucous election night party at Novo Brazil brewery in Imperial Beach. “It’s early but results are looking favorable.”
By Lucas Robinson / The San Diego Union-Tribune UPDATED: July 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM PDT
Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre led Chula Vista Mayor John McCann in early results in the race for county supervisor representing South County’s District 1 — an election that will decide the direction of a Board of Supervisors that’s been left in limbo for months.
Partial returns late Tuesday after the polls closed showed Aguirre, the Democrat, leading by more than 6 percentage points over McCann, her Republican opponent, with about 70,000 ballots counted.
In a statement, Aguirre said the results showed South County backed her platform of fixing the area’s sewage crisis and opposing cuts to the social safety net being pursued by the Trump administration.
“Today belongs to the working-class people of District 1,” Aguirre said. “County government has been deadlocked for months while families pay the price — from rents being too damn high to beaches being closed and contaminated. That inaction ends today.”
Despite trailing in early returns, McCann said Tuesday night he was in a “competitive position.”
“My campaign has always been about making life more affordable, reducing homelessness and fight taxes,” he said in a statement. “I’m proud we pushed hard on all those fronts, and I will continue to deliver on each of those issues.”
The outcome of the race holds big implications for the county and how the winning party will steer its vast bureaucracy of social services, six months after the district’s former representative, Nora Vargas, unexpectedly stepped down despite winning re-election.
Should Aguirre win and Democrats regain control of the board, its three Democrats will work to triage any impacts to the county’s finances from cuts to federal funding from the Trump administration, and to work to overhaul how the county can spend some of the money it keeps in reserve.
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“CV Mayor McCann says he has conceded to IB Mayor Aguirre in District 1 special election.”
So if Aguire doesn’t have the Master’s degree in economics, wasn’t raised in SD County, can’t pay her super low property taxes for a few years, hasn’t done anything noteworthy enough, for her constituents, to be on the front page of the UT or any other publication, doesn’t know what it is to be a family with kids needs…… what got her elected????
Her unadulterated leadership in trying to get the Tijuana sewage crisis dealt with by government like no one else, certainly not McCann, plus her obvious compassion to those less fortunate and those being abused by ICE rogue agents – which MAGA McCann was mostly silent about. Just for starters.
BTW, Pat, did you see your quote in my article about the 30th Street bike lane? I do appreciate your earlier leadership on trying to block that effort.
For all those who complain that with Aguirre’s election to the Bd of Supes, there’s now a slim majority of Democrats on the board, I want to remind them that 5 white Republicans held a monopoly of power on the board for a long, long time. See this piece of history … https://obrag.org/2009/02/our-san-diego-county-government-what-does-it-do-and-what-is-it-good-for/