Hemet City Council elections: Meyer, Lilienthal, Males lead in respective districts

Hemet voters turned out Nov. 3 to cast their votes for three open district seats on the Hemet City Council.

Returns Thursday evening were unchanged from early Wednesday.

Returns posted from the Riverside County Registrar of Voters’ office showed the vote leader in the city’s District 1 race Wednesday morning is the incumbent Karlee Meyer with a total of 712 votes. Candidate Kenneth Prado, a local businessman, gained 503 votes, Deni Antionett Mazingo earned 417 votes and Norman Kyris, a local Realtor, won 374 votes.

In District 3, Malcolm Lilienthal was also leading at 12:30 a.m. 1,394 votes, f...