Murrieta City Council elections: DeForest ahead in District 3, Stone leading in District 4

Four candidates are competing for the two open seats on Murrieta's City Council.

The four candidates - Steve Brown and Lisa DeForest for City Council District 3, and David Kolk and Lori Stone for District 4 - qualified in late July and early August of this year to run for Murrieta City Council's two open seats.

As of the morning of Nov. 4, DeForest was leading Brown in District 3, 4,172 votes to 1,185.

In District 4, Stone was ahead of Kolk, 3,439 votes to 1,664, as Wednesday morning.

Results, however, are not final — the Riverside County Registrar of Voters' office says about 400,000 mail bal...