Brandon Todd wins D.C. Council special election

Former political aide Brandon Todd won the special election on Tuesday. He will be replacing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on the D.C. Council and also represent Ward 4. Another candidate with direct ties to Bowser in Ward 8 held a minuscule lead, but the race to replace the late Former Mayor and politician Marion Barry was considered too close to call. In that particular race, unofficial results revealed that LaRuby May had 1,711 votes, compared to 1,559 for Trayon White. Barry’s son, finished well behind the front-runners, with a disappointing 460 votes. More than a dozen candidates secured votes in the overcrowded Ward 8 field. In Ward 4, Todd received 4,310 votes, followed by Renee Bowser’s 2,192 votes. Renee Bowser is not related to Muriel Bowser. According to the D.C. Board of Elections, just under fifteen percent of registered voters in the two wards went to the polls.