Election results: Here's who's leading races for the Lansing City Council

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LANSING — The field of candidates for Lansing City Council candidates was being winnowed significantly in Tuesday's primary election.
With 93% of precincts at least partially reported, a crowded 10-candidate race for two at-large seats on the council was thinned to four candidates, although the race for the fourth spot was still tight late Tuesday evening.
Here's where races for at-large and the Ward 4 stood as final results were being tallied.
At-large, two seats: Julie Vandenboom led all candidates with 21% of the vote, followed by Jeremy Garza and Clara Martinez with 17% each. The fourth and final spot was a close race, with Aurelius Christian garnering 10% of the vote and Olivia Vaden close behind with 9%.
Tirsten Walters (7%), Gloria Denning (6%), Nick Pigeon (5%), Jonah Stone (3%), and Miles Biel (3%) rounded out the field.
Uncounted votes included many absentee ballots, according to unofficial results on the Ingham County Clerk's Office's website.
Ward 4: At-large councilman Peter Spadafore led a field of three candidates with 46% of the vote, while Heath Lowry had 29% and Zacharie Spurlock 24%.
The general election is Nov. 4.
The election saw around 15,000 voters, which is more than usual for primary elections in Lansing and was driven largely by a high number of absentee ballots.
The city sent out around 23,000 absentee ballots and more than half of them, 12,544, were returned, accounting for most of the votes. Around 2,000 people came to the various polling locations around the city on Election Day.
At Letts Community Center, in the contested Ward 4, there were fewer than 200 voters who showed up at the building, which included three different precincts, by 5:30 p.m. It was one of the busier precincts in the city, City Clerk Chris Swope said.
Voter Elaine Barr said she was happy to vote in person in her neighborhood.
"I'm excited to vote for my friend Heath Lowry," she said.
Dan Readett, another voter coming into Letts after 5 p.m., said "I've always done in-person, I've never done absentee,"
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Contact Mike Ellis at [e-mail] or 517-267-0415
This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Who won Tuesday's Lansing City Council election?
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