And then there were two.

Mid-City resident Bill Korstick casts his vote Tuesday at Wilshire Private School. (photo by Aaron Blevins)

Tuesday’s Primary Nominating Election revealed few outright winners, but now Los Angeles can focus on deciding between just two candidates for some of the city’s highest leadership posts.

In the mayoral race, Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti, who received almost 33 percent of the vote, will face City Controller Wendy Greuel (with more than 29 percent) in a run-off. Attorney Kevin James, with more than 16 percent, came in third, and Councilwoman Jan Perry (almost 16 percent) placed fourth.

Former Assemblyman Mike Feuer led the city attorney candidates with almost 44 percent of the vote. He will face incumbent Carmen Trutanich (more than 30 percent) in the General Municipal Election on May 21.

“I think we’re very much on the right path here,” Feuer said. “The results were terrific and I’m really looking forward to the run-off.”

He said it was “never realistic” to obtain the city attorney seat on Tuesday, as he was facing two other candidates and an incumbent. Feuer said the campaign has “great momentum” and expressed gratitude to his supporters.

“We have much more work to do, but we’re looking forward to getting it done,” he added. Trutanich could not be reached for comment by deadline.

In the city controller race, businessman Ron Galperin (37.12 percent) barely edged out Councilman Dennis Zine (37.03 percent). The two will compete for the position again in May.

Councilman Paul Koretz won re-election in the Council District 5 race. He defeated neighborhood council board member Mark Matthew Herd with almost 74 percent of the vote.

“I’m feeling good. I enjoyed my first four years. Hopefully, most residents of the fifth district enjoyed having me as their council member,” Koretz said. He said that he took only having one opponent as a good sign. “That’s somewhat unusual in Council District 5 and was a sign that we worked closely with [the community]. I was pretty optimistic from that point.”

With 12 candidates running for Council District 13, only council member senior advisor Mitch O’Farrell (18.44 percent) and commissioner/community organizer John Choi (16.47 percent) emerged from the pack. Neighborhood council board member Sam Kbushyan (12.03 percent) placed third.

In the race for Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education District 4 seat, incumbent Steve Zimmer (52.10 percent) defeated parent/child advocate Kate Anderson (47.89 percent) despite New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg supplying funding to his opponent.

In West Hollywood, incumbents Jeffrey Prang and John Duran were re-elected. Attorney Steve Martin (1,393 votes) and consultant/safety commissioner Sam Borelli (787) were the next leading vote-getters.

Measure C, an effort to impose term limits on the city council that are not retroactive, was approved 2,690 to 1,653.

“I’m tired. It’s been a long night,” Prang said. “I’m really thrilled and really humbled to continue being of service to the community.”

The mayor of West Hollywood now, with the approval of term limits, has a total of 12 more years he could serve on the council. Though Prang doesn’t agree with term limits, he said he supports the will of the voters. He said he couldn’t anticipate any problems term limits could impose on the city.

“Who knows? I suspect there will be some natural turnover in the next few years, with or without term limits,” Prang said, adding that he wished voter turnout would have been higher.

Duran said he was pleased with the election results.

“I’m very excited and grateful to have another four years serving the people of West Hollywood,” he said. “It was a really brutal campaign, as West Hollywood campaigns can be, but the in the end I am just very happy that both Jeff Prang and I were re-elected.”

As for term limits, Duran said he understands why people wanted to pass them, but he hopes that it wasn’t for retribution on the current council. He said it could impact future council members, who may be less willing to cast votes on polarizing issues.

“I guess it remains to be seen,” Duran said.

In all, roughly 17 percent of West Hollywood’s 26,394 registered voters participated in the election. However, the clerk’s office has to verify the signatures for 750 to 800 remaining provisional and vote-by-mail ballots. Clerk Corey Schaffer said it’s “very unlikely” that the remaining ballots will affect the election.

In Los Angeles, more than 1.8 million people were registered to vote, and less than 300,000 ballots — or 16.11 percent — were cast.

As for L.A.’s ballot measure, Prop. A, the proposed half-cent sales tax increase to offset state budget cuts, was defeated. Approximately 55 percent of voters opted against the increase.

“I was disappointed, and I was surprised,” Koretz said. “I think a lot of that had to do with the turnout and the fact that it was a very low turnout. I think more conservative voters tend to turn out regardless of the circumstance.”

He said the city should not wait until next year to address the $220 million budget deficit. Koretz suggested halting or slowing the hiring of Los Angeles Police Department officers to prevent future layoffs.

“We should do that right now, ideally,” he added. “We’ll have to make the best of it and find more efficiencies and make cuts as intelligently as we possibly can and hopefully do the least harm.”

Charter Amendment B passed. The amendment alter the city charter to allow sworn police personnel who are transferred from the Department of General Services to the LAPD to purchase, at their own expense, retirement credit for prior sworn city service after they become members of the Fire and Police Pension Plan.

“I don’t think anyone viewed it as any great controversy,” Koretz said.