The Los Angeles City Clerk’s office has released the official results for the Mid City West Community Council election, and two of the races are headed for a drawing of the lot.

The races for Zone 6 and 7 representatives, which were separated by one vote in the unofficial results, are now tied. Candidates Barbara Gallen and Ryan Weisert are tied as leading vote-getters for Zone 6, while Thao Tran and Roxanne Arvizu are tied in Zone 7.

The tie-breaking process for the neighborhood elections is to draw lots, where candidates typically draw for wooden straws, according to Josué Marcus, a spokesman for the city clerk’s office. The process has to be done in public view and candidates or their designated representatives are requested to be present.

Marcus said that they’re reaching out to all the candidates and are still in the process of determining when the tiebreaker will be held, as well as whether they’ll have to hold it this year virtually because of the pandemic.

“Every election there’s always a couple ties,” Marcus said. “It’s one of those things.”

More than 70 candidates ran for the Mid City West Community Council. The 35 seats are broken into six categories: three homeowner representatives, five renter representatives, six nonprofit representatives, six business representatives, seven geographic zone representatives and eight at-large representatives.

The election, which featured all mail-in ballots, was held last month. The deadline to formalize results was April 1. Winning candidates will take over their seats by the next general board meeting, scheduled to be held via Zoom on April 13.

Almost all of this year’s Mid City West candidates lumped themselves into a pair of slates – the Mid City West Progressive Slate focused on promoting progressive issues and the Mid City West Community First Slate focused on amplifying the voices of the community.

Of the 33 decided races, 31 candidates are aligned with the progressive slate and one is aligned with the community first slate, while the other is unaffiliated.

For complete election results, visit clerk.lacity.org/elections/neighborhood-council-elections/2021-nc-election-results.