Sean Barry

A couple of weeks ago, I sat in The Daily Californian office with a stack of voter registration forms, helping staffers to register to vote.

According to an independent expenditure report, the Berkeley Police Association’s political action committee spent about $18,000 on mailers for District 5 City Council candidate Stephen Murphy’s campaign, funded largely by small individual contributions from Berkeley police officers.

The Berkeley Police Association, or BPA, announced its endorsement of candidates for the Nov. 8 municipal election in a press release last week.

Election Day in Berkeley this year saw the impacts of the more than $1 million poured into the city’s most contentious measures — although the final votes yielded mixed results for the election’s biggest spenders.

Sean Barry, who ran for the City Council seat in the student-concentrated District 7, conceded the race Sunday to incumbent Kriss Worthington.

As of Saturday afternoon, updated election results show that incumbent Kriss Worthington and candidate George Beier remain in the lead for City Council seats of District 7 and 8, respectively — although the latter's lead is now just two votes more than that of the runner up Lori Droste.

As of Friday afternoon, updated results show that George Beier and Kriss Worthington remain in the lead for City Council seats of District 8 and 7, respectively.

Incumbent councilmember Kriss Worthington of District 7 and George Beier of District 8 are leading the polls as of Thursday’s updated election results.

As of Wednesday evening, two City Council races were still too close to call pending the inclusion of mail-in ballots. Though incumbent Kriss Worthington and candidate George Beier led in their races for District 7 and 8, respectively, the numbers were too close to decisively call the winners.

At approximately 11 p.m. on election night, Councilmember Kriss Worthington arrived to his campaign’s viewing party, hours late and poring over papers of hand-tallied votes.