Incumbents ruled in today's Altadena Town Council election, with one exception.

Newcomer Diane Marcussen knocked out incumbent Susan Goldman for the seat in Census Tract 4613 by a 53-33 vote.  All other incumbents in three contested census tracts won by comfortable margins.

In 4601, incumbent Gino Sund beat challenger Dwight Equitz, 166-35.  In 4602, Okorie Ezieme won a second term over challenger Brian Fuller, 113-49.  In the heavily-contested CT 4610, Tecumseh Shackelford retained his seat over Brent Musson, 109-81.

Shackelford and Musson told Altadenablog in separate interviews Friday that they had been working hard to get votes in a tract that has historically been very light (last year, incumbent Gene Campbell only logged ten votes).

In the other four census tracts, incumbents ran unopposed.

Final results are (winners are *starred, incumbents in bold):

• Census Tract 4601
  *Gino Sund  166
  Dwight A. Equitz  35
• Census Tract 4602
  *Okorie Ezieme  113
  Brian Fuller  49

• Census Tract 4603.01
  *Alice Wessen  22
  
  
• Census Tract 4603.02
  *Sandra Thomas  11

• Census Tract 4610
  *Tecumseh Shackelford 109
  Brent Musson  81
• Census Tract 4611
  *Allan Wasserman  30

• Census Tract 4612
  *Ruth Neilan Edwards  37

• Census Tract 4613
  Susan Goldman  33
  *Diane Marcussen  53

739 ballots were cast this year, compared to 484 last year and 735 in 2008.