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Tunua Thrash-Ntuk
2024 - Present
2028
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Tunua Thrash-Ntuk is a member of the Long Beach City Council in California, representing District 8. She assumed office on December 17, 2024. Her current term ends on December 19, 2028.
Thrash-Ntuk won election to the Long Beach City Council to represent District 8 in California outright in the primary on March 5, 2024, after the general election was canceled.
Thrash-Ntuk completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tunua Thrash-Ntuk was born in California. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California Berkeley and a graduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her career experience includes working as a nonprofit professional.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: City elections in Long Beach, California (2024)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Long Beach City Council District 8
Tunua Thrash-Ntuk won election outright against Sharifa Batts in the primary for Long Beach City Council District 8 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tunua Thrash-Ntuk (Nonpartisan)  | 55.9 | 2,738 |
| Sharifa Batts (Nonpartisan) | 44.1 | 2,164 | ||
| Total votes: 4,902 | |||
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Endorsements
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2020
See also: City elections in Long Beach, California (2020)
General election
General election for Long Beach City Council District 8
Incumbent Al Austin defeated Tunua Thrash-Ntuk in the general election for Long Beach City Council District 8 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Al Austin (Nonpartisan) | 56.8 | 10,839 |
| Tunua Thrash-Ntuk (Nonpartisan) | 43.2 | 8,253 | |
| Total votes: 19,092 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Long Beach City Council District 8
Tunua Thrash-Ntuk and incumbent Al Austin defeated Juan Ovalle in the primary for Long Beach City Council District 8 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tunua Thrash-Ntuk (Nonpartisan) | 38.0 | 3,585 |
| ✔ | | Al Austin (Nonpartisan) | 31.7 | 2,995 |
 | Juan Ovalle (Nonpartisan) | 30.3 | 2,854 | |
| Total votes: 9,434 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tunua Thrash-Ntuk completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Thrash-Ntuk's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Investing More Resources into Public Safety - I will find the $20 million to re-open Fire station #9 which has been closed for 5 years and is negatively impacting response times across North Long Beach. I will work to reduce the 20% vacancy rate at the Long Beach Police Department to increase patrols to address loitering, illegal drug activity, excessive noise and illegal dumping.
- Reducing and Preventing Homelessness - Building more housing and solving homelessness by using every tool in our policy toolbox to help prevent displacement and prevent even more people falling into homelessness. I have spent my career working on these issues. It’s important to me because at one time in my youth my family was homeless.
- Expanding Economic Opportunity - By establishing a strategy for local businesses to implement succession plans for their employees to purchase the business and encourage more investment in small businesses by expanding Long Beach’s Kiva microloan program, which I helped start in Long Beach. I will work with Dr. Joni Ricks-Oddie to great a comprehensive North Long Beach Economic Development Plan and restart the quarterly North Long Beach Assemblies. It’s important to me that government work towards the greatest good. I have experienced what it’s like to be excluded and seen communities neglected.
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2020
Tunua Thrash-Ntuk did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Long Beach City Council District 8 |
Officeholder Long Beach City Council District 8 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 12, 2024
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Al Austin |
Long Beach City Council District 8 2024-Present |
Succeeded by - |
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