Boca Tribune columnist Kartik Krishnaiyer is credited with finding one of the critical historic documents that showed Memorial Park was in fact an official city park. On election night March 10 2026, he took to social media summarizing the results as “Election Armageddon” for Boca’s political class. He went on to credit Mayor Scott Singer’s hubris and prevarications1 for:
- The creation of the Save Boca movement.
- The failure of the referendum on the One Boca plan.
- The election of a resident friendly majority to the city council.
I would add the Ned Kimmelman lawsuit and its presumptuous claim that signatories were somehow fooled by the charter petition boiler plate. Seemingly, in that single act, he unwittingly deafened 6,000 voters to anything coming from One Boca and the council. As the election data shows, those 6,000 votes alone, were enough to beat Wigder, Nachlas, and the One Boca referendum.
In this article, I present visualizations of the city council election results by precinct. See our sister article “2026 Referendum Results” for Jim Wood’s analysis of the two referendums.
“Someone NOT on the ballot was most responsible for what happened tonight.”
Kartik Krishnaiyer
March 10 Election Infographics
Below are two carousels of infographics. They will automatically move from one to another after six seconds. Hover over one to stop the animation. Click on one to enlarge it and manually flip through them at your own pace.
The first carousel are Precinct Maps that show which precincts were won by which candidates. For those wanting more details, the second carousel shows the winner’s Margin of Victory per precinct.
It was, arguably, Save Boca voters who both elected and nearly defeated Thomson.
Win-Lose Precinct Map Carousel
These infographics color each Boca Raton Precinct according to the candidate that won it.
Margin of Victory Precinct Map Carousel
These infographics show who won each precinct by coloring the precinct and by a colored circle containing values (in votes) for the margin of victory. Because the races had three candidates, there are two numbers for each precinct indicating the margin of victory over the 2nd and 3rd place finishers. The color of the number corresponds to which candidate finished 2nd or 3rd.
Summary
The “Throw the Bums Out” vote ruled the day:
- Grau took in triple the votes of her nearest competitor Ritchey.
- Pearlman took in double that of Wigder.
- Sipple also garnered double the votes of Weinroth.
Council Member Thomson, the only incumbent to survive (by a handful of votes), won with only 39.62% of the popular vote. That was enough to win the election but not enough to win the hearts and minds of the Save Boca voters who did not look the other way on webs of Political Action Committees, special interest campaign funding3 and voting records2. It was, arguably, Save Boca voters who both elected and nearly defeated Thomson.
But in the overall picture, Boca voters laid waste the notion that big campaign signs, ads, texts, emails and flyers win Boca Raton elections and referendums. They don’t. They didn’t. And Boca’s mindset is already spreading. Check out this short campaign video from Coral Springs, posted shortly after our election:
Footnotes
1. prevarications
noun
The act of prevaricating or deviating, especially from truth, honesty, or plain-dealing; evasion of truth or duty; quibbling or shuffling in words or conduct.
2. Voting Records: According to research by Boca Resident Andrey Zherikov, the city council of Thomson, Drucker, Wigder, Nachlas and Singer had a 99.3% “rubber stamp” rating out of 286 individual votes cast on development items in 2024 and 2025.
3. Campaign Funding:
