City Hall aide Monica Matteo-Salinas just won a four-year term on the Miami Beach Commission, outpacing a better-funded but controversy-laden opponent in a runoff for the panel’s Group 1 seat.

With reports from 21 precincts still pending but mail-in and early votes fully tallied, Matteo-Salinas had more than 72% of the vote to defeat Republican lawyer Monique Pardo Pope .

She’ll succeed fellow Democrat Kristen Rosen Gonzalez , who must leave the city’s seven-member governing body after an unsuccessful mayoral run.

Tuesday’s runoff sharpened into a choice between two contrasting résumés, platforms and campaign narratives, along with late-cycle revelations about Pardo Pope, one of which drew national headlines.

Voters again headed to the polls over the weekend for the second ti

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