LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County’s incumbent superintendent of schools won a second term on Tuesday while several uncontested county races were finalized with the primary vote.
Based on preliminary election results, Brock Falkenberg won reelection to the superintendent of schools job over opponent Patrick Iaccino, the retired Upper Lake schools superintendent.
With 70 of 70 county precincts reporting, along with an initial absentee count, Falkenberg’s preliminary vote count was 70.9 percent, or 4,886 ballots, to Iaccinio’s 28.6 percent, or 1,969 ballots. There also were 40 write-in ballots, accounting for an overall preliminary vote count of 0.6 percent.
The race results will remain preliminary until Lake County Registrar of Voters Diane Fridley finishes the official canvass and certifies the election results, which she has 30 days to do. At that point, the results will become final.
Other county races that were finalized on Tuesday because there were uncontested are for assessor-recorder, county clerk-auditor, sheriff-coroner and treasurer-tax collector.
Richard Ford and Brian Martin were elected to second terms as assessor-recorder and sheriff-coroner, respectively.
Cathy Saderlund, appointed by the Board of Supervisors in October 2011 to fill the seat after a retirement, ran uncontested for the second time in this year’s primary.
Incumbent Treasurer-Tax Collector Barbara Ringen, like Saderlund, also was initially appointed by the Board of Supervisors to her job. Ringen took over the position in November 2013, running for the first time the following year. This is her second uncontested election.
Each of those uncontested candidates received about 98 percent of the vote, with a small number of write-in ballots cast in each of those races, based on the preliminary vote counts.
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Election 2018: Falkenberg reelected as schools superintendent; county’s uncontested races finalized
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