LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County voters in the Super Tuesday presidential primary sent several state and federal candidates on to the next step in their bids for election or reelection.
On the ballot in Lake County were the seats for District 4 Assembly and congressional seats for Districts 3 and 5.
In the District 4 Assembly race, with 96.3 percent of precincts reporting across six counties, including Lake, the incumbent, Democrat Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, received 40,128 votes or 55.4 percent, with Republican Matthew Nelson receiving 25,129 votes, or 34.7 percent, and Democrat Sophia Racke receiving 7,218 votes or 10 percent of the vote, according to the Secretary of State’s online reporting.
Aguiar-Curry and Nelson will advance to a runoff in November.
Both of Lake County’s incumbent members of Congress were the top vote-getters in their respective races.
For Congressional District 3, which covers eight counties, with 91.1 percent of precincts reporting, Democrat John Garamendi received 60,259 votes or 55.7 percent, while Republicans Tamika Hamilton received 31,986 votes or 29.6 percent and Sea Feucht received 15,901 votes or 14.7 percent. Garamendi and Hamilton will advance to November.
For Congressional District 5, which covers five counties, with 99 percent of precincts reporting, Democrat Mike Thompson received 79,879 votes or 65.9 percent, followed by Republican Scott Giblin with 27,904 votes or 23 percent; Democrat John Wesley Tyler, 10,327 votes or 8.5 percent; and Democrat Jason Kishineff, 3,066 votes or 2.5 percent. Thompson and Giblin advance to November.
State ballot measure Proposition 13, which would authorize bonds to fund public education facilities, appears headed for defeat.
With 87.3 percent of precincts reporting across the state, the measure has received a no vote of 2,643,437 or 56.1 percent, versus a yes vote of 2,065,111 or 43.9 percent.
In the presidential race, statewide, among Republicans, President Donald Trump handily won while for Democrats, Sen. Bernie Sanders led across the state. Sanders also led in Lake County’s preliminary results, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Incumbents are top vote-getters in races for Lake County’s State Assembly, congressional seats
- Elizabeth Larson
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