LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Two incumbents on the Lake County Board of Supervisors appeared headed for reelection in preliminary voting results from Tuesday’s primary that were posted overnight, while another race is expected to go to a November runoff.
Just before 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Lake County Registrar of Voters Office issued the final report on the preliminary results for the Super Tuesday presidential primary, which showed 70 of 70 precincts reporting.
Those results are far from final. There are expected to be thousands of ballots left to count including many still on their way to the elections office that were mailed by the deadline this week.
Key local races on this week’s ballot included the District 1 and 4 seats on the Board of Supervisors, with first-term incumbents Moke Simon and Tina Scott seeking reelection.
In the District 1 race, preliminary results showed Simon topping challenger Julia Mary Bono.
Simon received 1,055 votes or 78.32 percent, while Bono had 292 votes or 21.68 percent.
For District 4, preliminary results showed Scott with 1,115 votes or 60.73 percent, with challenger Chris Almind receiving 721 votes or 39.27 percent.
In the case of both Simon and Scott, they needed simple majorities to be reelected.
In the case of the District 5 supervisorial seat, wide open because incumbent Rob Brown did not seek reelection, the race appears headed for a November runoff.
To win outright in the primary in a race with more than two candidates, the top vote-getter needs 50 percent of the vote plus one.
In the four-way race, Jessica Pyska of Cobb was the top vote-getter in the preliminary results, with 822 votes or 46.18 percent.
Following Pyska in the vote totals is retired pharmacist Bill Kearney of Kelseyville, with 556 votes or 21.24 percent. Next is teacher Lily Woll of Kelseyville with 360 votes or 20.22 percent, and activist Kevin Ahajanian of Cobb with 42 votes or 2.36 percent.
A key race for which no numbers were available in the election’s office’s overnight count posted online was the Lake County Superior Court judge’s race.
Incumbent J. David Markham and challenger Lisa Proffitt-O’Brien are both running as qualified write-in candidates for the seat.
Those results appear to require more work because they were not printed on the ballot but written in by voters.
Also on Tuesday, voters in Lake and seven other counties voted on Measure C, a bond measure for the Woodland Community College.
Based on preliminary results across those counties reported early Wednesday, Measure C appears headed for defeat in an almost two-to-one margin.
The California Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office reported that counties have until April 3 to complete and certify their vote count.
“Election results will change as vote-by-mail ballots, provisional ballots, and Same Day Voter Registrations are processed,” the Secretary of State’s Office reported.
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Simon and Scott win reelection to Board of Supervisors; Pyska leads District 5 race
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