Pyska leads District 5 supervisorial race; Aguiar-Curry wins; initial counts issued for city councils, school and water boards
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – While thousands of ballots remain to be counted, initial reports from Lake County election officials overnight gave early indications of the winners in key races on the general election ballot.
The Registrar of Voter’s Office issued several initial ballot count reports from Tuesday night into early Wednesday, with the last issued at 1:40 a.m.
Based on those preliminary reports, Jessica Pyska of Cobb is leading the race for District 5 supervisor with 944 votes, or 69.21 percent of the vote, while Bill Kearney of Kelseyville has 420 votes, or 30.79 percent.
For the District 4 State Assembly race, incumbent Cecelia Aguiar-Curry appears to have won reelection.
The Secretary of State’s Office reported that, with 100 percent of 522 precincts partially reporting, Aguiar-Curry, a Democrat, leads with 95,635 votes or 70.4 percent, while Republican challenger Matthew Nelson trails with 40,223 votes or 29.6 percent.
In the contested Lakeport City Council race, preliminary results show incumbent Kenny Parlet tied with Michael Green, at 579 votes each, followed by Nathan Maxman with 366 votes and Michael Froio with 355 votes.
In the Clearlake City Council race, with three seats available and two qualified candidates, incumbent Joyce Overton has 1,063 votes, followed by David Claffey, with 1,009 votes.
Three local school board races are on the ballot this year.
The Kelseyville Unified School District Board has three seats. Gilbert Rangel has the most votes in the preliminary count, 750, followed by Natalie Higley, 661; Mary Beth Mosko, 480; and incumbent, Beniakem D. Cromwell, 421.
In the Konocti Unified School District, with two seats up for election, incumbents Mary Silva, with 1,382 votes, and Susan Burton, with 1,348 votes, lead the field based on the count so far, followed by challengers Zabdy Neria, 1,171 votes, and Michael “Mac” McMurtrey, with 1,074 votes.
For the Upper Lake Unified School Board, with two seats up for election, incumbent Claudine Pedroncelli leads the field with 786 ballots, followed by Franklin Gudmundson, 606 votes, and Don Meri, 444 votes.
In the Callayomi County Water District, two board seats are being selected in the election. The initial vote count has incumbent Rosemary Córdova in the lead with 54 votes, followed by Sandra Harris, 47 votes, and Roger Rosenthal, 28 votes.
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