LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The results for the June primary are now final, with slight changes in margins but the same overall results.
The Lake County Registrar of Voters Office posted the final results on its website on Thursday.
The posting signals the official canvass period has ended. Next the canvass results will go to the Board of Supervisors for final approval.
Primaries tend to have lower turnout. The final canvass showed that overall turnout was 36%. For comparison, the final turnout for the June 2018 primary was 43.1%.
Several incumbents were returned to office in uncontested races. Those included Superintendent of Schools Brock Falkenberg, District 2 Supervisor Bruno Sabatier, District 3 Supervisor Eddie “EJ” Crandell and Sheriff Brian Martin.
Jenavive Herrington ran for her first term as county clerk-auditor unopposed. She will succeed Cathy Saderlund.
For the Middletown Unified School District Board seat, which is a partial term that will be back on the ballot later this year, Charise Reynolds won with 1,128 votes to 915 cast for Bryan Pullman, a margin of 55.21% to 44.79%.
In the assessor-recorder race, incumbent Richard Ford was elected to a third term with 63.84% of the vote or 7,766 ballots compared to challenger Hannah Faith Lee’s 36.16% or 4,398 ballots.
The district attorney’s contest margin changed little. Incumbent Susan Krones won a second term with 7,661 ballots cast in her favor compared with 4,953 votes for challenger Anthony Farrington, a former four-term county supervisor. Krones won the race by a 60.73% to 39.27% margin.
For treasurer-tax collector, with incumbent Barbara Ringen set to retire at year’s end, the field was open, with Patrick Sullivan, the county’s tax administrator, winning the race with a 60.82% to 39.18% margin over Paul Flores, a former county employee and a treasury and cash analyst. Sullivan received 7,197 votes to 4,636 cast for Flores.
In state and federal races for candidates representing Lake County, incumbents also won handily.
The California Secretary of State’s Office reported that Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, received 68.5% of the vote compared to the 31.5% received by Republican challenger Bryan Pritchard.
Democrat Mike McGuire, Lake County’s representative in the state Senate, received 75.8% of the vote over his Republican challenger, Gene Yoon of Cobb, who received 24.2% of the vote.
In the race for the newly drawn District 4 seat in Congress, incumbent Congressman Mike Thompson led the field with 66.9% of the vote, with Republican Matt Brock finishing second with 15.8%.
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Registrar of Voters Office finalizes vote count for June primary
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