Election results go final for Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, El Dorado supervisor races
Polls closed more than a month ago in California, but results have only just gone final for some local races and ballot measures in the four-county Sacramento region.
With all votes now tallied in Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Yolo counties, some winners have finally emerged from the March 3 primary election. But in races where no candidate won at least 50 percent of the vote, the top two finishers are going on to a runoff election in November.
Two very close races for county board supervisor seats went final and will avoid runoffs: Angel Barajas defeated incumbent Duane Chamberlain for District 5 in Yolo County, and Suzanne Jones claimed Placer County’s District 4 seat.
Here are finalized results from county primary elections.
County supervisor races decided
El Dorado County Supervisor District 3
Wendy Thomas won the supervisor seat for District 3, which represents Placerville and the central unincorporated area of the county including Diamond Springs.
Thomas finished with 60.3 percent of the vote, while Brian DeBerry got the remaining 39.7 percent.
Placer County Supervisor District 3
Incumbent Jim Holmes beat Mike Murray for the board of supervisors seat representing District 3, which includes parts of Rocklin, Loomis and unincorporated areas west of Auburn.
Holmes finished with about 54 percent of the vote, while Murray ended with about 39 percent of the vote.
Placer County Supervisor District 4
Suzanne Jones overcame incumbent Kirk Uhler in a very tight race for the supervisor seat representing District 4, which includes the east part of Roseville and the unincorporated community of Granite Bay.
Jones ended up with 51.7 percent of the vote to Uhler’s 48.3 percent. Nearly 25,000 votes were cast.
Placer County Supervisor District 5
Cindy Gustafson won the supervisor seat for District 5, which includes eastern Placer County from Auburn to Lake Tahoe, by a handy margin.
Gustafson finished with 74 percent of the vote, while Christopher Kershner got 26 percent of the vote.
Sacramento County Supervisor District 4
Incumbent Sue Frost held on to her seat representing District 4, which includes Citrus Heights, Folsom and unincorporated communities such as Orangevale and Antelope.
Frost finished with 75 percent of the vote, beating challenger Bridget Duffy who received 24 percent.
Yolo County Supervisor District 1
Incumbent Oscar Villegas ran unopposed and retained his seat to represent District 1, which includes most of West Sacramento and the unincorporated community of Clarksburg.
Yolo County Supervisor District 5
Angel Barajas defeated incumbent Duane Chamberlain in a close race for the board of supervisors seat representing District 5, which includes parts of Woodland and much of the central and north parts of the county.
Barajas finished with 52.4 percent of the vote to Chamberlain’s 47.6 percent.
County races heading to a November runoff
El Dorado County Supervisor District 1
Incumbent John Hidahl and Ron Briggs will go to a runoff election for El Dorado County’s District 1, which includes the El Dorado Hills area.
Hidahl earned 43 percent of the vote while Briggs was second with 24.7 percent. Benjamin Paulsen finished third at almost 22 percent.
El Dorado County Supervisor District 2
George Turnboo and Ken Pimlott finished first and second respectively for District 2, which represents the unincorporated southwest corner of the county, including parts of Cameron Park and Shingle Springs.
Turnboo ended up with about 26 percent of the vote, followed by Pimlott with about 22.7 percent of the vote. The two will go on to a November runoff election.
Sacramento County Supervisor District 3
Rich Desmond and Gregg Fishman are headed to a runoff race for the board of supervisors seat representing District 3, which includes largely unincorporated areas such as Arden Arcade, Carmichael and Fair Oaks.
Desmond ended with 42 percent of the vote, followed by Fishman with 25 percent of the vote.
Yolo County Supervisor District 4
Incumbent Jim Provenza and challenger Linda Deos are heading to a runoff election for the district that includes Davis and unincorporated areas in the south of the county, with Provenza coming less than 2 percent short of 50 percent.
With this week’s final tally, Provenza received 48.4 percent of the vote, followed by Deos with about 37.5 percent of the vote. David Abramson had the remaining 14 percent.
Sacramento City Council races, school boards, bond measures
Darrell Steinberg was handily re-elected as mayor, winning 77 percent of the final vote.
Challenger Katie Valenzuela pulled off an upset of incumbent Steve Hansen for the District 4 council seat, which includes downtown, midtown and Land Park. Valenzuela ended up with 53.3 percent of the vote to Hanson’s 46.7.
Allen Warren will go on to a runoff election for District 2, which includes Del Paso Heights, in November after getting 39.4 percent of the vote. He will face challenger Sean Loloee, who secured about 27 percent of the vote.
In District 8, challenger Mai Vang took a large lead over Les Simmons, but at 47.5 percent fell just short of taking the seat without a runoff. The two will be on November’s ballot for the district that includes Meadowview.
In District 6, which includes Tahoe Park and Sierra Oaks, Eric Guerra was re-elected with more than 65 percent of the total votes.
Voters shot down Measure G, the Sacramento’s Children Fund, with “no” votes receiving 55 percent of the more than 123,400 cast. The bond measure needed a simple majority to pass.
Measure H, which provides for $750 million in bonds for Sacramento City Unified School District toward lab and technology improvements, passed with more than 62 percent “yes” votes. The measure needed 55 percent to pass.
Incumbent Joanne Ahola retained her seat on the Sacramento County Board of Education, Area 4, with almost 85 percent of the vote. Area 4 includes Citrus Heights, Fair Oaks, Orangevale and most of Carmichael.
In Twin Rivers Unified School District, incumbent Basim Elkarra took 59 percent of the vote for Area 5. Area 7 will go to a runoff between Linda Fowler, the incumbent who got 40 percent of the vote, and challenger Daniel Savala, who received 31 percent.
Isleton’s Measure D: 3/4-cent special sales tax fails
Measure D — a special 3/4-cent sales tax in Isleton that would go towards funding its fire department — finished with about 62 percent support, a few percentage points short of passing.
The sales tax would have replaced an existing half-cent sales tax intended to fund equipment and training for the Isleton Fire Department, a mostly volunteer-operated group. The new sales tax would have remained in effect for five years and was expected to generate $110,000 annually for the city of Isleton. Because it’s a special sales tax that would be used for a specific purpose, it needed two-thirds of the vote to pass.
The existing sales tax funding the fire department was challenged earlier this year, with some residents questioning the lack of accountability over how the half-cent sales tax would be tracked and spent.
The ballot language for Measure D also failed to include key information about the sales tax as required by state law. Isleton later sent out a notice to voters after being notified of the omissions by The Sacramento Bee.
Full Sacramento County results
Full El Dorado County results
Full Placer County results
Full Yolo County results
Multi-county ballot measures
Statewide ballot measure
Sacramento-area congressional races
Sacramento-area legislative races
This story was originally published April 10, 2020 at 10:06 AM.
