LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Registrar of Voter’s Office has completed the official canvass for the June 5 election, with close races for the Board of Supervisors now settled.
Registrar of Voters Diane Fridley released the final election results on Tuesday evening.
In the final count, Bruno Sabatier and Eddie “EJ” Crandell Sr. were elected as the newest members of the Board of Supervisors, representing Districts 2 and 3, respectively.
Both men had been engaged in races that were too close to call following the preliminary ballot count, at which point more than 6,000 ballots – primarily absentee, with some provisional – for countywide races remained to be tallied, as Lake County News has reported.
Sabatier, currently mayor of the city of Clearlake, received 853 votes, or 54.7 percent of the vote, compared to Joyce Overton, his Clearlake City Council colleague, who received 693 votes, or 44.5 percent.
Crandell, a Lake County planning commissioner and tribal chair of Robinson Rancheria, received 1,354 votes, or 51.4 percent, compared to 1,270 votes, or 48.2 percent, cast for Denise Loustalot, a businesswoman and formerly mayor of Clearlake.
In the race for the Department 4 seat on the Lake County Superior Court Bench, Shanda Harry and Don Anderson will engage in a runoff in November.
Harry, a deputy county counsel, received 6,008 votes, or 45.6 percent, compared to the 5,678 votes, or 43.1 percent, that went to Don Anderson, the county’s sitting district attorney.
The third candidate in the race, attorney Andre Ross, received 1,446 votes, or 11 percent.
In the race for Lake County superintendent of schools, incumbent Brock Falkenberg received 8,443 votes, or 71.2 percent, compared to the 3,355 ballots, or 28.3 percent, that went to Patrick Iaccino, the retired superintendent of the Upper Lake Unified School District.
In the district attorney’s race, Susan Krones, a senior deputy district attorney, received 7,517 votes, or 59.4 percent, compared to attorney Steven Brown, who received 5,060 votes, or 40 percent.
Krones has become the first woman in Lake County’s history to be elected district attorney.
The final results also showed that Measure G, the 1.5-percent proposed countywide sales tax, failed by a final margin of 6,080 no votes, or 60.2 percent, to 4,023 yes votes, or 39.8 percent. It needed at least a 50 percent plus one approval vote to pass.
Regarding Measure F, a street maintenance measure for the Butler-Keys Community Service District, it passed with 30 yes votes, or 76.9 percent, to nine no votes, or 23.1 percent.
The measure institutes a special annual tax of $50 per year per single lot within the district for a period of four years, beginning in the 2018-19 fiscal year, with the funds raised to go to maintain streets. It also will establish an annual district appropriations limit in the amount of $9,250 for four fiscal years.
Fridley said the official “statement of votes” with voting precinct breakdown will be posted on the Registrar of Voters Web page on Thursday.
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Final election results released; Sabatier, Crandell elected to Board of Supervisors
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