By Roger Straw, November 10, 2016
Click here for updated LATEST Benicia Election Results as of Nov. 16. (Numbers shown below are as first reported on election night.)

The Solano County Registrar of Voters issued a day’s end report at 5:15pm today, showing that all Benicia races remain as they were on election night.

Mayor Elizabeth Patterson‘s lead increased by 45 votes after today’s counting.  Her margin of victory has increased from 109 on Wednesday morning at 3:37am, to 188 on Wednesday at 5:37pm, to a new lead tonight of 233 votes over challenger Mark Hughes.  Hughes phoned Mayor Patterson on Wednesday to concede the election.

City Councilmember-elect Steve Young‘s lead over Tom Campbell decreased by 6 today and his lead over Christina Strawbridge increased by 3. Young remains the top vote-getter, now by a margin of 255 votes over Campbell and 710 votes over Strawbridge. Traditionally in Benicia, the Council candidate with the most votes becomes Vice Mayor until the next election cycle. Congratulations, Vice-mayor-elect Young!

Solano County Supervisor-elect Monica Brown also extended her lead over Mike Ioakimedes – by 480 votes, maintaining a margin of 54% to 46%.

Here is a table showing Benicia details, taken from Steve Young’s website:

City Council (top two are elected)

Candidate	Total votes	Vote %	Election day	Vote by mail
Steve Young	6008	26.86	2016	4459
Tom Campbell	5753	25.72	1788	3965
Christina Strawbridge	5298	23.69	1604	3694
Lionel Largaespada	3635	16.25	1233	2402
George Oakes	1590	7.11	565	1025
Write-in	82	0.37	33	49
Over Votes	16		2	14
Under Votes	5334		2121	3213

Mayor

Candidate	Total votes	Vote %	Election day	Vote by mail
Elizabeth Patterson	6675	50.73	2216	4459
Mark Hughes	6442	48.96	2202	4240
Write In	42	0.32	15	27
Over Votes	1		1	0
Under Votes	698		250	448

The County website shows additional as yet uncounted ballots: Vote-by-Mail est. 9,450, and Provisionals est. 12,464. A chart shows that Benicia has 756 provisional ballots to be counted. We will keep you posted on further updates
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