By Roger Straw, November 15, 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 5:04pm today, showing that all Benicia races remain as they were on election night.

Mayor Elizabeth Patterson‘s lead increased by another 14 votes after today’s counting.  Her margin of victory over challenger Mark Hughes has increased from 109 votes early on Wednesday morning, to 280 as of Tuesday evening Nov 15.  Hughes phoned Mayor Patterson on Wednesday to concede the election.

City Councilmember-elect Steve Young‘s lead over Tom Campbell increased by 4 votes today and his lead over Christina Strawbridge increased by 38. Young remains the top vote-getter, now by a margin of 231 votes over Campbell and 755 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 108 votes, increasing her margin of victory to nearly 3000 votes (17,407 Brown to 14,431 Ioakimedes).

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	6473	26.75	2022	4451
Tom Campbell	6242	25.80	1788	4454
Christina Strawbridge	5718	23.63	1604	4114
Lionel Largaespada	3941	16.29	1233	2708
George Oakes	1728	7.14	565	1163
Write-in	92	0.38	33	59
Over Votes	16		2	14
Under Votes	5814		2121	3693

Mayor

Candidate	Total votes	Vote %	Election day	Vote by mail
Elizabeth Patterson	7231	50.82	2216	5015
Mark Hughes	6951	48.85	2202	4749
Write In	47	0.33	15	32
Over Votes	1		1	0
Under Votes	782		250	532

The County website shows additional as yet uncounted ballots: Vote-by-Mail less than 200, and Provisionals est. 12,544. A chart shows that Benicia has 751 provisional ballots to be counted. We will keep you posted on further updates

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