By Roger Straw, November 16, 2016

The Solano County Registrar of Voters issued a day’s end report at 5:07pm Wednesday 11/16, showing that all Benicia races remain as they were on election night.

Mayor Elizabeth Patterson‘s lead increased by another 23 votes after today’s counting. Her margin of victory over challenger Mark Hughes has nearly tripled, increasing from 109 votes early on Wednesday morning, to 303 as of Wednesday evening Nov 16. Hughes phoned Mayor Patterson on Wednesday to concede the election.

City Councilmember-elect Steve Young‘s lead over Tom Campbell decreased by 5 votes today and his lead over Christina Strawbridge decreased by 3. Young remains the top vote-getter, now by a margin of 226 votes over Campbell and 752 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 218 votes, increasing her margin of victory to nearly 3200 votes (17,757 Brown to 14,563 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	Pro-visional
Steve Young	6485	26.74	2022	4463	0
Tom Campbell	6259	25.81	1788	4471	0
Christina Strawbridge	5733	23.64	1604	4129	0
Lionel Largaespada	3948	16.28	1233	2715	0
George Oakes	1734	7.15	565	1169	0
Write-in	92	0.38	33	59	0
Over Votes	16		2	14	0
Under Votes	5847		2121	3716	10

Mayor

Candidate	Total votes	Vote %	Election day	Vote by mail	Pro-visional
Elizabeth Patterson	7259	50.90	2216	5043	0
Mark Hughes	6956	48.77	2202	4754	0
Write In	47	0.33	15	32	0
Over Votes	1		1	0	0
Under Votes	794		250	539	0

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 yet to be counted. We will keep you posted on further updates

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