By Roger Straw, November 18, 2016

The Solano County Registrar of Voters issued a day’s end report at 4:44pm Friday 11/18, showing that all Benicia races remain as they were on election night.

Mayor Elizabeth Patterson‘s lead increased by another 26 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 329 as of today. Hughes phoned Mayor Patterson on Wednesday to concede the election.

City Councilmember-elect Steve Young‘s lead over Tom Campbell increased by 32 votes today and his lead over Christina Strawbridge increased by 24. Young remains the top vote-getter, now by a margin of 258 votes over Campbell and 776 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 171 votes, increasing her margin of victory to 3365 votes (18104 Brown to 14739 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	6593	26.78	2022	4472	99
Tom Campbell	6335	25.74	1788	4479	68
Christina Strawbridge	5817	23.63	1604	4134	79
Lionel Largaespada	4009	16.29	1233	2718	58
George Oakes	1767	7.18	565	1173	29
Write-in	94	0.38	33	59	2
Over Votes	16		2	14	0
Under Votes	6029		2121	3733	175

Mayor

Candidate	Total votes	Vote %	Election day	Vote by mail	Pro-visional
Elizabeth Patterson	7393	50.97	2216	5056	121
Mark Hughes	7064	48.70	2202	4761	101
Write In	47	0.32	15	32	0
Over Votes	1		1	0	0
Under Votes	825		250	542	33

The County website now shows that ALL Vote-by-Mail ballots have been counted. 9,143 Provisional ballots remain to be counted, including 451 from Benicia. We will keep you posted on further updates

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