The Solano County Registrar of Voters issued a day’s end report at 5:52pm Monday 11/21. Although 7,020 Provisional ballots remain to be counted, only 265 of those are from Benicia. This virtually assures that the Benicia election is officially over. Mayor Patterson, Steve Young and Tom Campbell will maintain their victory, even if every one of the remaining votes were to go to their opponents. Patterson, Young and Campbell will be sworn in at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, December 6.
Mayor Elizabeth Patterson‘s lead decreased by 12 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 317 as of today. Hughes phoned Mayor Patterson on the day after the election to concede.
City Councilmember-elect Steve Young‘s lead over Tom Campbell increased by 8 votes today and his lead over Christina Strawbridge increased by 5. Young remains the top vote-getter, now by a margin of 266 votes over Campbell and 781 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 197 votes, increasing her margin of victory to 3562 votes (18395 Brown to 14833 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 | 6621 | 26.78 | 2022 | 4472 | 127 |
| Tom Campbell | 6355 | 25.71 | 1788 | 4479 | 88 |
| Christina Strawbridge | 5840 | 23.62 | 1604 | 4134 | 102 |
| Lionel Largaespada | 4038 | 16.33 | 1233 | 2718 | 87 |
| George Oakes | 1773 | 7.17 | 565 | 1173 | 35 |
| Write-in | 94 | 0.38 | 33 | 59 | 2 |
| Over Votes | 16 | 2 | 14 | 0 | |
| Under Votes | 6099 | 2121 | 3733 | 245 |
Mayor
| Candidate | Total votes | Vote % | Election day | Vote by mail | Pro-visional |
| Elizabeth Patterson | 7422 | 50.93 | 2216 | 5056 | 150 |
| Mark Hughes | 7105 | 48.75 | 2202 | 4761 | 142 |
| Write In | 47 | 0.32 | 15 | 32 | 0 |
| Over Votes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Under Votes | 843 | 250 | 542 | 51 |
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