By Roger Straw, November 22, 2016

The Solano County Registrar of Voters issued a day’s end report at 4:25pm Tuesday 11/22. Although 4,316 Provisional ballots remain to be counted, only 99 of those are from Benicia. When those ballots are counted, Mayor Patterson, Steve Young and Tom Campbell will maintain their victory. Patterson, Young and Campbell will be sworn in at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, December 6. 

Mayor Elizabeth Patterson‘s lead decreased by 2 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 315 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 17 votes today and his lead over Christina Strawbridge increased by 18. Young remains the top vote-getter, now by a margin of 283 votes over Campbell and 799 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 155 votes, increasing her margin of victory to 3629 votes (18550 Brown to 14921 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	6685	26.81	2022	4472	191
Tom Campbell	6402	25.67	1788	4479	135
Christina Strawbridge	5886	23.60	1604	4134	148
Lionel Largaespada	4074	16.34	1233	2718	123
George Oakes	1793	7.19	565	1173	55
Write-in	96	0.38	33	59	4
Over Votes	16		2	14	0
Under Votes	6216		2121	3733	362

Mayor

Candidate	Total votes	Vote %	Election day	Vote by mail	Pro-visional
Elizabeth Patterson	7497	50.91	2216	5056	225
Mark Hughes	7182	48.77	2202	4761	219
Write In	47	0.32	15	32	0
Over Votes	1		1	0	0
Under Votes	857		250	542	65