By Roger Straw, November 21, 2016

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