Early Election Results Look Good for Seifert and Measure L

Update Midnight:  

Linda Seifert continues to maintain her large lead over former Benicia Mayor Stve Messina in the race for the District 2 Supervisor seat.  In the Fifth District former Soalno County Assessor Skip Thompson also apppears headed to victory over incumbent Supervisor Mike Reagan.

The only race that seems to have tightened as the evening wears on iss Prop. 29 which started the night looking like it had passed in Solano County but as of midnight it is now trailing.  

Update 10:45 p.m.:

Supervisor Linda Seifert appears headed to anoth 4 years on the Solano County Board of Supervisors representing the Second District which includes all of Benicia and parts of Vallejo and Suisun City.  Seifert currently holds a 3,000 vote lead.  The registrar is has counted nine of the 36 precincts in the district.

Measure L which would extend an exsisting .015 percent sales tax for 16 years is also winning by a wide margin.  Measure L needs at least 67.67 percent to win adn currently has lightly over 80 percent of voters supporting it.

In a tight race that could mean a power shift on the Solano County Board of Supervisors, Skip Thompson is beginning to pull away in the race for the District 5 seat.  

9:00 p.m.

The polls are closed and the Registrar of Voters has posted the results of the absentee voter count.  The early results would seem to favor incumbent Linda Seifert who is beating her challenger, Benicia School board member Steve Messina, by about 2,800 votes.

Measure L, the measure that would extend the current eighth cent sales tax to support libraries, is also winning handily in the early returns garnering 80 percent of the absentee vote.

Historically the absentee voters were considered the more conservative voters.  If the trend continues, with more liberal voters going to the polls on the day of the election Seifert and Measure L should win.  Because Measure L is a tax it needs a two thirds majority to pass.

If the results hold in the Fifth Supervisorial district where Skip Thompson leads incumbent Mike Reagan then the County Board of Supervisors will slant a little to the left.  The current majority, led by Jim Spering of Suisun City tends to lean to the right.

Candidate for Solano County Supervisor

Absentee

Election Day

Total

Percentage

District 2

Linda Seifert

5,474

497

5,983     

67

Steve Messina

2,640

247

2,894

32

District 1

Tony Intintoli

1,993

261

2,254

30

Erin Hannigan

1,715

278

1,993

26

Katy Meissner

1,538

289

1,827

23

Susan B. Anthony

953

161

1,114

14

Lee Simmons

332

64

396

5

District 5

Skip Thompson

4,713

2,020

6,293

56

Mike Reagan

3,700

1,526

5,226

43

Candidate for Congress
Fifth District

Absentee

Election Day

Total

Percentage

Mike Thompson

9,726

881

10,607

74

Randy Loftin

2,111

203

2,314

16

Stewart Cilley

1,180

89

1,269

9

Meassures

Absentee

Election Day

Total

Percentage

Prop 28
Term Limits

Yes 26,089
No  11,631

6,012
5,132

32,101
14,755 

Yes  66
No    34

Prop 29
Cigarette Tax

Yes  19,776
No    18,546

5,018
6,287 

24,794
24,833 

Yes  49.9
No    50.1

Measure L
Libraries

Yes 30,475
No   7,633

8,858
2,393

39,333
10,026 

Yes  79
No    20

Susan Bonilla is running unopposed for the State Assembly in District 14 and Lois Wolk is running unopposed for the State Senate in District 1.  Both are winning handily.

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