Patterson Wins Re-Election as Benicia Mayor, Defeating Schwartzman

The Solano County Registrar of Voters finished counting vote-by-mail ballots today and the result extends incumbent Benicia Mayor Elizabeth Patterson’s lead over her only challenger, Vice-Mayor Alan Schwartzman. 

When asked to comment Patterson said, "I have an enormous amount of appreciation for the community and for my campaign committee.  We ran a damned good campaign."

"I think it's done," said Schwartzman. "I want to say thanks to everyone out there who supported me. The good words and thoughts I've gotten the last couple of days have been overwhelming."

"We shall march on," he said.

Patterson held a lead of 129 votes when Election Day counting was completed and Friday's tally increases that lead to 210 votes. Benicia’s share of the vote-by-mail ballots tallied Friday was 1,316. Patterson got 690 of those, Schwartzman 609, and there were 17 write-ins.

All the other results remained the same.

Gary Wing pulled further ahead of Matt Donahue in the school board race.  "I feel good," said Wing.  "I'm real excited and ready to go to work."