With a modest 22 percent ballot count, candidates for elective office must await final count of several hundred ballots, Friday afternoon.
Incumbents appeared to fare well.
DEL NORTE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:
• 2nd District incumbent Valerie Starkey held the lead. She received 324 of 504 votes with 20 percent registered voters casting their ballots.
Valerie Starkey 324
Rivers Drown 180
• With 23 percent of ballots counted in the 5th District incumbent Dean Wilson was the vote leader.
Dean Wilson 340
Heather Polen 208
Linda Sutter, 114
• District 1 incumbent Darrin Short ran unopposed and was re-elected.
JUDGE of the SUPERIOR COURT.
Karen Olson, 1703
Keith Morris, 1244
3285 ballots were counted, 22 percent of the registered voters.
MEMBER of the STATE ASSEMBLY:
District 2 Michael Greer was the leader out of a field of eight candidates. Greer also led the field in the 2nd District and should advance to the November General election as one of the two top vote getters. In Del Norte, here is the tally among ballots counted:
Michael Greer (R), 1619
Rusty Hicks (D), 656
Frankie Myers (D), 402
Ariel Kelley (D), 248
Chris Rogers (D), 100
Ted Williams (D) 75
Cynthia Click (D), 14
PROPOSION 1
(Del Norte County)
YES, 1354 NO, 1811
Statewide, Proposition 1 vote is too close to call.
PRESIDENTIAL
Preference, Democrat Primary, Joseph Biden
Republican Primary, Donald Trump
US Senate seat, Interim and full term, Steve Garvey (R) and Adam Schiff (D) were the two leading candidates in both Del Norte and the rest of the state.
Registrar of Voters / County Clerk Alissia Northrup announced the deluge of ballots dropped off in the 48 hours prior to Election Day was significant. Those ballots were surveyed Friday afternoon and missed The Triplicate print deadline. Final results will be published when available on Triplicate website and social media and published in the March 20 paper.
Election results are unofficial until certified by County Clerk Northrup.