While the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters office has 30 days from Election Day to certify the totals, results from the Nov. 8 election show incumbent Ed Alves likely returning for another four-year term on the Escalon City Council, along with Andrew Hagan and Jeremy Engle. They were the top three in the five-way race for three available four-year terms on the council.
Hagan polled the most votes as of the latest results available from the county, with 830 for an estimated 30 percent. Engle, in his first run for office, had 551 votes and Alves had 534. Also in the running were Malinda Walker, 508 votes, and incumbent Peter Krumeich, 352 votes.
Leading the vote in the race for a two-year seat on the council dais was Shawn Strohman, who had 398 votes, 38 percent, ahead of Elsa Sandoval, 357 votes, 34 percent. Kurt Danziger had 200 votes and Sherry Hill had 88 in the four-way race.
Election Night results showed the voter turnout in San Joaquin County was under 21 percent.
In the race for South San Joaquin Irrigation District Division I, incumbent Robert ‘Bob’ Holmes trailed challenger David L. Roos, with Roos receiving 1,596 votes for 55.17 percent; Holmes receiving 1,297 votes for 44.83 percent.
County officials had not yet certified the totals as of press time; there were some provisional ballots still to be counted.
San Joaquin County also placed challenger Brian Dahle slightly ahead of incumbent Governor Gavin Newsom, the county voting about 51 percent for Dahle, 49 percent for Newsom but statewide, the incumbent governor had overwhelming support in being returned to another term.
In the District 9 Congressional race, Josh Harder held a 57 percent to 43 percent lead over Tom Patti in the San Joaquin County voting, while in District 13, voters narrowly gave the edge to Adam Gray over John Duarte, 53 to 47 percent.
Incumbent Assemblyman Heath Flora had a comfortable margin of 65 percent to 35 percent over challenger Mushtaq A Tahirkheli in the State Assembly District 9 race and in State Assembly District 13, Carlos Villapudua was maintaining a sizeable lead, 62 to 38 percent, over Veronica Vargas.
Again, vote totals are not finalized; the Registrar of Voters continues the count and has up to 30 days from Election Day to certify the totals.
