Yountville Mayor’s Race Hinges on Four Votes as Ballots Keep Counting
The unofficial count from Tuesday’s election puts Joe Tagliaboschi four votes ahead of Marjorie Mohler in Yountville, with more ballots still to count across Napa County and the next report due Thursday afternoon.
NAPA: Four votes separate the two candidates for mayor of Yountville in Napa County’s unofficial count of the Nov. 3 general election. The county’s last unofficial report, posted at 1:46 a.m. on Nov. 4, gives Joe Tagliaboschi 366 votes to Marjorie Mohler’s 362 in the race to lead the Town of Yountville, and the Registrar of Voters expects several thousand more ballots to enter the count in the next report, due late Thursday afternoon.
Countywide, the last report had tallied 19,305 ballots, 22.33 percent of the county’s 86,446 registered voters, with all 147 precincts reporting. The first report on election night counted 16,836 ballots, 19.48 percent of the ballots the county mailed out starting Oct. 5. Registrar of Voters John Tuteur cautioned on election night that the early numbers were a fraction of the expected total.
This first report contains approximately 27% to 32% of our projected final turnout.John Tuteur, Napa County Registrar of Voters, in the county’s Nov. 3 election update
I hope to have several thousand additional ballots in that Thursday count.John Tuteur, Napa County Registrar of Voters, in the county’s Nov. 3 election update
The Registrar’s office will post updated unofficial reports at least twice a week until the count is complete, and the final certified results are due no later than Dec. 3. Every figure below is unofficial and can move as the remaining ballots are counted.
This first report contains approximately 27% to 32% of our projected final turnout.
The close races up valley
In St. Helena, Bonnie Schoch leads the mayor’s race with 813 votes, 69.55 percent, to Patrick Kenealy’s 356 votes, 30.45 percent. In the St. Helena City Council race, where voters chose two candidates, Daniel Hale leads with 544 votes, followed by Joshua Parke with 514, Scott Diaz with 379, Kate Spadarotto with 343 and John Pedersen with 132.
In Yountville’s council race, Hillery Bolt Trippe leads the field with 321 votes, followed by Robin McKee with 308, Jill Turner with 245, Matthew Chrzanowski with 230 and Jessi Bugden with 71. The two council seats and the mayor’s office together mean the first count has reshaped most of Yountville’s five-member council, subject to the ballots still outstanding.
Napa and American Canyon councils
In the City of Napa, Christopher DeNatale was unopposed in District 1 and took 2,292 votes. In District 3, Mary Luros leads with 1,575 votes, 69.51 percent, to Jim Hinton’s 691 votes, 30.49 percent.
In American Canyon, Sindy Biederman leads the council field with 848 votes, followed by David Oro with 758, Robert Cole with 527, Jason Kishineff with 474 and Jim Giron with 326.
Congress and the measures
In the Napa County portion of California’s 4th Congressional District, Mike Thompson received 10,709 votes, 59.87 percent, to Eric Jones’s 7,178 votes, 40.13 percent. The district extends beyond Napa County, and the districtwide count continues in the other counties it covers.
Local measures are passing in the first count. Yountville’s Measure Y has 613 yes votes, 82.06 percent. American Canyon’s Measure P has 1,085 yes votes, 58.11 percent. St. Helena’s Measure S has 690 yes votes, 57.60 percent. Countywide, Measure B has 11,819 yes votes, 64.05 percent, in this count.
The next chapter of the count arrives Thursday afternoon, when the Registrar posts the first update since election night. In Yountville, where the mayor’s race sits at four votes, that update could reorder the closest race in the county.
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