Friday Count Adds 3,469 Ballots, and Yountville’s Mayor’s Race Still Sits at Four Votes
Napa County’s second unofficial report since election night, posted Friday afternoon, brought the count to 24,353 ballots. The new mail ballots moved the countywide and City of Napa totals, and left Yountville, St. Helena and American Canyon exactly where they stood.
NAPA: Four votes still separate the two candidates for mayor of Yountville after Napa County’s second unofficial report since election night. The report, posted at 3:55 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, gives Joe Tagliaboschi 366 votes to Marjorie Mohler’s 362, the same totals the county has now reported three times, on election night, on Thursday and again on Friday.
Countywide, the Friday report tallies 24,353 ballots, 28.17 percent of the county’s 86,446 registered voters, up 3,469 ballots from the 20,884 in Thursday’s report. Every added ballot arrived by mail: the mail total rose to 21,884 from 18,415, while the Election Day total held at 2,469. All 147 precincts are reported, every figure is unofficial, and the county’s Election Results page says the next update will be released on Monday, Nov. 9 at approximately 5 p.m. The final certified count is due no later than Dec. 3.
The totals that moved
The City of Napa accounted for much of the movement. In District 3, Mary Luros rose to 1,989 votes, 69.55 percent, from 1,575 on Thursday, while Jim Hinton rose to 871 votes, 30.45 percent, from 691. In District 1, Christopher DeNatale, who is unopposed, rose to 2,502 votes from 2,293.
Every added ballot arrived by mail, and not one local leader changed.
In the Napa County portion of California’s 4th Congressional District, Mike Thompson rose to 13,524 votes, 59.81 percent, from 11,504, while Eric Jones rose to 9,087 votes, 40.19 percent, from 7,855. The county report covers only the Napa County portion of the district.
In the governor’s race, Napa County voters now give Xavier Becerra 16,963 votes, 70.27 percent, up from 14,286, to Steve Hilton’s 7,176 votes, 29.73 percent, up from 6,407. Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, unopposed in Assembly District 4, rose to 18,605 votes from 15,848.
The races that did not move
Up valley and in American Canyon, the Friday report changed nothing at all. St. Helena’s mayoral contest is frozen at Schoch 813, Kenealy 356. Its council standings read exactly as they did a day earlier: Hale in front on 544, Parke next on 514, then Diaz on 379, Spadarotto on 343 and Pedersen on 132.
American Canyon’s five council candidates hold their Thursday numbers to the vote: Biederman 1,320 and Oro 1,131 in the two winning places, Cole 805 behind them, then Kishineff 658 and Giron 455. Yountville’s council field is likewise untouched, Trippe on 321 and McKee on 308 in the winning places, with Turner 245, Chrzanowski 230 and Bugden 71 completing the field.
Measures
Countywide, Measure B rose to 14,928 yes votes, 64.07 percent, from 12,736 yes votes on Thursday, with 8,371 no votes. The three city measures did not move: American Canyon’s Measure P still has 1,589 yes votes, 56.61 percent, St. Helena’s Measure S still has 690 yes votes, 57.60 percent, and Yountville’s Measure Y still has 613 yes votes, 82.06 percent.
The count has now passed one ballot in four, and the pattern of the last two reports is plain: the mail ballots still entering the tally are changing the size of the countywide margins without changing a single local leader. Monday’s update is the next test of the closest race in the county, Yountville’s four votes.
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